Tapes on a plane

Snappy title.. I'm looking forward to part II

Any possibility we can get a copy of the BGM tape?

Just saw your "omnibus edition" at https://youtu.be/MU02pQe3E5Q. It certainly 'scans' better, from beginning to end, in my opinion. 😊👍

Both parts are excellent. Love the puppet work in Pt 1. Love the detailed drill down in Pt 2. One compliments the other, and a wholly fascinating subject.

Part 1 was the main course which is what you should have before part 2, desert!

I don't think I've ever heard but did you make the puppets or buy them? Always nice to see them return.

Maybe the full BGM would be something for the Pendant channel? I have a small 'collection' of this stuff and would love to have a listen.

That was a great set of videos. I love the ingenuity of how you recorded the eight separate tracks from the original reels. That was seriously impressive!

Very neat piece of tech. Thanks for the effort—I’m sure getting that audio going was a joy! Can’t wait for the next part.

You may be interested in this avionics walkthrough of a recently retired British Airways 747. In particular at 9.22 when they briefly show a more modern equivalent of the music/announcement system using DAT. https://youtu.be/yq8wgJO-JXY

Awesome video as usual! A question though, could you possibly upload all of the audio from the tapes that you've recovered? Would be quite nice to hear the Swedish announcements for example. Cheers!

(Oh, by the way, I saw what you did there on the title.)

Fascinating, Mat. That was an innovative solution to playing the tapes. I would probably have tried taking a head out of the machine or something. Well done. In addition to two interesting videos, you now have 20 minutes of background music you can use in any future video. (I quite liked the music actually. Maybe that makes me weird.)

Enjoyed both videos, thanks Mat. The idea of splitting the videos is a good one. And for the first time in many weeks I haven't rushed onto eBay or Amazon to buy what you've been covering - in the last few weeks I've bought 8 track kit, a Neal recorder, field telephone, equipment vac, background music system, Panasonic flip clock radio, the list goes on..... This time the undocumented multipin aviation connector was the equivalent of a cold shower :)

I had heard some of those - but only because I worked for an airline. (Not BA).

You picked the correct muppet for this bit, Matt: His skin tone matches the life vest!

Guess you take out those tape heads if you’re not interested in the unit

Thanks for the videos Mat, I enjoyed them. I was anticipating hearing "Flippin' 'Eck" when the brace announcement was played.

I do get a thrill seeing these things the public was just never meant to see. It's like peeking behind the curtains in a theatre

Good fun on both parts! Glad to see the return of the puppet(s). My only editorial remark: would have loved some more close-ups of those gnarly-looking circuit boards! 😁

Maybe I'm the only person who noticed the the United airlines livery during the ditching portion. I'm guessing it's a nod to the miracle on the Hudson. I really like the attention to detail Mat.

The BGM is pretty cool! It has a pleasant ambient vibe that would not be out of place in a "chill out" room at a rave. RE: B-Roll - If The Muppets met the Thunderbirds!

Part 2: nice! I suggest you stikkit in a box and send it to Big Clive dot com and see if he can make sense of the whole thing. Also: if you'd buy the 757 to play the tapes, could you then send it back and get your money if you're under 14 days? ;)

That's odd. The message I posted yesterday has vanished, and I certainly didn't delete it. Is the app playing up for anyone else? I'll check the desktop version shortly. EDIT: Nope! How odd.

I wonder if they had demographic info on the passengers, or if they just put the Greek announcements on when they were flying to/from Greece.

Just today I watched a YT video about pre-flight announcements, and what they should be. A bit under 7 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZB4_-tiRt0

That announcement about cabin depressurisation went on and on. I reckon most passengers without an oxygen mask would have passed out from hypoxia before the end.

I remember on armrests in airplanes it had a small numeric display and up/down buttons that would let you select the announcement language of you choice. Maybe that's how part of it worked.

Pretty interesting. I thought you didn't fly on airplanes? Or maybe just not anymore?

I'm an aviation buff so this was cool to see Mat. Would be fascinating to find the other end of this thing that let the cabin crew select and play the message they needed to play.

Neat!

I was expecting the voice on the tape to go "Flippin' Eck" at some point in time. Don't know why... ;-)

I haven't watched this yet... Did Mat make the joke about getting these mother flippin' tapes off this mother flippin' plane?

The real question is, did you buy that life jacket especially for this video? Love it!

lol, the muppet scenes

Ach, that's too bad. I'm not a massive Youtube consumer, but I remember (ages ago) you turned up in an 8-Bit Guy video I was watching. It was like Avengers Assemble (for middle-aged nerds).

The only other person I Patreonise is a genuine (somewhat-odd) genius who trades as 'Look Mum No Computer'. I bet he could do something wonderful with that tape unit, Mat. Do a crossover!

That was really interesting - loved both parts! I was hoping for a post crash edit though where the puppet had some socks and underwear on his head as he stared at the camera with the "can you believe it" look on his face -- because when a plane crashes one of the biggest issues are peoples luggage breaking open and their underpants going everywhere.

