Potentially controversial - Is the Vulcan REALLY that noisy?
Discussion
FourWheelDrift said:
Kitchski said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Kitchski said:
So going by the responses of this thread, it looks like I'm yet to experience the Vulcan on full chat
Just means I'm going to have to make sure I'm there for the last ever flight!
Possibly the best take off noise/howl recorded I have heard, after the B52 eventually gets off the ground - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOgsgnZ8dwJust means I'm going to have to make sure I'm there for the last ever flight!
FourWheelDrift said:
Possibly the best take off noise/howl recorded I have heard, after the B52 eventually gets off the ground - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOgsgnZ8dw
I was working there that year with our Tornado's and watched both of those from airside. It still amuses me how the B-52's wingtips take off ages before the rest of it!DamienB said:
1. Turn volume on PC to absolute maximum
2. Warn neighbours
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djd1pPQZ_LE
I saw a Vulcan do something very similar at Cosford a long time ago, that's probably still the loudest I have experienced. Awesome.2. Warn neighbours
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djd1pPQZ_LE
princealbert23 said:
bigfoot7 said:
The B-1B Lancer does it for me. Saw it a few years ago and has to be in the top 10 for noise
This- the only one I have heard that actually hurtAfter the sound had dropped to a level that was no longer gloriously loud (as in "can't hear your own voice but can hear your own ribcage vibrating" loud) all you could hear were the car alarms.... seemingly every single car alarm for a couple of miles. Still one of my favourite Air show memories of all time.
Vulcan makes a truly lovely sound... but by comparison she is not 'loud'. Not even in the same vicinity as 'LOUD'.
DrDeAtH said:
Loud? Typhoon is LOUD, like a mobile thunderstorm....
It's loud in an "average" sort of way - in that all afterburning jet fighters are, by their nature, very loud when full burners are engaged - especially on take off.Put four even bigger and more powerful engines with afterburners on an aeroplane (such as the TU-22/26 or B1, and they are going to be VERY loud.
Edited by Eric Mc on Tuesday 13th October 09:04
Vulcan can be loudish when she wants to be - very quiet on Sundays flypast. I'm glad she doesn't have afterbuurners because they might drown out that glorious howl, which really is unique, and I'm so glad I've heard twice. Eurofighter (very much a part of my Lego life at the moment) Is awesome for me when she arrives at an airshow, sliding in silently at near mach 1, followed by the noise, beautiful noise - the gap leaves you just enough time to cover the ears of the very young if you happen to spot her coming! I've never seen the B1 and am a bit too young for the Lightnings and SR-71's, but I was at rotate point for a Concorde launch at Farnborough a few years back - right next to the barriers. That was the loudest thing I've ever witnessed. That tickling you get in your ears which is your body's way of telling you that you are being irreparably damaged! The only time in my life I've put my fingers in for fear of my hearing. People at work have mentioned that sometime I talk a bit loud and sometimes I accuse them of mumbling instead of talking normally. I'd love to think the Conc might be responsible.
princealbert23 said:
bigfoot7 said:
The B-1B Lancer does it for me. Saw it a few years ago and has to be in the top 10 for noise
This- the only one I have heard that actually hurtWhilst the Vulcan is relatively loud, as others have said it's more a unique howl that is the cool factor. In the same way B52s have a cool sound but aren't really loud.
RicksAlfas said:
I remember seeing a four Vulcan "scramble" at either Finningley or Waddington in the early 80s. That was noisy!
1977 Finningley Queen's Silver Jubilee - I was with ATC and was at the practise and display days so saw it a few times, seems like a long time ago now.Spent many days at Scampton / Waddington as a spotter when they were operational, you could always tell a Vulcan doing a 'go around' by the scream.
As for similarly noisy SR-71 - YES , Concorde YES ( was at Hatton Cross Tube station and saw the plate glass windows go on three separate occasions just after Concorde went over - the quote from the Tube Workers "Oh that's another £5/£10 grand British Airways owe us" ).
Also the Lightning was particularly noisy - At RAF Binbrook one day during a NATO Exercise and we got buzzed on the Fire Access road by a Lightning at about 50-100 foot, he announced he was going to do it to finish his gun film off - would have liked to have seen that as it's only the second time I felt the heat from engines whilst on the ground ( after the Aussie F-111 did the fuel dump thing at Finningley in 1977 )
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