VC10 full-power take off!

Scimitar, military, Concorde, civil, on take off with all 4 burners lit !

Mind you, the little Jet Provost could make its voice heard, particularly if you were trying to sleep during night flying !!

I think we're all agreed that they're all bloody noisy...but we love the sound!

B1 at Mildenhall Air Show with 4 burners, deafening...

To be specific,the shags-only beat up at about 50 ft that the B1 crew did on the Friday before the 1989 Mildenhall Air Show. :ok:

Mirage 3 chasing an F-111 at an 'infamous' supersonic incursion at an Airshow in South Australia was 'satisfactory' unless you were onboard said aircraft, the debrief of which I understood was somewhat 'uncomfortable'.

Is there any information on the racket made by the Me-163?

JAS

Night-time departures of the B1s from Thumrait were always pretty spectacular.

But I think noisiest would go to an E3D full of FCs & Navs – always a lot of loud whining there. :O

"But I think noisiest would go to an E3D full of FCs & Navs – always a lot of loud whining there."


Especially when you added in the AE brotherhood!

Any of the display aircraft in their tacky paint-jobs. Theose clolour schemes - euuuuu!

Oh God! Thumrait - the daily 6AM B1 departure was like being woken by a bl***y earthquake.

Which arse put our tents next to the point on the runway where the jets actually got airborne?

The Akrotiri early morning call was also very loud, especially as it was caused by a single-engined, non-reheat, motor-glider!

Must be the Vulcan. I recall once as a teenager playing golf at Oakington having to lay down with my hands over my ears to save being blown over. I remember the near vertical climb.

We all get sentimental over the types we have been asscociated with.

Always could tell where the Nimrod was going out of Wyton by the sound it made at 6 in the morning and knowing how heavy it was. I lived over 6 miles away in Huntingdon.

Funny enough drove by there late last night. the hangar lights were on. didn't know whether to call in and give them a hand to fix something as I would have done 20 years ago. All gone now...

BAC 1-11 at Ground Idle even.

Particularly in large numbers.

Shawbury Gazelles used to have a recce "war role" associated with - inter alia - Vulcan stations. IIRC mine was Waddo.

The "survival scramble" approaching TACEVAL Endex was visually and aurally unbelievably awesome. :eek::eek::eek:

I sometimes think my dodgy port ear is due to that rather than many rotary hours ......... :(

Not strictly military anymore, but the AN-225 that rocked up at KAF was a little on the bleeding eardrums loud side when it departed with a couple of tanks. Plus managed to kick up a dust storm that would have been visible from space...

Blackbird was pretty spectacular. Used to visit and do Full A/B Go-rounds. The vibration as well as the noise was astounding.

19 and 92 squadron lightnings multi-launch Gutersloh heard from Zeppelinstrasse, memory suggests at least 30 a/c .................

Yes, I'll grant there are a few contenders here, but until you've spent two or three hours in the back of a RNZAF Bristol Freighter you don't know what real noise is! It took THREE days to get from NZ to Changi!

I would imagine a C-130 landing wheels up must be quite loud...