This sound effect can be found on the Hanna-Barbera Sound Effects Library, which was made by Sound Ideas. It's AIRPLANE, SINGLE PROP - TBF: EXT: POWER DIVE blended with a Stuka Siren imitation, which were originally Universal Studios sound effects. This is the same sound effect as the Elektra Records sound effect Dive Bomber. Its earliest debut known so far may be the Woody Woodpecker short "Ace in the Hole".
Information
- First Recorded: 1940s
- Creator: Unknown
- Owner: Universal Studios (1940s?-1957), Hanna-Barbera (1957-2001), Sound Ideas (1993-present)
- Origin: United States
- Recording location: Unknown
- Year debut: 1940s?
- First heard: Ace in the Hole (a Woody Woodpecker cartoon)?
- Area used: Worldwide
This is the most famous imitation of the Stuka's siren. It was originally a Universal sound effect and exists in lower pitches, though it's usually used in this pitch.
Unlike most Stuka siren imitations; the siren is drowned out by the roar of the engine quickly breaking dive, before the siren wails down.
The recording of only the engine's roar exists, with the "siren" out, on the Universal Studios Sound Effects Library: AIRPLANE, SINGLE PROP - TBF: EXT: POWER DIVE.
Variations
- AIRPLANE, PROP - FIGHTER: DIVE FAST (ending part only)
- AIRPLANE, SINGLE PROP - STUKA, PEEL OFF, WHINE, DIVE (included)
- AIRPLANE, SINGLE PROP - TBF: EXT: POWER DIVE (same but with Stuka siren out)
- Dive Bomber (same)
- Dog-Fight - Airplane (included)
- Explosions - Battlefield ambiance . . . automatic weapons and artillery firing . . . planes overhead (included)
- Explosions - Plane shot and diving out of control . . . whine and explosion (incorporated into a plane crash sequence)
- G02-23-Prop Plane Sustained Dive.wav (extended)
- Larger Battle w/ Dive Bomber (included)
- ZOOM, CARTOON - BROOM TAKE OFF (tail end, after the siren is completely drowned out)
Used In
TV Shows
- 12 oz. Mouse (Heard once in "Meaty Dreamy"; used incorrectly for a helicopter spinning down into a building.)
- Action Dad (Begins after the opening part.)
- Action Man (2000 TV Series)
- ALF: The Animated Series
- The All-New Pink Panther Show
- The Angry Beavers
- Arthur (Heard once in "Brain Sees Stars".)
- Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy (Heard once in "Swat's the Matter?" and "The Musket-Tears".)
- Beany and Cecil (Heard once in "The Capture of Thunderbolt the Wondercolt" and "The Attack of the Man-Eater Skeeters".)
- Between the Lions
- Big City Greens (First half used once incorrectly on a helicopter in "Chipocalypse Now: Part 2".)
- Bonkers
- CatDog
- The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (Heard once in "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Halloween!".)
- The Centurions (Heard in "The Sky is on Fire.")
- ChalkZone (2nd half; heard in a +1 pitch in the opening of "Rudy's First Adventure".)
- Columbo
- Courage The Cowardly Dog (Heard once in "Conway the Contaminationist"; used incorrectly on Conway's biplane, even after it stops diving.)
- Cow and Chicken
- Crashbox
- Darkwing Duck
- Dexter's Laboratory (Heard often in seasons 1-2; normal and reverse edits. Also used for characters running fast in "Sdrakcab" and "Mom and Jerry".)
- DuckTales
- Ed, Edd n' Eddy (Heard once in "They Call Him Mr. Ed".)
- El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
- The Fairly OddParents (normal and +12 pitch edits)
- Family Guy (This or a similar Stuka siren heard in "Halloween on Spooner Street" as Glenn Quagmire dives a Japanese Zero toward a navy vessel.)
- The Flintstones (Heard twice in "Dr. Sinister" anc once in "The Snorkasaurus Hunter".)
- Foyle's War (First half heard once in "Eagle Day"; used incorrectly as a Spitfire is shot down.)
- Futurama (Heard once in reverse in "Saturday Morning Fun Pit"; used for a missile.)
- Garfield and Friends (Heard once in "Fill in Feline" and 3 times in "Box O'Fun"; used incorrectly as Garfield's box airplane appears to be of the U.S. army.)
- The Get-Along Gang
- The Glo Friends
- Goof Troop
- Gumby
- Heyyy, It's The King!
- Hokey Wolf (Heard once in "Chock-Full Chuck Wagon".)
- The Huckleberry Hound Show
- Human Target (2nd half heard once in one episode; used incorrectly as an uncontrolled delivery plane is assumed to dive.)
- I Am Weasel
- Johnny Bravo (normal and higher-pitched edits)
- Kissyfur (Heard in "The Duck Who Came to Dinner".)
