What's the best sounding aircraft you ever heard?

[DeltaDeltaDelta]

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

[Orval Fairbairn]

In article >,
"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
> 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
>
>

I have to vote for the "song of the Merlin," one of the smoothest
sounding recip engines ever made.

[Peter MacPherson]

F4-Phantom.....one did a low pass at OSH a few years ago. Incredible!


"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
>
>

[Dale]

In article >,
"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
> 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'.


I've heard many DC-6 takeoffs and they don't sound like a Hell's Angel
funeral....they sound like several Hell's Angels funerals. <G>

Greatest sounding airplane is tough question...

B-17 flying over
Wildcat
Mustang

Those have a glorious sound.

The rest of the WWII fighters/bombers/etc

F4 Phantom - can you say loud

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

[John Gaquin]

Anything radial, multiple, and large in climb. From the cockpit or the
ground. Once the props are pulled back and really biting the air, it
deepens the tone. Marvelous! Closely rivaled by any large radial starting.


JG

[Jim Weir]

The ones dropping retardant on the fire a mile down the road.

Jim



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

[Peter Duniho]

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.

[Mike Rapoport]

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
...
> 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.
>
>

[Jay Honeck]

The MATS Constellation's four Curtis-Wright, 3350 cubic inch, 2500
horsepower radial engines make a sound like nothing I've ever heard before,
or since.

The crew of the Connie was our very first guests at the inn, when we opened
in August of 2002. They paid for their stay with a bunch of Connie artwork,
and a ride for my son and me. It was a hot summer morning, so they left the
over-wing doors OUT (not open -- OUT). Thus, the sound of those amazing
engines and props was unimpeded by even the fuselage!

We were deaf for hours afterward. It was heaven!

You can see video of this amazing bird on their website at
http://www.connie.com/video.shtml . The sound doesn't capture it, of
course -- but it's the next best thing!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[DeltaDeltaDelta]

Also, russians produce excellent noise. Once i just happened to be on the
observation deck of LDZA when I saw, that is heard, an Il-76 rolling down
the runway for takeoff. Man, I bet that sound was heard for miles and miles
around! I can hear MiG-21s taking off from more than 7 miles away...

Triple Delta

[lardsoup]

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
>
>

[Wayne]

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
>
>

[Cub Driver]

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

[Ronald Gardner]

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
> >
> >

[ShawnD2112]

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
>
>

[A Lieberman]

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

[mqd_117.3]

Has to be the Metro-Merlin!!!

MQD_117.3


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[Richard Hertz]

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
>
>

[Paul Tomblin]

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)

[Jay Honeck]

> 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"

[Paul Sengupta]

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.

[John Gaquin]

Anything radial, multiple, and large in climb. From the cockpit or the
ground. Once the props are pulled back and really biting the air, it
deepens the tone. Marvelous! Closely rivaled by any large radial starting.


JG

[john]

T28 at fast idle while taxiing is another variant but still round
engine sound-very funky good noise.

[Les Droe]

Obviously dating myself...The B-36 with those six 4360's.

Les








"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
>
>

[Larry Fransson]

Bell UH-1

--
Larry Fransson
Seattle, WA

[ShawnD2112]

You bet, Jay. There are other airplane engines that sound pretty cool but
that one experience always stands out in my mind.
Others include:

Sitting near the departure end of Incirlik Airbase when the F-111s and the
Turkish F-104s were departing was pretty thrilling, too. The -104s, when
fully spun up, howled like a hangar door with a stuck wheel being dragged
across it's track. That's the only way I've ever been able to describe that
sound.

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.

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

The 5 cylinder radial on a Baby Lakes that I just got to hand swing - pure
vintage fun!

The corncob radial on the Corsair starting and warming up - sounds even
better than being at full throttle!

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!

There are more but I'm not entirely coherent, being home with the flu, so
they're escaping my mind. 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!

Shawn

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:A0dzb.406785$Fm2.414824@attbi_s04...
> > 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"
>
>

[Frederick Wilson]

Nothing like the true sound of freedom that the ole UH-1 Huey gives. I love
that sound.

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.

"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
>
>

[Tom Fleischman]

The space shuttle Atlantis lifting off was perhaos the single most
awesome sound I've ever heard.


