I was privileged to experience a Vulcan at a flying day at the Shuttleworth Collection. After a few deafening passes at low throttle, the pilot bought it in gear and flaps down , then it was gear up, light all four Olympus and then he stood the enormous aircraft on its tail and shot vertically up. The ground shook, and you could feel the roar in your lungs. All you could hear when he was gone were hundreds of car alarms from the car park, dogs barking and children screaming .... it still brings me out in goosebumps thinking about it 30 years later!
Yes must agree, I can remember one turn back to head north when I lived in Nottingham, I was told it was going back to its base in Lincolnshire, it happened three times........and wow the sight and the noise were never to be forgotten , that was sometime in the sixties. Glad they were never put to purpose.
I once saw a Vulcan at an airshow, and the guy who posted the video is right... it was truly deafening. It is a bone-rattling roar that seems to go right through your body. There is simply no way that a computer video can do justice to the sheer, brutal loudness of this airplane... you really have to be there in person to properly appreciate it!
We just better bring ear plugs so we don't automatically go deaf. I would hate to ever go deaf, to never be able to hear good music again, that would be rough
+Will Harris You might be impressed with the cold war interceptor English Electric Lightning scramble. Still holds the record for rate of climb, & supersonic beyond Mach 2
Will Harris it has absolutely nothing to do with "funding"! XH558 is an extremely complex jet and it has out lived it's life expectancy by more than 10years. it's sad to see it grounded, even a year later.
Aaron Strickland I service industrial machinery, new & not so new. Some of the machines the original manufacturer has closed shop, zero support, no parts available, non existent work procedures. My customers understand the situation, & are still willing to pay for the extra effort required to keep the machines up & running to original spec. Where there's a will there's a way.
I understand what you're saying. But without the technical support needed the CAA won't issue the necessary flight permits. Sadly XH558 will never be in an airworthy state. No amount of money will change that.. Although, if they took her to South Africa, where the aviation laws are more relaxed, it'd be a different story.
All those post ww2 and cold war british jets were just plain beautiful, and seeing any of them still flying (meteor, sea vixen, buccaneer, and this gorgeous vulcan) is almost like watching any of Marilyn's films, seductive and capable with a sense of humor rarely found in a survivor's heart.
+g8ymw Withdrawn because the main spars were buckling. Although alleged to have been as a result of the switch to low level flying and the additional stress this caused, some of the worst affected aircraft were actually high flying Photo Recce aircraft. It may simply have been inappropriate design work. The main spar was made from DTD683, which was a 'new' alloy, yet as early as 1951 found to have stress issues on other aircraft too, including Canberra and Meteor, plus US types. Basically they built it from the wrong metal!
You want loud? I was stationed at Miramar (San Diego) as a jet mechanic working on the A-4F "Superfox" Skyhawk. Whenever we did high power ground runs of the engine, it had to be done indoors in the so called "Hush house." I can only imagine what it was like in there with an F-14 tomcat or F-4 Phantom at full afterburner. Not to mention the F-8 Crusader. When that J-57 went into AB it did so quite decisively...
About 40 years ago I was working on my father's farm on a hot summer day on my own in a field and suddenly a very large shadow spread all around me. I looked up straight into the bomb bay of a Vulcan. It had taken off from the nearby airfield and I never heard it coming. It was very very lowindeed but when it passed me the shock wave of the sound (not the blast of the engines) knocked me off my feet. Then a few years ago I heard a plane in the sky and I instantly knew it was the restored Vulcan on one the last flights. That sound you never forget. Concorde flying down the Thames over my house in London was also incredibly impressive.
I was at Hong Kong Kai Tak in the late 90's when a Concorde took off, to say that the windows were rattling and it was loud is an understatement. The people in the terminal were split into two factions, some running away and others running to see what the source of the noise was (I was the latter) I was thrilled to see it climbing steeply into the sky to a round of applause from the people in the Terminal building !
@@argiebarge7955 I would have to disagree. Unless you know nothing of current British engineering, its fairly obvious we are still a highly skilled and respected engineering nation. There's a reason we're the only tier one partner in the F35 project, and make more than 15% of every aircraft delivered worldwide. The only reason people say we aren't anymore, is because we don't really "show off" as much as we used to. We don't really make full aircraft anymore, but we make so many parts for them around the world. We are so involved with many military projects, are high level partners in many of them, and make some of the best tech on the planet. I as a side note, I'm damn looking forward to tempest.
Snecma made Concorde what it was. It was a marriage made in heaven. Dassault build some in incredible machines too.French engineering dares to be different and it reflects in car designs and innovation. Don’t count yourselves out!
I witnessed a 4 Vulcan scramble at a base near Doncaster back in the late 70s and it was incredible. We were almost blown away with the blast and the heat as they passed us. This is my all time favourite flying machine and it should be preserved for future generations to experience. This is one of the most important aircraft in the history of aviation and it should be commemorated.
@@bobharrison2002 I shed many tears as the last one toured the UK, fortunately flew right down my street close to Manchester Airport. I cannot look at pictures without tearing up. Fabulous machine!
I remember going to a display at Bassingbourn many, many years ago when a Vulcan came over going for "the quietest aircraft of the day" award and you could hardly hear it. On its second pass it came over with everything flat out and the ground shook as it climbed into the clouds. Absolutely amazing.
Arthur Ord-Hulme Not so. The government needed the Agentinians to think that heavy bombers could reach the Falklands and therefore possibly the mainland. It worked.
I saw and heard these in person at airshows at RAF Bentwaters around 1964-65. I was a kid and I’ll never forget how grand and noisy they were to the point of 54 years later I still remember.
I remember vividly the last full 1 Gp Survival Scramble from Waddington and Scampton, in about 1982/3. On a perfectly clear day, both Wings launched everything they had, and Lincolnshire vibrated for about 10 minutes. It was simply awesome, as the dispersal 'fan tracks', at 5º spacing, filled the clear sky with smoke trails as they climbed out. No re-heat like Concorde, of course, just raw Olympus power on full throttle ... lots of them! :)
Back in the day I lived in the landing pattern ( about 20 miles out) for Dulles airport in (near) Washington DC. I guess you never heard the Concorde fly over? You could set your watch by it. 1:05 pm every afternoon. 20 miles out at 15k feet and it sounded like it was coming down the street! I've been a ramp rat for over 45 years and NEVER heard anythong that comes close.
Live from the Flight Deck not quite right, Concorde had a modified version of the Olympus engine that was capable of supersonic flight, the vulcan wasn't supersonic capable.
+TheSteve Orr Concorde's Olympus engines were fitted with reheat/afterbuners - which made them much noisier than the Olympus versions fitted to the Vulcan. In my experience, the loudest aircraft I've heard is either the Rockwell B-1B Lancer or the Tupolev Tu-22 Blackjack.
The loudest I ever heard was the twice weekly Blackbird SR-71 leaving RAF Mildenhall between 2 and 3a.m. Went for the yearly airshow in the eighties, but stayed long enough to see one or two take-offs of the Blackbird, on take-off at V1(rotation of aircraft onto rear wheels) the engines momentarily scorch the runway sending earthquake-like vibrations through the ground and up the legs of anyone stood on the ground, followed by a similer sensation in the chest as the aircraft gained height. What a adrenaline rush.
