Best-soundin planes

[crash-proof]

Hi there, another "best of" thread...

Hands down, the sweetest noise goes to the old geared lycoming 480's, like the ones in t-bones and queenairs. Makes my skin goosebump.... them things are LOUD!

Runners up:
* All radials, especially big ones like P&W R-2800, or the geared 1820's
* Loud 0-360s 4-bangers like the old Seneca's sound cool
* Big turboprops - hercules


NO JETS!!!

 

[chawbein]

P-47

 

[aero99]

Space shuttle when landing.

 

[bigD]

I like anything with a lot of throbbing bass in it, so radials are always on my list. If it's piston, of course the more displacement the better.

 

[jetexas]

P-51, hands Down.

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

The best sounding airplane? The one I'm flying of course .
Either the P-51 or DC-3. Actually just about any WWII era bird. Fun survey/question.

 

[BradG]

P-51

Runners up--- anything with a Radial, Baron, Old lears

 

[FL000]

B-17, B-29. Thank God some survived long enough for me to hear them in my lifetime. Actually, with all that were produced, I'm surprised their aren't at least a few more in service.

 

[crash-proof]

OK I said no jets before, but you know what?

The old G-IIs with no hush kits were awesome!!!!
We lived in DC mid-80s and whenever one would take off from Reagan airport the windows would threaten to shatter, I kid you not!

That was before stage II, III, IV....sigh Now you can barely hear em at all...

 

[ShawnC]

Well for me its the sound of silence, when I am up there, there are times when all I want to hear is the wind rushing over the aircraft, an engine is just too much noice.

 

[OtterFO]

DC-6's rank pretty high on the list.

Also a C-207 taking off at -30C with a heavy load. For some reason the extreeme temps really change the prop noise.

 

[A Squared]

I'm gonna hafta side with shawn on this one. The best sounding plane i've flown was a Grob 103, after I'd released the tow.

I do like the sound of an R-2800...sounds like money in my pocket.

Crash-proof,

The queen-airs I've seen had gso-540s. Did they make them with 480s too?


regards

 

[FastCargo]

Just plane noise...

Hmmmm,

Actually, I've always thought some of the coolest flying I've done was the ol' Schewiser (sp?) 232 glider back in college. The sound of the wind...cool!

Piston aircraft...I'd have to say a P-51 or P-38. Though I was in Reno in Sept 1991 when the Pond Racer was around. Talk about different sounding...

Jets (yes, I know, not originally in the thread)... actually, the B-1 is just plain LOUD!! We did close interval takeoffs at Nellis (both runways, 10 sec spacing) and it was like the sky was tearing open...

FastCargo

 

[414Flyer]

Yeah I was just telling someone the other day how those Twin Bo's sounded. I would imagine some older commander 520s would sound the same since they had the same engine with augmenter tube system.

Those didnt have cowl flaps. They exhaust went into an bigger tube, and apparently the purpose was just to suck in even more air into the engine and out that tube, and that helped make that deep throaty noise

 

[LR25]

Anything with a round engine.

But I think the Twin Beech has a sound of its own, but noisy inside!

I would have to say that nothing burning jet-a sounds good but, a Dash-8 going over at about 3000 ft at vmo in a descent has a strange sound also, kind of neat.

I think the tops for me is is hearing a Lancaster, nothing but WOW!

LR25

 

[mar]

DC6: Lowest, Slowest, Loudest

R-2800s are throaty. But I really dig the sound of a P38 making a high speed, low-pass.

<shiver>

 

[JimboGoodPilot]

I make sexing while drink! Jimbo have day off and I drink and I sex all your moms you sucks. I plane sound best like Corvette, like when I fly a Cessna and fart real loud!!!!!

 

[HueyPilot]

What, no helicopters?

Not an airplane, but I still love the sound that a UH-1 Huey makes when you start to run the engine up to full RPM.

