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Museum of Flight Completes Successful Final Flight of the First Boeing 727
The first Boeing 727 has made its final flight from Paine Field to Boeing Field, where it will be part of the permanent display at the Museum of Flight. (airwaysnews.com) Más...I would agree. I was recently near LAX and saw (and heard)a corporate 727 take off. Though it it was hushkitted, to my ears, it sounded just like the old days. If only to again hear a 707 or DC7, for that matter...Gotta go...I'm off to YouTube now...
One of the best P&W startup sequences available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8MbJKziYSo
Short of the Blue Angels in full afterburner, I think the loudest departure I ever heard from BFI was an old Learjet 24 freighter...
A B-1B at BFI, my hearing hasn't been the same since.
I've been around a lot of jets from airliners to fighters, but that was without a doubt THE loudest airplane I've ever heard.
I've been around a lot of jets from airliners to fighters, but that was without a doubt THE loudest airplane I've ever heard.
Forgot the B-1... Many years back when they still had the Paine Field Rotary Club Air Show, I stupidly stood around without hearing protection at the edge of the tarmac while a Lancer warmed up a few hundred ft away. I was almost directly in front of it, and the scream of the engines even at idle was incredible. I ended up putting an F-16, also idling and only about 50 ft away, between the B-1 and me - it got a lot quieter...
I know I sacrificed a fair bit of upper range hearing that day.
I know I sacrificed a fair bit of upper range hearing that day.
Glad to see it's going to be out of the weather at last.