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I'm sitting in a hotel room on the 36th floor of the Grand Hyatt Manchester in San Diego. And four F18s are doing fly-overs nearby, practicing maneuvers, I guess.

Great stuff! Loud - in fact very loud - but great! :D

I hear those F18s use stainless headers and dual-out mufflers. Fun for a weekend toy, but not something you want to fly to work in every day.

i live right near moffett field, an "out of service" naval base. those things, as well as alot of other military planes come in and out all the time. those things when coming in to land shake my entire house. they appear to defy gravity when they come in all slow. my hound and cat hate it.

air force one lands there when the president visits the bay area. come to think of it AF1 has not landed there in many moons. clinton used to come to the BA all the time. W has kinda forgotten that california exists. now if there was oil here, they'd re-open the base i bet.

I was on the flight line (back in Arkansas) when they scrambled the B52's.

That was loud.

Imagine 6 B52's and their support tankers at full throttle running down the runway.........

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The sound of freedom. Spent a lot of time there and you always hear the jets from the Top Gun base at Miramar North of town. Between the jarheads and the squids based around there, nobody is going to mess with SoCal...

JoeA

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You've got that right. Between Camp Pendleton and The Navy, I think San Diego is the safest city on the West Coast. I mean, what's the worst that can happen. A young drunken squid vomitting on you in the Gaslamp district. ;)

What's best, my father was in the Navy down here. I recognize some of his old haunts. :)

You do take pride, though, when seeing those big carriers and destroyers gliding through the water. Amazing stuff!

I hear the dual out resonate on those things. My wife would complain.

Try Nellis AFB....the F's go over all the time on their way to the Range....I've see those boyz go lumbring over at 500 ft and the next thing you know they bank left and are at 10,000 feet over the mountains...

San Diego would never know what hit em....it would all be gone in a flash...from an ICBM......

Over at Norton in San Berdo they used to run the SR70's ...but that was back in the day....now the only thing that is Black out there are the Gangbangers.....

That was a fly by for the recent passing of the Navy's highest ranking Admiral.
VADM Stockdale services were at NAS North Island Friday at 2PM.
Some might remember him as Perot's running mate.

Met Adm. Stockdale at a get together of the Red River Rats years ago. Hell of a guy and not many like him these days. Sorry to see him go as he was a hell of a leader...

JoeA

Yes. That explains one of the Fs breaking away from formation.

They are loud arn't they.. that lead singer could really wail! :rolleyes:

We have the refueling tankers in Tampa (MacDill) and a support f-16 wing. You want loud? Try a KC-135R and C-37 at full throttle take off...

I happen to work right between two runways (the airport has parallel runways 5000ft apart and our complex is right in the middle) so I get to see/hear neat stuff all day long. T-38s (NASA), lots of C-130s, KC-135s, 747 and DC-10 cargo planes not to mention the odd F/A-18. One of the loudest, though is a C-5A. That thing under full power is pretty loud - especially when it's only 2000 ft away or so...

The loudest I think I've ever heard though was an F-4 Phantom. Wow.

Mike

The F-4 's landing at Berstrom in Austin used to use the roof of the shop where I worked to line up for the runway. I've never heard anything louder than that.

Now I live by Elington in Houston. All the jets stationed there (T-38's and F16's) use a flight path that doesn't go over houses, but the visiting F15's go right over my house. Sometimes I wonder if they have a some sort of limiter that allows them to hold their speed at Mach .999999

Cool...I used to have to go to JSC quite a bit and have been by Elington a few times. Those T-38s are pretty loud for their small size...

Mike

In my short 4 year Air Force career, the loudest plane I heard was a B-1 taking off. I surely don't miss the high pitch whine of the F-16s sitting on the tarmac, my ears are still ringing.

The most awesome site I saw was a C-5 landing in a 30 mph crosswind & watching the landing gear turn to compensate for the plane coming in cockeyed. I once got caught off guard behind one while it was making a turn taxiing, I had to drop to all fours & got totally sand blasted. I was lucky I didn't go tumbling across the MAC ramp like a weed.

I've been to a few of the air shows at Miramar and by far the loudest aircraft was the Harrier VTOL jet while it was hovering in front of the grandstands. Made the Blue Angel F-18 "sneak" flyby tame.

I live near LAX - the smaller the jet the louder it is. The DC-10s that FEDEX flies though are LOUD as heck man.

I grew up on airforce bases and my Dad flew on KC-10s (DC-10s used to attempt replacing the KC-135) so I can pick one out based on sound.

Dad was also a crew chief on F-4s and they are the loudest thing known to man - much like chicken pot pie is hotter than the sun.

Loud...
Living on base in side the pattern as 7 F-4s circle the pattern practicing FCLPs (touch and goes on a simulated carrier deck). a calm wind helped create a smokey black ring around the pattern to compliment our temporary deafness.

A low flying fighter breaking the sound barrier will catch your attention too.

The A-6 was not so quiet either.

Try an old B727 long hauler loaded with fuel and cargo, old and tired engines that might take a little more throttle is plenty loud climbing low and slow off the departure end. A recent noise complaint claimed such a departure blew over trash cans in their residential neighborhood.;)