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"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

And oldie but a goodie:


Videos can't really give the feeling of how loud Concorde was on takeoff.
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4 comments:

J4rh34d said...

About 50 years ago, I had a couple weeks duty manning the perimeter bunker at the northern end of the DaNang airfield. (Meant to be a break from combat patrols) The F-4 Phantom IIs took off in full afterburner in that direction, fully loaded. I think I have some idea of what Concorde must have been like really close.

10/02/2016 11:58 AM
Anonymous said...

50 years ago next July, same scenario at Bien Hoa Air Base. Full afterburner rainbow of colors and thunderous sub-sonics. Even having my earplugs in place didn't seem to reduce the incredible punch of the sound. The mainstay jets were F-102's, F-100's, and the bedeviled Martin B-57B Canberras.

1964-1969 retrospective here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-dWZ6Aqc0

10/02/2016 12:34 PM
Iron City said...

With all due respect to the ability of the 2 J-79s in AB in the F-4 to turn copious amounts of JP into noise, smoke, fire and go to compare this to 4 (count 'em 4) RR Olympus with AB going full blast on takeoff I respectfully submit ...not even close.

10/02/2016 9:50 PM
Ward said...

It was about 32 years ago that the Concorde made an appearance here in Vancouver for Expo 86 and flew a couple passes over the city - even at "low speed" it was loud. At about 3:30 in this clip you can see the Expo grounds out the window:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZFJ3eDbQB8

10/03/2016 3:17 AM

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