What's the best sounding aircraft you ever heard?

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, mqd_117.3
said:
Has to be the Metro-Merlin!!!

Only because if you hear it departing, it means you're not on the
"Torture
Tube".

My votes:
Spitfire
Lancaster bomber (because if one Merlin is good, 4 is better)
Vulcan bomber (loudest thing I've ever heard)


I do like the merlin in a lancaster or any aircraft for that matter,
then any 9 cylinder radial. If you want power then I did read that
Concord produces the equivalant of 240,000 HP in thrust at take off.

My sister lived under the flight path of Manchester airport, we got
used to the noise of BAC-111's. Then one day something really big
went over, really silent, a Boeing 707, yes they were considered
quiet when first introduced. Can't remeber if it was late 60's or
early 70's.
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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe.
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don't bother me with insignificiant nonsence such as spelling,
I don't care if it spelt properly
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Sometimes I fly and sometimes I just dream about it.
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Quando omni flunkus moritati (when all else fails play dead)

"John T" wrote in message
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"Montblack" wrote in
message


It's the gene that makes us
put things on the stairs (like a staging area) instead of putting
them away in the first place.

Argh! My wife does that to my constant chagrin.

"It's to remind me to take it upstairs."
"Ah. That explains why it's still there after your last 3 trips
up."


My great aunt had about 25 years worth of opened boxes of Chocolates
each with only one or two gone. If we made the mistake of visiting
her around Christmas we would get offered one, you can imagin all
white with mould growing on them.:-(
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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe.
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don't bother me with insignificiant nonsence such as spelling,
I don't care if it spelt properly
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Sometimes I fly and sometimes I just dream about it.
:-)


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John T
http://tknowlogy.com/tknoFlyer
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Subject: What's the best sounding aircraft you ever heard?
From: "DeltaDeltaDelta"

A B-58 Hustler with 4 J-79s in AB on takeoff-----heard it many many times---Mac

Tom

A minor correction on A-10. Two turbo fan engines and no reheat.

The grunts like the bird. (down and dirty)

Big John

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:47:15 GMT, "Tom Hyslip"
wrote:

I would have to say an A-10 "warthog" coming in for close ground support
with the 30mm vulican cannon blazing. Then hitting the afterburners on the
pull out.

Amazing, and I sure wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of the 30mm
cannon.


"DeltaDeltaDelta" wrote in message
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This came to mind when I heard a RAF VC-10K overflying my house at some
1000
feet AGL at full steam. What a sound! The VC-10 both looks and sounds
powerful. Also, the piston Yak-52 I heard a few days ago...unbelievable,
such a powerful and awe inspiring sound. The only thing I regret is never
hearing a DC-6 at full throttle; watching a documentary on ConAir
firefighting services today (on Discovery Science) I heard one pilot
remark
that those 76 cylinders at full power sound 'like a Hell's Angels
funeral'.

Triple Delta

Paul

Wondered when someone was going to mention a Lancaster with the four
Merlins. Sounded different than a flight of four P-51's. Guess the
rpm's were more closely synced on Lanc than the four fighters in
formation. Made you eyes water G

One other sound of freedom. The Lockheed F-94C with the J-48 engine
and A/B (Air Defense Fighter) had a HARD after burner light. When it
lit off, it sounded like a French 75 cannon. Monday morning first
flight when burner lit, it was like getting hit in the butt with a two
by four. If I had my choice, I'd take one of those birds tody for my
personal aircraft. Best bird I ever flew, couldn't break in air.

Great Airshow bird with the hard burner light.

Big John


On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:00:04 -0000, "Paul Sengupta"
wrote:

Piston: Merlin (Spitfire, then P51, then Hurricane), Merlins (Lancaster).
Griffon (Spitfire). The engine in the Bf109 sounds marvelous too.
Sweeter/smoother/less gruff than the Merlin.

Radials also have their place in the distinctive sounds line-up. Low
and loud.

Jet - Concorde! 4 olympus turbojets with reheat on take-off! Closely
followed by the Vulcan. 4 non-afterburning olympus engines...

Offline at the moment so can't check, but don't Air Atlantique at
Coventry have a DC-6?

