What's the best sounding aircraft you ever heard?

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
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.

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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
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

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

B-1 flying over OSH.

My cherokee.

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


"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'.

Triple Delta

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.

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

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

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.

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.