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Posted: 8/25/2004 4:33:09 PM EDT

[#1]

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The Cessna A/T-37. A tiny little jet that will make your ears bleed when it taxi's by.

The 5000 pound dog whistle.

Posted: 8/25/2004 5:09:22 PM EDT

[#2]

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The B-58 was the loudest I've ever heard.

+1

and this is from growing up under the northern approach to Barksdale AFB.

wganz
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Posted: 8/25/2004 7:11:31 PM EDT

[#3]

Harrier's were pretty damn loud in a hover when I was in Okinawa, they beat our F-15's for noise that's for sure. U2's would be a close second in the noise department in my experiences...

BK

Posted: 8/25/2004 7:34:45 PM EDT

[#4]

While not being the loudest, the A-10 sure sounds awesome. It seams like everywhere I go, they follow me. I have see them in three different states.

They sound like a mixture between a Black Hawk turning 30,000rpm and my air conditioner just after it freezes up.

Posted: 8/25/2004 8:10:31 PM EDT

[#5]

I wonder if the question should properly deal with engines rather than aircraft.

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From my own personal experience, growing up on air bases? The F-100. No doubt. They made your ears bleed......

Don’t know how it compares to other aircraft, but they’re certainly loud.

Long ago, an F-100 pilot mistook the Army base that I was at for the air field about three miles away and tried a nighttime landing on the top of my barracks!

At the last minute he realized his mistake and threw on his afterburner.

By that time, I had already written myself and everyone else in the barracks off as dead!!

I can still hear it.

Posted: 8/25/2004 8:12:49 PM EDT

[#6]

XB-70 Valkyrie.

Rumor has it it was the loudest plane in the sky.

Posted: 8/25/2004 8:41:44 PM EDT

[#7]

F-15's are quiet compared to F/A-22's. I've been directly underneath a F-15 during full AB engine runs checking for fuel and oil leaks numerous times without the noise bothering me, we never do this with the F/A-22 because of the noise level. We stay back as far as we can and have the engine run person go into AB for a little while then go back to idle, then we will go underneath the 22 and check for leaks.

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- A Pratt and Whitney F119 engine runs in full afterburner during an engine test in the "hush house" here.

Posted: 8/25/2004 9:02:22 PM EDT

[#8]

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Quoted:
The Cessna A/T-37. A tiny little jet that will make your ears bleed when it taxi's by.

The 5000 pound dog whistle.

I’ve heard the A10, A37/T37, C5A, F4, F100, F105, F104 and F111.

The loudest by far was the F104. The F111 was surprisingly quiet. I didn’t much think of the A37/T37 noise except that is was different from other military jet engines. SHriller and Much higher pitched.

Posted: 8/25/2004 9:07:08 PM EDT

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Well, this 'unmanned bomber' would have certainly been a contender, had it ever made it into production:

img67.exs.cx/img67/9974/SLAM.jpg

Project Pluto: (SLAM, The 'Flying Crowbar')

"Since the missile would be launched from U.S. territory and had to fly low over America's allies in order to avoid detection on its way to the Soviet Union, some military planners began to wonder if it might not be almost as much a threat to the allies. Even before it began dropping bombs on our enemies Pluto would have deafened, flattened, and irradiated our friends. (The noise level on the ground as Pluto went by overhead was expected to be about 150 decibels; by comparison, the Saturn V rocket, which sent astronauts to the moon, produced 200 decibels at full thrust.) Ruptured eardrums, of course, would have been the least of your problems if you were unlucky enough to be underneath the unshielded reactor when it went by, literally roasting chickens in the barnyard."

That reminds me of the B-Movie, "The Lost Missile".
If you've ever seen it on the Tube, you'd find it surprisingly well made.

Posted: 8/25/2004 9:14:08 PM EDT

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AV8B Harrier gets my vote from personnal experiance.

Posted: 8/25/2004 9:17:51 PM EDT

[#11]

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Quoted:
AV8B Harrier gets my vote from personnal experiance.

That's #1.

#2 is the A-6.

Semper Fi

A6 #1 from my years in. Hard to believe that small jet could make so much noise.

Posted: 8/25/2004 9:29:39 PM EDT

[#12]

I would have to say A6, at max power, sitting on the catapult ready for launch.

Posted: 8/25/2004 9:37:56 PM EDT

[#13]

During training it was stated that the EA-6B is the loudest thing in US inventory second only to the space shuttle.

I would suspect that the F22 is louder because its the same engine that they are expecting to use on the JSF. Engineers that I have worked with while they were visiting the carrier stated that the JSF is so loud that special cranials with active noise suppression are going to be required on the flight deck when the JSF becomes operational...to include the LSOs who only wear sunglasses and earplugs.

Posted: 8/25/2004 9:41:43 PM EDT

[#14]

I heard lots of different ones, from SR-71 to AV-8 Harrier; I grew up on an Air Force base and worked on the flightline in the Marines.

The loudest by far I ever heard: F-8 Crusader taking off on afterburner.

Posted: 8/26/2004 3:56:41 AM EDT

[#15]

WHAT?!?!

Posted: 8/26/2004 3:58:11 AM EDT

[#16]

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For my money it is the B-1b on full afterburn take-off.
img61.exs.cx/img61/3417/B1DYESSPHANTOM.jpg

+1 LOUUUUD fuggers!

Posted: 8/26/2004 4:44:03 AM EDT

[#17]

Loudest I have heard was a B1-B. Impressive.

Posted: 8/26/2004 5:00:57 AM EDT

[#18]

I vote for the "bone" and the harrier

Posted: 8/26/2004 5:34:44 AM EDT

[#19]

I have seen a Harrier demonstration, it was loud and very impressive. I just don't think the sound compares to what the B-1b can do.

Posted: 8/26/2004 5:43:53 AM EDT

[#20]

Only heard F/A18s and F111's.

F111's were louder and looked sooooo cool when they did a fuel dump

Posted: 8/26/2004 6:55:08 AM EDT

[#21]

Supposedly the B-36. My grandparents were relieved when the AF retired them. My grandmother claimed you could barely hear B-52's.

Posted: 8/26/2004 7:03:09 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Quoted:
AV8B Harrier gets my vote from personnal experiance.

That's #1.

#2 is the A-6.

Semper Fi

Another vote for the Harrier

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