Loudest aircraft you’ve heard

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Had a guy sit on the ramp with his MU2 running for at least half an hour. Anything with Garretts like that is absurdly loud and to just sit there blasting away 30 feet from the building is fucking annoying for everyone.

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1z0z5@reddit

Used to fly a conquest with Garretts. The headache I would get after a day of flying that thing is unmatched. You could also hear it taxiing from the other end of the airport.

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infowhiskey@reddit

I have permanent hearing damage from flying the MU2 full time.

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ywgflyer@reddit

What? Speak up, I can't hear you!!

(I have 3500 hours in the Metro)

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PhilRubdiez@reddit

I was preflighting the Van when one started up. I climbed up, closed the door, and covered my brain as best as I could until it taxied away.

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Dramatic_Jicama759@reddit

Any Embraers

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Fabulous-Golf7949@reddit

My guy. C17 APU.

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Aggravating-House620@reddit

A harrier hovering is the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

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SaunteringOctopus@reddit

Same. Saw a Sea Harrier hovering at an air show. It was unreal how loud that was.

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AngryCamelTeeth@reddit

Same. Saw one at an air show like 20 years ago. It still sticks out in my mind.

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phxedl@reddit

This. Heard one from miles away at NAWC China Lake.

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SaunteringOctopus@reddit

Sea Harrier hovering. Mother of god...

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dojo2020@reddit

CF-101 VooDoo. Minus 10c and they light the candle. Boom Boom vrrrrrrrrrroooooooom see ya

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flitemdic@reddit

F-4 leaving El Toro on afterburners during the family airshow in 1970. I was 5, it's my earliest memory and started a lifetime obsession with flight. Well, that and the Cobra I got to sit in.

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dave-rooney-ca@reddit

I was about the same age when an RCAF pilot (probably a friend of my parents) flew over our house in a CF-104 at 500 feet and 500 knots. I'm sure my lower jaw hit the ground! 😂

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Illustrious_Ad_6413@reddit

Anyone I hear when I’m walking around town with my family. lol “Dads the weird plane guy”

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dave-rooney-ca@reddit

Tie between an F-4 in AB and a B-1 in AB.

For non-afterburning, the JT8-Ds on a 727 at takeoff power could loosen the fillings in your teeth 😀

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CluelessPilot1971@reddit

Do sonic booms count?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qrJ2ouc0lCw

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ThepilotGP@reddit

Conquest 2 baby. I miss getting the garret salute everywhere

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Guysmiley777@reddit

The F-35 in AB is ludicrously loud for a single engine jet.

B-1Bs are on the same level as Fat Amy, it just takes 4x the engines to get there.

The T-37 Tweet isn't the loudest but I think one of the most obnoxious because the pitch of the engines is like icepicks in your ears. I've heard it called the "jet powered dog whistle" or "6000 pound dog whistle" because of that.

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No_The_White_Phone@reddit

You shoulda been around for the XB-70

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SamArch0347@reddit

The T-37. Converts JP-4/8 to noise.

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JarlWeaslesnoot@reddit

This one. T-37s and A-37s are ear splitting. A-6 too.

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JetA_Jedi@reddit

I take your T-37 and raise you a T-1. Those Beechjets can pierce ears.

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aeroxan@reddit

B-1B is the loudest I've heard. Once you get a clear view of the ass-end, shakes you down to your soul.

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Confident_Economy_57@reddit

The B-1 comes with the added noise of all the car alarms in a half mile radius that are now going off. Fun memories of every car in the Nellis gym parking lot going off at once.

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EagleCatchingFish@reddit

The F-35 in AB is ludicrously loud for a single engine jet.

The municipal airport a couple miles from my house has an air show every year. This year, the F-35 from Hill AFB came. It was the single loudest plane I have heard in 25 years living here. The F-15 and F-18 were no competition. It was so loud that in the middle of a regular city day, all you could hear was the sound of that jet echoing off of every flat surface. You know how you usually can't hear echos during the day because there's just too much city noise? This was all you could hear. From every angle and every material. Wood, glass, metal, it bounced off of everything.

