Posted on 10/12/2006 7:15:56 AM PDT by rawhide
No worse than standing on the exterior flightdeck catwalk of an aircraft carrier while they are launching planes. Done it dozens of times. No big deal.
Sweet.
I wonder if the guy in the foreground had to clean out his drawers afterwards.......
Hold mah beer and watch this!
F-111 did pretty well making noise although the SR-71 was a tad bit louder.
It seems that boys will be boys... Even these days.
A Navy friend tells me of something similar they used to do on aircraft carriers.
When the catapult is released to thrust a jet down the runway, below deck there is a piston that drives the catapult. This piston hurtles forward to perform the launch, stops a few feet from a wall, and then is pulled back for the next launch. The challenge is to stand in front of the piston as it accelerates towards you at enormous speed, knowing in your heart it will stop a few feet from you, but have the guts to stand there and not flinch.
This could be just a sea story. Any confirmation or refutation gladly accepted.
Best friends employing the latest relaxation technique.
The Phantom II is proof that if you strap big enough engines on a brick, it will fly.
The Harrier remains the single loudest SINGLE engine aircraft that I have ever heard.
Loud enough to make you puke.
And on the other side, the jihadists let off steam by picking fleas off each other.
"The Harrier remains the single loudest SINGLE engine aircraft that I have ever heard.
Loud enough to make you puke."
Once saw two squadrons of F16s on the runway at the same time. Around 32 aircraft lined up 4 across and all taking off on afterburner. Then they did a mock attack of the airbase. Best airshow I have ever seen.
Being married to a former Harrier pilot I can tell you - you can take the pilot out of the Harrier, but you can't take the Harrier out of the pilot. :)
Yep, that one is awesome. That guy nearly got a Rolls-Royce Merlin in his ear. Here 'tis:
Then you need to look at the B-58 - four J-79s. Worst noise though was from the Jaguar - not for loudness, but they have the worst whistle I've ever heard at idle. Dogs for miles will roll in pain.
Ooorrraaahhh!
great for airshows, though.
In the words of the reporter in the video ...
"F#&K ME!!! F%$K ME!!!"
Funny video.
No doubt.
Sadly, the Hustler was a little before my day, I've never seen one fly at an airshow (I don't think there's any flyable ones left?). I've seen a B-1B, which was simply astonishing; no plane that large should be able to do what the Bone can do. They had that beast down on the deck yanking and banking like an F-16, and the takeoff, four engines on full reheat...wow.
I used to work near Dulles, at the intersection of Virginia 28 and the Dulles Toll Road (next to the Dulles Hyatt, for those that know the area), about 1-1.5 miles east of the north end of the two parallel north-south runways. The Concorde flew out four days a week, and if it was taking off southbound on 19L, when they ran the engines up, you had to yell to be heard in the parking garage. The windows in our fifth-floor office rattled and buzzed in their frames when it started its takeoff roll. I never understood, when I was a kid, why people at JFK were complaining about the Concorde, but after working near IAD for two years, boy, did I understand. 747s were just mere background whispers of noise compared to the Concorde.
The one thing I've never heard, and I wish I had, was a C-5. I've always heard that C-5s have a really nasty nails-on-a-chalkboard screech that sounds like nothing else in the air.
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