Why are harriers so loud

Quoted: This. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: laughs in hovering Harrier. Quoted: Yeah, that's really close. On the other hand it's still kind of surprising since it was during landing. Power is way back during landing. Takeoff is when we're really making a racket. Quoted: Concluding a demo flight at the Reno air races I congratulated one of the harrier maintainers. He smiled and said, "I really didn't think we would have the loudest plane here.

I'd say the B-1 is a hair louder than the F but they're still loud as hell. We're supposed to be getting 54 of them up here over the next year, but people are already bitching over the 7? Suck it up, it's the sound of freedom. The heads up display on the helmet looks kinda awesome and very scifi though. Then again the whole airframe matches the scifi look. Well, until you look inside and see all the wires and pipes and stuff. I love the sound they make when they first come over Back when I lived in CA, I used to hit airshows every few years.

Quoted: I'd say the B-1 is a hair louder than the F but they're still loud as hell. Ah the good hurt. I would think the sand people would shit their pants when they hear freedom over head!!!!!!! Attached File. On Westpac aboard the USS Belleau Wood in 89, we had a class one day up in the fo'c'sle room right below the flight deck. All the portholes were open and in the middle of the class, a Harrier took off. The noise in that steel room was deafening, and painful.

Never used the fo'c'sle for a class ever again. Quoted: NorthPolar I always love your photos. A B-1 in burner at low altitude is pretty damn load. I was at Army v AF in They brought one in for the pre-game flyover. He was low and in burner. A close second is a F-4 in burner. Got to "sleep" in transient barracks just off the Dageu AF runway. FB - very loud Concord - Low level over the house in DC - Broken dishes and payment for damages - rattled the house - Probably - made the papers and the tv news Harrier - At a commercial airport when several took off after getting fuel - The entire building shook and I thought the glass windows I was looking out of were going to shake out of their frame.

Everybody stopped and tried to figure out what was going on until the harriers passed going down the runway to takeoff. Impressive noise level. I have no idea how loud it was outside.

Impressive demonstration and shocked me at how loud they are when they are hovering. I think the Harrier is like putting a muzzle brake on a rifle. Any time you re-direct gas, it makes hella noise. And the Harrier, does both, A lot. Quoted: Needs pics. Not much of a stealth fighter if you can hear it from a mile away. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Must've been your proximity to them then.

Failed To Load Title. Quoted: Not much of a stealth fighter if you can hear it from a mile away. Quoted: The loudest plane I've ever heard was a B2 bomber. That surprised me. I spent an afternoon in Destin a few years ago watching them fly in and out of Eglin to go play with Fs over the Gulf of Mexico.

They weren't any louder than the Fs, but they looked awfully boxy. Harriers are the loudest freakin' thing I've ever heard. I literally thought the world was coming to an end, it was so freaking loud. This has become an issue in communities surrounding military air bases around the country. The problem started after World War II, as cities declined as popular areas for settlement and a demand demand for single family homes in suburban areas grew. Suburban sprawl tilted towards cheap land and inexorably closed in on military bases.

Many military bases across America, often built miles from population centers, are now practically ringed with civilian communities. The situation in Boise mirrors that in other communities across America.

Residents living near Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina expressed similar concerns although those have seemingly died down. Some residents in and around Madison, Wisconsin—a competitor for the same F jets as Boise—also expressed the same concerns though that being said, public commentary ran in support of the jets. But on the other hand, picking apart mistakes made by military movies is a favorite past time of all veterans, and we in the Harrier community are no exception.

I had to put some of these questions to my more qualified friends from those days, and got a lot of help from a current Harrier pilot who asked to remain anonymous. The amount of hearing loss alone that would have taken place in this movie is devastating.

However, no hearing protection at all is exactly what we see in multiple scenes. Presumably, most of these people did not have earplugs handy, but they appear somehow unphased by the two ear-splitting beasts descending upon them.

Once again, plenty of bystanders nearby are mostly unphased by the turning jet only about 50 yards away. Then, our protagonist who, by the way, also has no hearing protection receives a situation report from their man on the inside using a handheld radio So the critical information he receives about the location of his targets and the ever-important hostage never would have been possible.

I think my brain is leaking out of my ears! Were the guns fired for longer than five seconds in the movie? Before Harry takes control of one of the jets, both pilots fire a realistic burst of about four seconds at one of the trucks trying to get across the bridge. The second pilot neutralizes the lead vehicle Nice shooting, sir! He then unloads a second burst from what would have been an empty gun Then three adversaries in a helicopter begin firing upon Harry as he is trying to retrieve his daughter from the crane she is stranded on.

He yaws the jet to his right and returns fire with another six or seven-second burst before the helicopter escapes behind another building This was a fun trip to imagination-land where a Harrier carries an additional 1, rounds or so! While the jet is in its trademark hover, that bleed air is prioritized for use by the Reaction Control System RCS that keeps the jet from spinning out of control. Making a 20,pound aircraft float on air is no simple task. Our hero, Harry Tasker, is evidently a former Harrier pilot.

Ten years… Harrier pilots have to train constantly and are required to qualify multiple times per year in various scenarios just to prove they are worthy of the cockpit.

There is a sequence where Harry keeps the jet steady, while he is focused on trying to keep his daughter alive and also fending off a knife attack from Salim My pilot source, in particular, takes issue with this:.