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What is the loudest, noisiest plane you have ever encountered?

stuartcox

stuartcox

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What is the loudest, noisiest plane you have ever encountered?

For me it's the Harrier on idle! Not the sound pressure level, but the frequency of the engine whilst taxiing. It hurts!
 
stuartcox said:
For me it's the Harrier on idle! Not the sound pressure level, but the frequency of the engine whilst taxiing. It hurts!
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I love the whine of an idling Harrier, I find it rather pleasing.

One aircraft I do find painfully loud not due to volume but frequency is the B-52, that really hurts my ears.
 
For the aircraft with the most annoying noise the S-3 Viking gets my vote. They used to park right above the Intelligence Center on USS John F. Kennedy and their vacuum cleaner engine noise (thus their "Hoover" nickname) used to really get on our nerves.
 
Well, when working on planes lined up on cat 1 when an F-14A is launching on cat 2, I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like it. The F-14As had to use full afterburner to launch off the carrier, and the flame is about 50 feet long. And the sound ... you feel it more than hear it. Shakes your brain in your head and rattled all your (other) insides. Amazing.
 
Not really the loudest or noisiest, but the early MD500's (369)...
That turbine just had that skull splitting, high pitched frequency squeal, least for me anyway.
 
stiz said:
f22 on full afterburner .. that things LOUD!
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That is just nice! LOUD, but pleasent..., demonstrates the power!
It's like going to a night club or concert...if the sound is right you don't tend to realize the volume until you step outside...
 
First thing that came to mind was the Harrier... I remember Harrier demonstrations at the air show in Dayton when I was a kid... I think it was the only plane I had to plug the ears for....

As for riding in, Absolutely hands down the B-25........ My Gosh...that is loud!!!!
 
From an airshow standpoint I would probably say the Harrier. But there were two other demos that rank almost up there.

At the Sandford/Orlando Airshow one year they brought a B-1 down the flight line in dirty flight mode and then transitioned into a full after burner climb. I don't know if I could say it was louder than the Harrier, but I remember thinking to myself that I had reached my love of loud jets limit during that moment. That was easily the most amount of sound I've ever heard coming from a jet.

One other fly-by that stays with me was the F-14. At MacDill AFB right after Desert Storm they had an F-14 aerial demo as part of the show. When it made the wings folded pass, I don't think it was the loudest jet I've ever heard but it's the first time I ever had a high speed pass feel like it pulled the air out of my lungs. :)

FAC
 
The Fouga Magister has a very high pitched, loud whine that gets annoying very quickly.

Tornado's, F-18's and F-15's are about the loudest jets I've seen at airshows. The Harrier in a hover is loud too, but mainly because it is stationary; other jets move away as quickly as they come so the noise fades in and out with it.

The Lockheed Constellation is very loud too, but that was because I stood less than 30 feet from the engine when running full throttle. :d The ground litterally shakes!
 
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