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The Vimy to be Heard in Star Wars
by Mark Rebholz
 Recently
the Vimy replica was used for a very interesting mission.
It seems that some time ago an executive from Lucas Films,
the producer of the Star Wars series of feature
films, heard the Vimy as it flew over the San Francisco
Bay area. The unusual sound of the high revs of the
BMW engines along with the slow turning MT props, combined
with the wind passing through the 117 flying wires, make
a sound that isn’t heard every day. Sound engineers
arranged for a day of flying near the Vimy home base airport.
Many passes were made for the highly sensitive sound equipment
as engineers recorded the one-of-kind sounds that
few people are lucky enough to hear. A remote listening
post with microphones and recording equipment was set
up in an open field, and the Vimy crew of Shawn Mulligan
and Mark Rebholz circled the site at low altitude using
different power settings to record all combinations of
the unique noises.
As the sound recordings were being made a Lucas Films
documentary film crew recorded everything, from the ground
and in the air, as the sound recordings were being made.
Vimy enthusiasts will be able to see the Vimy fly in the
upcoming documentary film about how the Star Wars
episode was produced.
The sound recordings will be used as the sound of a space
ship in the new release of the Star Wars film,
coming this spring.
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