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sgtg45@reddit

Yup, F-35 is the loudest aircraft I’ve ever heard. I get a tingling sensation inside my ear from the burners.

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ThatLooksRight@reddit

The Tweet had that 90 degree bend in the engine airflow that made it do that whistle. Freaking ridiculous for how small it was.

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Alpha-4E@reddit

The T-37 had a pretty annoying high pitch engine noise which probably made it seem louder than it really was. Prowlers always seemed loud to me although it was essentially the same engines we had.

The loudest-I was at NAS Miramar heading home on a cross country hop in an A-4 and we taxied out behind a section of F-14Ds for takeoff. Tower clears them for takeoff and I taxied up to the yellow stop bar waiting our turn to go. We are within a 100 feet away with our nose pointed at them when the Tomcats went to Mil/ burner, it was impressively loud. I could feel the bones in my chest vibrate from the noise.

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strange-humor@reddit

Concord taking off next to our tent at Oshkosh, 30 years ago. Probably still the loudest I've personally heard.

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k12pcb@reddit

Vulcan

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DanTheAirplaneMan@reddit

That's nothing compared to the Phenom 300 idling on the ramp while you preflight.

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Prestigious-Ad4042@reddit

Obviously never heard it but look up the thunderscreech and how loud that was

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trickster503@reddit

I used to work on F-16s and seen plenty of jets. The F-35 is the loudest

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BlacklightsNBass@reddit

Pshhh ever heard a MD-80 without the hush kit?

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FlyAirbusB6@reddit

Concorde.

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uniballing@reddit

When I was a kid we lived in England for a year, about 5 miles south of Heathrow. I remember playing in the back yard I’d always look up to watch when we’d hear the Concorde

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FlyAirbusB6@reddit

I remember its farewell tour just prior to getting scrapped. That thing literally shook windows.

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weaselkeeper@reddit

Standing next to the F-4G I crew chiefed with both J-79’s in full after burner.

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NateP121@reddit

Harrier in a hover, for sure

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QuietGarlic7788@reddit

The B-1 is the loudest plane I’ve been around.

-35 CC

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ThunderboltDM@reddit

B-1B Takeoff. T-37 on the ground.

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Unlucky-Constant-736@reddit

I’ve been to many airshows. All the airshows I’ve been to I didn’t need to cover my ears cuz it would only be loud for a few seconds that’s it. That all changed when I watched the Marine Corps and Air Force F-35 demo. I remember filming the Marine corps F-35 at the MCAS Beaufort air show and having to use my shoulder and my other hand to cover my ears it was that loud. I’m a ramp agent at an airport and I’m used to standing a couple feet away from running engines (idling engines/low throttle setting I should point out) and the F-35 is still louder from half a mile away than those CF34s, CFM-56s, and V2500s engines just 15-20 feet away. And for scale those airliner engines I pointed out are so loud when idling that even if the person next to you was talking loudly you can barely hear them.

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brobrobaginsX@reddit

MU-2. Even with ear protection that thing sucks to stand next to.

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Worldly_Pickle_4333@reddit

I was on the ramp at JFK when the Concord took off. It rattled my fillings. I swear my internal organs were vibrating.

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DisregardLogan@reddit

Heard an E/A-18G at an airshow, for whatever reason it’s about 3x as louder as the F/A variant. Literally could feel the noise in your bones

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Ok_Truck_5092@reddit

Personally, F-35

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SolemnSoldier2020@reddit

SR-71

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Mysterious_Fee9853@reddit

U2 mate.........

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Mike93747743@reddit

C-5 with the old TF-39 engines

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350smooth@reddit

B1 Bomber. Piaggio P.180 was much louder than I thought it would be.

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ReadyplayerParzival1@reddit

I raise you the f-4, also the harrier in a hover.

