Airplane sound effects

Builds thin, thickens as it arrives, then falls away in pitch behind you. This is the version most edits want, because the drop in pitch is the only part that makes an aircraft read as moving rather than parked.

A single unbroken climb from idle to full thrust. Reach for it when the shot needs momentum: the sound is going somewhere for the whole of its length, so it pulls a static frame forward.

Dense, even, and going nowhere, which is exactly right for the interior. It sits low enough under speech that a whole dialogue scene can play over it without any mixing work.

Chopping blades over a rough piston engine. The unevenness is the whole character: it is what stops a small aircraft sounding like a scaled-down jet.

A rubber chirp, then a broad surge that drops away. Two events in one take, which is why it lands an arrival on a single cut instead of needing three.

Two soft electronic tones, high then low. The smallest sound on the page and the most recognisable: it puts an audience in a seat before anything else is established.