Originally Posted by
Fareastdriver
I have never heard it but apparently the sound of a B 36 with just six turning was an Earth stopper.
I was wondering why nobody had mentioned an aircraft with such a totally distinctive sound. Around 1955, I used to tear out of my home with my 8x30 binoculars to watch as they passed overhead. Nothing in the air before or since had that sound.
More recently, i rapidly left a tent at a wedding party, sure that I had just heard a DC-3, again a sound like no other. And it was a Provincetown Boston Airways D-3, perhaps one of the last flights of that airline.some time around 1988.