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oldmanhockeylife@reddit

And I raise you the F-35B in a hover. 😉👌 I live near Cherry Point.

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besidethewoods@reddit

They used to fly over my office at Patuxent River when they were testing. It was hours of them flying overhead. You had to stop talking, thinking, and existing while it passed. And once it was gone you heard the car alarms going off in the parking lot.

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CaptainsPrerogative@reddit

Can confirm. I live near an F-35 base, too.

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ThatLooksRight@reddit

I still haven’t heard one, but I met a guy who told me about it. His words were “I don’t have the words to describe how loud it is in hover.”

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Weasel474@reddit

The Harrier is just a dagger to the eardrums, even at idle.

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Iflysims@reddit

Came here to vote for Harrier. It’s at a different level

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exbex@reddit

Came here to say the same. The amount of noise that thing puts out is staggering….and I’ve taken off behind the Concord before. That thing didn’t hold a candle to the Harrier.

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MeadyOker@reddit

Harriers landing to spot 9 on an LHD right over the squadron ready room. Somehow it gets even louder reverberating through the deck plates.

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Outside_Advantage845@reddit

The way it sounds like it’s tearing air apart is the raddest sound only surpassed by BRRRRRT.

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Tchukachinchina@reddit

Worked on Harriers for a few years in the early 00’s and can confirm. My tinnitus sounds almost like a harrier at idle sometimes.

I hated it at the time, but that sound gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside these days.

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lobstah4@reddit

When I was in first grade I saw the Thunderbirds when they were flying F-4s. Five F-4s, ten J79s at full AB, a couple hundred feet above the ground... absolutely earthshaking.

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SgtObliviousHere@reddit

The F-4 Phantom II will damage your damn hearing. It is goddamn loud. An F-18 on full afterburner will rattle your teeth too.

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mrvarmint@reddit

I raise you an F/A-18C breaking the sound barrier at 500 ft off the deck.

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SgtObliviousHere@reddit

Dayum!

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mrvarmint@reddit

Nah, lucky enough to get a ride on a F&F cruise on the Vinson a couple years ago thanks to a friend who was a nuke on the boat. Day trip from North Island/San Diego. Flight ops, munitions demo, tour of the nuclear department… will go down in history as the coolest day in my life. The highlight was definitely the supersonic flyby from the hornet. Most of the flight ops were supers but I guess a clean classic hornet is faster then a super do the flyby was with a C model.

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SgtObliviousHere@reddit

Very cool. I was lucky enough to go on a WestPac as a Marine. And run the brig 🤣

Flight ops are fucking cool. So was hanging out in the goat locker with those crusty old Navy Chiefs! I had a blast. And became a shellback to boot.

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mrvarmint@reddit

Semper fi brother, you’ve def got better stories than I’ll ever have. Appreciate your service.

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SgtObliviousHere@reddit

Thanks man.

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ThePrimCrow@reddit

I still love the haunting scream of an F-4 coming in to land. Heard them all the time when I lived in Reno.

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Inevitable_Street458@reddit

When I was a boy, I lived in base housing at MCAS El Toro. F-4s would take off over our house only a few hundred feet up. The whole neighborhood would rattle from the noise!

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doorbell2021@reddit

The only planes I've heard louder than an F-4 on burner a hundred feet over my head, was two F-4s on burner 100 feet over my head.

The only single thing louder than that was John Force's top fuel dragster at the starting line. That vibration may have caused significant bone loss...

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DontPanicHangInThere@reddit

Shuttle, delta IV heavy or anything with a falcon 9. And anything on re-entry from orbit hit different too.

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waddlek@reddit

Harrier in hover
KC-135A water injection
FB-111 Full AB departure

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joe2105@reddit

I've been around F-35s, F-4s, etc etc and the B-1 is by far the loudest. The things set off car alarms all over base.

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Ok-Bus-3085@reddit

Fouga Magister, Not the loudest, but the screech is just ear blowing.