In article >, 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
> 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
>
>

[Ron Parsons]

In article >,
"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
>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'.

B-36 overhead.

The starter whine and first chufs of a B-17 starting.

A pair of 106's lighting burners for the dawn patrol.

B-26 with wheels just barely off the ground on takeoff.

--
Ron

[CVBreard]

The gentle purr of the Continental 6-cylinder O-300-D (145 hp on a really good
day) in earlier Cessna 172s, with my wife in the right front seat and our kids
sleeping in the back seat...

Ah, yes....

[Jim]

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.
--
Jim Burns III

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[Jim Weir]

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

[Jim]

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!
--
Jim Burns III

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"Jim Weir" > wrote in message
...
> 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

[GLPILOTSRV]

In article >,
"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

[G.R. Patterson III]

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".

[Bob Martin]

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'.


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

[JFLEISC]

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

[Paul Sengupta]

"ShawnD2112" > wrote in message
...
> 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

[Frederick Wilson]

Larry,

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

Fred


"Larry Fransson" > wrote in message
news:2003120222295716807%lfransson@comcastnet...
> Bell UH-1
>
> --
> Larry Fransson
> Seattle, WA

[PJ]

Hey Mike,

When and where was this? Just curious.

PJ

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"Mike Rapoport" > wrote in message
hlink.net...
> 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
> ...
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
>

[BTIZ]

B-1B, in full AB, wings back... just trying to hold it below Mach1
so he don't really blow your ear drums out..

BT

"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
>
>

[John Roncallo]

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
> 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
>
>

I cant say I'v ever herd it, but the Spruce Goose must have sounded
cool. 8 x 28 cyls = 224 cylenders. Thats 448 spark plugs or one
expensive tune up.

John Roncallo

[Tom Hyslip]

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
...
> 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
>
>

[Tobias Dussa]

"Tom Hyslip" > writes:
> 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.

The A-10 does have afterburners? Never heard of that. In fact, the
NY times reports in "The Hog That Saves the Grunts" (May 27, 2003)
that it does not have ABs. An example of bad journalism again?

Cheers,
Toby.
--
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from simulations
involving a sledge hammer and a laboratory frog, we can assume it will
be pretty bad.

[Bob Martin]

> 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.

The A-10 doesn't have afterburners...

[B Lacovara]

Take a listen....

http://www.aviationshoppe.com/Aircraft%20sounds.html


Bob

[Paul Sengupta]

Nice!

"B Lacovara" > wrote in message
...
> Take a listen....
>
> http://www.aviationshoppe.com/Aircraft%20sounds.html

[Paul Sengupta]

Bah! I clicked on the General Aviation bit and my heart
almost skipped a beat when I saw "Scottish Aviation".
Unfortunately, it was the Twin-Pin (Twin Pioneer) rather
than the Bulldog. Ah well.

Paul

"B Lacovara" > wrote in message
...
> Take a listen....
>
> http://www.aviationshoppe.com/Aircraft%20sounds.html

[Motti]

Peter MacPherson wrote:

> F4-Phantom.....one did a low pass at OSH a few years ago. Incredible!


Hiking in the desert in Southern Israel a few years ago, a pair of
earsplitting Phantoms flew directly overhead at no more than 2 or 300
feet (the proverbial 'what colour were his eyes' distance). After the
two passed, I covered my ears, and turned around. My hiking buddy
looked at me quizzically, and I said "second pair." Actually, it was
more like "second paWWWWWHHHHOOOOOOSSSSHHHH," as the other two F-4s
shreaked over the desert floor at the same altitude. 'Twas a great
experience.

[Blanche]

24 B-52s taking off from the (now closed) AF base SW of Fort Worth, TX

B-1 flying over OSH.

My cherokee.

[Buff5200]

Medivac chopper landing while you are laying in a pool of your own blood.

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
>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
>
>
>
>

[ShawnD2112]

I probably didn't see you at LHR when Concorde took off. I was standing on
the 8th floor of the carpark in Tech Block C on BA's Engineering East Base.
My car was parked three floors below me. She did do one hell of a climbout,
though, didn't she? No bags, min fuel, just 100 pax or so of weight - she
never climbed like that for the 001 to JFK! I think Capt Mike Bannister
really enjoyed that one.