Paul

"DeltaDeltaDelta" wrote in message
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This came to mind when I heard a RAF VC-10K overflying my house at some
1000
feet AGL at full steam. What a sound! The VC-10 both looks and sounds
powerful.

Those were the golden days of aviation - so much innovation, such a rapid
pace of change. Aircraft were in service for years number in single digits,
not decades numbered in single digits. I would loved to have been around
during those years when everything seemed possible in aviation and nothing
seemed to expensive.

Funny, but you don't hear too many people talk about that period in aviation
these days. I'd love to hear more about what being in the USAF and flying
things like the F-94 was like.

Shawn
"Big John" wrote in message
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Paul

Wondered when someone was going to mention a Lancaster with the four
Merlins. Sounded different than a flight of four P-51's. Guess the
rpm's were more closely synced on Lanc than the four fighters in
formation. Made you eyes water G

One other sound of freedom. The Lockheed F-94C with the J-48 engine
and A/B (Air Defense Fighter) had a HARD after burner light. When it
lit off, it sounded like a French 75 cannon. Monday morning first
flight when burner lit, it was like getting hit in the butt with a two
by four. If I had my choice, I'd take one of those birds tody for my
personal aircraft. Best bird I ever flew, couldn't break in air.

Great Airshow bird with the hard burner light.

Big John


On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:00:04 -0000, "Paul Sengupta"
wrote:

Piston: Merlin (Spitfire, then P51, then Hurricane), Merlins (Lancaster).
Griffon (Spitfire). The engine in the Bf109 sounds marvelous too.
Sweeter/smoother/less gruff than the Merlin.

Radials also have their place in the distinctive sounds line-up. Low
and loud.

Jet - Concorde! 4 olympus turbojets with reheat on take-off! Closely
followed by the Vulcan. 4 non-afterburning olympus engines...

Offline at the moment so can't check, but don't Air Atlantique at
Coventry have a DC-6?

Paul

"DeltaDeltaDelta" wrote in message
...
This came to mind when I heard a RAF VC-10K overflying my house at some
1000
feet AGL at full steam. What a sound! The VC-10 both looks and sounds
powerful.

In article BSjzb.406749$Tr4.1167963@attbi_s03, Frederick Wilson wrote:
Most Depressing sound: the sound of silence at altitude. When the wind
outside the cabin is making more noise than the power producers, it anit a
good thing.

Depends what you're in. When I'm flying a Blanik L-13, I quite like the
sound of the wind outside the cabin. Even better is the clunking and
rattling sound you get when you're in strong lift!

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

In article , Jim Weir wrote:
Ah, I love the smell of dichlorodifluortoluene in the morning.

A mosquito was heard to complain,
A chemist had poisoned his brain,
The cause of his sorrow,
Was 4-4-dichloro,
Diphenoltrichloroethane.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Funny, but you don't hear too many people talk about that period in
aviation
these days. I'd love to hear more about what being in the USAF and flying
things like the F-94 was like.

See Flight Journal Magazine (http://www.flightjournal.com/) for some really
interesting articles from this amazing era of flight.

It really was an amazing period, when the Air Force (and, actually, air
forces all over the world) was rolling out a new aircraft every few
months -- for years at a time!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:02:42 -0500, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:



Montblack wrote:

I think I've inherited that
particular clutter gene. It's the gene that makes us put things on the
stairs (like a staging area) instead of putting them away in the first
place.

Me too. In fact, the current generation in my family claims that "Patterson" is
actually ancient Gaelic for "packrat". I started to draw up a coat of arms with
a shield marked with bags of junk, flanked with two packrats rampant, and the
legend "I discard nothing" in latin. Got it about half done; it's in a drawer.
Somewhere ......

George Patterson
Some people think they hear a call to the priesthood when what they really
hear is a tiny voice whispering "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting".

Ah Har. I'm a "packrat" and my wife is a "tosser". We've reached an
edgy kind of equilibrium. Anything that has airplanes or tools on it
goes on my pile, otherwise it's instantly tossed in the recycling bin
to go out during the weekend. After some passage of time (could be
several weeks or a month or so) she begins to feel that my pile has
reaches critical mass and "suggests" that I cull through it and
discard.

Corky Scott