Rolls Royce’s Merlin do not make “noise”, they make music of power and parts in beautiful harmony
Whoever said a Spitfire was ‘too noisy’ is a classless uncouth heathen ...or German
I was about to post something very similar to your post. Yours is better than mine would have been,
I learned to fly in England and there was a Spit at the airfield, Booker near High Wycomb. When the owner would fly his Spit all the activity on the field would almost come to a halt. Anyone that was not flying at that instant would look at that beautiful beast. When he would do a chandel the real beauty of the knife blade wings came into full view. But the roar the engine made was a symphony of freedom and power.