The Lightening, now that was an aircraft. I was coming down the north sea on HMS Glamorgan just before they went out of service. We did an air defence exercise against a couple of them. After exercises the pilots usually do some sort of fly past for the ships crew, their chance to show off so to speak after the constraints of an exercise. One Lightening came straight towards the ship, pulled up into a vertical climb right above our flight deck and piled on the power. It was a cloudless blue sky and we lost sight of it, still going straight up, we could still hear it though. The pilots eardrums must have been going in and out at the same speed as Keith Moons drum skins! The only comparable noise was a Harrier landing vertically.
Many years ago I was privileged to see one of the last Vulcan flying displays in the US. As it shrieked overhead I thought, "Dear God, it doesn't even have to drop any bombs!" Years later my wife and I happened to be outside when a B-52 flew overhead - throttled back with full flaps - on approach to the local commercial airport for a display. She looked up in alarm and said, "That's one of ours, right? Yes? Please?" And before that there were the B-47, B-58, and B-36, and "baby brother" the B-29 Superfort - the most advanced aircraft of its day. Intercontinental nuclear bombers - instilling fear and confidence since 1945.
In addition to being more fuel efficient, turbofan engines are much quieter than the turbojets that powered first and second generation military as well as civilian jets.
@@novemberdelta1282 - True but unfortunately as a jet mechanic in the USN, I lost some hearing working on the A-4 Skyhawk AKA the Scooter. The A-4F with the J-52P408 engine was a real screamer particularly at full military power INDOORS. Engine and fuel control changes required "trim" adjustments and prolonged full power runs. At NAS Miramar, that was done in a small, hanger like structure known as the "Hush House."
@@drstihl2007 - As Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 on Control would say of the Thunderscreech, "That's the SECOND LOUDEST airplane in the world." The Tu95 Bear has four, trans sonic, counter-rotating propellers. American fighter intercepting the Bear comment on the extreme noise it generates.
Im lucky to say ive seen this amazing plane so many times and whether its on video or at the side of the runway the sound of those olympus engines never fail to give me goose bumps. such a shame we wont see her in the skys again....
I have a Picture from a newspaper of me and my best freind (he died) with our fingers in our ears from one of these planes. I love these planes and I miss my freind immensely =(
When I was a kid I used to stand next to the runway at Scampton in summer and watch these awesome planes take off. Believe me when the practised scrambles and took off in threes the ground shook the sound reverberated in your chest and it damn well hurt. I will never forget the big moth gracing the Lincolnshire skies , awesome sight.
I was also a kid at Scampton, I remember them doing touch and goes, I left there when I was about 6 in '73. You do get used to the noise, my parents took my to an air show at Finningly and both my twin brother and I screamed when the Phantoms came over! Lived in Norfolk now for 40 years and it's calmed down now but we used to get an aeroplane screaming at least once a day,BRILLIANT!
Im so glad i got a chance to see xh558 before she stops flying this year, i saw her at the southport airshow a few years back and i still get goosebumps thinking about it now, marvelous aircraft!
I get total butterflies watching this sublime aircraft. We were at the Ayr Airshow during the last tour of the Vulcan and we felt the vibrations go right through us as it flew overhead and the noise, words just can’t do it justice, it really is a case of you have to have been there!
XB-70. With 6 afterburning YJ-93 straight turbojets rated at 30,000 lbs thrust each. Top that. From what I hear, it could be heard taking off 50 miles away, and with 180,000 pounds of TO thrust, I can believe it.
Only the little Olympus though. The Concorde 593 Olympus had more than three times the thrust and it was a treat (a frequent treat) to see it push the Vulcan flying test bed into the air at Filton.
@@MrCharlieboden I should think the similarities don't extend beyond the name but it would take an ex-Bristol Siddeley engineer to give a good answer. I was a BAC airframe engineer - on the other side of the runway.
Always remember standing on a stone bridge near to The Henlow Gala & being able to get right under the flightpath of the displaying aircraft :) When the Vulcan flew overhead & throttled up as it pulled into a near vertical climb - I can only describe the noise as being so loud & the sound being so big that every bone in my body was vibrating !!! A truly unforgettable experience for a ten year old lad to witness :)
WHAT!!!????? YOU HAVE A DEER???! LOL. Never heard it, but I was an acquaintance of a member of the ground crew that said the even 1/2 mile away while they were doing static tests, you couldn't hear someone talking next to you.
I used to work at RAF Marham when these planes were still flying. I also lived in Reading when Concorde used to fly over. Vulcan wins the sound contest hands down, especially when taking off then going vertical like in this video. I've also seen them fly over at about 150ft....just awesome
Some years ago I watched a Vulcan doing Touch and Goes at Manston airport in Kent. I was parked about 300 yards from the runway and the ground trembled.......wonderful.
My Mum was doing stage plays in the town where these were being developed. They used to do vertical climbs right over the town. Imagine trying to play a love scene with one of these things shaking the rafters. She said they'd just stop the play and wait until it was over.
Amazing. The howl when she throttled up...that'll send shivers up your spine. I don't know about "loudest plane on Earth" though. A B-1B taking off on full afterburner is probably just as loud, and having worked near Dulles Airport in the late '80s for two years, I still maintain there's nothing louder than Concorde with all four of those massive Olympus engines in full afterburner. I worked in a building over a mile from the airport, on the 5th floor, and every time Concorde took off it rattled the windows.
Geoff Roberts The Vulcan didn't have afterburners. They nurse it these days what with it being the last one and parts are nigh on impossible to get for it but I saw it at Boscombe Down in 92 when the RAF still owned it and next to a top fuel dragster from about 30 feet away on full power its the loudest thing I've ever heard, video just doesn't do it justice.
Y'know, Concorde was also powered by four Olympus engines, but with reheat too. Way louder than a Vulcan. Compared to modern commercial jets most things with reheat are unbelievably loud.
As far as I know though, Concorde used a different version of the Olympus engine, they got put in a few different things. Fantastic engine and engineering, awesome sound to them, especially the Vulcan with the whine it has.
***** You are correct. The Olympus engines on the Vulcan are not the same as the Olympus engines on Concorde. I know a Concorde engine was strapped to a Vulcan as a testbed. I think that one engine had nearly as much power as 4 Vulcan engines (I might be wrong)
g8ymw The Vulcan was used as a flying testbed for the Concorde Olympus engine. Two Vulcan Olympus were removed from one wing and were replaced by a single Concorde Olympus. Using the afterburner on the Concorde version, it matched the power of the two Vulcan engines without afterburners.
My parents took me and my two sisters for a picnic in a field near RAF Uxbridge that was literally under the the landing line of these incredible planes in the seventies ! I remember the noise and watching them going over head real low.....was every child,s dream....... i had great parents and we also had great planes back then !! Not so sure now !!
I can vouch for the noise and power of the Vulcan, I was at an air show at Biggin Hill (Kent, England), some years ago and it made my body shake and set off all the car alarms in the nearby car park. It seemed to stand on it's tail at the end of the runway and go straight up. Amazing and beautiful aircraft.
