Loudest military aircraft?
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The loudest I've personally heard is Harrier. Even taxing past it made my ears protest.
Tornado GR4 seems variable noise constant speed. It was a shock moving from Kinloss to Lossiemouth. The locals at Cold Lake AFB Canada, told me "they knew when we were there on det by the noise".
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Then there was the RAF chap on leave driving along somewhere in the ME minding his own business when he was bounced by a 'mate' in I think a Tornado. The pilot 'misjudged' and took out the car roof! That would have been LOUD! I wonder if the victim or culprit read this forum? Would love to have been a fly on the wall for the 'debrief'. As a CO, what on earth would you say to the driver of the Tornado?! How would one tackle that conversation?...!
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"As a CO, what on earth would you say to the driver of the Tornado?! How would one tackle that conversation?...!"
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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!
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!
Then there was the RAF chap on leave driving along somewhere in the ME minding his own business when he was bounced by a 'mate' in I think a Tornado. The pilot 'misjudged' and took out the car roof! That would have been LOUD! I wonder if the victim or culprit read this forum? Would love to have been a fly on the wall for the 'debrief'. As a CO, what on earth would you say to the driver of the Tornado?! How would one tackle that conversation?...!
I believe that it was an Omani Jaguar.
I hadn't - after experiencing the usual suspects viz 1-11s, Sea Vixens, Harriers - known what a really noisy aircraft was until I was reasonably close to a Typhoon in full 'burner. That really was painful.
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How on earth did he survive that?! What would have been fair "compensation". Free beer for life?
Thank you Beagle, was waiting for your input, I had to google the Yak...
How on earth did he survive that?! What would have been fair "compensation". Free beer for life?
Thank you Beagle, was waiting for your input, I had to google the Yak...
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What engine in the Magister - axial or centrifugal compressor?
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Octane, I think you might be referring to the Omani Jags v Hunters incident where an Omani Hunter pilot was driving along a desert road minding his own business when he was suprised to see a Jaguar from another unit "overtake" his car. Fortunately he ducked which was a good job as the Jag that went over the top misjudged the height a bit and heavily modified the vehicle roof! Used to have some piccies somewhere but think they got deleted a while ago but are probably on the net somewhere.
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Wensleydale, that's cheating! 
Some years back (decades actually) I blagged a trip on the USS Independence during a NATO Exercise. The deck landing in the C-2A Grumman Greyhound COD was an experience never to be forgotten too, especially as the TACAN went TU halfway out in the fog.
The following day, at dawn, the carrier was "buzzed" by the Bear at what must have been less than 50 feet above the top of the island's radar antennae. Now that was noisy!
Some years back (decades actually) I blagged a trip on the USS Independence during a NATO Exercise. The deck landing in the C-2A Grumman Greyhound COD was an experience never to be forgotten too, especially as the TACAN went TU halfway out in the fog.
The following day, at dawn, the carrier was "buzzed" by the Bear at what must have been less than 50 feet above the top of the island's radar antennae. Now that was noisy!
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I always found that the Andover gave an excruciating scream when running on the ground. With 4 Rolls Royce Darts instead of two I'd imagine that the Viscount must have been even worse (if that's possible!) The Comet was also a noisy beast on the ground.
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Enola Gay was doing quite well, but then Bocks Car trumped it a few days later.
There's a Bear somewhere that dropped almost 2000 times more artificial sunshine with the "Tsar Bomba" in the Arctic in 1961.
There's a Bear somewhere that dropped almost 2000 times more artificial sunshine with the "Tsar Bomba" in the Arctic in 1961.
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Wensleydale mentioned the inside of the Shack. The inside of the Nimrod demonstrating its Cat A performance was something else.
Two engines, 200 feet, one engine throttled back and a climb initiated to 1000 feet. 8 minutes at full chat on just one was f***ing noisy.