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extremefuzz777@reddit

B-1. I remember on a deployment being stationed at a base with a few of them. When those things take off and the afterburners kick in, I could be inside a building over a mile away and everything will still shake

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SaltyCraka@reddit

Metroliner. I miss hearing those babies purrrrrr.

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flying_penguin104@reddit

majestic airplanes

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sftwareguy@reddit

I used to work at GE Evendale where we made the J-79's. Went down to the test area where they run them at full AB before shipping them out. You could stand fairly close to the engine behind the glass and it was ROARING.

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Merican1973@reddit

B1 bomber in atfterburner

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duckbutterdelight@reddit

B-1 afterburner take off

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JarlWeaslesnoot@reddit

Watched one do a full burner takeoff into a storm at night at Oshkosh, either 2018 or 2019, can't remember which. It was insanely loud. Watching the 4 plasma cones in the dark disappear into the clouds was one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

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nickanicus@reddit

Best to not stand in the bone zone!

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devilOG420@reddit

I thought I was deaf after

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aye246@reddit

A B-1 going to reheat in the mid teens over central iowa was so loud it sparked a massive social media and news cycle story. I heard it and a bunch of people texted me about it right away.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2025/03/26/des-moines-airport-loud-noise-tuesday-night-b-1-lancer-bomber-jet/82670320007/

https://www.reddit.com/r/desmoines/comments/1jk1jfx/what_the_hell_just_flew_over_west_des/

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JPAV8R@reddit

Military stuff all doesn’t have any requirement to not be loud so I’ll limit it to my line service days.

I’ve always found the BeechJet to be super loud. We’d call it the screech jet. Also an Mu-2 has some insanely loud notes for a turboprop. Coincidently (or not?) both Mitsubishi designs.

They stood out for their loud noise, despite their smaller size.

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Burgershot621@reddit

An MU-2 starting up under the awning at signature PDK. I felt that in my jimmies.

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Flyddrr@reddit

For me it was the harrier followed by the F-111. F-111 on a low level directly overhead at full afterburners almost blew my eardrum out.

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harambe_did911@reddit

Used to hear the f18s do run ups from across the flight line. Im talking like 1 to 2 miles away and the ground literally would shake and you had to pause your conversation. I've had the blue angels fly right over me and somehow it was never as loud. Also never heard the harrier, but my work spaces were like 3 decks below where the f35b would hover over. Sounded like the space shuttle was taking off up there.

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SpartanDoubleZero@reddit

F-35 and harrier. Before the F-35 hit the fleet they were doing some testing and flew into Coronado and taxied past the hangar I worked it and it was so loud on taxi I head him in the broom closet I was skating off in that was tucked away in a vestibule. I made my exit with the broom and went out into the hangar then peaked out and there was the 35 being ungodly loud for no reason.

Also the AV-8B, these VTOL’s are insanely loud.

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flyingron@reddit

I was based at IAD when the Concorde still operated there. It commanded your attention when it departed.

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brakenotincluded@reddit

F-16 taking off at full power from about 100', that was definitely the start of my tinnitus career. I remember seeing the shock diamonds start to form and think ''uh oh I am way to close''.

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jbergas@reddit

Ever seen a b1 bomber fly over with full afterburner? There’s your answer

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1x_time_warper@reddit

T-37. I was taxing in a Cessna 152 one time with one those taxing behind me, that jet from inside my airplane with my headset on it was loud.

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ethirtysix@reddit

Used to work on T-38s. Nothing next to the F-35s.

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Yuri909@reddit

B-1B in full afterburner pass at an airshow. I may have been standing at the end of the runway as it did an unrestricted climb pointing all 4 cans right at every molecule in my body. It was fucking incredible.

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Adventurous_Bus13@reddit

I heard a F35 last summer. It’s the kind of loud where the sound is just distorted and your entire insides vibrate.

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CH1C171@reddit

B-1 Bomber is the loudest plane I have ever heard.

