XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, or.politics   
   From: jsmorgan@charterJUNK.net   
      
   >> I was on the golf course a few years ago when a B-1 flew over it was at an   
   >> altitude that you could just barely make out its shape and tell that it was   
   a   
   >> B-1. It was way louder than any other plane I've heard at that altitude   
   >> including the B-52.   
   >   
   > Loudest airplane I've ever heard, for sure, except maybe for the Harriers at   
   > Quantico when they were doing v/stol.   
   >   
      
   Anyone I have ever talked to at OSH says that the B-1B in full afterburner is   
   the loudest aircraft they have ever heard, bar none.  I think it is almost   
   twice   
   as loud as the Harrier.  It is louder, in any case, no doubt.   
   --   
   Jim in NC   
      
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