I didn't go the the PFA rally this year and I haven't been to Duxford in a
couple of years. I was a volunteer for The Fighter Collection for a couple
of years back in the mid 90s, and was there nearly every Sunday for
volunteer day. But then got back into flying in 97. I found myself in a
Cub group. So, fly my own Cub on a Sunday or drive an hour and a half to
watch someone else fly airplanes all day? I'll let you do the math on that
one! :-) It would have been good to see and hear the Connie again. One
good thing about being a volunteer at Duxford is that you normally get onto
the flightline for a lot of this stuff. When the Dutch DC-4 came in a few
years ago, they let us all up into the cockpit to just have a nose around.
I spoke to the owner/pilot. He was a great guy and it's a heck of an
operation they'd got going.

Shawn
"Paul Sengupta" > wrote in message
...
> "ShawnD2112" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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
>
>

[ShawnD2112]

The A-10 doesn't have burners, but that gun does sound awfully cool! The
engines sound pretty neat, too, as they buzz rather then shriek like most
jets. We had them at Osan AB in Korea when I was there and I got to see
them on the gunnery range once. Most impressive!

Shawn
"Tom Hyslip" > wrote in message
. com...
> 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
> ...
> > 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
> >
> >
>
>

[Frederick Wilson]

Shawn,

I was in Korea in '96-'97, when were you there. I was a maintenance test
pilot for oh-58's. I use to do my engine performance checks at 10,000'. Why?
Because I could. Anyway the A-10s would almost always come check me out. It
was pretty cool. They'd be close enough to wave at each other. One time the
guy help up a piece of paper that said "Happy Easter".

And boy does that A-10 30 mm rock. We have a range some 4 miles from my
airfield on Camp Atterbury. We can hear that cannon from our building. It is
pretty cool to watch. You can see the at a high angle climb and then snap it
over, THEN you hear the cannon. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!

The mini gun on the task force MH-60K is pretty impressive too.

Fred


"ShawnD2112" > wrote in message
...
> The A-10 doesn't have burners, but that gun does sound awfully cool! The
> engines sound pretty neat, too, as they buzz rather then shriek like most
> jets. We had them at Osan AB in Korea when I was there and I got to see
> them on the gunnery range once. Most impressive!
>
> Shawn
> "Tom Hyslip" > wrote in message
> . com...
> > 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
> > ...
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

[ShawnD2112]

Fred,
Camp Atterbury sounds familiar from listening to AFR, but I can't say I know
where it is. I was at Osan Apr 94-95. Got to see the hogs at Kooni. How
was the flying in Korea? The fighter jocks I talked to seemed to love it.
I had a chance to join the Osan aeroclub, but it seemed to be a waste of
time - nowhere to fly to that you could get to in a 172, the skies full of
fighters and helos, and the ground covered in SAMS and ack-ack sites manned
by bored ROK conscripts. I was there when that dipstick helo pilot got lost
over the border and got his crew chief killed in the ensuing debacle. And
what did they do? They sent him home early for his transgressions, the
*******! They should have tacked on another tour!!

On the topic of the GAU-8, I've got a friend here in the UK who likes to
tell the following story:

The RAF has a gunnery range out on the East coast in an area of shallow
water and mud known as The Wash. He starts the story by saying it's no
wonder the RAF don't seem too potent but the USAF dominates the skies. He
was working on a piece of equipment within about 2 miles of the gunnery
range one afternoon and watched a Tornado (could have been a Harrier, I
suppose - not really important) come in on the target with some kind of gun
lobbing single rounds at it - POOMP...POOMP...POOMP. And you could see
little splashes where the shells were hitting. "That's pretty cool", he
thinks. About an hour later, an A-10 came by for the same thing. He lined
up on the target, then my friend describes hearing a helacious buzzing
sound - BZZZZZT and then watching as an acre of mud threw itself a hundred
feet into the air. (he usually expresses this part by throwing his arms up
over his head at the same time!). Now THAT'S firepower!

Great story anyway.

The only other time I got to Kooni was with the CATM (Combat Arms Training
Somethingorother) when we got to fire the .50 off the beach. That was a
great day! Didn't hit the target too often but managed to scare the hell
out of a lot of fish!