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Deschain72@reddit

Agreed. Sounded like it was tearing a hole in the sky!

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CH1C171@reddit

F-117 was also surprisingly loud. And I see all the comments on here about the F-4. Got to work one once in the tower pattern. It was loud, but most impressive thing was just the raw speed.

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Yummy_Crayons91@reddit

B-1 Bomber doing a take off and display at the Miramar airshow back in the mid 2000s.

As for civilian planes the 727 based testbed aircraft known as Voodoo was ear piercing loud compared to every other commercial aircraft when I worked at LAX. I think it's a non-hush kit 727.

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Away-Enthusiasm65@reddit

EA-6B

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ufnurd555@reddit

Came here to say this. If it’s not the loudest, it’s gotta be the most annoying sounding.

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porks2345@reddit

VC10 flew over my house. Seriously looked for the fighter jet that must have been hidden behind the airliner.

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AD_VICTORIAM_MOFO@reddit

For ones that I have marshalled or dealt with: Rockwell Turbo Commander or Metroliner.

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United-Trainer7931@reddit

B1s are notoriously loud

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mduell@reddit

A flight of four T-38 taking off while I was holding short in a light sport.

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gasp_@reddit

Mate, the Death Pencil special with Garretts strapped to it. That cunt is a Mass Tinnitus Applicator on the GA

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ACDispatcher@reddit

6AM and I’m laughing out loud at this one. Thanks, mate,

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gasp_@reddit

You hear them before you see them out at 15mile final

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Can_Not_Double_Dutch@reddit

B1 afterburner takeoff

EA-6B takeoff

AV-8B while hovering

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perspic8@reddit

T-38

Airframe by Northrup

Engines by General Electric

Fuel tanks by Mattel

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perspic8@reddit

Harrier in hover at Duxford.

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p3p3_sylvia@reddit

The NASA U2 taking off in full burners rattled my whole hangar

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MihalysRevenge@reddit

I had no idea U2s have burners

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p3p3_sylvia@reddit

If it doesn't it was ridiculously loud then

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hqbibb@reddit

Loudest I ever heard was the Concorde during a night takeoff at Oshkosh. 4 engines in afterburner and we were much closer to the runway than is normal.

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JoseyWalesMotorSales@reddit

Concorde on takeoff at Oshkosh in 1998 still rattles my eardrums when I remember it.

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McCheesing@reddit

U2 is loud as fuck

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Neptoone24@reddit

Ive not seen any bombers in action, so itd be the F35 for me. Very shocked as there were F15s and a couple F22s to compare. But they dont call her fat for nothin!

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Weary-Fondant@reddit

F/A-18F afterburner from about 500 feet away

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slickmcfister@reddit

T-45’s are pretty loud when doing carrier runs off the runway at NAS Pensacola

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xasia255@reddit

Outside of military, any turboprop Aero Commander during taxi. I think the BT-13, similar to the AT-6

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Drenlin@reddit

In person, that I can identify, an F-35A. I know as a kid I heard something go supersonic for an airshow as well but I don't know what it was. I remember the feeling though.

If we're including ALL noises and not just the engine, that's 100% an A-10 firing its cannon from about 1000 yards away.

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gbchaosmaster@reddit

I think the M61 has the GAU8 beat on noise. The rate of fire is absolutely insane, it sounds like the world is ending.

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Canikfan434@reddit

As a kid in the mid 70s on Kadena AFB in Okinawa- the Habu! (SR-71)

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CD3660@reddit

Did none of you get to hear Concorde?

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Shadowinthesky@reddit

That damn Metroliner that always pulls up as I'm doing my walk around

But seriously B-1. First airshow I ever went to walking from the parking lot it flew over and set off at least 30% of the car alarms

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KindPresentation5686@reddit

B-1

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cficole@reddit

Concorde doing touch and go at Airventure, watching from near the runway, the closest they'd let us sit. Loudest think I ever heard, nothing else even came close.

