Donivanp
Major
You've apparently missed the F-111 or the B-ONE!
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You've apparently missed the F-111 or the B-ONE!The Harrier was one of the loudest things I've ever heard. The APU on a Fokker 100 comes close second.
I agree Buff's on water will ROCK THE HOUSE, but they ain't got nothing on the BONE! And with only two engines I'd say the F-111 in AB (Reheat for our British friends) will drown out a Buff. I worked D and G's at Andersen and had the misfortune of try to work on one next to one doing an eight engine water run right next to us. Yeah we had to leave and come back later.A B-52 taking off during a alert, well, 12 of them plus 12 tankers all getting airborn in whatever was the specified time was pretty noisy .
At Seymour Johnson AFB our barracks was about a mile from the SAC ready pad.
Whenever they had a alert, if our windows were up (no AC) we had to yell at each other , and still could only guess at what the other guy was saying.
I been at a airshow where a Harrier performed, and 3 times I've watched the Thunderbirds, They were pretty mild compared to those alerts.
Then you had to wonder " is this just an alert, or the real thing?" for a few minutes.
Now I would have loved to witness that! My goodness I do love that airframe.OK so were talking noise and I'll add air cracking, ground and building shaking. 9 English Electric Lightnings taking off in tandem, wheels up, full reaheat (AB to our American friends), vertical climb to about 30,000 feet and spiraling as it reached higher. The 56 Squadron Firebirds display team take off process 1963 season.
A Christmas tree! Eight B-52's loaded for "Bear"!An aerial view of U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress aircraft parked on the flight line during Exercise GLOBAL SHIELD '84,
Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, 1 April 1984.
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I don't know if I should laugh or cry, but it did bring back grumpy memories of my alerts in our little RAF Fighter Command in the 60s.My bad had to blow it up, only six chicks in the pair tree, but there are nine nest. Remember driving by Barksdale's "Christmas tree" as the alert pad was known (military humor in there somewhere) and nine buff's loaded with ALCM's loading down the wing racks. At Andersen we only had four planes on alert and as they were D models, they were just loaded with big bang theory items, free fall BIG BANG. No Christmas tree. One night we were done early in the Doppler shop and asked the line chief if we could go on standby. He says hold on, gonna have an alert run soon, if no issues than after that.
About thirty minutes later, sure enough the horn goes off and the crews come racing down to the pad.
Plane closest to the runway (#1) blows the carts and starts to taxi and than shutdown while crew emergency exit as fuel dumps from the plane. Next (#2) can't get started while there's ready to taxi but can't due to another fuel leak on #4 which breaks down infront of 3.
They let us go at 0300, never had anything to do but watch all the pandemonium.
Oh the joys of being a SAC trained killer.
A lot of six packs!Best part, really worst part, are all are shots of B-52D's which had just recently been retired from the force. I hatted seeing them destroyed but it's all part of the circle of aluminum. Today an aircraft of respect, tomorrow a six pack of Budweiser!