Lucky enough to see white Vulcans being tested in Cheshire at Woodford. The most beautiful thing I have ever seen...an incredible aircraft that changed aircraft forever!
We used to do a summer camp with the Boys Brigade in the take-off path of RAF Valley on Anglsey back in the seventies and when it came over the marching band's snare drums in the store tent used to play themselves - great memories.
I've seen 2 Vulcans on 2 separate air shows, and Yes indeedie she sounds terrifying and makes ALL the hair stand up when she's in the air. Loved every bloody minute I see her.
The Vulcan is an awesome piece of machinery, and a beautiful plane to boot! However it is far from being the loudest plane on earth. That designation goes to the Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech". The XF-84H was an experimental supersonic propeller aircraft, meaning that the propeller itself was designed to function supersonically. Even at idle thrust, the propeller produced a continuous visible sonic boom. During ground run-ups the plane could be heard up to 25 miles away, and the continuous sonic boom was powerful enough to knock a human off their feet, which actually happened once. The only other plane that could come close to the XF-84 in terms of sound is the Russian Tu-95, which is still in active service.
mosipd Thats alright if you are including all the oddball weird stuff, that's a bit like changing the rules , just so you can squeeze them in. Dragster racers go faster than Grand Prix cars --for about 50 feet, but couldn't win a race. The Vulcan was a front line nuclear Bomber for 40 years, produced in large number's ( for it's type)--and is still flying--just. The Vulcan Howl' is world famous and is unforgetable.
Philip Croft *Thats alright if you are including all the oddball weird stuff, that's a bit like changing the rules , just so you can squeeze them in.* _Well no, I'm not changing the rules at all. The rule says "the loudest plane on earth", not the loudest aircraft still in production, the loudest bomber or even the loudest non-turboprop aircraft. So it doesn't matter if one or a hundred were made, the XF-84H is still the "loudest plane on earth". Besides, the Russian Tu-95 is much louder than the Vulcan, and unlike the Vulcan it's still in active service._ *Dragster racers go faster than Grand Prix cars --for about 50 feet, but couldn't win a race.* _This is why we have different categories for things such as automobile and aircraft records. One cannot easily compare a dragster to a Grand Prix car, they are two completely different things. Dragsters are much faster than a Grand Prix car for quite a bit more than 50 feet, but yes a dragster wouldn't win at Silverstone. And you know what, a Grand Prix car wouldn't win against a dragster at Englishtown. You're comparing apples to oranges, but if you asked the question "what is the loudest car on earth", it would most likely be the ThrustSSC._ *The Vulcan was a front line nuclear Bomber for 40 years, produced in large number's ( for it's type)--and is still flying--just. The Vulcan Howl' is world famous and is unforgetable.* _So is the howl from the F-104 Starfighter, no one is saying that it isn't a famous or unique aircraft. The title of the video was "the loudest plane on earth" and that is factually incorrect. In the case of the Vulcan, the opposite is true; you would seriously need to bend the rules, so to speak, in order to make the Vulcan fit into the "loudest plane" in x category. Perhaps something like the loudest British made bomber or loudest delta wing aircraft. In the case of the latter though, you'd be contending with aircraft like the Concorde, B-58 Hustler and SR-71, all much louder than the Vulcan I'm sure._
From Wiki: ". The Tu-95 is one of the loudest military aircraft, particularly because the tips of the propeller blades move faster than the speed of sound.[2]"
There sure are some morons who post comments, I was luckily at an air show for one of the last displays by a Vulcan and believe me the power and the noise from those engines was exhilarating and made your bones crackle. I would also like to see a B52 make a take off like that.
William Fitzgerald In what way are they different classes? Both Were nuclear subsonic strategic alert bombers, the '52 just had farther to go to get to Central Russia
I saw four of these take off at the same time from RAF Waddington back in the 1970s.Apart from two 10,000bhp dragsters covering a 1/4 mile in just four seconds,it was the loudest thing I've ever heard by a bigggggggg margin.
My first air show at RAF Finningley (now Robin Hood Airport) featured a Vulcan scramble. 4 aircraft from engines off to airborne in 2 mins!!! I can still feel the thunder in my chest all these years later. Beautiful aircraft. Shame the pencil pushers have grounded her for good now. :'-(
I remember seeing this plane, along with the Viscount, and the Vampire back in the middle 1950s when our family was stationed in England at RAF Molesworth. All three were really great airplanes then.
Just from the video, I can tell it's very loud, but I've been next to 19L at Dulles on Sully Road when the Concorde took off, and it hurt my ears! If this thing is much louder, why would anyone brag about it? Addendum: OMG! I just became my grandfather right there.
to paraphrase Nelson from the Simpsons... hawhaw! The fact is the old aircraft are louder... by design. The old designs are louder. They didn't give a flying fcuk about noise they built engines for power and speed. Look at Vulcan, or the B1B... awesome machines that today could not be made. But i guarantee there are not better sounding jet engines in service. To be stood at the wrong end of a runway when a B1B takes off under full load is still a true privilege.
I was at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in the 1990's when Concorde took off, the windows in the Terminal building vibrated so badly that everyone in that part of the Terminal ran either to get away or to see what was causing it ! I had a fantastic view of the plane as it climbed very steeply from the end of the Peninsula runway . Typically my camera was in my suitcase :+(
I would agree - I watched a Concorde do an engine run up at JFK one afternoon. I was about 500 feet ahead and 200 feet off to the side in my car. It was almost impossible to carry on a conversation with the other person in the car. In fact we closed the windows because of the extreme volume. The only other aircraft that came close was a hovering Harrier at Oshkosh. I was only 2-300 feet away and it was extremely loud. I would still say the Concorde was louder. The older jets were straight turbojets, no by-pass like modern jets. All the air that came in the front went through the compressor and combustion chamber and they were much louder than modern engines that pass a large amount of the inlet air around the engine core. I watched an early model Lear Jet take off from FRG and made the mistake of standing 200 feet behind and off to the side when it spooled up for take off.Ouch!
Daniel May It's not just about how loud it is though - the Vulcan makes an absolutely unique sound when the afterburners or on and it's just amazing to watch such a big plane manouevre like a small jet. The Vulcan was always the highlight of any airshow back when I used to go to quite a few of them. Unfortunately the poor old girl can't do full displays like she used to but she's still worth seeing. Last summer I dashed up to Beachy Head just to watch her do a flyby and it was TOTALLY worth it.
In the late 1970s, at the age of about 15 years old, I was an RAF Cadet and we spent two weeks at RAF Brize Norton one summer. The RAF accommodated us in tents close to the runway. At the time they had Vulcans, VC10 passenger transports and Concorde pilots were also trained there. These were all incredibly loud planes when taking off. On the first night we'd finally got to sleep and hadn't yet heard anything take off when a Vulcan took off. I remember being woken, in total bewilderment, by this and thinking something was happening that was literally bringing the sky down on us! The noise was unbelievable! The VC10s were also insanely loud. I also had the pleasure of seeing F4 Phantom jets which were in service there taking off into the summer dusk sky with their after-burners glowing!