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Roaminsooner@reddit

I went to an airshow in the mid 90s - lots and lots of US and Soviet jets. The F-14 taking off was the loudest of the day.

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DankVectorz@reddit

U-2 on takeoff

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notaballitsjustblue@reddit

Concord. Or maybe the Vulcan.

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minfremi@reddit

Blue Angels.

One I’ve flown before are the EMB-145 for work, and the B-25 which rang the inside of my ears on takeoff.

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GingerB237@reddit

Cessna 180 with a 86” prop on take off

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Azcrf450@reddit

Yeah all these jets in the other comments are cute but when the 180 goes by at 5’ off the deck that noise pierces through your skull

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AOA001@reddit

F-86 at OSH at 6am, as heard from my tent next to the runway.

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elchet@reddit

Avro Vulcan, and maybe F-111 on AB scramble take off.

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spunkyenigma@reddit

B1s over Darrel K Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium before the Georgia game was fucking epic. I was about a half mile north and looked straight into the pipes as they lit the afterburners!

The only thing louder I’ve heard was the Starship launch out of South Texas

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Eddy_Bg@reddit

Mig-29 going 90 degrees up above my head... it was so loud I couldn't hear my inner thoughts, but it was so cooool

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No_You3326@reddit

F35 over me with afterburner

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KW_AV8R@reddit

The loudest I’ve experienced was when a B-52 was taking off just over my head without hearing protection

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Jmersh@reddit

B-1 Lancer in full afterburner takeoff to climb out of the way of incoming weather at Oshkosh. It was setting off car alarms through 15,000 feet.

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d4rkha1f@reddit

A4’s - Especially when there were six of them in the Blue Angels.

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Designer_Solid4271@reddit

I mean if we’re going with ANY aircraft, I mean the space shuttle launch was pretty crazy as well.

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EJNorth@reddit

Space shuttle is a spacecraft, no?

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Designer_Solid4271@reddit

For part of the trip. It’s a glider at the end.

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DearKick@reddit

I will tell you, T38 A models are exceptionally loud, C models are actually pretty quiet to me.

Worst for me is the screech directly in front and beside an A4 running on the ground, definitely louder than the f4.

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Professional_Low_646@reddit

I‘m gonna join the many people who said F-35… Took me until last year to see them in action, and those formation afterburner takeoffs seemed to shake the entire airbase.

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TalkAboutPopMayhem@reddit

AV-8B Harrier taking off vertically. But the loudest aerospace sound I ever heard was a Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster hotfire test out at Promontory.

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JimmyGz@reddit

The EA-6B Prowler

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AdExcellent6967@reddit

Panavia Tornado

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JimMc0@reddit

Vulcan bomber, just deafening.

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adiabaticgas@reddit

Miiitary jets with afterburners are seriously loud. Like uncomfortable from a significant distance away. We watched a couple of Hawker Hunters take off from Point Mugu and they were deafening at ~1/2 mile away.

As far as civil aircraft, I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the Piaggio P.180. The pusher configuration makes them incredibly loud and the sound is unique. I heard some speculation that this is due to the airflow from the trailing edge of the wing going directly into the pusher props. Seems reasonable, but I really don’t know why they have such a scream to them. I do like the sound, however.

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hhfugrr3@reddit

When I was at uni, a Lancaster bomber used to fly low over my flat as it came into land. Everything shock violently each time it passed over. Amazing feeling but very loud and, occasionally, destructive.

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Imperial_Citizen_00@reddit

I slept all the way forward, on the O-3 under the forward cat’s with a top bunk, everything is quiet now and I can sleep through pretty much anything

My office was also on the O-3 level, midship under where the helo’s landed so yea…

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Rusty1031@reddit

Probably the Bone, or F-14 in afterburner

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SkyHigh27@reddit

The B1B Lancer in full afterburner is a ground pounding chest rattling cacophony of sound waves. If the F16 is a soprano, the B1B is a baritone. I would imagine a SpaceX Falcon9, or starship are much more but only if you can stand the same distance away when they go by… which you can’t do. I watched a B1 demonstration in the 90’s with a subsonic high speed low flyby at full afterburner and it was so loud that I couldn’t hear me yelling to my friend next to me about how loud it was.

