Loudest aircraft you have ever heard

[nomiddlemas]

What is the loudest aircraft you have ever heard in your life?

[HGjunkie]

http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/aircraft/fatalbert.aspx

[SarDragon]

AV-8B, doing verticals, about a quarter of a mile away.

[nomiddlemas]

Really? I have heard those make quite a sound when the engines hit the pavement.  The loudest I have ever heard was a F-18 with a 300 mph speed pass.  The B-52's were surprisingly quite for their size. 

[NIN]

5 or 6 F-106s making a "surprise burner pass" at the Selfridge Airshow about 40 years ago.

Oh, crap, I am that old now.

[SunDog]

 

RF-4C, ABs lit a few yards away. Long ago, and far away. . .some sounds will never be heard in the world again.

[PHall]

KC-135A on takeoff roll with the water injection going. About the only thing louder was an F-105 in afterburner!

[AirDX]

Loud: gaggle of F-111s MITOing at Hickam around the mid 70s.
Louder: Concorde doing touch-n-goes at Oshkosh about 1988.
Loudest: Standing on the LSO platform on the USS Carl Vinson in 1998 recovering F-14s and F/A-18s.

[Spaceman3750]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouga_CM.170_Magister

[unmlobo]

B-1 buzzing my dorms at Ellsworth AFB and then again on top of a ridge at Philmont Scout Ranch.  Lately one of the loudest was a flight of 8 F-15E's and 4 F-22's that were weathered in.  They wanted to leave and hit the afterburners hardcore, so glad I had earpro.

[Bayareaflyer 44]

Got to see/hear a SR-71 taking off from the side of the runway at Beale AFB.  WIWAC my ATCFC class was touring the facility, when they rushed us out there for us for that experience.  Fortunate timing, I guess.

[UH60guy]

Those friggin French Mirages that took off in pairs at 0200  on afterburners nearly every night at Kandahar. Can't a guy get some sleep?

[Huey Driver]

C-17s in full reverse thrust are pretty noisy when you're up close and personal!

[bosshawk]

I agree on the comment about the RF-4C: was at Bergstrom AFB one night and went out to the end of the runway to watch two of them depart.  Was in a staff Car about 100 ft from those two when they went to Mil Power and lit the burners.  The whole world shook.

Also, a BAC-111 passenger aircraft: the British make some of the loudest aircraft engines in the world.

[Flying Pig]

Was about 25 yards from 2 F/A-18s departing with afterburners. It was a psychologically altering experience.   The only close second would be the sound of my awesomeness emitting from whatever I'm flying.

[Storm Chaser]

The F-16 was loud, but I think the T-37 was much louder (at least it seemed to me that way ).

[Larry Mangum]

F-4D's in full afterburner during takeoff.  We transitioned from F-4's to F-16's and the F-16 is significantly quieter than an F-4.

[rugger1869]

Lear 20 with straight jets... It hurt your guts it was so loud.

[Al Sayre]

2 F-14's in full AB doing a supersonic low pass.

[SunDog]

On second thought, it might have been a C-172; it quit when I pulled carb heat opposite the touchdown point. That quiet was really, really loud. I could feel it in my "abdomen".