Britain's nuclear deterrent. In an attack the V-bomber fleet would have had about 2 minutes to clear the airfield before the Soviet hydrogen bombs arrived
The Vulcans would do touch-and-go landings at RAF Bentwaters, the base I was stationed at while in the USAF. Beautiful aircraft....spoke with the aircrew and went up into the cockpit with them while at an airshow on-base. Amazing how small the cockpit was !
Don't mind the obnoxious yank....from another yank!! Im proud of the plane lineage we yanks have but I think this is one of the sexiest planes ever built....and if you watch closely you will notice some awesome power.....that thing gets airborne fast!!
And don't mind the bitching Brit, from another Brit. Shame we can't all enjoy this aeronautical stuff without the childish insults. I've only ever seen a Vulcan on the ground. The aircraft is well obsolete now but yes, it does appear to have some rate of climb for an old gal.
I used to live in Greenwich (London) directly under its approach to Heathrow....you could set your watch by it...5pm every day...amazing sound as it flew directly over my house. Sorely missed when it was decommissioned..
I agree, Kevin. I never heard Vulcan nor a Tu-160, but a pair of harriers taking off from the Santa Barbara Airport were far and away the loudest A/C s I've ever heard.
Never heard a Vulcan, a Harrier, nor a Concorde taking off up close. But the loudest aircraft I've encountered taking off was the twin-engine BAC 1-11. Powered by two Rolls Royce Spey engines, the plane took off like a rocket. It began as a hollow, roaring sound. Then, as the 1-11 was about to fly overhead, that sound turned into an extremely deafening, crackling roar as if the sky was about to break up. Trails of smoke can be seen coming out of the engines. Sadly, these aircraft are now either museum pieces or are just rotting under the sun on the junkyard. Blame it on the Stage III noise restrictions. The sound of today's commercial aircraft are far tamer, which is why they're boring to watch.
I was privileged to experience a Vulcan at a flying day at the Shuttleworth Collection. After a few deafening passes at low throttle, the pilot bought it in gear and flaps down , then it was gear up, light all four Olympus and then he stood the enormous aircraft on its tail and shot vertically up. The ground shook, and you could feel the roar in your lungs. All you could hear when he was gone were hundreds of car alarms from the car park, dogs barking and children screaming .... it still brings me out in goosebumps thinking about it 30 years later!
That is so true. The ground along with you vibrates so much. It’s crazy.
Simply AMAZING I bet
During the 70s I was privileged to see 5 vulcan scramble at Finningley airshow, that experience will never be equalled. Great memories.
Yes must agree, I can remember one turn back to head north when I lived in Nottingham, I was told it was going back to its base in Lincolnshire, it happened three times........and wow the sight and the noise were never to be forgotten , that was sometime in the sixties. Glad they were never put to purpose.
Had the same thing at RAF St Athen (south Wales) airshow in the early '70s... Awesome power 👍💪
I once saw a Vulcan at an airshow, and the guy who posted the video is right... it was truly deafening. It is a bone-rattling roar that seems to go right through your body. There is simply no way that a computer video can do justice to the sheer, brutal loudness of this airplane... you really have to be there in person to properly appreciate it!
I've always said, modern jet fighters are like a heavy metal concert... a Vulcan is a particularly big cathedral organ at full chat.
Jet fighters are louder than rock concerts. But probably not by that much
We just better bring ear plugs so we don't automatically go deaf. I would hate to ever go deaf, to never be able to hear good music again, that would be rough
I remember my son son mouthing Holy f@%k as it went over at Biggin Hill.
exactly, it shakes your guts to pieces, it's so damned loud
Quote: "She climbs like a homesick angel.."
tectorama that was about the English electric lighting
I think the quote actually was "She's built like a steakhouse but she handles like a bistro."
@@trainboyben7718 "As well", yes. It has been applied to many aircraft.
TrainBoyBen works just as well for the Vulcan too
@@Bob3519 OK Brrrrranigan ;-)
There are military aircraft and there is the Vulcan.
Sunny One I think don't think he is being negative, he is saying it is on another level .
What? I cant hear you!
Remember seeing this fly at Finningley Air Show
And the harrier
No
Wow, What a beautiful aircraft. And that takeoff too! Just wow. You Brits sure do know how to build a plane.
We did until all the companies went bust, or the national lottery stopped the funding for the maintenance of an iconic aircraft
+Will Harris
You might be impressed with the cold war interceptor English Electric Lightning scramble. Still holds the record for rate of climb, & supersonic beyond Mach 2
Will Harris it has absolutely nothing to do with "funding"! XH558 is an extremely complex jet and it has out lived it's life expectancy by more than 10years. it's sad to see it grounded, even a year later.
Aaron Strickland
I service industrial machinery, new & not so new. Some of the machines the original manufacturer has closed shop, zero support, no parts available, non existent work procedures.
My customers understand the situation, & are still willing to pay for the extra effort required to keep the machines up & running to original spec.
Where there's a will there's a way.
I understand what you're saying. But without the technical support needed the CAA won't issue the necessary flight permits. Sadly XH558 will never be in an airworthy state. No amount of money will change that.. Although, if they took her to South Africa, where the aviation laws are more relaxed, it'd be a different story.
All those post ww2 and cold war british jets were just plain beautiful, and seeing any of them still flying (meteor, sea vixen, buccaneer, and this gorgeous vulcan) is almost like watching any of Marilyn's films, seductive and capable with a sense of humor rarely found in a survivor's heart.
Hawker Hunter
I forgot the Lightening and TSR2
Victor or The other v bomber (valeiant i think its called)
+Ruben Cooper Yup, Valiant. The first to be withdrawn because it couldn't do low level very well
+g8ymw Withdrawn because the main spars were buckling. Although alleged to have been as a result of the switch to low level flying and the additional stress this caused, some of the worst affected aircraft were actually high flying Photo Recce aircraft. It may simply have been inappropriate design work.
The main spar was made from DTD683, which was a 'new' alloy, yet as early as 1951 found to have stress issues on other aircraft too, including Canberra and Meteor, plus US types.
Basically they built it from the wrong metal!
Sounds exactly like those modern day hand driers they have in public restrooms nowadays.
Except that all of those, brought together, could not generate a tenth of the decibels the Vulcan did.
+Richard Harrold sarcasm....
;) nope
You want loud? I was stationed at Miramar (San Diego) as a jet mechanic working on the A-4F "Superfox" Skyhawk. Whenever we did high power ground runs of the engine, it had to be done indoors in the so called "Hush house." I can only imagine what it was like in there with an F-14 tomcat or F-4 Phantom at full afterburner. Not to mention the F-8 Crusader. When that J-57 went into AB it did so quite decisively...
@@richardharrold9736 idk man there is probably more than millions of hand dryers in the world. Tenth? You might be saying a bit much.
About 40 years ago I was working on my father's farm on a hot summer day on my own in a field and suddenly a very large shadow spread all around me. I looked up straight into the bomb bay of a Vulcan. It had taken off from the nearby airfield and I never heard it coming. It was very very lowindeed but when it passed me the shock wave of the sound (not the blast of the engines) knocked me off my feet. Then a few years ago I heard a plane in the sky and I instantly knew it was the restored Vulcan on one the last flights. That sound you never forget. Concorde flying down the Thames over my house in London was also incredibly impressive.