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B_O_A_H@reddit

Loudest I’ve witnessed within a close proximity? F-35 and F-22 at Oshkosh. I’ve seen B1s take off, but I was a couple miles away and it still shook my chest.

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didimentionimapilot@reddit

King Air with Garretts instead of PT6s, doesn’t give you the soul rattling feeling but the shrill whine makes my ears ring just thinking about it

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Torvaldicus_Unknown@reddit

I unplugged the GPU from a running Lockheed 12 once and man, aside from my head being just feet away from the propeller, it was pretty loud without ear protection. Used to do the same for King Airs. The 350 could really scream. Again, rarely ear protection. I was such a dumb kid.

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No_Visual5555@reddit

Mu-2. Hard to think when one is on the ramp

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KeyComprehensive4431@reddit

I was gonna say a MU-2 with garrets taxing on the ramp

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DaHozer@reddit

MU-2 is the right answer.

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alec777x@reddit (OP)

Yea that sounds bad

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InitiativePale859@reddit

Mu2 it's a high Wing turbo prop ironically was Bruce Jenner's playing unbelievable how loud the sound just oscillates off the bottom of the wings. The way the plane was designed is just incredibly loud when idling

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Torvaldicus_Unknown@reddit

Yep those are loud

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Torvaldicus_Unknown@reddit

Conquest II doing a run up, personally. I was marshalling it. No hearing protection. I couldn't hear shit for like 20 minutes after and it permanently damaged my ears. I'm sure there are plenty of louder aircraft, that's just the loudest noise I've personally heard other than a lightning strike 100 feet away from me.

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looker94513@reddit

The loudest airplane in the USA arsenal is hands down the Rockwell B-1b Lancer/Bone. If you are lucky enough to have a B-1 do a high speed full burner low level pass over you(happened to me twice🇺🇸🇺🇸) the sound would hit your chest very much like being next to a top fuel dragster as it launches down the drag strip. Just one man’s opinion…

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looker94513@reddit

MU-2 at idle has a high pitched whine that could very well cause those (without headgear) hearing damage….as others have said: anything with a Garrett turbine is very loud, but I equate the B-1 thunder the loudest sound you will hear and feel this side a top fuel dragster.

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walksinsmallcircles@reddit

English Electric Lightning can kick up a fuss. B1 also makes itself heard.

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DrRob@reddit

Starfighter afterburner takeoff. Lived on an airbase with a 104 squadron as a kid. I've never heard anything like that in my life since.

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mrvarmint@reddit

SU-35 demo at le bourget felt like it was hard to breathe because it was so loud. My brother and I have always joked that the E-2 is the loudest aircraft in the navy because it’s way more piercing than an F-35 when launching from a CVN.

Loudest sound I’ve ever heard was a clean F/A-18C breaking the sound barrier ABOUT 500 ft above me though :)

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Funghie@reddit

Mirage

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SmallRocks@reddit

I used to be an avionics tech in the military. I’ve seen soooo many different types of aircraft from the US and other countries.

A memorable standout for me is a Tornado taking off with full afterburner.

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Pro-editor-1105@reddit

kc135 departing from CNO and instantly turning, it was so loud and surreal seeing the plane so close randomly at full thrust on the initial climb while sharply banking.

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71sbeetle@reddit

Loudest two I've heard were the B1 and the Concorde. I live near an AFB so I get to hear the B1 from time to time fly right over on departure

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klrfish95@reddit

It’s definitely a toss-up between B-1 and Harrier.

The Harrier is the only one that’s made me get up and walk put into the parking lot to find out what aircraft taking off was actively trying to contribute to my hearing loss and shaking the windows.

