Good sounds...

[TheGreenGoblin]

We all have sounds that take us somewhere we would rather be or remind us of another time or something in a future yet to be fulfilled...

Whether it was the cry of your first child or the last bell at your last school from hell, tell us about it here...

Saw Henri Pescarolo wring the heart out of one of these. Still brings goosebumps to my goosebumps... visceral stuff...



- the F1 version in the hands of Jean Pierre Beltoise was also well worth listening to...



(forgive the French Capetonian)

Jean Pierre won 1 Grand Prix (Monaco 1972) in a BRM (British Racing Motors) car....

[Slasher]

Merlins!








Well the P51 has a Merlin really.

[TheGreenGoblin]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznetsov_NK-12

[Capetonian]

Maybe not the most attractive sound but highly evocative to anyone who has ever worked with or flown these beautiful aircraft. It brings me out in goosebumps to listen to it. Memories of a distant past in a country that no longer exists, having been handed over to a bunch of savages in 1981.

[G-CPTN]

Maybe not the most attractive sound but highly evocative to anyone who has ever worked with or flown these beautiful aircraft.

Harm could come to a young man listening to the sound of Viscount engines.

[Boac]

Ah! That sound! Never been near a 95MS, but we used to hear the 'old' TU95 ('Bear') engines inside the pressurised cockpit of a Lightning (and my bonedome) at 30,000ft. Mind you, we did get close sometimes...

[TheGreenGoblin]

Ah! That sound! Never been near a 95MS, but we used to hear the 'old' TU95 ('Bear') engines inside the pressurised cockpit of a Lightning (and my bonedome) at 30,000ft. Mind you, we did get close sometimes...

The BAC Electric Lightning must have been an extraordinary aircraft to fly.

I have heard and seen one fly overhead at about 500 feet on afterburners. A sound not to be forgotten!

[Boac]

Yes, and I can assure you that sitting alongside a Bear at altitude between Iceland and the Faroes was quite 'extraordinary' too. I was a lucky man.

[Slasher]

Yes, and I can assure you that sitting alongside a Bear at altitude between Iceland and the Faroes was quite 'extraordinary' too. I was a lucky man.

Boac what the highest level you ever intercepted a TU95 at?

Reason I ask is that during the time RAAF base Derby (North East part of West Oz) was being constructed in the early 1980s, there were rumours of a Bear based at Cam Ranh Bay (SE coast of Nam) having done a photographic sortie overhead at FL700. But I have seriously doubted it could reach that bloody high for a contraprop.

This of course was beyond the ceilings of RAAF OPSCOM’s then Phantoms, whatnots, and the odd Miracle.

[Boac]

33-35. I do not think those 'rumours' are vaguely possible. Think IAS/subsonic cruise.

[Undried Plum]

When working in Oman as a Catman most of the shooting was over. Occasionally the rump of the adoo would lob a few mortar shells from beyond a ridge or hill from a position where they knew that our battmen couldn't use the GPMG to return fire.

The procedure was to call in a pair of Strikemasters from Salalah to see if they could eyeball the miscreants and rattle their teeth a bit. For a while we also had a flight of Hunters at Masirah. They would make a low pass for effect, sometimes from within cloud if there was a low overcast. That sound scared the bejasus out of the adoo and hugely impressed the djebali villagers we were serving.

[Boac]

A lovely sound! 'Experts' say the noise comes from the 'Sabrinas'.

[Slasher]

Thanks. I thought so too.

[Woody]

Surprised nobody has put a Vulcan up yet

[llondel]

I remember being at home once, heard a distinctive noise outside and rushed outdoors to be rewarded with a near-overhead pass of the Memorial flight Lancaster on its way home from Duxford.

[Ex-Ascot]

Eat your heart out Greta Thunberg

[TheGreenGoblin]

Often heard around these parts in summer...



A wonderful whistling sound and a good name...

Goblin engine

[TheGreenGoblin]

Yes, and I can assure you that sitting alongside a Bear at altitude between Iceland and the Faroes was quite 'extraordinary' too. I was a lucky man.

An interesting general synopsis of your old foe...

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-b ... know-20484

Each of the NK-12s has two propellers, the second one spinning in the direction opposite the first. This not only counteracts the torque created by the rotational airflow of the first propeller, but harnesses it for greater speed. Contrarotating propellers are therefore modestly more efficient—but because they are more expensive to produce and maintain, and also unbelievably noisy, they have not been widely adopted. In fact, the noise produced by Tu-95s has reportedly been remarked upon by submarine crews and jet pilots.

I read that fully laden the Bear operated at about 35,000 feet but with lighter loads it could climb to about 55,000 feet.

[Boac]

Most of the Bears I 'accompanied' through 'the gap' were heavy (westbound) having tanked to full for their 12 hour Atlantic detail or routing to Conakry, thus not more than 33-37. We tended to see less of the eastbounders - not sure why, but I suspect they were perhaps not 'visible' coming up from the south-west in time to scramble us or the USAF from KEF, and it was mainly the outbounders that INT wanted the pics of anyway to see which variants were being used and the mod states. I expect the Noggies would have had enough notice to finish their pickled Herrings and 'scramble'.

[4mastacker]

Eat your heart out Greta Thunberg

This ground-based sound and smoke generator would also probably give her an attack of the vapours.



The kiddie in the pushchair certainly got a lung-full.