- Linus the Lionhearted
- The Littles
- Love, Death & Robots
- The Magic School Bus (Heard once in "Gets Lost in Space".)
- The Marvel Super Heroes
- Mickey Mouse
- Midsomer Murders
- Muppets Tonight
- My Life as a Teenage Robot (Heard once in "Unlicensed Flying Object" with Sky Rocket Loud High TE021701.)
- The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Heard once in "The Good, The Bad and the Tigger" and "Up, Up, and Awry".)
- The New Pink Panther Show
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies
- The New Three Stooges (Heard once in "Badmen in the Briny".)
- The New Woody Woodpecker Show
- Nightmare Ned (Heard once in "House of Games" near the end as the titular character falls off of a building.)
- Oh Noah! (Heard once in "Monkey Business".)
- The Penguins of Madagascar (Heard in "Otter Gone Wild", "In the Line of Doody", "Cradle and All", and "Nuts to You".)
- Phineas and Ferb
- Pink Panther and Sons
- The Powerpuff Girls (Heard once in "Ice Sore" after Blossom freezes a meteor, and "A Very Special Blossom" for Professor's falling groceries [heard with WHINE, CARTOON - SHELL SCREAMING WHINE DOWN] among other episodes.)
- Pulang Araw
- A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
- The Quick Draw McGraw Show
- The Ren & Stimpy Show (Heard in a wide variety of episodes, mostly in Games Animations ones: once in "Untamed World", "Rubber Nipple Salesmen", "Powdered Toast Man" (used incorrectly for a jet), the Powdered Toastman segment of "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen", the "Flod" segment of "Stimpy's Cartoon Show", "Hard Times for Haggis", "Blazing Entrails", "Travelogue", and "A Scooter for Yaksmas"; twice in "I Love Chicken" for zip pans and "Double Header" for an approaching bus, and several times in "Fire Dogs" among other episodes.)
- Rocko's Modern Life
- The Ruff and Reddy Show
- Samurai Jack (Seasons 1-4 only: Heard once in EPISODE II and most often in EPISODE XLVII.)
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
- Sesame Street
- Sitting Ducks (Heard once in "You're Grounded".)
- Snagglepuss (Heard once in "Diaper Desperado".)
- Snooper and Blabber (Heard once in "Hula-Hula Hullabaloo".)
- SpongeBob SquarePants (Heard once in "Club SpongeBob", "Squilliam Returns", "Mrs. Puff You're Fired", "Sing a Song of Patrick", "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?", "Walking the Plankton", and "Patrick's Staycation", and maybe at low volume in "Old Man Patrick". Condensed edit of 2nd half heard once in "Ghoul Fools".)
- Staines Down Drains (Heard once in "Drainland Unplugged".)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2nd half's siren warm-up briefly used once in "Holocron Heist", "Cat and Mouse" in a +12 pitch from a missile, and "Crisis on Naboo" in reverse as a gunship goes down in flames.)
- St. Bear's Dolls Hospital (Heard in a low pitch in "The Wrong Patient".)
- The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (2nd half heard once in "The Bird! The Bird!".)
- The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
- TaleSpin (Heard once in "I Only Have Ice for You".)
- The Tom & Jerry Kids Show (Heard once in "Beach Bummers".)
- Tom & Jerry Special Shorts (2nd half heard once in "The House That Cat Built" with 01.)
- Top Wing
- Total Drama Island (Heard once in "Not So Happy Campers Pt. 2".)
- Totally Spies!
- Underdog (Heard once in "The Witch of Pickyoon".)
- Wander Over Yonder
- What a Cartoon! (Heard once in "Dexter's Laboratory: The Big Sister" and twice in "Larry and Steve".)
- The Yogi Bear Show (Heard quadrice in "Bewitched Bear" and once in "Lullabye-Bye, Bear!", "Batty Bear" and "Biggest Show-Off On Earth".)
TV Specials
- Daffy Duck's Easter Show (1980)
- A Johnny Bravo Christmas (2001) (Heard during the majority of the time that the [jet] airplane falls/dives, even as Santa's reindeer stop it from diving, as an aural gag.)
- Liberty and the Littles (1986)
- Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972)
- Pink Panther in the Olym-pinks (1980)
Movies
- Airplane! (1980)
- Barney's Great Adventure (1998)
- The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998) (Barely audible for 7 seconds due to the roar of the engine after Blanky turns off Microwave.)
- Flubber (1997)
- Here Come the Littles (1985)
- The Incredibles (2004) (Only the siren's warm-up is heard once sped-up, from a velocipod as Dash is running out of the jungle.)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (May be confused with similar sounds.)
- The Little Mermaid (1989)
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) (Used for when the spy car stops flying and falls into a desert.)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) (Used twice for the airplane falling/diving.)
- Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie? (aka Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to?) (1973)
- Melvin, Son of Alvin (1984)
- Midway (1976) (Used improperly as pretty much any airplane dives.)
