Best-soundin planes

[crash-proof]

you brits w/ your Spits....just kiddin man

I remember BBQing by Dullus and watching them Conc's taking off, man, the sound would wake up the dead!!!!

 

[A Squared]

Crash-proof,

the franklins have a unique staccato exhaust sound as they are taxiing. I always thaought it sounded like they weren't running very well, but that's just how a Franklin sounds.

I did a little research after I asked about hte go480's in the Queen air. Apparently they were made with the igso480's, (like you said) the igso 540s and the io-720's

regards

 

[crash-proof]

Yeah I forgot the IO-720s, they sound cool too, but not likes bats out of hell like the 480's.

It's funny cause for some reason I always thought the 720's sounded like radial engines and not horizontal....i like em.

Ahhh all these planes, becomming so rare!!!

 

[Britpilot]

you brits w/ your Spits....just kiddin man

I remember BBQing by Dullus and watching them Conc's taking off, man, the sound would wake up the dead!!!!

That's interesting as I also used to BBQ by Dulles, And I just love that sound. Also used to work at Heathrow, I would stand at the end of 27L just to FEEL the take off, happy times

 

[enigma]

I'm generally a fan of round motors, but the most memorable sounds I've heard all came from a V12.

Lefty Gardner at the CAF show in a P38

The CAF used to have a Bell King Cobra (P63) that had a wonderful sound on a low level run

And the best memory is of walking on Venice Beach about 4 years ago (corporate layover) watching all the babes, when a P51 and a Spitfire came over low and fast One second, I'm watching the scenery and then the sound of two Merlins explodes into my consciousness; the following second I'm asking where those airplanes are headed and twenty minutes later I'm at Santa Monica. Man what a sound.

later
8N

BTW, has anyone heard Kermit Weeks Mosquito?

 

[crash-proof]

Ok, now some sounds I'd really LIKE to hear, and hopefully one day will...

* Sound of R-4360 (I think), the 28-cyl. "corncob" monster. I have no idea what they sound like.

* The Piaggio P-166 - Since i like GO-480's, I can't imagine what they sound like with the prop turned backwards. I remember seeing a Royal Gull takeoff but the airport was so noisy I could barely hear it.

Here's a nice site with the cool-lookin Piaggios..
http://www.p166.com

 

[enigma]

I just have to add in a couple of kerosene burners.

The sound of an RB211 equiped Tristar climbing out (dittos to the person who already mentioned the RB211's)

and, the noise that is made when a JT8D-217 lights off.

8N

 

[Mr Freeze]

20 Series Lear Jets, especially on cold days.




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[cxsolo]

Spitfire, have to love that Merlin...

MUST cut and paste link on this one...

http://www.geocities.com/cxsolo1997/merlin.mp3

 

[jetdriven]

I think the be1900D has a cool sound when you cram it into reverse after landing. zzzZZZZHHHHAAAAA!!!! foom. rrrRREEEEE!
sounds cool..

 

[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...