Best-soundin planes

[empenage]

Yea Baby! Yea!
The Mark XVI Spit with the Packard-Built Roll-Royce Merlin. Sea Fury, P-51, T-6, F4U,Stearman, F6F, B-25, Mark XIVc Rolls-Royce Griffon, P-38!

 

[bobbysamd]

Best-sounding aircraft

I grew up very near an AF base and not far from our large municipal airport, so I got to hear plenty of great-sounding aircraft.

I'd say nearly any multi-engine radial. I heard plenty of C-47s. Also heard RC-121s and C-54s (I think - could have been C-118s). Also heard and saw others, such as C-119s. Then, when I was a college student, I traveled through ORD quite a bit. I remember sitting in a 727 waiting for takeoff when a C-124 Globemaster took off. I could hear the roar of its four radials inside the 727!

Last summer a beautiful natural aluminum B-17 spent a few days here. I saw it while running an errand for work downtown and then as it flew over my house. No mistaking its radials!

Then, when I was living in OKC, someone brought in a P-51. There was something particularly exciting about that Merlin!

I agree with the above about the sound a 1900 makes when you throw it into beta. That's cool, too.

 

[RJones]

All the planes listed make a great sound! I happen to think the neatest sound is when a -10 powered Mu-2b is starting up and the Single Redline Limiter is kicked in (SRL) -- woosh - woosh - woosh eeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

RJ

 

[DC-3TP]

The Cessna 421 Golden Eagle has a nice sound. Sounds good on takeoff and flying over.

 

[Freight Dog]

May sound corny, but I like when a Dash 8 flies overhead...

 

[Crabtree]

Coolest plane

breaking the no jet rule, I saw this fighter at the dayton air show a few years ago. It was doing demonstration. I cant remember what kind it was but I am pretty sure it was a fighter. It was a smaller plane and had a turbine, but no afterburner. When it would he gave it power, it had the coolest hum/whistle.......Anybody know what plane this could be????

 

[dav8or]

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

Now i'm curious!

It leaks oil like a harley is what he sould have said.

try this one
http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/merlin.wav

 

[MetroSheriff]

North American T-28 is pretty sweet...

 

[Smoking Man]

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I think that Rare Bare running WFO (Wide F!#$!ng Open) would have to be my first choice.

Then the Wistle Pig (F-27) would be next, there is just something about that piercing frontal noise of the RR Dart that just says "I am way bad".

Regards

Smoking Man

 

[BMD]

intruder

Breaking the no jet rule, I'd have to say the A-6. That thing was loud as hell.