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Faicc@reddit

F35

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NoRagrets4Me@reddit

B-1B full afterburner

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Zestyclose-Garden138@reddit

Turbine commander

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bddgfx@reddit

Harrier in a hover and F35C in hi speed pass with afterburner.

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pudding7@reddit

The dozens of F-35s flying over my mom's house every day near Luke AFB. Damn that's a loud plane.

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Tehshayne@reddit

I’ve hung out in the hush house at Fallon, and on the fantail high power spot testing F/A-18 engines. That was 15 years ago and my ears are still ringing.

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nsandin88@reddit

When I was living in the dorms at Embry-Riddle, my first room was pretty close to the approach end of runway 16. The Snowbirds were in town for the airshow and apparently one of their CL-41s had some engine issues. They had that aircraft doing high power runs on the taxiway adjacent to my room for about an hour. No headphones could keep that sound to a non-eardrum-destroying level.

2nd best was a Lear 20-something without a hush kit taking off out of Naples, FL. Standing on the flight school ramp, it felt like the ground was going to crumble from that noise.

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Frosty_Piece7098@reddit

Jets, B1. Props, anything with a garret.

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Sk1900d@reddit

San Antonio sewer pipe

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BlaineBeaven@reddit

You ever hear a Brittain Norman Islander? The propellor tip is about 24 inches from your head spinning at 2700 rpm on takeoff.

I’ve heard it said that it doesn’t fly because the wings generate lift, but rather the ground launches it into the sky because it’s too loud.

What was the other one? It’s louder and rattles more than two skeletons fornicating in a dustbin.

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MeesterBoobear@reddit

A T-6 with the prop supersonic taking off next to a row of metal hangars.

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Designer_Solid4271@reddit

B1 bomber. I was at least half a mile away on takeoff and it was still deafening.

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New-IncognitoWindow@reddit

B-1

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boabyjunkins25@reddit

The Vulcan bomber, broke windows during an air show.

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Accomplished_Box7400@reddit

B-1

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Orlok_Tsubodai@reddit

I remember watching an F18 Super Hornet do a demo at an airshow, and thinking it sounded like god ripping the sky in two.

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Traditional_Half_788@reddit

F35 without question.

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twarr1@reddit

B1-B will hammer your eardrums and your chest. The Harrier is just plain unpleasantly loud.

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Accomplished_Bug8926@reddit

Cessna A37B Dragonfly

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KiwifromtheTron@reddit

Vickers Viscount. My ears are still ringing from 4 Rolls Royce Darts at ground idle power

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jet-setting@reddit

Personally nothing too special but the DC-9 is a menace to all.

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FightingIlliteracy@reddit

Came here to say any jets running the JT8D engine, the 727 was especially loud from the front with three of those bad boys screaming at your face

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CannonAFB_unofficial@reddit

I’m always how shocked how loud a T-38 is from the outside. You don’t hear anything other than a high pitch whine on the inside.

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aye246@reddit

The USMC aggressor F-5s out of Yuma (VMFT-401) stopped at my airport a few years ago on their way between STL and FSD, and they were even louder. They even screamed in in formation over my house going into the break.

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NorthernK20@reddit

A Beech 99 right when you bring the power up for Take Off and the batteries die in your noise cancelling headset.

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OtterVA@reddit

Harrier

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BRUNO358@reddit

WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

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WSJ_pilot@reddit

MU-2

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rburghiu@reddit

Learjet 25, turbojets be screaming on that thing

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EliteEthos@reddit

Taking off immediately after a B-1

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cmdr-William-Riker@reddit

I know that there are plenty of louder aircraft, but the loudest I have heard in person would be either the F-35 or F-22 (I think F-22 by technicality, but the difference is pretty marginal, which is impressive for the F-35 given that it's a single engine). The thunderbird's all combined might blow those both out of the water, but not a single F-16 on it's own

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