[68skylark]

Darn it -- I hate to hear stories like this. Don't get me wrong -- it's great to have these UK pilots here. But how come their aircraft make the cool sounds? How come our aircraft designers can't keep up? I demand answers, and I demand the USAF get some aircraft that are as loud as any on the planet!

[Jasper]

"I demand answers, and I demand the USAF get some aircraft that are as loud as any on the planet!"

Dang right!!
Bring back the F-4 Phantoms!! ;>)

[2111USMC]

Have you ever been to an air-show and witnessed the F14 "Tomcat"?

That's noise!!!

[Severa]

IMO they name some of their stuff neater. (Not all of it, like the RAF Nimrod, that's their answer to our P-3 Orion) They got stuff like the HMS Invincible (aircraft carrier) or the Trafalgar class submarines HMS Tireless and HMS Vengeance. Why can't WE name our stuff like that? no we got the USS Jimmy Carter. *headdesks*

[76834]

Darn it -- I hate to hear stories like this. Don't get me wrong -- it's great to have these UK pilots here. But how come their aircraft make the cool sounds? How come our aircraft designers can't keep up? I demand answers, and I demand the USAF get some aircraft that are as loud as any on the planet!

Have you ever heard B1-B's departing Dyess?
Might not be the loudest but I betcha they are damm close.

[ken5050]

cut-outs on the mufflers....

[Fierce Allegiance]

I take it you have never been camping in the takeoff path of a B-52.