In article ,
Peter Twydell wrote:

In article , Tex Houston
writes

You may have read about it in "Air and Space Magazine", if I remember
correctly. Not exactly sure if this is the aircraft in question but would
almost bet money on it. According to a senior curator I met at the Air
Force Museum when it was tested there it was painful to be anywhere near.

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/resea...hter/f84sp.htm

ISTR it was nicknamed "Thunderscreech" because of its awful noise, and
caused pain and severe nausea to ground personnel in the vicinity when
the prop was turning.

I'd put an F-106 at takeoff up against almost anything. It was pretty
loud in general, but there were some godawful high harmonics in there
that made you feel like someone was ripping giant sheets of canvas *in*
your chest. When I worked F-4s, we had an ANG F-106 alert unit sitting
at the end of one runway, and when they took off, we'd go into the EOR
shack and hide for extra protection - after standing 100 feet away from
multiple F-4 launches on full afterburner all day...

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