I know its American and all that but WOW

[darrsi]

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Where i work is under the flight path for helicopters going to and from Northolt, and you certainly know when a Chinook is approaching.
Had a few Ospreys recently as well, they have a distinctive sound.

I think the loudest one I ever heard was a Vulcan taking off from RAF Brize Norton (I lived virtually on its perimeter before I moved up here), going immediately into a full vertical climb. That thing shook the whole house, ground, everything. Awesome. Don't know if they also believe 'loud pipes save lives'  :lol


At Gutersloh, Harriers were the most annoying. There were two sqns there, 3 and 4F. One of them had a hover pad over on our side of the airfield (inconsiderate bastards), and if you were out doing a service or whatever on our pan, and they were testing one of their aircraft there, you had to shout at the guy standing next to you to be heard, and of course, it being a hover pad, they weren't going anywhere in a hurry.


I also remember living underneath the flight path of flypasts for the Queen's birthday when I was a lad (possibly one reason I ended up joining the RAF). Vulcans, Victors, Jaguars, Phantoms, Harriers* (those were the days!) - every year. We used to go and stand in the garden to watch them, always right on time.

*Edit: I forgot Buccaneers.
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We got to constantly see and hear the Typhoons taking off at Northolt as well, when they were on standby for any trouble associated with the 2012 London Olympics.
Those things don't hang about, and have an awesome sound to them.
And they used to do this vertical rise before turning away and we'd see the sun light up the whole under carriage of the plane. Around the same time we'd get groups of helicopters flying over us at high speed in close quarters carrying teams of special forces, they always travelled much quicker than any others that went by us.