Part 2 is the best part for me! I enjoyed it all. Keep up the good work.

I caught the "400 Hz" at the beginning and assumed "ship" but you quickly cleared that up. Did you do the aircraft flying effects in some sort of Pixar-like animation program? Brilliant!

We used to find bits of kit like this in our electronics scrap dealers in London. People would buy them for the components inside.

You can be so cruel, having just been furloughed, made redundant, pensioned off after 33 years of flying, this was a reminder of the part of the job I hated. Listening to the cabin crew give the ‘insurance speeches’ nobody listens because they all know best, but if the worst happens and they are injured through stupidity - we’re covered. Cynical but true. Keep up the good work.

I am obviously a tad bit more afraid of flying than I thought, because listening to that hard landing messaged made my hands start to sweat, haha. Great videos, by the way!

Did he dangle an upside-down plane with fishing wire and recorded it upside down / flipped the video? Because if so, that's a really clever trick.

That worked well as a two-part, of course I was interested in both parts. I don't think I appreciated quite how universal quarter-inch tape was until you showed us.

I'm a simple man; I see puppets, I click the video.

I was hoping for an mp3 of the boarding music. I could jam to that all day.

No I’m fine. We’ve just been tuppeed to another subsidiary. Loose staff travel and some benefits but still have a job, so better off than a lot of others. Loved the 757 but they had to go as the cargo hold could not take standard baggage containers(fuselage too narrow ) that were part of Terminal 5 baggage automation, which went spectacularly wrong on opening 😳

Both parts one and two were entertaining in their own ways. Personally it feels like a natural split in content type, so if that was the aim I think you nailed it. Your sense of humor is always fun no matter what type of content it is though.

Omg that music takes me right back. Have worked for British Airways since 1987 until last weekend😢. Listened to that music on trips to Amsterdam and Paris, defiantly non descript background music.

New patron here, and very happy to be part of the club. The second part of the video was very, very interesting to me. But the first one was really funny and the pedant made me laugh out loud at least twice. So, I'm sure that the first part will be a hit. In fact, I bet you it will get 500.000 views in 15 days. If I'm right, you'll have to reply to the three most irritating comments on youtube, and be very kind to them and not sarcastic at all. Deal?

This is amazing! Any chance the full audio could be made available over at the Pedant channel?

I wonder if those were manually triggered by the Flight Attendants in case of emergency...

"There may be more than one jolt." Magnificent production values!

LMAO the pedant had a really bad day flying British Airways :) Great fun

Not too enthusiastic about the two-parter, but what was in the videos was great as always! Loved the content. Will flight recorders be next, perhaps? I don't think you should worry too much about the impatient among your audience. I've noticed that you put YouTube's new chapter feature to good use. Thus, the impatient could simply click the appropriate timestamp. For me, part 2 seemed more suited as a part 1. And what was part 1 would normally be the cherry on top of a "standard" Techmoan video. Also, there's a HUGE aviation fanbase on YouTube that you'll hopefully be able to reach even if this was a single, long, video. Once you get all the aviation geeks on Patreon, perhaps you'll be able to bid on that 757 as well. 😁

Awesome videos, thanks, Mat! I disagree that this video will flop. It has excellent crossover appeal to the AvGeek community. I'll seed it to those communities when it goes public.

LOL, great use of the muppet in a video. Love the subject matter.

Part of me kind of wants Simfest UK to go and buy one for their 747 fixed base simming cockpit.

Techmoan is never boring. I love aviation stuff found this really interesting. Presume the film you got would come via video recorder, seem to remember you alluding to it in your video 8 video. Hope u been ok with the heat Mat

Good decision to not buy that "something". Love this kind of humor so much.

Your puppetry is really quite good. I swore I saw the puppet's expression change, just from the body language.

Well, I'm glad to see my Patreon contribution is being put towards the very latest in cutting edge special effects. :D The puppet reactions were priceless...guess that's fate repaying him for all those snarky YouTube comments... Pretty fascinating stuff. If it were me in the water landing, though, I'd want to hear announcements coming from the crew instead of a recording. Hearing a cheery, pre-packaged message (as if you were on hold for customer service) before your potential doom is almost as macabre as the event itself.

Very interesting to see, cool that it even has Belgian French, Flemish and Swiss German (yeah!) as language options :-D

Despite the fact that big capacitor has been discharged for 10 years, I'm sure the capacitor safety squad will be commenting in force soon.

As a student pilot and Hifi nerd, this one really hit a chord with me. That was great. You could always get an older model of a Cockpit voice recorder which I believe used tape. They have the bonus of having available control panels however I don’t know how much luck you’d have getting a result there.

Wow, the BA English voiceover seemed way more amateur than I expected. I would have assumed BA would have gone for a voice with real authority.

Hit Patreon hoping to see some TechMoan content, Mat never disappoints. This was cool.

Oh these days I would consider it nostalgic. :)

Love the post title, will get to the content later ;)

Very interesting, thank you