sound of a prop

[jaxxo]

stand next to an F16 in full afterburner and grab a hold of the horizontal stab...u will feel what real power is....awesome awesome experience....love props too though

[Guyver]

sin the b1b lancer fly over at airshows a few times. talk about loud. car alarms going off and my ribcage rattleing to the sound. that is awsome to hear.

the one jet i would love to see  fly is the vulcan bomber. my bro and rest of family have seen it as my bro did some stuff for them. they where put of service when i was going to shows and round bases with my bro though

[Stoney74]

Originally posted by jaxxo
stand next to an F16 in full afterburner and grab a hold of the horizontal stab...u will feel what real power is....awesome awesome experience....love props too though

Well dang Jaxxo, that's a little unfair comparison, huh?  I was trying to restrict it to something with cylinders...

[Grayeagle]

13 years on the USAF flight line ..

..4th TFW F4 Phantom 4-ships at the EOR startin take-off roll a couple hundred feet away, SJAFB .. as 'Mouse' said 'lotta sound an fury'

..the B1-b flown by Col Olin(retired) on his first checkride, he came down the runway with the intakes of that bird just a few feet off the pavement, pitched out, slammed into AB, and rolled hard right into the pattern..directly over where I was standin .. plant 42, Palmdale CA, at the Eaton/AIL maintenance hanger ..good times, awesome sounds.

3-ship B-52G launch durin an ORI at Castle.. not a cloud anywhere but I'm purty sure the surrounding country side thought a major storm was happenin by the sound of it I was half a mile from rotation point, watchin from the ECM shop door.

scary sounds.. Thai T-28J loaded for bear (250lbrs in the wing racks) ..engine in full throat roar on takeoff and just past our shop at ~200 feet up it starts poppin an burbles ..coughs ..and quits cold.
All of us heard the crash out in the jungle beyond the base.. Udorn-Thani RTAFB.. April, '75 ..during the fall of Saigon.

F-105g wild weasel on takeoff roll .. throttle cut, chute pops, tires squeal an smoke as she nears end of runway.. the big jet tears through the EOR fence and starts raisin a dust cloud behind it ..the gear seperate and I saw one main flyin, twirlin, breifly above the dust cloud. George AFB, late '70's.

There were no easy days on the line.

I love the sound of all of 'em, piston or jet .. except the Tweety bird .. that is just plain annoying as hell. T-37, tip tanks, rockets, lookin like an Austin Healy taxiing out behind the much bigger F-4's at Udorn-Thani RTAFB.

-GE

[nirvana]

Originally posted by jaxxo
stand next to an F16 in full afterburner and grab a hold of the horizontal stab...u will feel what real power is....awesome awesome experience....love props too though

Damn near did that today, about ohhhhh 500 yards from Buckley AFB playing paintball.  Seemed like the thing spooled up forever, then it was gone.

Anything with some power will usually get my ears perked up, usually just jets flying around here though, get some C-130's every so often, that's about it.

[Blixen]

HAKER SEA FURY 650 ,OOO
YAK 9 783,000
BUCHON 109 1.5 MIL

[Flatbar]

Originally posted by g00b
I live right under the approach for KWVI, Watsonville, CA. There's a couple of WWII era planes stationed here and it's a popular stop for them as well. At least once a week I'll hear a P-51 or T-6 and run outside to watch it land. Pretty funny playing Aces High and hearing real WWII planes buzzing your house, it can be confusing.

g00b, I live just a few miles up hwy1 from you. I go to the Watsonville fly in every year. PM me if ya want to meet up.

[jeepasaurusrex]

I live right in the approach for the airport in Arlington, WA.  Paul Allen has his aircraft museum http://www.flyingheritage.com/  there. I was up checking my satilite dish the other day when a P-47 buzzed overhead.  I about fell off the house!  Gawd it was purdy! Took a couple of pics at the airport of it.