I was at Hong Kong Kai Tak in the late 90's when a Concorde took off, to say that the windows were rattling and it was loud is an understatement. The people in the terminal were split into two factions, some running away and others running to see what the source of the noise was (I was the latter) I was thrilled to see it climbing steeply into the sky to a round of applause from the people in the Terminal building !
Humble respect from France , British engineering .
Make sure you give yourselves credit for a lot too, without you lot I doubt Concorde would ever have happened!
it was good in its time, which was long passed
@@argiebarge7955 I would have to disagree. Unless you know nothing of current British engineering, its fairly obvious we are still a highly skilled and respected engineering nation. There's a reason we're the only tier one partner in the F35 project, and make more than 15% of every aircraft delivered worldwide. The only reason people say we aren't anymore, is because we don't really "show off" as much as we used to. We don't really make full aircraft anymore, but we make so many parts for them around the world. We are so involved with many military projects, are high level partners in many of them, and make some of the best tech on the planet. I as a side note, I'm damn looking forward to tempest.
Snecma made Concorde what it was. It was a marriage made in heaven. Dassault build some in incredible machines too.French engineering dares to be different and it reflects in car designs and innovation. Don’t count yourselves out!
@@kimjonglongdong3158 i was talking about the Vulcan aircraft itself, not British engineering in general. Go flap that dong elsewhere please fella
I witnessed a 4 Vulcan scramble at a base near Doncaster back in the late 70s and it was incredible. We were almost blown away with the blast and the heat as they passed us. This is my all time favourite flying machine and it should be preserved for future generations to experience. This is one of the most important aircraft in the history of aviation and it should be commemorated.
i WAS ALSO THERE TO SEE THAT !!!! totally unforgettable.
@@malcolmward6252 I bet it would be unforgettable. I'd love to see those planes up close
ditto -- RAF Finningley 😀
@@bobharrison2002 I shed many tears as the last one toured the UK, fortunately flew right down my street close to Manchester Airport. I cannot look at pictures without tearing up. Fabulous machine!
Did the same at Leeming in the mid seventies.
I remember going to a display at Bassingbourn many, many years ago when a Vulcan came over going for "the quietest aircraft of the day" award and you could hardly hear it. On its second pass it came over with everything flat out and the ground shook as it climbed into the clouds. Absolutely amazing.
NSFW in Argentina
Though Harriers could have done the job far more efficiently. RAF just trying to show it still had an intercontinental/strategic role.
Arthur Ord-Hulme Not so. The government needed the Agentinians to think that heavy bombers could reach the Falklands and therefore possibly the mainland. It worked.
Nuclear bombers at that ;) she said she'd do it and i don't think she was joking either
Good luck getting Harriers across the atlantic ocean by flying, you must be a joke or doesnt know anything about how airplane works.
@cubismo85 In 1969 the RAF won the London to New York Daily Mail Air Race by flying a Harrier across the Atlantic. Joke's on you.
I saw and heard these in person at airshows at RAF Bentwaters around 1964-65. I was a kid and I’ll never forget how grand and noisy they were to the point of 54 years later I still remember.
My dad worked on these so I grew up hearing them 24/7. Never thought I would miss them but I do.
I remember vividly the last full 1 Gp Survival Scramble from Waddington and Scampton, in about 1982/3. On a perfectly clear day, both Wings launched everything they had, and Lincolnshire vibrated for about 10 minutes. It was simply awesome, as the dispersal 'fan tracks', at 5º spacing, filled the clear sky with smoke trails as they climbed out.
No re-heat like Concorde, of course, just raw Olympus power on full throttle ... lots of them! :)
Back in the day I lived in the landing pattern ( about 20 miles out) for Dulles airport in (near) Washington DC. I guess you never heard the Concorde fly over? You could set your watch by it. 1:05 pm every afternoon. 20 miles out at 15k feet and it sounded like it was coming down the street! I've been a ramp rat for over 45 years and NEVER heard anythong that comes close.
Robert DeFayette The Vulcan displayed in this video uses the same engines that equipped Concorde (Rolls Royce Olympus)
Robert DeFayette I was at the other end. You could set your watch by it as it flew over, near the Thames, en route to LHR. What a noise.
Live from the Flight Deck not quite right, Concorde had a modified version of the Olympus engine that was capable of supersonic flight, the vulcan wasn't supersonic capable.
john adams Yep, ditto. Loved it.
+TheSteve Orr Concorde's Olympus engines were fitted with reheat/afterbuners - which made them much noisier than the Olympus versions fitted to the Vulcan. In my experience, the loudest aircraft I've heard is either the Rockwell B-1B Lancer or the Tupolev Tu-22 Blackjack.
Sod the noise! That Rotate, Vertical climb to roll out was incredible!
The loudest I ever heard was the twice weekly Blackbird SR-71 leaving RAF Mildenhall between 2 and 3a.m. Went for the yearly airshow in the eighties, but stayed long enough to see one or two take-offs of the Blackbird, on take-off at V1(rotation of aircraft onto rear wheels) the engines momentarily scorch the runway sending earthquake-like vibrations through the ground and up the legs of anyone stood on the ground, followed by a similer sensation in the chest as the aircraft gained height. What a adrenaline rush.
I know one that may be louder the REPUBLIC XF-84H "Thunderscreech"
Lol just watched couple seconds ago xd
It might be TU-95, The USSR could create It more loud In the future.
Even louder then that the B1 bomber
THe XF-84H was loud enought to be heard from over 40Km away whilst still being on the ground
William Thomas nah not a single chance
Ding dong, Avon Howling! One of the most beautiful jet aircraft ever made - along with the EE Lightning!
Haha! ( :
It's Olympus tho!
if your ever in skegnness.Lightening at water leisure caravan park free
The Lightening, now that was an aircraft. I was coming down the north sea on HMS Glamorgan just before they went out of service. We did an air defence exercise against a couple of them. After exercises the pilots usually do some sort of fly past for the ships crew, their chance to show off so to speak after the constraints of an exercise. One Lightening came straight towards the ship, pulled up into a vertical climb right above our flight deck and piled on the power. It was a cloudless blue sky and we lost sight of it, still going straight up, we could still hear it though. The pilots eardrums must have been going in and out at the same speed as Keith Moons drum skins! The only comparable noise was a Harrier landing vertically.
Many years ago I was privileged to see one of the last Vulcan flying displays in the US. As it shrieked overhead I thought, "Dear God, it doesn't even have to drop any bombs!"
Years later my wife and I happened to be outside when a B-52 flew overhead - throttled back with full flaps - on approach to the local commercial airport for a display. She looked up in alarm and said, "That's one of ours, right? Yes? Please?"
And before that there were the B-47, B-58, and B-36, and "baby brother" the B-29 Superfort - the most advanced aircraft of its day.
Intercontinental nuclear bombers - instilling fear and confidence since 1945.
