Funny Experience 2 share .. OT'ish.

[sp0nge]

Hello all. Yesterday I had a funny experience involving the Anzac day flyby performed by the F-111.

 

i was at the aquatic centre, attempting to get into the members spa (as you do) and the guy pulled me and my mate out of the water and told us to get lost, then, the next thing you hear is this huge alarm for when the waves are going to be turned on in the largest pool, sounds unbelievably similar to one of those high security prison alarms when you try and escape? Well, this alarm goes on for like 10 seconds and then I heard this huge roar of an F-111 pass right overheard.

 

I was in tears laughing.

[sp0nge]

relly?

 

I guess so...............

 

Did you miss something? :P

[S77th-konkussion]

So did the people think they were under attack or something?

[S77th-konkussion]

17? :D I reckon the planes could either be really quiet on approach or really freekin loud on takeoff for those housing market geniuses.. Did they expect living adjacent to an airport to sound like a bubbling brook in the forest? :doh:

[rogue_blade]

i dislike those people (probably senior citizens) that complain to airports about low flying jets. they just ruin fun for pilots and us who love to hear and watch them fly over us.

[hitman]

How do they ruin the fun? I dont see and noise barriers being erected 2 stories high, you know..

[sp0nge]

So did the people think they were under attack or something?

 

Saw a few worried faces

[Kuky]

Well some people like quiet too :P

[Pilotasso]

People should sign a letter of udnerstanding that they are willing to live with the noise when moving to an el cheapo house neaxt to a runway. Kinda reminds me that woman that sued a company for not knowing he hair dresser didnt work under water. :D

[Groove]

Guys you should hear older russian civilian airplanes like the Tupolevs on idle staying at the gateway. Thats pure loudness, without AB ! :D

[sp0nge]

Pure loudness, ey? cool!! i wanna hear, anyone got sum recordings?

 

How about jet wave lengths behind jet a/c, they're supposed 2 be really dangerous. I found an article a bit back on them, ill try 2 dig it up.

[3Sqn_Fudd]

Ill never forget the vibrations of two ANG F-15's doing a high performance take off out of Lambert International... I was behind glass and it was still awesome....

 

The ultimate may be a Tu-95 though... That has to be sick

[sp0nge]

How about the concorde?? How does that match up

[S77th-konkussion]

Same thing happens when I drive my big block Chevy thru a parking lot. As for the people complaining about the airport, here in town a lot of that is going on around Luke AFB. Luke was there since 1942 when that part of town was true wilderness. Now they bitch about the jets. Pansies, it sounds like the sound of freedom to me.

 

There's a base with a sign at the entrance that says exactly that. I don't remember it ATM..

 

"Pardon our jet noise- it's the sound of Freedom"

[S77th-konkussion]

Personally the loudest plane I've ever had to deal with in high volume would be a wing of Harriers on the USS Wasp (LHD-1) I think my ears are still ringing from those things..

[VMFA-Blaze]

How about the concorde?? How does that match up

 

This reminds me when I was a kid and still in school they had actually tried to ban the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport ...

 

There were partitions being circulated every where to Ban it.. But in the long run it was allowed to fly there anyway...

 

But even till this day the are some very large airports in the area that have quite a bit of loud traffic..

 

But probably the worst noise was on that infamous day was 9/11/01 ... When I witnessed a couple of very late F-15's going to afterburner at a very low altitude heading for the burning towers...

 

~S~

 

Blaze

[Kula66]

Personally the loudest plane I've ever had to deal with in high volume would be a wing of Harriers on the USS Wasp (LHD-1) I think my ears are still ringing from those things..

 

Yes, I was a t Farnborough one year and 6 Harriers hovered in a line in front of the crowd ... kids were running, women screaming, grass burning ... it was GREAT!

[S77th-konkussion]

People should sign a letter of udnerstanding that they are willing to live with the noise when moving to an el cheapo house neaxt to a runway. Kinda reminds me that woman that sued a company for not knowing he hair dresser didnt work under water. :D

 

 

if that was California or NY she probably won, too... :huh:

[S77th-konkussion]

I'm not a magician of linguistics, but for those familar with a Navy ship.. The top deck of the bow (interior in this case) is called the focs'le or forecastle. It houses the anchor windlass machinery and has several mooring stations. Well- the jumpjet's SOP was of course, to take off horizontally- not leap off the deck vertically. Oddly enough- other than distant sounding choppers- we couldn't hear the flight ops on the flight deck above you. So out of relative silence you might be working right next to or even on a line eye (big hole) when your frickkin' head explodes with a deafening roar of the aircraft passing off the edge of the flight deck at FULL throttle w/ thrusters angled downward. Before too long we learned to keep the chatter down and then you could feel a slight vibration about 3 seconds before the VOOOOOOM!!!! and be ready for it.

 

The line eyes needed a lot of preservation work (rust from wet lines under stress) so a seaman working right there on it wasn't unusual..

[VMFA-Blaze]

In New York the whole area is noisy, noisy, noisy... Whether it's cheap housing or not...

 

It's just something that you're accustomed to living with..The standard of living is very high in this area, but noise is just one of the problems that confront an Urban environment .

 

Anyway I used to work on the flight line . We had to wear ear protection, That was a NAVAIR requirement...

 

And the Navy used to test our hearing once a year as well...

 

 

~S~

 

Blaze

[press]

One of the loudest civilian jets I`ve heard is the oldie but goldie BAC 1-11. Then there are the Russian jewels Tu-134 and 154. Not only they sound loud, but they also smoke a lot.

 

On the military part I stood many times inside and next to a MiG-21 and a Mi-29 at full AB during testing. You can`t even hear your thoughts. That is what I call loud.

Also the Su-27 makes more noise than the entire Frecce Tricolori team.

 

 

I fly a 13ton helicopter, but the loudest helicopters I`ve heard must be the R-22, Agusta 109 and CH-53. In windy days the Agusta sounds like a machine gun :D

[sp0nge]

If you wanna hear loud, try taking a ride inside a B-25.

 

Wouldn't it be louded from the outside?

[S77th-konkussion]

I'm thinking the vibration & racket inside a multi engine old warbird like that would literally make you numb after a while...

[rogue_blade]

i went to an airshow in england once and the loudest thing to me seems like the harriers

[Fjordmonkey]

Loudest thing I've heard has to be a compressor-stall on an F16 while it's in a hardened shelter. It had just gotten in from a flight, and SOP is for the pilot to go to 85% thrust before pulling the throttle to cutoff once it gets back to the shelter and we'd done the few checks we needed to do (pins, check for leaks/anything unusual). You hear the engine spool up, giving you a taste of about 126 decibel inside the shelter (thank whatever gods may listen for earplugs), and all of a sudden you hear a strange warbling sound for half a second before an allmighty BOOOM sounds. The plane belched a gout of flame about 6 to 8 feet beyond the nose, the pilot visibly jumps in his seat, sparks fly out the back (quite a few of them, too) before you hear about the same sound as you get when you roll a bunch of nuts and bolts around in a steel bucket :P

 

Scared the bejesus out of both the Crewchief, the pilot and myself (CrewChief Assistant)