Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Picture courtesy of Guillaume Besnard (link: flickr.com/photos/tonggun/5150716589/)
So, I'm going to start off by saying that my PC-98 album project has been canceled. I left it aside for too long and ran out of ideas for what to do in the second song I was working on. Thus, I decided to release the only ever completed song I made for the album on my second channel, completed around June 2019. It was made before BambooTracker (the software I was using for the album) implemented the custom ADPCM channel of the YM2608.
This song is about the plane you see in the picture, an Airbus A340-300. Why did I call this song that name? Well, do you notice how small the engines are under the wing of the plane you see in the picture? While they're able to bring the plane up into the sky, they're apparently not powerful enough, and their weight causes the plane to suffer from a slow climb rate. Some aviation enthusiasts call them "hairdryers," hence why I named the song "Plane Powered by Hairdryers." Its later variants, the -500 and -600, can climb faster since they used more modern and powerful engines. Manufactured by Airbus from 1991 to 2011, the Airbus A340 family has since fallen out of favor from many airlines due to the advent of twin-engine widebody jetliners that are more economical and fuel-efficient than quad-jet widebody jetliners.
Picture courtesy of Guillaume Besnard (link: flickr.com/photos/tonggun/5150716589/)
So, I'm going to start off by saying that my PC-98 album project has been canceled. I left it aside for too long and ran out of ideas for what to do in the second song I was working on. Thus, I decided to release the only ever completed song I made for the album on my second channel, completed around June 2019. It was made before BambooTracker (the software I was using for the album) implemented the custom ADPCM channel of the YM2608.
This song is about the plane you see in the picture, an Airbus A340-300. Why did I call this song that name? Well, do you notice how small the engines are under the wing of the plane you see in the picture? While they're able to bring the plane up into the sky, they're apparently not powerful enough, and their weight causes the plane to suffer from a slow climb rate. Some aviation enthusiasts call them "hairdryers," hence why I named the song "Plane Powered by Hairdryers." Its later variants, the -500 and -600, can climb faster since they used more modern and powerful engines. Manufactured by Airbus from 1991 to 2011, the Airbus A340 family has since fallen out of favor from many airlines due to the advent of twin-engine widebody jetliners that are more economical and fuel-efficient than quad-jet widebody jetliners.
