What is the Tie Fighter Sound?

Artist Ben Burtt said he sampled elephant sounds from the movie The Roots of Heaven.

[YourLocalLesbian]

It wasnt just for fear! It also gave the pilots some feedback because they activated at a certain speed, which told the pilot that they were going fast enough and meant they didnt need to check their airspeed quite as often during a dive.

[daveslow]

What's funny is that the Stuka sound is so well known, that many people think that's how a diving aircraft sounds like :D The sound is more well known than the fact it was created with a siren...

[KAKU_]

Stukas had small propellers on their landing gear to produce the sound

[MayHisEnemiesScatter]

good short but the JU-87’s sirens were created by smaller propellers on the fixed landing gear. Later in WW2 they completely deleted these off of the JU-87’s because pilots would complain constantly about their noise and how it would give their position away. It’s a great scare tactic when you’re fighting other countries that don’t have up-to-date air forces like 70% of Europe in the 30’s and early 40’s.

[S.Lowell.Soderman]

They must be really loud if you can hear them in space! 🤔🤨

[night_wraith]

It's actually amazing that Tie Fighters even make noise at all.. considering we mainly see them in the vacuum of space.. 😂

[DreamwalkerFilms]

Actually it's that dog in that waiting room

[Chris_Hood]

Empire doesn't care about TIE fighter pilots!
[referencing the Robot Chicken sketch]

[Ironmike]

"I'm about to go to taco bell and get a ba- blast" ahh sound

[moabfool]

The joke being that in the vacuum of space the sound wouldn't travel, but that's okay because Star Wars is awesome!

[GarnetDart]

like you would hear a tie fighter in space

[jasonfranke]

I was actually more than just Vents. The Jericho siren, which was mounted on the tips of the wings of the ju-87 stuka, was an air activated whistle from the passing air from the propeller . It was a hollow tube with a type of bell inside that was designed to reverberate at high frequencies within an empty chamber.
That's why the whistle got louder as the plane got closer because the further towards the ground the bomber would go the faster it would get increasing its velocity, therefore increasing the sound of the whistle.

[ターコイズGT]

The elephants screech actually came from The Roots of Heaven

[teslapilot]

In space nobody can hear it scream… or light bonfires for mekneks? to put out.

[EvilXero]

There's some planes and jets that can easily mimic the Tie foghter's engine in real life

[NattyIce]

It literally is not an elephant. They talk about what they did and it was not an elephant, it’s six women screaming slowed down and distorted, and jet bike going through a tunnel

[Xeon_X]

TIE fighter sounds similar to the Su-57

[rabcueto]

can sounds be able to travel in space?

[larrysouthern]

Chewbacca sounds like a Tie Fighter too ..





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[PvtPartzz]

You can’t imagine the tie fighter sounding like anything else? Look up the Mirage 2000.