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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. Oh come on now, thats not noise that's music :-) Jim SAC Cop 78-88 |
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"JSH517" 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. Oh come on now, thats not noise that's music :-) Not when you're trying to sleep and the SAC claims 7am is the earliest flight (long time ago) -- The Raven http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/batfinkquote.mp3 ** President of the ozemail.* and uunet.* NG's ** since August 15th 2000. |
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In article , "Gerry
Caron" wrote: if you want loud, try the F-111. Ahh, but the 'varks are gone and so are the rhinos. :-( even the EF's? and what about the Australians? are theirs all gone too? Since the BUFFs and tankers that are left are all turbofans, I'd say the king of loud these days is the Bone. A full burner TO will rattle windows and set off alarms for a mile. The USAF still has at least one 707 with the old old engines. Everytime it takes off out of BED there are dozens of noise complaints. But of course it probably won't match a plane doing a full burner TO. -- Bob Noel |
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"Chris Hoffmann" wrote in message ...
Signature? Good grief....how many FBO's do they run? That's the FBO at Mitchell Field in Milwaukee, too. I had the same thought - Signature? - but for another reason: why would a fighter be parked there and not over near the military hangars? Cheaper fuel? : ) |
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"Bob Noel" wrote in message news:ihatessppaamm- if you want loud, try the F-111. It purrs compared to the Vulcan. Greatest device ever created for turning fossil fuel into noise. John |
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"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 |
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Those J57s were turbojets with water injection. When
they hit the water, it let out a screech you could hear for miles. Gerry The trim pad at Langley AFB was across the runway from main base as was CBPO. The desk jockeys were most cross with us when we would start water. It seems the prevailing winds made us aim the engines at them and they really failed to see the humour in the situation. Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired |
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On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:45:23 GMT, "Scott Lowrey"
wrote: "Neal" wrote in message ... An F-15 can get pretty awesomely loud too, looks vaguely similar to an F-18, to the layperson, in that it also has twin vertical stabilizors/rudders but they're straight up instead of angled outwards. F-15's wing is much larger, and somewhat delta-shaped too. Good pics for comparison at: http://www.rijskamp.com/KLu/photos/photo_50.html That's an excellent shot, thanks. From my viewing angle and distance, I really didn't get a good enough look. All I caught were the twin verticals. Looks like the key is the wing shape (and angle of verticals). Unfortunately the roll in my direction put the wings level with me, so couldn't see them. I forgot to mention the F-14, it also has a twin tail, but it'd probably be pretty rare to see one in Minnesota. I've never even seen one in person myself, here in north Texas. Here's a cute photo of a Tomcat. http://www.rijskamp.com/KLu/photos/photo_66.html Water skiing, anyone? :-) |
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Bob Noel wrote in message ...
In article , "Gerry Caron" wrote: if you want loud, try the F-111. Ahh, but the 'varks are gone and so are the rhinos. :-( even the EF's? Yes and what about the Australians? are theirs all gone too? No, although there has been a recent suggestion to retire them soon rather than keep them going for another 15-20 years. One evening a couple of months ago I was with some friends when we heard a loud jet. I looked over to the other person with an interest in aviation, and we both said something like "that's not a modern civil jet." The RNZAF B727s had just been retired, so they were out. Then I remembered - "The F-111s are here on exercise this week. It'll be one of them." Cue disbelief from some others in room that we could ID an aircraft from sound alone. snip Cheers Errol Cavit |
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(B2431) wrote:
The trim pad at Langley AFB was across the runway from main base as was CBPO. The desk jockeys were most cross with us when we would start water. It seems the prevailing winds made us aim the engines at them and they really failed to see the humour in the situation. What was it, the noise or the pall of black stuff ? ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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