Engine start sound(or shutdown) that brings back the most memories
 

I didnt say that it was necessarily good memories.

Definitely the L1011 Tristar on start up for me :ok:

My first choice : Dakota : dc3wav


VC10 :


Viscount/Vanguard :

Sea Harrier engine shutdown has got to be the best. I remember hearing it at Yeovilton for the last time:{

The Airspeed Ambassador. All that smoke.:}

This is what I did before joining the airline. Lots of fun in a Cessna with 430 horsepower :ok:

The 'putta putta putta...' of the mighty VW bursting into life in the Fournier RF-4 after being swung by the pilot. That sound will forever remind me of my childhood!

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How about this. You hear the light off at 12 seconds.


For shutting down, I liked this sound. For those impatient, listen at 1:28 for the downshift to low-speed and the to 3:00 for the familiar sound of Allisons winding down.

Nothing like a good old cartridge starter. A ruddy great BANG followed by the engine belching into life amid clouds of smoke from an overprimed engine. Cartridge and Avpin started Avons were a close second but the these electric starters have no atmosphere at all.

Yak 52:

I call “clear prop”, while holding my right arm vertical and rotating my extended forefinger in the air for a couple of seconds as a visual signal for those out of earshot – if a Yak is starting up anywhere near you, you need to know about it before it happens. I hold the stick back in the crook of my right arm (old taildragger habits die hard) with my forefinger on the start button to the left of the panel, having flicked up its cover. My left hand rests on the one-third-open throttle lever. A glance round to check all is clear, and I press the button. There’s a loud ‘pop’ followed by an asthmatic wheezing as compressed air is admitted to the cylinders via a pneumatic distributor to turn the engine. The prop jerks slowly round a revolution and I flick the mags to ‘1 + 2’ (you really need three hands for this) and one cylinder fires. I release the start button and pump the throttle to keep the prop turning. More cylinders join in with a sudden roar, and clouds of smoke stream from the exhausts. The prop dissolves into an invisible disc, blowing the smoke instantly backwards – but it’s not sustained and the engine dies, clattering round slower and slower, the prop becoming visible once more. I pump the throttle again, my right hand going to the primer. But before I can decide whether to prime or not, several cylinders fire up raggedly accompanied by more grey smoke which is blasted under the wing by the propwash. The engine dies again, the prop slowing, but only for a second or so. With a glorious throaty roar all the cylinders report for duty, and this time as though they mean it. The engine clears its throat with a cough or two, becomes self-sustaining, and settles into smooth regular song. The battle is won and I snap the starter button cover down.

A friend described a Yak start up as ‘biblical’ – lots of noise, lots of smoke, the ground shaking, and the smiting of lesser objects. This latter point is one to watch; anything much more than idle power can blow over a light aircraft in the propwash.

LOVE those bendy props on the 748. (Yes, I know it's all to do with frame rates, but it does look good)

Hawker Hunter AVPIN start....better still a whole squadron of Hunters starting up at once, and then taxying out together.

The most exciting sound I've ever heard, closely followed by a VC10 taxying, as above.

The Viscount and BAC 1-11 engine start were also very distinctive.

Best start up - Hunter 200-ser Avon Avpin sequence.
Best run-up - F-104 J-79 a/b check.
Best take-off - Vulcan with 200-ser Olympussies at full power.
Best shut down - C-130 when you've just spent hours travelling in the bowels of the freight bay....:mad:

Gatwick early 1980s on a balmy summer night, whilst working nights at BCAL.

0100 ish. APU of Dan-Air BAC 1-11 starts. A few minutes later the distinctive sound of a Plessy CSDS starting engine 2 shortly followed by engine 1.
Aircraft takes off on 26 and turns left for Seaford. Massive amount of noise wakes up half of West Sussex. After about 5 minutes calm descends again.

0200 ish. Same story again, but Laker this time.

0300 ish. Same...............................

I think the one remaining airworthy 1-11 in the UK should be retained to remind people how noisy things used to be!

dixi188
 

Aaah, the lovely Plessey CSDS indeed.

Lucky were those of us who travelled "private" so the crew were not shy of coming along the cabin and down the ventral stairs iron bar in hand.

They sure knew where to wallop it and once freed up we were on our way.

The "tick, tick, tick" of the mighty Nimbus starting a Scout...

Belvederes also used Avpin

Sequence frequently sounded like this:

Crack (of the Avpin) - engine catches fire.

Ouch (pilots twisting ankles as they jump out of aircraft)

Nee nah nee nah as fire vehicles arrive.

The R-3350's on the Super Constellation for me.

G'day ;)

"Bang"...followed by a deeeep moan, slooowly rising in cresendo to a bass hum. Javelin start 0Dark 30 Borneo 1965.

VC10 take off [I was in the Runway Caravan 10-15 metres from the point of rotation...:D

Meteor F8 [TT version] flyby at Changi 1064

Lightning display at Binbrook...from the Tower balcony

The whistle from a Sedberg after a wingover....
I could go on...and on.....