Originally Posted by
Capt Chambo
OK I'll go, engines and aeroplanes that I have never flown and almost certainly never will..
4 Rolls Royce Olympus (Concorde)
About 30 years ago, I was on a business trip to the UK. After landing at Heathrow, I was standing at a 'remote' rental car counter near the end of a runway. Suddenly there was this horrendous, overwhelming noise - yet nobody else seemed to even notice
. I turned around and there was a Concorde a few hundred yards away beginning it's takeoff run in full afterburner/reheat.
I don't know that there was anything that I particularly liked or enjoyed about the noise, but it certainly was memorable - and quite possibly the noisiest aircraft I've ever heard.