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Old 24th Jan 2014, 07:43
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BEagle
 
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For sheer noise and winner of the car park alarms award, I think that the Yak-141 at Farnborough takes some beating.

I remember a very spirited Viggen display at Paris in 1969. Full thrust reverse on landing, if not immediately beforehand, followed by a short reverse taxy and a full afterburner take-off. Excellent!!

As for the Rotodyne, the early prototype was quite noisy when the tip jets were running, but the noise problem had been more or less overcome with effective silencer design by the time the programme was sadly cancelled. When the aircraft flew into Battersea Heliport, there was a total of zero noise complaints, just a few people curious to know more about the aircraft.

A Vulcan scramble was always impressive, but a cell of 3 (non-R model) KC-135s flying the BDZ departure from KKIA at 500 ft over my hotel room certainly shook the building!
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