About a year and a half ago I finished up most of a digital remastering of a
narration of combat footage by a friend and P-47 pilot of the 78th who few 105
missions out of Duxford.

I had heard that the physics model in the Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator for
WWII was excellent and I used it to get some gun and engine sounds. For fun I
added a gun film placard with "Wrongway Springer" at the end of the combat
sequences and a section where I use the simulator and "attacked" a 109 from the
rear. There is some good maneuvering and use of WEP to avoid stalls, fragments
flying by, etc before the 109 goes down. I suppresed the color to make it look
like the other footage.

The very experienced pilot just said he didn't remember that sequence and where
did I find film with a view from the cockpit and showing the instruments and
with sound? I explained and he thought the realism was amazing.

I'm still trying to get a good sound recording of engine noise from inside a
maneuvering P-47. I think it is unlikey I will find a modern recording of gun
sound!

-- Charlie Springer