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Originally Posted by BE911SC
If a B-1 is going fast enough you don't hear it coming! In full afterburner it burns 80,000 pounds of fuel per hour. I used to fly the KC-135R and was co-located with two B-1 squadrons. I never got tired of the roar of a B-1 full-blower departure. Jet noise, especially from something like a B-1, truly is the sound of freedom!
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Two of them took off over the building I worked in two summers ago, about a 1/2 mile west of O'Hare. This was the week after the air show. Scared the bejesus out of everyone in the office. I was close enough to the window to catch a glimpse.
RP
