GDJ

I live within a few kilometres from CFB Edmonton, and there is regular traffic from there to Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. A lot of CF-18's and C-130's fly over my place. The CF-18's are fairly quiet, the C-130's are a long loud BRMMMMMMMMM.....and the last time a CF-105 flew over my house it shook the windows and plates in the house. It's a fast plane, but it's crude and brutal by todays standards.

Loudest plane my ears took a punishment with was the Concorde. Around 1997 it flew into Edmonton for a airshow. Eventho' it was a tiny speck in the sky, the engines were so loud that anybody indoors on the phones were asking "What is that noise!?"

When you were within 600 metres of that plane, you have to have hearing protection, and they say keep your mouth closed. Apparently a ground crewmen lost their hearing when they opened their mouth at the wrong time. Sound got in, damaged their inner ears.

But she was a beautiful machine.

The CF-18's are fairly quiet

I've seen F-18 at airshows and I love the noise !

AWACS are the loudest here because they fly low for approach.

Do you use BDarmor btw ?

I'm looking for fighter challengers.

I do use BD, but I'm kind of taking a break from it. I found that the challenges favoured planes that flop around, and I hate planes like that. I tend to build planes that fly...like planes, and they can't seem to compete with armed floppy birds.