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The backseat of a Mustang with no headset or ear plugs, just fingers in the ears. I was screaming as we did a steep pull up after a low pass and I couldn't keep my fingers in place due to the G's.
Standing next to the runway as a B1B does a low pass and pulls vertical and lights the burners where you are standing is pretty memorable also.

My favorite loud airplane was the Canadian Argus. It was shake-your-insides loud, and hypnotic. Those who can recall the sound of the B-36 would attest to the ground shaking as it passed over at FL350+.

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That was the first thing that came to my mind. I remember the intense pain and headache I experienced as a Saeta 200 taxied past me at the Valiant Air Command airshow at TICO in FL in 1985 or so. I have never heard anything so loud, high-pitched, and painful. Think it must have been a combination of the small diameter, high rpm, straight turbojet engines and the very, very short intake ducts which did nothing to shield or baffle the engines.

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The Antonov AN-72 has to be the most obnoxious sounding thing I've ever heard, worse even than combining the noise of the two Darts of an HS-748 with a rap music soundtrack.

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I've seen the concussive effect from an F-4 on takeoff rattle the windows of a bus so strongly, I'm still surprised they didn't all shatter. Loudest plane I ever heard.
My dad was an electrical mechanic on F-86Ds in the late 50s for a short hitch in the USAF and used to stand right next to the open panels near the intake while they were locked down with the engines running on full (nor near to) power.
With no earplugs.
Nobody had them and weren't an option to have gotten them, he said.
The man has substantial hearing loss today, at age 80...

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...double tap...

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My loudest airplane sound is the Tornado.

Of course, standing only yards away from this afterburner run on the F-15E literally took my breath away....

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Running rod for a survey crew a long time ago I had to climb about halfway down a row of deep sewer manholes at Travis AFB. We were right off the runway and they were supposed to warn us when anything came our way, they didn't. about 4 feet underground when a string of 4 KC-135's took off, SAC style. Full power, water, the whole noise was focused down my hole. I could not hear the rest of the day.

Loudest noise of all was standing next to a top fuel dragster, about 15 feet. They get the light, there is an explosion that makes you jump even though you are expecting it. Your vision goes very blurry and your insides curl up. Even with Mickey Mouse ears on it was incredible, sound you felt more than heard.

Hmm..a Rolls-Royce Dart on an F-27, or a scramble takeoff of B-52s (which I unfortunately heard at the former Orlando AFB in 1965).

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Yeah, if you wanna get into non-airplane noises, I was way too close to a JDAM going off once...

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Most irritating....The T-37 with that terrible whine...chalk on a blackboard or yapping foo-foo dog sort of irritating.

Here's my story about noise....
When I was a brand new 2nd Lt. the Washington Post Sunday magazine wanted an article in SAC. Regan had only been in office a few months and the media (and Hollywod) were eager to feature his defense build up...usually in negative terms, but I digress.
After the reporter left, a photographer arrived. His resume was impressive, National Geographic and the like, as we're his great stores about getting helicopters shot out from under him in Vietnam.
He wanted a head on view of a B-52 taking off. The article had the highest priority so the Pentagon and HQ SAC told the wing commander in no uncertain terms to give him whatever he wanted.
I had been on base for about a month, near the end of public affairs tech school I received a change of orders switching me from Ellsworth to Griffiss. I was told that was because the 416th BW was scheduled to be the first base to receive the new AGM-86 cruise missiles. Apparently my knowledge of aviation and civil background was noticed by someone and they figured having a PA who knew something about aircraft might come in handy.
So, anything to do with the aircraft was assigned to me as the PAO and her deputy didn't know much about flying.
That's how I found myself standing in the runway overrun. Today, the safety office would say "No...heck no", but back then things were a bit different. The photographer stood there with a motor drive Nikon with a lens that probably cost more than my car. Reaching into his camera bag he takes out his spare camera, hands it to me and tells me I'm the backup.
"Keep it in focus, and press the button until the plane is gone".
The departure end of the runway is about two miles away, so I can't see much, but it was loud and getting louder. Gradually, the plane fillstheviewfinder...and finally it gets airborne. The noise of eight J57s was truly deafening as the plane seemingly clear as red us by half a wingspan (it was probably more, but it seemed like half a wingspan). The loudest noise and the jet blast hit at the same time. Now that was the loudest jet I heard.

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just an observation, but standing by any airplane close while at full run up is ear piercing. Gotta narrow that down to whats the loudest airplane flying you heard?

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Not that I ever heard it, but the Fairey Rotodyne was reputed to be excruciatingly loud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne

I wanted to add a couple of personal experiences.

When I was 5 or 6 years old, The Thunderbirds presented their show in Guatemala. They were flying the F-100 Super Sabre. I was sitting on a dirt mound, right in the path the airplanes took, when overflying the parade grounds in Guatemala City's Campo de Marte.

I remember clearly the earthshaking sound made when they lit the afterburners and could see grass burning after each of their low passes. One of the pilots I guess, noticed me, because on the next pass, he waved at me. There was no one else that far from the crowd, so I was thrilled to no end. F-100s on afterburner, them there planes are noisy like!

Then, I would say that I enjoyed the Vickers Viscount sound, as I did the Fokker F-27s and the HP Heralds, as noisy as they were.

The Cessna A-37B was also noisy (don't know if as noisy as the T-37) and also experienced the piercing shriek of the El Salvadoran Air Force's Fougas.

The sound of the BAC-1-11 on take-off, was something that you felt in your body, if you were positioned "at the right spot"

Same was true for the Boeing 727s before the hush kits.

I know that there are book references to other noisy airplanes, but my question was, what is YOUR personal experience?

Saludos,


Tulio

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Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

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Press "1" for English.
Press "2" to disconnect until you have learned to speak English.

Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????

Officially speaking, wasn't it Pinecastle AFB? On the other hand, Orlando International is "MCO" because it was previously McCoy Field as I recall.

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In order to be a smart-ass, you first have to be "smart"
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