In addition to being more fuel efficient, turbofan engines are much quieter than the turbojets that powered first and second generation military as well as civilian jets.
@@scootergeorge9576 yes turbofans are more fuel efficient and quiter, but these old turbojets had the best sounds!
@@novemberdelta1282 - True but unfortunately as a jet mechanic in the USN, I lost some hearing working on the A-4 Skyhawk AKA the Scooter. The A-4F with the J-52P408 engine was a real screamer particularly at full military power INDOORS. Engine and fuel control changes required "trim" adjustments and prolonged full power runs. At NAS Miramar, that was done in a small, hanger like structure known as the "Hush House."
@@scootergeorge9576 Well be thankful then that it wasn't the XF-84 Thunderscreech.
@@drstihl2007 - As Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 on Control would say of the Thunderscreech, "That's the SECOND LOUDEST airplane in the world." The Tu95 Bear has four, trans sonic, counter-rotating propellers. American fighter intercepting the Bear comment on the extreme noise it generates.
Pretty much barrel rolls from take off, OUTSTANDING.. Cheers for a glorious video.
Im lucky to say ive seen this amazing plane so many times and whether its on video or at the side of the runway
the sound of those olympus engines never fail to give me goose bumps.
such a shame we wont see her in the skys again....
I have a Picture from a newspaper of me and my best freind (he died) with our fingers in our ears from one of these planes. I love these planes and I miss my freind immensely =(
When I was a kid I used to stand next to the runway at Scampton in summer and watch these awesome planes take off. Believe me when the practised scrambles and took off in threes the ground shook
the sound reverberated in your chest and it damn well hurt. I will never forget the big moth gracing the Lincolnshire skies , awesome sight.
I was also a kid at Scampton, I remember them doing touch and goes, I left there when I was about 6 in '73. You do get used to the noise, my parents took my to an air show at Finningly and both my twin brother and I screamed when the Phantoms came over! Lived in Norfolk now for 40 years and it's calmed down now but we used to get an aeroplane screaming at least once a day,BRILLIANT!
Going to be needing this again soon the way things are going.
Im so glad i got a chance to see xh558 before she stops flying this year, i saw her at the southport airshow a few years back and i still get goosebumps thinking about it now, marvelous aircraft!
I saw one of those at Barkesdale AFB during the 70's. Never forgot that sound.
Love to see the Vulcan still flying and performing manoeuvres perfectly...!
I get total butterflies watching this sublime aircraft. We were at the Ayr Airshow during the last tour of the Vulcan and we felt the vibrations go right through us as it flew overhead and the noise, words just can’t do it justice, it really is a case of you have to have been there!
That is an awesome bit of film - that climb, followed by the overbank, absolutely incredible for a plane that size. Thanks for sharing!
XB-70. With 6 afterburning YJ-93 straight turbojets rated at 30,000 lbs thrust each. Top that. From what I hear, it could be heard taking off 50 miles away, and with 180,000 pounds of TO thrust, I can believe it.
6 ???
David Wood Yup, 6. It was called the six pack.
I think the title means the loudest aircraft flying today.
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... ummm ?
dcanmore Ah! In that case, it sure won't be the XB-70, but doubt it's the Vulcan either. I wonder if any Tu-144s are still flying?
Listen to those four rolls Royce Olympus engines roar! The vulcan may have been beautiful but if she was coming for you she’san intimidating beast.
Only the little Olympus though. The Concorde 593 Olympus had more than three times the thrust and it was a treat (a frequent treat) to see it push the Vulcan flying test bed into the air at Filton.
@@sideshowbob5237 i know Concorde had Olympus engines. are the Vulcan engines of similar design? they do sound similar ...
@@MrCharlieboden I should think the similarities don't extend beyond the name but it would take an ex-Bristol Siddeley engineer to give a good answer. I was a BAC airframe engineer - on the other side of the runway.
Always remember standing on a stone bridge near to The Henlow Gala & being able to get right under the flightpath of the displaying aircraft :)
When the Vulcan flew overhead & throttled up as it pulled into a near vertical climb - I can only describe the noise as being so loud & the sound being so big that every bone in my body was vibrating !!!
A truly unforgettable experience for a ten year old lad to witness :)
I remember as a young teenager in the early 70s being awed by the Vulcan scramble at the RAF Finningley air display when still in front line service.
XF-84 Thunderscreech: "Hold my beer"
WHAT!!!????? YOU HAVE A DEER???! LOL. Never heard it, but I was an acquaintance of a member of the ground crew that said the even 1/2 mile away while they were doing static tests, you couldn't hear someone talking next to you.
"you have a fear?" ground crew would throw up. have mental drops. women had misscarrys.
People forget how loud all jets were before we had to have these whisper quiet modern high bypass fans...Ear splitting cracking rumbling lovely noise.
Yeah, definitely, and smoky too.
That's where the Concorde got its wing design - it was one loud plane.
Martin D A this thing breaks windows lol
Remember a Focker F28 climbing out of Sydney, boy was it noisy
Tess Tickle He was very light though that’s obvious.
whoever filmed this was stood at exactly the right place
I used to work at RAF Marham when these planes were still flying. I also lived in Reading when Concorde used to fly over. Vulcan wins the sound contest hands down, especially when taking off then going vertical like in this video. I've also seen them fly over at about 150ft....just awesome
Love this plane, a bomber that thinks and acts like its a fighter. 60yr old British engineering, gota love it!
beautiful aircraft,got to love the British,reminds me of Rodan.
Saw it taking off at Woodford airshow(where it was built)..early 90's...the noise!...could feel sound waves in your stomach..amazing
Some years ago I watched a Vulcan doing Touch and Goes at Manston airport in Kent. I was parked about 300 yards from the runway and the ground trembled.......wonderful.
Amazing climb. Short take-off. I didn't realize that a heavy delta with no reheat could do that. Probably very light on fuel.
And two midgets pilits,very light!
All i can say is go see it in person....that is one fekin loud plane and the howl is very spooking when it rips past
rip vulcan
Our spirit of great britain. Beautiful
I say, what a climb rate, what. Fabulous indeed old chap.
"Listen for the famous Vulcan howl"
*Powers up engines*
*AAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
I've seen both the B52 and the Vulcan in the flesh, the B52 is a much more bassy sound but nothing screams as loud as the vulcan.
the xf 84 thunderschreech is much louder scream than the vulcan
@@dazaspc yea but it still flew and was still louder than the vulcan
Always sends shivers down the spine when I hear this, love it and miss it.
My Mum was doing stage plays in the town where these were being developed. They used to do vertical climbs right over the town. Imagine trying to play a love scene with one of these things shaking the rafters. She said they'd just stop the play and wait until it was over.
Amazing. The howl when she throttled up...that'll send shivers up your spine.
I don't know about "loudest plane on Earth" though. A B-1B taking off on full afterburner is probably just as loud, and having worked near Dulles Airport in the late '80s for two years, I still maintain there's nothing louder than Concorde with all four of those massive Olympus engines in full afterburner. I worked in a building over a mile from the airport, on the 5th floor, and every time Concorde took off it rattled the windows.
