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Offline Bodhi

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« on: December 18, 2007, 06:12:04 PM »


It was flying a race track pattern around the COS Airport.  Knida cool as I have never seen one in flight before.
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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2007, 06:41:50 PM »
wow, always amazes me that thing can stay in the air. cool pic


i bet that thing made a hell of a noise as it passed you.
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« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2007, 06:43:24 PM »
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wow, always amazes me that thing can stay in the air. cool pic


i bet that thing made a hell of a noise as it passed you.


Naw, the noise was really kinda quiet...  not as weird as you'd expect... like hearing the Raptor's.
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« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2007, 06:44:44 PM »
ah ok.  loudest thing i have ever heard was an old VC-10 tanker at an RAF base when i was a cadet. after that it was a harrier in hover mode, hurts the ears.

them VC-10 have quad tail mounted jets.
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« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2007, 06:49:19 PM »
Very cool, I bet that would scare the hell out of you if you had never seen one before.
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« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2007, 06:50:16 PM »
i've seen 2  B-2's fly at airshows. I couldn't believe how quiet they were. Esprcially when compared to a B-1 that flew about 100 feet off the ground an hour earlier.
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« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2007, 06:54:11 PM »
I've actually heard a story before about B-1's using their ridicously loud engines as a tool in combat...I don't know if its true or not, but from what I remember, it was somewhere along the lines of B-1's buzzing over enemy forces in full burner and beyond the sound barrier for a stun and psychological effect...

Don't know if its true or not.
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« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2007, 07:01:38 PM »
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I've actually heard a story before about B-1's using their ridicously loud engines as a tool in combat...I don't know if its true or not, but from what I remember, it was somewhere along the lines of B-1's buzzing over enemy forces in full burner and beyond the sound barrier for a stun and psychological effect...

Don't know if its true or not.


This I could believe.

I happened to be in a trailer we were using as a temp. "office" near Tinker Air Force Base and had a couple of B1's fly over us to land.

I thought my fillings would come out and the windows would blow out of the trailer.  The walls were shaking, things were rattlin' off shelves and bouncing off the desks.

I don't even wanna think how loud it would be if it was on full afterburner.
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« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2007, 07:31:16 PM »
best I got during the EAA this past year:





amazingly quiet the whole time.




you want loud? F22 full afterburner :O :eek:

that was the absolutely loudest thing I have ever been in the presence of.
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« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2007, 08:16:32 PM »
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I don't even wanna think how loud it would be if it was on full afterburner.
I grew up next to Travis AFB which was the west coast MAC base for decades, squadrons of C-5's C-141's. House was pretty close to the approach of runways 3 L & R. Yearly airshows typical AF deal...

One year I didn't go to it, was outside mowing the lawn, a B1B flew full burner as part of the demonstration the length of runway 21R and banked right after passing the field directly overhead of the housing development. Probably at 4 thousand feet or so, well below the speed of sound, but the roar of the AB's set off every car alarm in the immediate area and was almost painful.

I'd been about on the tarmac there when I was in CAP near throttled up C5's without ear protection and it didn't compare at all. If the B1B isn't the loudest aircraft in the inventory I don't want to get close to the one that is.
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« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2007, 08:23:22 PM »
I don't know how it compares, but the loudest thing I ever heard was an SR-71 in burner. It was at the old Norton AFB air show in 1985 or 86. It was awe inspiring.
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« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2007, 08:29:47 PM »
i hear the blue angles aren;t aloud to fly above the sound barrier because the shockwave can blow out windows.
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« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2007, 09:30:32 PM »
rather than a new thread i thought i might imbed a small hijack regarding the noise of a vc-10, if no one minds :)


OMG loud

landing and brieze norton

seriously loud, wrecks the mic on those cameras. in the flesh they are even louder than you can believe form those vids.

the seconds clip of one landing is at the RAF base we stayed on for the cadets and where i was woken up to do drill practice early in the morning with my ear drums splitting from the damn vc-10s warming up not so far away.
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« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2007, 09:54:07 PM »
Bat you just don't know how many great times came flooding back with watching those films. I spent too many hours sat in the back of VC10's and it normally lead to a party at every stop down route, especially a certain butt numbing long haul down to Hong Kong with only minimal ground stops on the way. We partied for the next three days before flying off again for the Everest region. Gonna have to go watch more films now !! Maybe even a few TALO  C-130 ops just for good measure.
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« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2007, 09:57:07 PM »
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I don't know how it compares, but the loudest thing I ever heard was an SR-71 in burner. It was at the old Norton AFB air show in 1985 or 86. It was awe inspiring.
I'd give anything to hear one take off in person... never will though :(
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