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SR-71.
"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. 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 |
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I gotta go with the P-51 with the Merlin, and a close second is the sound of
a radial. Wayne "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. 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 |
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B-25 or B-17, or virtually any multi-engine aircraft outfitted with Wright Cyclones. all the best -- Dan Ford email: see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com |
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Ditto!!!
Wayne wrote: I gotta go with the P-51 with the Merlin, and a close second is the sound of a radial. Wayne "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. 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 |
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The setting: Duxford for Flying Legends airshow, 1995-ish, around 1800 or
so. I was a volunteer for The Fighter Collection at the time, assigned for that day to look after the Corsair which was the last aircraft parked on the display line, at the departure end of the parallel taxiway. Gorgeous sunny summer day with big, fluffy clouds way up high. It had been a great day of flying, everything from Mustangs, Spits, the B-17 "Sally B", B-25, Corsairs, all the 'Cats, Spads, and probably some other stuff I can't remember. We had a total of 19 Merlin powered fighters on the flightline that day. Being at the departure end of the taxiway, everything had to taxi past me to get to the runup area and then the runway. At the end of each Flying Legends airshow, the last formation is a Balboa, a massed formation of everything on the flightline up in the sky at once. The Corsair I was minding was already gone, so the distinction of the end of the parking line was lost. The Mustangs and Spits were due to go off together and started to taxi past me one-by-one to do their runups. But there were too many of them for the small runup area to hold all at once. So they turned into wind wherever they could. 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. And I remember thinking, while standing on the WW2 Spit and Mustang base, that this must have been what the base sounded like in 1944. It was one of the few times in my life I actually felt like I'd been allowed to step back in time. All of that because of the noise... Shawn "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. 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 |
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DeltaDeltaDelta wrote:
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 The one that is turning the fan in front of me is the best sounding aircraft *smile*. Allen |
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Has to be the Metro-Merlin!!! MQD_117.3 -- mqd_117.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via OziPilots Online [ http://www.OziPilotsOnline.com.au ] - A website for Australian Pilots regardless of when, why, or what they fly - |
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I kind of like the sound of a glider with spoilers out on short final - the
"whooshing"/whistling is pretty neat. "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. 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 |
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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) -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ Quando omni flunkus moritati (when all else fails play dead) |
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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" |
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