Originally Posted by
rog747
The RR Dart of course - 10 years with BMA lol
!-11 RR Spey start up
JT8's on 737-200, 727 or a DC-9 screaming down the taxy ways
JT3B on a 707 spooling up on APP
RB211 Tristar start up rumble
In more recent times -
RR RB211 535E4's on a 757
A320/321 NEO's CFM LEAP (and 737 MAX too)
Tridents/Comets/ RR Conway 707's and VC-10's were all just noise, crackle and pain lol
I agree with you on virtually all of those, perhaps a generational thing and having a great interest / involvement in commercial than military aviation. However I'd add to the list the Ivchenko AI-20 on the IL18 and AN12, used to love hearing the sound of them on TAROM IL-18s when they used to operate the Balkan Holidays charters to Constanta, and of course they've made a comeback in the last few years with the number of AN12 charter operators frequenting the UK. There always seemed to me to be a distinctly less raucous scream from RR Darts when there were only two of them, and mounted on to F27s and HS748s. I always preferred the Viscount for noise.
The most iconic jet engine sound has to be the JT3As and JT3Bs strapped to 707s and DC8s before some Philistine reengined them with CFM56s. The sound immortalised on the Beatles "Back in the USSR" track.