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00:00 [Machine noise]
00:15 So this is the CA-16 railway.
00:19 The initial versions were produced by the design department of the belt in 1939.
00:25 So we had a fully assembled and configured car that was a NA-SERV and it was trained in transports between France and the UK.
00:32 And I was brought to know it.
00:34 During the early part of World War II, this was actually pretty much like a stopgap fighter/bomber in the early campaign up in the North West Pacific.
00:42 A lot of history in this particular aircraft.
00:44 It's a two-unit service vehicle up in the South West Pacific.
00:48 It's a Bona Fise one.
00:50 So a lot of history in this aeroplane here.
00:52 Can you tell me what it sounds like?
00:54 It sounds like a beast.
00:56 A living, breathing beast as it comes alive.
00:59 So as you start the engine there, bing!
01:01 We'll hear one of the commentators always refer to it with the sound of rounds.
01:05 So regular engines have a very distinctive sound as all the cylinders start to come alive and the whole thing fires up.
01:11 We've got the smoke going and as it kind of settles into this little, I call it the grumble, and away it goes.
01:18 [engine noise]
01:39 [silence]