What's the best sounding aircraft you ever heard?

Every 5 days from August through September we have our potatoes sprayed by a
local aerial applicator. Our house sits at the north end of one field and
just across the road from another field. The sound of either the big radial
of the old Air Tractors or even the newer turbines is awesome at 5:00am
while we lay in bed upstairs and the planes come over just missing the
rooftop. It's also so cool to wake up early and walk outside at daybreak
during that time, it's normally so quiet that you can hear the planes at 3
different strips start up and take off miles away.
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Jim Burns III

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Ah, I love the smell of dichlorodifluortoluene in the morning.

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Jim


"Jim"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Every 5 days from August through September we have our potatoes sprayed by a
-local aerial applicator. The sound of either the big radial
-of the old Air Tractors or even the newer turbines is awesome at 5:00am

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

LOL Actually it's mostly Chlorathalonil w/zinc and it smells kinda like
chalk. But if you can say methamidophos, you can really say stink!
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Jim Burns III

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"Jim Weir" wrote in message
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Ah, I love the smell of dichlorodifluortoluene in the morning.

{;-)

Jim


"Jim"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-Every 5 days from August through September we have our potatoes sprayed
by a
-local aerial applicator. The sound of either the big radial
-of the old Air Tractors or even the newer turbines is awesome at 5:00am

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

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"lardsoup" writes:

SR-71.

Wish I could hear one. Only got to see one on static display at ADW Open House
years ago.

Favorite recip---P-51 Merlin

Favorite Jet---F-14D Super Tomcat in full afterburner.


G. Lee

Jim wrote:

The sound of either the big radial
of the old Air Tractors or even the newer turbines is awesome at 5:00am
while we lay in bed upstairs and the planes come over just missing the
rooftop.

Several years ago, I was camping at Sun'n Fun, right off the end of the runway.
They had one B-17 on display down there that year. About 6:30, that sucker went
overhead about 500' up on takeoff. Hell of an alarm clock!

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".

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'.


Space shuttle liftoff... but I guess that doesn't really count.

It was the sound of the engine as it hummed in my Sonrai. Of course I only
realized how beautiful it sounded AFTER it blew up in flight.

Jim

"ShawnD2112" wrote in message
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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.

Yeah. Nice. Like the sound of Concorde on take-off! Except you can
(could) get closer to Concorde as it flies directly over your head at when
standing near the end of the runway.

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

It was high though. I guess a lot less fuel on board than on a transatlantic
flight. Where were you standing? Was your car parked there? What car
were you in? What do you look like? (I'll look out for you on my video)

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!

Yes, I was there. But you weren't allowed near it. It was at the
PFA rally the previous day, and there I had a good close up look
and spoke to the people involved.

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!

Our Hurricane at Brooklands should be returning to taxi-able condition.

Don't know if we get engines too when we get Concorde 202 from
Filton...don't suppose they'll allow us to taxi that! :-)

Paul

Larry,

I said the same thing. It's a great sound.

Fred


"Larry Fransson" wrote in message
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Bell UH-1

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Larry Fransson
Seattle, WA

Hey Mike,

When and where was this? Just curious.

PJ

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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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Cessna 185 after waiting 5 days for it to stop snowing so that he could
get
in and take us back to civillization.

Mike
MU-2

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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Hands down: Rare Bear, the highly modified Grumman Bearcat owned by Lyle
Shelton. It has a deep-throated growl (how appropriate!), a "voice"
that
speaks of power through timbre and modulation, rather than volume.