Shawn


"Frederick Wilson" > wrote in message
news:gMEzb.415966$HS4.3335584@attbi_s01...
> Shawn,
>
> I was in Korea in '96-'97, when were you there. I was a maintenance test
> pilot for oh-58's. I use to do my engine performance checks at 10,000'.
Why?
> Because I could. Anyway the A-10s would almost always come check me out.
It
> was pretty cool. They'd be close enough to wave at each other. One time
the
> guy help up a piece of paper that said "Happy Easter".
>
> And boy does that A-10 30 mm rock. We have a range some 4 miles from my
> airfield on Camp Atterbury. We can hear that cannon from our building. It
is
> pretty cool to watch. You can see the at a high angle climb and then snap
it
> over, THEN you hear the cannon. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
>
> The mini gun on the task force MH-60K is pretty impressive too.
>
> Fred
>
>
> "ShawnD2112" > wrote in message
> ...
> > The A-10 doesn't have burners, but that gun does sound awfully cool!
The
> > engines sound pretty neat, too, as they buzz rather then shriek like
most
> > jets. We had them at Osan AB in Korea when I was there and I got to see
> > them on the gunnery range once. Most impressive!
> >
> > Shawn
> > "Tom Hyslip" > wrote in message
> > . com...
> > > 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
> > > ...
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

[G.R. Patterson III]

John Roncallo wrote:
>
> I cant say I'v ever herd it, but the Spruce Goose must have sounded
> cool.

Drop highflyer a line. He was there.

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".

[John T]

"Tom Fleischman" > wrote in
message rthlink.net
>
> Why not? It's an aircraft isn't it?

Would "aerospacecraft" be more appropriate? :)

--
John T
http://tknowlogy.com/tknoFlyer
__________

[Montblack]

Dad says he was there that day and took a picture!! He was in the Marines at
the time. He was over by the water that day for something else - don't
recall now, think it was his day off. Maybe he went over to see the thing
taxi.

He says my Aunt Kate has the photo he took that day. We're still looking.

Everyone should have an aunt like this - saves everything, in 100's of boxes
strewn about everywhere - nothing marked. 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.

--
Montblack
http://lumma.de/mt/archives/bart.gif


("G.R. Patterson III" wrote)
> > I cant say I'v ever herd it, but the Spruce Goose must have sounded
> > cool.

> Drop highflyer a line. He was there.

[John T]

"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."

--
John T
http://tknowlogy.com/tknoFlyer
__________

[G.R. Patterson III]

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".

[Model Flyer]

"Paul Tomblin" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
--
---
Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe.
/
don't bother me with insignificiant nonsence such as spelling,
I don't care if it spelt properly
/
Sometimes I fly and sometimes I just dream about it.
:-)



>
> --
> Paul Tomblin > http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
> Quando omni flunkus moritati (when all else fails play dead)

[Model Flyer]

"John T" > wrote in message
ws.com...
> "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.:-(
--
---
Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe.
/
don't bother me with insignificiant nonsence such as spelling,
I don't care if it spelt properly
/
Sometimes I fly and sometimes I just dream about it.
:-)


> --
> John T
> http://tknowlogy.com/tknoFlyer
> __________
>
>
>

[Mackfly]

>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

[Big John]

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
...
>> 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
>>
>>
>

[Big John]

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.
>

[ShawnD2112]

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
...
> 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.
> >
>

[Dylan Smith]

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"

[Dylan Smith]

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"

[Jay Honeck]

> 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"

[Corky Scott]

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

[ShawnD2112]

Yeah, and I've got a great resource, too. My uncle was a USAF test pilot in
the F-104 program, and I've never taken the time to really talk to him about
it. Might have something to do with the fact that I've only seen him twice
in about 15 years.

The B-58 Hustler is another amazing aircraft, along with the B-36 that I'd
like to hear more about, too.

Amazing feats of aviation when you look back at them. Looking at Concorde
up close, you get a real sense of stepping back in time, as well. Although
she looks "futuristic", she really is a relic of the design days of the late
60s when Vulcans, Valkyries, and Century Series fighters were all being
built to similar constraints and principles.

