[Paleo Conservative]

I live near Dover AFB and used to be right under their flight pattern, which seems to be changed as I no longer hear the big jets on a regular basis..

The Corpus Christi Naval Air Station usually gets a C-5 once a week on Fridays. Those engines make the most awful aircraft engine noise I'v ever heard. It's not that it's loud just that they sound like they want to tear themselves apart.

[Heatseeker]

When I was under their pattern they would do brief rev-downs, I guess for noise-abatement, and it would sound like the damn things were gonna land in the back yard.

[pepperdog]

Their engines are distinctive aren't they? They always sound like they have something loose in them, kind of a jingle--readily identifiable without even going to look.

[yawningotter]

Very distinctive sound. You know when a C-5 is in the area long before you actually see it. And when you do see it, it looks like it is going so slow(especially on takeoff) that you wonder how it is staying in the air.