Actually, Concorde and the Vulcan share the same engines, Rolls Royce Olympus. With afterburners.
Geoff Roberts The Vulcan didn't have afterburners. They nurse it these days what with it being the last one and parts are nigh on impossible to get for it but I saw it at Boscombe Down in 92 when the RAF still owned it and next to a top fuel dragster from about 30 feet away on full power its the loudest thing I've ever heard, video just doesn't do it justice.
Y'know, Concorde was also powered by four Olympus engines, but with reheat too. Way louder than a Vulcan. Compared to modern commercial jets most things with reheat are unbelievably loud.
As far as I know though, Concorde used a different version of the Olympus engine, they got put in a few different things.
Fantastic engine and engineering, awesome sound to them, especially the Vulcan with the whine it has.
Concord flew within 10 miles of me every morning,a racer,great
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You are correct. The Olympus engines on the Vulcan are not the same as the Olympus engines on Concorde. I know a Concorde engine was strapped to a Vulcan as a testbed. I think that one engine had nearly as much power as 4 Vulcan engines (I might be wrong)
***** Correct...I think Bristol Olympus on the Vulcan and Rolls Royce Olympus on Concorde
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The Vulcan was used as a flying testbed for the Concorde Olympus engine. Two Vulcan Olympus were removed from one wing and were replaced by a single Concorde Olympus. Using the afterburner on the Concorde version, it matched the power of the two Vulcan engines without afterburners.
The mass of the Vulcan and to thrust almost straight up so soon after take off!!!!! Amazing and my favourite.
My parents took me and my two sisters for a picnic in a field near RAF Uxbridge that was literally under the the landing line of these incredible planes in the seventies ! I remember the noise and watching them going over head real low.....was every child,s dream....... i had great parents and we also had great planes back then !! Not so sure now !!
I can vouch for the noise and power of the Vulcan, I was at an air show at Biggin Hill (Kent, England), some years ago and it made my body shake and set off all the car alarms in the nearby car park.
It seemed to stand on it's tail at the end of the runway and go straight up.
Amazing and beautiful aircraft.
I was there too!
Damn that thing can climb.
Lucky enough to see white Vulcans being tested in Cheshire at Woodford. The most beautiful thing I have ever seen...an incredible aircraft that changed aircraft forever!
We used to do a summer camp with the Boys Brigade in the take-off path of RAF Valley on Anglsey back in the seventies and when it came over the marching band's snare drums in the store tent used to play themselves - great memories.
Does it propel forward by simply emitting sound waves backwards? :-)
Anton Samsonov is that a question or remark?
This is an "eerie" airplane.................threatening and imposing in the air.
I've seen 2 Vulcans on 2 separate air shows, and Yes indeedie she sounds terrifying and makes ALL the hair stand up when she's in the air. Loved every bloody minute I see her.
My favourite plane off all time and the lovely Avro vulcan is the greatest plane ever built 😊
Plane wasn't as loud in the vid as the wind noise pretty much right through.
But if he used the real volume well... we wouldn't be able to hear.
fuck off yeah? prick.......don't fucking say that thing isn't loud, don't you fucking dare
Adam Hartley oi u wot yeh?
u got a loicense for that knob-wit
The Vulcan is an awesome piece of machinery, and a beautiful plane to boot! However it is far from being the loudest plane on earth. That designation goes to the Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech". The XF-84H was an experimental supersonic propeller aircraft, meaning that the propeller itself was designed to function supersonically. Even at idle thrust, the propeller produced a continuous visible sonic boom. During ground run-ups the plane could be heard up to 25 miles away, and the continuous sonic boom was powerful enough to knock a human off their feet, which actually happened once. The only other plane that could come close to the XF-84 in terms of sound is the Russian Tu-95, which is still in active service.
mosipd Thats alright if you are including all the oddball weird stuff, that's a bit like changing the rules , just so you can squeeze them in. Dragster racers go faster than Grand Prix cars --for about 50 feet, but couldn't win a race. The Vulcan was a front line nuclear Bomber for 40 years, produced in large number's ( for it's type)--and is still flying--just. The Vulcan Howl' is world famous and is unforgetable.
Philip Croft *Thats alright if you are including all the oddball weird stuff, that's a bit like changing the rules , just so you can squeeze them in.*
_Well no, I'm not changing the rules at all. The rule says "the loudest plane on earth", not the loudest aircraft still in production, the loudest bomber or even the loudest non-turboprop aircraft. So it doesn't matter if one or a hundred were made, the XF-84H is still the "loudest plane on earth". Besides, the Russian Tu-95 is much louder than the Vulcan, and unlike the Vulcan it's still in active service._
*Dragster racers go faster than Grand Prix cars --for about 50 feet, but couldn't win a race.*
_This is why we have different categories for things such as automobile and aircraft records. One cannot easily compare a dragster to a Grand Prix car, they are two completely different things. Dragsters are much faster than a Grand Prix car for quite a bit more than 50 feet, but yes a dragster wouldn't win at Silverstone. And you know what, a Grand Prix car wouldn't win against a dragster at Englishtown. You're comparing apples to oranges, but if you asked the question "what is the loudest car on earth", it would most likely be the ThrustSSC._
*The Vulcan was a front line nuclear Bomber for 40 years, produced in large number's ( for it's type)--and is still flying--just. The Vulcan Howl' is world famous and is unforgetable.*
_So is the howl from the F-104 Starfighter, no one is saying that it isn't a famous or unique aircraft. The title of the video was "the loudest plane on earth" and that is factually incorrect. In the case of the Vulcan, the opposite is true; you would seriously need to bend the rules, so to speak, in order to make the Vulcan fit into the "loudest plane" in x category. Perhaps something like the loudest British made bomber or loudest delta wing aircraft. In the case of the latter though, you'd be contending with aircraft like the Concorde, B-58 Hustler and SR-71, all much louder than the Vulcan I'm sure._
got to sit in a Vulcan (x594) about a week ago and what an experience. amazed at the lack is visibility the pilots have/had.
If you guys didnt know already this was at RAF Fairford RIAT in like 2001, its actually on in a week on the 11th-13th of july!
Looks like a really loud kite
never seen any bomber take off like that, amazing!
No payload and nearly empty fuel tanks
@@lucdevincke2055 Even then...
And a bloody great big wing - low wing loading leads to impressive performance 😁
That is a sight to behold, absolutely beautiful.
The TU 95 "Bear" is so loud that it can be heard and tracked by the SOSUS system buried in the North Atlantic in the G.I.U.K. gap.
From Wiki: ". The Tu-95 is one of the loudest military aircraft, particularly because the tips of the propeller blades move faster than the speed of sound.[2]"
@@chickenfriedrice4098 I think the Thunderscreech might be louder
There sure are some morons who post comments, I was luckily at an air show for one of the last displays by a Vulcan and believe me the power and the noise from those engines was exhilarating and made your bones crackle. I would also like to see a B52 make a take off like that.
wrong class of bomber. But the B58 Hustler, that is a different story.