Shawn

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:Dl0Ab.432326$Tr4.1215008@attbi_s03...
> > 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"
>
>

[G.R. Patterson III]

Corky Scott wrote:
>
> Ah Har. I'm a "packrat" and my wife is a "tosser".

Many years ago I dated a "tosser". She helped me clean my shop once. She started
asking how long it had been since I used <plug in a tool here>. When she said
she had a policy of tossing out anything she hadn't used in over a year, I
resolved never to let her in the place again! Half my tools would've been in the
dust bin.

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".

[John Galban]

"DeltaDeltaDelta" > wrote in message >...
<snip>

Don't know if this counts as best sounding aircraft. I was standing
by a taxiway at NAS Fallon, NV watching an F-18 make a high speed, low
pass on the runway (about 50-75 ft). He accidently busted through
Mach 1. The double crack of the boom less than 100 yds away was
probably the coolest sound I've ever heard (and felt!) come out of an
airplane.

John Galban=====>N4BQ (PA28-180)

[Jay Honeck]

> The B-58 Hustler is another amazing aircraft, along with the B-36 that I'd
> like to hear more about, too.

The Hustler *is* truly amazing. We visited the Chanute Air Museum (formerly
the Chanute Air Force Base), in Rantoul, IL, last week, where they have the
B-58 Hustler that set the speed record from the U.S. to Japan. (I think the
record still stands...)

From every angle, the plane is perfect. Even the engine pods, which look
kind of odd at first, hanging down below the delta wing, blend in nicely
from all angles, just like the toy Hustler I had as a boy. The wasp-waist
flows nicely into the aft fuselage, and the whole thing just SCREAMS
"speed!"...

Until you get up close, and take a look at the construction. Even though
the designers used some exotic materials, due to the extreme heat build-up
at Mach 2+, the construction techniques don't look dramatically different
from the B-29s and even the B-17s that were built just a few years earlier.
You could literally take large pieces off the plane with a simple Phillips
screw driver, and the cockpit instrumentation would be right at home in a
Piper Apache.

And those engine pods have some really bizarre details, with elaborately
curved, flush-riveted, intricately cut pieces butting up against plates that
are simply screwed on. The whole aircraft is a perfect "period piece",
bridging the gap from World War II, past Korea, and right into the Viet Nam
era...

One of the coolest planes ever conceived. Wish I had seen it fly.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[David Johnson]

A few years ago I was at work, which happened to be near the local
airport. Listened to planes going over all day. Then one day I heard
the unmistakable sound of a Merlin go over. Hmm... that sounded like
TWO Merlins. What could that be - a Mosquito? I couldn't get outside
soon enough to see it, so had to stop by the airport after work.

Tuned out to be something even rarer - a Spanish-built postwar HE111 -
with two Merlins. I understand that the plane was specially fitted
out as an executive transport, and was in it's day the personal
airplane of Francisco Franco.

[Big John]

Shawn

Talk to your uncle before he dies and the data goes with him. I know a
lot about the 104 but there is so much more from Edwards and WP that
would make an exciting story. One of my very good friends was
Commander of one of the first two Squadrons and the bird killed him
(along with many others until they got things debugged).

'58 also a wonderful beast. I stoppd to refuel at one of their bases
one night and one took off. I have never as much noise and fire and
lights around a airplane as came out of the engines in A/B with all
the nav and obstruction lights on.

Big John


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:46:56 -0000, "ShawnD2112"
> wrote:

>Yeah, and I've got a great resource, too. My uncle was a USAF test pilot in
>the F-104 program, and I've never taken the time to really talk to him about
>it. Might have something to do with the fact that I've only seen him twice
>in about 15 years.
>
>The B-58 Hustler is another amazing aircraft, along with the B-36 that I'd
>like to hear more about, too.
>
>Amazing feats of aviation when you look back at them. Looking at Concorde
>up close, you get a real sense of stepping back in time, as well. Although
>she looks "futuristic", she really is a relic of the design days of the late
>60s when Vulcans, Valkyries, and Century Series fighters were all being
>built to similar constraints and principles.
>
>Shawn
>
>"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
>news:Dl0Ab.432326$Tr4.1215008@attbi_s03...
>> > 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"
>>
>>
>