- Midway (2019)
- Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
- Mulholland Falls (1996)
- OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
- Pearl Harbor (2001) (Used incorrectly, twice in reverse and processed into a very high pitch, and once normal-pitched.)
- Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)
- Planes (2013)
- The Rescuers Down Under (1990) (Heard in a higher quality.)
- Rio (2011) (1st half used improperly for a non-Stuka airplane, after Nigel is caught in one of the engines, when Tipa says "We're going down!".)
- Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie (2001) (Heard once as a flying vehicle split in half dives down.)
- Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King (2008)
- Sing 2 (2021)
- Spaced Invaders (1990) (Heard in a high pitch.)
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) (Heard once as a Clone Fighter is hit into a dive; only on one of the L/R channels. It might've been heard when Plo Koon's Jedi Starfighter goes down too, but is barely audible.)
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992) (Heard in a very low volume as Dr. Applecheeks in the ice cream cart rides down a hill and falls through a hole in a bridge.)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
- The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) (May've been used once in low volume.)
- Von Ryan's Express (1965)
- The War Between Men and Women (1972) (sped up)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (Heard briefly in the deleted "Pig Head" scene.)
Shorts
- DePatie-Freleng Cartoons (Heard in the Blue Racer cartoons "Blue Aces Wild," "Aches and Snakes," and "Snake Preview.")
- Disney Cartoons
- DreamWorks Dragons: Book of Dragons (2011) (once, only the tail end/roar of the engine. The Stuka siren is barely audible, but a slightly higher-pitched version of the highly processed Warner Bros. siren plays with this sound)
- Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big (2000)
- Guard Duty Doggie: A Kippie Cartoon
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (Heard once in "Whizzard of OW!".)
- Malice in Wonderland (1982) (Heard in the opening and closing credits.)
- Pink Panther Cartoons (Heard once in "Cat and the Pinkstalk", captioned by Turner Networks as "[ ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! ]".)
- Tom and Jerry (Higher pitch edit heard once in "Much Ado about Mousing" and either "Guided Mous-ille" or "O-Solar Meow".)
- Tummy Trouble (1989)
- Walter Lantz Cartoons
- Whizzard of OW! (2003)
- Woody Woodpecker (Debut; heard once in "Ace in the Hole" and other shorts. The version without the siren is heard once in "The Beach Nut".)
Video Games
Videos/DVDs
- Golden Book Video
- Play-a-Story Animated Storybook: Imagine... A Wish for Grover (2008)
- The Safe Side: Stranger Safety (2005)
Commercials
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USA:
- Eggos Cereal "Falling Bowl" (Heard as the bowl falls, except when the shadow stops to follow him, along with the air whistling (Sky Rocket Loud High) which is the only sound the captions mention.)
Trailers
- The Longest Day (1962) (Trailers) (May've been used once in a -12 pitch.)
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) (Trailers)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) (Trailers)
Logos
- Camp Video (1986-1990's) (Logos) (2nd half heard in poor, deteriorated quality as the logo/comet flies around the Earth, until it is cut off by a loud jet/rocket noise for the company name.)
Music
- Eric Burdon & the Animals - Sky Pilot (1968)
- Nino Ferrer - Isabelle (1971)
- In The Flesh? - Pink Floyd (1979, original demo version only)
- Ragnarok - Fourteenth Knock (2005)
Other Media
- Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia 1995
- Golden Book Video (Heard once in "3 Sesame Street Stories" and "5 Sesame Street Stories".)
- Hanna-Barbera Records: Drop-Ins Volume One
- There Goes An Airplane
YouTube Videos
- 12 Bar Blues
- Arthur YTPs (Heard once in "Arthur Watches 'The Day After'".)
- Beanie Babies Families Galore (2021)
- The Best Pals Hand Movie (2018)
- Golden Book Video Killers
- Gregory DiBruno
- Kasey Leitch NEXT GEN
- SMG4 Videos
- Smosh Videos
- Webkinz 3: Furrier Moment (2019)
- WhitneyGoLucky
Anime
- BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad (Heard briefly in "The View at 14"; sampled as a background street sound.)
- Cutie Honey
- Cyborg 009: Monster Wars
- Digimon Adventure 01 (Heard once in "Forget About It!" in the English dub after DemiDeviMon gets pummeled by Patamon's Boom Bubble attack in the sky while on a rollercoaster uphill.)
- Dragon Ball (first part only)
- Dragon Ball Z (Heard for a very short time in "Evil Lives On".)
- Gekijō-ban Anime Nintama Rantarō Ninjutsu Gakuen Zenin Shutsudō! no Dan (2011)
- Grave of the Fireflies (1988) (Heard in a low volume, if you listen very carefully.)
- Patlabor: The Movie (Heard for a very short time when helicopters fly.)
- Sonic X (Heard once in "Satellite Swindle".)
- Tokyo Mew Mew
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