more at
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-is-what-its-like-inside-the-loudest-plane-in-the-w-1822666940
propellers also enable to it hold the reputation of the current Loudest Plane In
You may want to turn your headphones down.
to a humongous sound system, in which case, more power to you), we can do our
BBC:
even claimed that US submarines can hear the aircraft flying high overhead
through their sonar domes while still underwater. Western fighter pilots who
shepherded Bears over international airspace have reported being able to hear
its turboprops above the sound of their own jet engines.
the tips of the propellers actually break the sound barrier, but to be honest, I
the all-time loudest plane ever built, the Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech, which
is said to have been so loud with its supersonic propellers that Air & Space
Magazine noted that it was rumored to have caused miscarriages, and at one
point, even appears to have made a dude have a full-on seizure:
"Well, they cranked that -84H up, made about a 30-minute run, and shut it down.
As they were getting ready to tow it back to the ramp, they heard this banging
But the Thunderscreech never made it more than a few test flights in the 1950s,
service today, stalking Western borders.
even a hint of someone merely profusely vomiting at all
I believe the real culprit is the contra-rotating nature of those propellers,
which both government and academic studies have pointed out are extremely loud
the sheer volume is produced as a side effect of each propeller blade rapidly
passing by another one.
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