 

[CatYaaak]

Manliest: a B-58 Hustler in full afterburner,

Coolest: F4U Corsair in a high speed dive (Whistling Death),

Most unusual: anything with a WW1-era rotary engine such as a Sopwith Camel (the kind where the whole cylinder bank rotates with the prop)..the spinning cooling fins make a really weird noise.

 

[av8raaron]

Any thing with a Wright R3350 hung off the firewall - specifically, Lyle Shelton's Rare Bear (I grew up on air racing).

Breaking the "no jets" rule, F-4s in a full AB takeoff are great! The Air Guard in my hometown flew the recce versions until the mid-90s and I miss them dearly.

 

[Obi-Wan]

How about the MU-2. Now thats loud.

 

[Austpilot]

2 of them ;

Boeing 727 on a still morning and Supermarine Spitfire doing a low pass and or victory roll.

If that don't make the bum cheeks tickle - I don't know what does!

 

[crash-proof]

How about the MU-2. Now thats loud.

You mean the MU-2 on the ground right? It makes a reaaaally strange sound...anybody know where that comes from???

Also, re the queenair question, the first ones came out with 480's, they were probably underpowered i imagine. Yes the aerocommanders had geared lycs too. I luv the sound. In idle they sound cool as well.

I heard the Camel at Sun n Fun 2000, and it was strange, cause it either runs at full throttle, or no throttle at all, so when it flies, it goes braaaaaam, putt putt putt. braaaaaam putt braaaaaam ----reaaaly odd.

 

[LR25]

The Camel and other rotory powered airplanes do that because there is a switch on the stick that is conected to the magneto.

When you want to reduce power you turn the magneto off and you want to add power you let go of the switch.

The engine is either off or on.

And as far as the other post on the 72 noise, no way man, have you ever spent anytime on the ramp with a bunch of 72's going buy in full reverse or takeoff power(ATL), make you see double after a while, and thats with the hush kit.

MU-2, they taxi at 100% and criuse at 98%, haha.

The one jet that really sticks in my mind is the F-104. I guess they have a really wierd bleed system, when they taxi by you, you can hear the engine surging and making weird noises.

 

[Boeingman]

I'm partial to the F-4, especially a low level, high speed pass in burner.

 

[Tri-holer]

Breaking the no jets quasi-rule. I have to agree with the post putting up the F-104. I got to listen to one of those make a flyby once. What a wierd noise, and cool.

As for props, a p-38 with the turbo-superchargers operational doing a high speed pass is an awesome sound. And the lope of a P-51 idling is just sensual.

 

[skywav8r]

Used to fly an old Stinson 108-3 with a 190hp Franklin. Sounded like a Harley Davidson. Very cool!

 

[crash-proof]

Used to fly an old Stinson 108-3 with a 190hp Franklin. Sounded like a Harley Davidson. Very cool!

Can't imagine anything not radial, not to mention a flat-six, sounding like a harley!

Now i'm curious!

 

[Vrefus]

Well let's see if I can cover all my favorites here.

As for the round motors, all of them, the DC-3s, the Pratt R2800s, and I believe the R3370s on the DC7 and Super Connies.

The P-51 with the RR Merlin is my favorite though of the non-jets.
Lastly for this category, anyone ever heard a Hawker Sea Fury's RR Griffon? Another totally different sound.

Going to the airliners, nothing can match the Rolls Royces RB-211 on the Tristars and 75s. As they're spooling up to T/O power that growl they put out is woody city.

Gotta also add the Concorde on this one as it goes into AB.

Speaking of woody city, the G-II with the RR Spey as it approaches 98-100% T/O power on a cool crisp quiet morning.

As for military, the roar of an airshow where multiple F-4 Phantom IIs are flying. Nothing can beat that noise even though a bunch of Tomcats flying around are pretty impressive too.

 

[Britpilot]

The winners, of course, are; the Supermarine Spitfire with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the Concorde on take off, pure music.