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Billy Beck wrote in message . ..
"The Raven" wrote: Try living in a motel at the end of a SAC runway (for 3 months). Triple buff takeoffs at 5am, full noise, about 200ft over your head. By November of 1972, Barksdale was *too quiet* for me to sleep. That was very wierd. Billy http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php Read recently (in an article I cannot now find) about an airplane designed and built in the '60s or '70s that had a turbojet engine in the tail and a huge turboprop in the nose. Supposed to be a fighter or fighter-bomber. Only two were built, and after one flight the test pilots didn't want to fly them any more. They were LOUD in the cockpit or anywhere else. It hurt bad. Very few test flights were carried out. I imagine they were designed to defeat the enemy through intimidation alone. Apparently most of the noise came from the prop tips, which were running supersonic or transonic, even in static runups. One of the pilots lived ten miles from the airbase, and he could hear the techs running it up, on the ground, all the way from his home. That has to be pretty bad. Anyone here remember what it was? Dan |
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"Dan Thomas" wrote in message Read recently (in an article I cannot now find) about an airplane designed and built in the '60s or '70s that had a turbojet engine in the tail and a huge turboprop in the nose. Supposed to be a fighter or fighter-bomber. Only two were built, and after one flight the test pilots didn't want to fly them any more. They were LOUD in the cockpit or anywhere else. It hurt bad. Very few test flights were carried out. I imagine they were designed to defeat the enemy through intimidation alone. Apparently most of the noise came from the prop tips, which were running supersonic or transonic, even in static runups. One of the pilots lived ten miles from the airbase, and he could hear the techs running it up, on the ground, all the way from his home. That has to be pretty bad. Anyone here remember what it was? Dan 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 Tex |
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(Dan Thomas) wrote: Billy Beck wrote in message . .. "The Raven" wrote: Try living in a motel at the end of a SAC runway (for 3 months). Triple buff takeoffs at 5am, full noise, about 200ft over your head. By November of 1972, Barksdale was *too quiet* for me to sleep. That was very wierd. Billy http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php Read recently (in an article I cannot now find) about an airplane designed and built in the '60s or '70s that had a turbojet engine in the tail and a huge turboprop in the nose. Supposed to be a fighter or fighter-bomber. Only two were built, and after one flight the test pilots didn't want to fly them any more. They were LOUD in the cockpit or anywhere else. It hurt bad. Very few test flights were carried out. I imagine they were designed to defeat the enemy through intimidation alone. Apparently most of the noise came from the prop tips, which were running supersonic or transonic, even in static runups. One of the pilots lived ten miles from the airbase, and he could hear the techs running it up, on the ground, all the way from his home. That has to be pretty bad. Anyone here remember what it was? Dan I don't remember the airplane's designation, but I believe it was the one with the 2 large contrarotating props. The noise from these setups were very loud as attested to by our fighter pilot's who pulled up alongside the 4 engine turboprop Soviet TU-95 Bear on intercept missions during the Cold War and noted the noise. The Bear had 2 contrarotating props per engine. (Pics at http://www.pinetreeline.org/misc/other/misc8j.jpg, http://www.pinetreeline.org/misc/other/misc8as.jpg) Carl |
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"Dan Thomas" wrote in message
om... Read recently (in an article I cannot now find) about an airplane designed and built in the '60s or '70s that had a turbojet engine in the tail and a huge turboprop in the nose. Supposed to be a fighter or fighter-bomber. Only two were built, and after one flight the test pilots didn't want to fly them any more. They were LOUD in the cockpit or anywhere else. It hurt bad. Very few test flights were carried out. I imagine they were designed to defeat the enemy through intimidation alone. Apparently most of the noise came from the prop tips, which were running supersonic or transonic, even in static runups. One of the pilots lived ten miles from the airbase, and he could hear the techs running it up, on the ground, all the way from his home. That has to be pretty bad. Anyone here remember what it was? Dan IIRC, the Ryan "Fireball" was a prop up front and a jet out the rear... But, I think it was built before the 60's/70's time frame... FWIW... |
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"Jay Beckman" wrote in message news:XZz5b.26099$S_.643@fed1read01... Waaaaay before the 60's/70's... Fireball Link: http://history.acusd.edu/gen/projects/Fireball.html The article on the XF-84H was in "Air and Space Magazine", pp 56-61 of the July 2003 issue. Tex |
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("Scott Lowrey" wrote)
snip Today, though, what looked like an F-18 flew over. Wow. I haven't seen too many fighters in my life (still have yet to see a "real" air show). September 20-21, 2003 http://www.duluthairshow.com/index2.htm Duluth is only 150 mile straight up the freeway from MSP (Mpls/St. Paul) We want to get up there for the Air Show. -- Montblack |
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"Tex Houston" wrote in message ...
"Dan Thomas" wrote in message Read recently (in an article I cannot now find) about an airplane designed and built in the '60s or '70s that had a turbojet engine in the tail and a huge turboprop in the nose. Supposed to be a fighter or fighter-bomber. Only two were built, and after one flight the test pilots didn't want to fly them any more. They were LOUD in the cockpit or anywhere else. It hurt bad. Very few test flights were carried out. I imagine they were designed to defeat the enemy through intimidation alone. Apparently most of the noise came from the prop tips, which were running supersonic or transonic, even in static runups. One of the pilots lived ten miles from the airbase, and he could hear the techs running it up, on the ground, all the way from his home. That has to be pretty bad. Anyone here remember what it was? Dan 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 Tex That's the one. Thanks! Dan |
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In article , Tex Houston
writes "Dan Thomas" wrote in message Read recently (in an article I cannot now find) about an airplane designed and built in the '60s or '70s that had a turbojet engine in the tail and a huge turboprop in the nose. Supposed to be a fighter or fighter-bomber. Only two were built, and after one flight the test pilots didn't want to fly them any more. They were LOUD in the cockpit or anywhere else. It hurt bad. Very few test flights were carried out. I imagine they were designed to defeat the enemy through intimidation alone. Apparently most of the noise came from the prop tips, which were running supersonic or transonic, even in static runups. One of the pilots lived ten miles from the airbase, and he could hear the techs running it up, on the ground, all the way from his home. That has to be pretty bad. Anyone here remember what it was? Dan 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 Tex 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. -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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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... -- Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. |
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