William Fitzgerald In what way are they different classes? Both Were nuclear subsonic strategic alert bombers, the '52 just had farther to go to get to Central Russia
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I saw four of these take off at the same time from RAF Waddington back in the 1970s.Apart from two 10,000bhp dragsters covering a 1/4 mile in just four seconds,it was the loudest thing I've ever heard by a bigggggggg margin.
My first air show at RAF Finningley (now Robin Hood Airport) featured a Vulcan scramble. 4 aircraft from engines off to airborne in 2 mins!!! I can still feel the thunder in my chest all these years later. Beautiful aircraft. Shame the pencil pushers have grounded her for good now. :'-(
Thunderscreech: "hold my propeller".
Vulcan is proper loud
Was a pleasure to see it fly in Portrush(NI) in 2015 on its last visit to outside Britain.
The thunderscreech was the loudest aircraft ever.
I've seen B-1s take off that rattled my vehicles windows.
The B-1 Lancer was one of the loudest things i've ever heard, louder than a top fuel dragster, even louder than Aerosmith in 1984 (maybe lol).
ive seen vulcans put windows trough mate
Imagine if the engines had afterburners! :O
Hector Zambrano they used the same engines in the concord, I belive they had afterburner?
@@ryanharveywhite they did by the time the Concorde got them, but the Vulcan engines did not have reheat
@@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261 Yes that is what I meant sorry my wording wasn't very clear.
I regret never seeing or hearing this beast!
I remember seeing this plane, along with the Viscount, and the Vampire back in the middle 1950s when our family was stationed in England at RAF Molesworth. All three were really great airplanes then.
i thought it was the tu 95
Nope XF84H Thunderschreech it could be heard from 40kms or more from ground level
Just from the video, I can tell it's very loud, but I've been next to 19L at Dulles on Sully Road when the Concorde took off, and it hurt my ears! If this thing is much louder, why would anyone brag about it?
Addendum: OMG! I just became my grandfather right there.
to paraphrase Nelson from the Simpsons... hawhaw!
The fact is the old aircraft are louder... by design. The old designs are louder. They didn't give a flying fcuk about noise they built engines for power and speed. Look at Vulcan, or the B1B... awesome machines that today could not be made. But i guarantee there are not better sounding jet engines in service. To be stood at the wrong end of a runway when a B1B takes off under full load is still a true privilege.
I was at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in the 1990's when Concorde took off, the windows in the Terminal building vibrated so badly that everyone in that part of the Terminal ran either to get away or to see what was causing it ! I had a fantastic view of the plane as it climbed very steeply from the end of the Peninsula runway . Typically my camera was in my suitcase :+(
I would agree - I watched a Concorde do an engine run up at JFK one afternoon. I was about 500 feet ahead and 200 feet off to the side in my car. It was almost impossible to carry on a conversation with the other person in the car. In fact we closed the windows because of the extreme volume. The only other aircraft that came close was a hovering Harrier at Oshkosh. I was only 2-300 feet away and it was extremely loud. I would still say the Concorde was louder.
The older jets were straight turbojets, no by-pass like modern jets. All the air that came in the front went through the compressor and combustion chamber and they were much louder than modern engines that pass a large amount of the inlet air around the engine core. I watched an early model Lear Jet take off from FRG and made the mistake of standing 200 feet behind and off to the side when it spooled up for take off.Ouch!
Concorde was louder, to think she had the same make of Olympus engines as the Vulcan but with added afterburners!
Daniel May It's not just about how loud it is though - the Vulcan makes an absolutely unique sound when the afterburners or on and it's just amazing to watch such a big plane manouevre like a small jet. The Vulcan was always the highlight of any airshow back when I used to go to quite a few of them. Unfortunately the poor old girl can't do full displays like she used to but she's still worth seeing. Last summer I dashed up to Beachy Head just to watch her do a flyby and it was TOTALLY worth it.
Great video. Vulcan take off sounds like concorde & vc-10 planes ✈️
In the late 1970s, at the age of about 15 years old, I was an RAF Cadet and we spent two weeks at RAF Brize Norton one summer. The RAF accommodated us in tents close to the runway. At the time they had Vulcans, VC10 passenger transports and Concorde pilots were also trained there. These were all incredibly loud planes when taking off. On the first night we'd finally got to sleep and hadn't yet heard anything take off when a Vulcan took off. I remember being woken, in total bewilderment, by this and thinking something was happening that was literally bringing the sky down on us! The noise was unbelievable! The VC10s were also insanely loud. I also had the pleasure of seeing F4 Phantom jets which were in service there taking off into the summer dusk sky with their after-burners glowing!
This is a bomber from the 50's and it can do that 0:55
Britain's nuclear deterrent. In an attack the V-bomber fleet would have had about 2 minutes to clear the airfield before the Soviet hydrogen bombs arrived
Whoever thought up that title never heard the SR-71 go around with full burners.
Awesome vid.. I love the noise.. thanks👍
First time I saw the Vulcan was in Thunderball, James Bond, 1964, I think.
R.I.P Headphone Users
A Led Zeppelin is about as loud but significantly more tuneful thanks to the fine tuning of the power Plant.
jeff hubbard well done, sir
I lived 10metres away from RAF finningley doncaster, seen this plane many times in 2015. It was always doing test runs. Awesome,
The Vulcans would do touch-and-go landings at RAF Bentwaters, the base I was stationed at while in the USAF.
Beautiful aircraft....spoke with the aircrew and went up into the cockpit with them while at an airshow on-base. Amazing how small the cockpit was !
One of the best bombers ever...(at least coolest)!
Don't mind the obnoxious yank....from another yank!! Im proud of the plane lineage we yanks have but I think this is one of the sexiest planes ever built....and if you watch closely you will notice some awesome power.....that thing gets airborne fast!!
And don't mind the bitching Brit, from another Brit. Shame we can't all enjoy this aeronautical stuff without the childish insults. I've only ever seen a Vulcan on the ground. The aircraft is well obsolete now but yes, it does appear to have some rate of climb for an old gal.
Miss this old lady.... once seen, never forgotten
I used to live in Greenwich (London) directly under its approach to Heathrow....you could set your watch by it...5pm every day...amazing sound as it flew directly over my house. Sorely missed when it was decommissioned..
I don't know have you ever heard a Harrier when it's hovering? That's loud.
I agree, Kevin. I never heard Vulcan nor a Tu-160, but a pair of harriers taking off from the Santa Barbara Airport were far and away the loudest A/C s I've ever heard.
Bob Zimels same here
Never heard a Vulcan, a Harrier, nor a Concorde taking off up close.
But the loudest aircraft I've encountered taking off was the twin-engine BAC 1-11. Powered by two Rolls Royce Spey engines, the plane took off like a rocket. It began as a hollow, roaring sound. Then, as the 1-11 was about to fly overhead, that sound turned into an extremely deafening, crackling roar as if the sky was about to break up. Trails of smoke can be seen coming out of the engines.
Sadly, these aircraft are now either museum pieces or are just rotting under the sun on the junkyard. Blame it on the Stage III noise restrictions.
The sound of today's commercial aircraft are far tamer, which is why they're boring to watch.
Pfft, you should hear my wife if I leave my dirty work clothes on the bedroom floor.......
unapro3 lol