You bet, Jay. There are other airplane engines that sound pretty cool but
that one experience always stands out in my mind.
Others include:

Sitting near the departure end of Incirlik Airbase when the F-111s and the
Turkish F-104s were departing was pretty thrilling, too. The -104s, when
fully spun up, howled like a hangar door with a stuck wheel being dragged
across it's track. That's the only way I've ever been able to describe that
sound.

The crackle of the B-1s four engines in afterburner as it does a reversing
turn, pointing it's tail straight at you, in an airshow.

Last Wednesday hearing the sound of the last ever Concorde departure as our
final one was flown to the museum at Filton.

The 5 cylinder radial on a Baby Lakes that I just got to hand swing - pure
vintage fun!

The corncob radial on the Corsair starting and warming up - sounds even
better than being at full throttle!

Someone else mentioned the MATS Connie. I got to see and hear her come in
to Duxford a few years ago. Lovely in the extreme!

There are more but I'm not entirely coherent, being home with the flu, so
they're escaping my mind. I think it's the sounds of aviation that are most
thrilling. You can see nearly any airplane on static display in a museum
somewhere, but it's cold and lifeless. To hear it with it's engines running
is to hear it breath and thrive. That's thrilling!

Shawn

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I suddenly found myself surrounded on 3 sides by all the Spits and
Mustangs
doing their runups at the same time - 19 Merlins revving up, churning
the
air with their props, making the ground shake, creating a deafening
sweet
racket which I couldn't bring myself to block from my ears. They rang
for
8
hours afterward but it was worth every minute.

Thanks for sharing that, Shawn. I've been at OSH numerous times when a
dozen (or more) Mustangs were doing their run-ups, and I still get shivers

just thinking about it!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"