Last week, I posted a current video of a C-5.
Here's an older one of a C-5, with the old "growling" engines. Time was, one could pass over head a couple of miles up and you'd know it was a C-5 just from the sound.
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Now THAT is Sunday Morning Jet Noise! Good find of the older engines Comrade.
I live about 30 miles north of a C-5 base (Newburgh-Stewart). Seeing them in the air really messes your sense of visual comprehension, You want to believe it's a dirigible. Seeing them at a distance, my eye thinks if that's a (normal sized) plane moving (seemingly) so slow, why doesn't it fall out of the sky?
I know, I had the same reaction the first time that I saw a 747 flying an approach.
Yep, that is what I remember! I was chatting with a lady here who was a crew chief on C-5s when they transitioned to the new motors, she said the first couple of takeoffs were panic making in the 'back of the bus', because it was too quiet, and she thought they'd lost an engine or two!
Sunday morning I listened to this with the speakers on my computer up (kinda deaf). Wife was upstairs thinking that our somewhat troublesome toilet was acting up again and making strange noises. I live east of a medium sized local airport (mainly corporate and private flights) and have never heard anything like that.
Reminds me of Super Summer '74 at Advanced ROTC summer camp Ft Bragg (now Ft Liberty). Our WW2 barracks were under the flight path for Pope AFB and it's C-130, C141 and a few C-5 landing and taking off. You could definitely tell when it was the C-5's. At first it was hard to sleep but with the tough traning and acclimation we soon slept like babies...
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