Best Four-Stroke Engine Sound Ever?

holtcorseaux said:
Hi Bernhard, I stayed nearby in Hathersage in 1966 or 67. My host family took us to the dams and told us about it, but I did not know fly-pasts were made. I have only ever seen a Lancaster on display. I could not find your Photo but these of the 75th anniversary are nice anyway. Those are 100ft. passes. Best, Martin
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The second photo looks very close to the photo I'm talking about, but the plane for some reason was much lower than 100 ft, more like 30/40 ft, which the engines created the ripples on the top of the otherwise calm water! P.S. I believe they dropped the spinning, bouncing bomb at , I think 60ft. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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Bernhard said:
The second photo looks very close to the photo I'm talking about, but the plane for some reason was much lower than 100 ft, more like 30/40 ft, which the engines created the ripples on the top of the otherwise calm water! P.S. I believe they dropped the spinning, bouncing bomb at , I think 60ft. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Then it sounds as if it was a photo from 1943 - I doubt that any of the currently flyable Lanc's would be risked in that way. Things were different back then.
Was it a colour photo?
 
They were beautiful.... A stellar bomber too. A Merlin is an engineering wonder.
 
I was in London in 2007. I never knew how much WW2 is still part of the British psyche. I was a kid in Melbourne in those days. We knew anxiety, but we were never bombed. I watched the Lancaster and the Spits at Goodwood Revival. They are really something. I'd seen the Lincoln bombers the RAAF had in the 1950s flying over Melbourne, but they were not painted up in WW2 colours. What I really love about the UK, is the Brits do the nostalgia kick so well. When I was a kid, many people used to call the UK 'home', after being there I understand the reason they did that. I got that feeling of familiarity.
 
One of my friends is an ex-pat Brit. He is nearly 90 and dying from lung cancer. He told me about watching the dog-fights over London during WW2 and the shrapnel falling on the pergola in his back-yard. He raced a garden-gate Manx in the UK in the 40s. I have been supplying him with music I have downloaded from Youtube and converted to MP3s. He loves Jacques Loussier. I really like him because I can have a sane conversation with him. That is rare these days.
It is a bugger getting old because grief is always part of the deal.
 
‘70’s Ducati 900 SS bevel with Conti s
Being pushed hard through the twisties

Or one of the factory TT2’s from the early ‘80’s

Graeme
 
The sound, no the actual impact on your chest, the pain to your ears (if not plugged) of a pair of Top Fuel dragsters, running 1000 feet in 3.6 seconds at 330 MPH cannot be beat.

Don’t get me wrong, four Merlins on the deck is great. It’s just your heart actually stops, or skips a beat when a Top Fuel dragster’s explosion of nitro methane blasts by.

Went to the Natl Hot Rod Assn WinterNationals Sunday and as they went by, my heart skipped, my eyes burnt, and the ground shook as if artillary was incoming
 
Back in '75 while working on survey crew (student) in Saskatchewan , went to see a special car at the wknd drag strip outside Saskatoon .... "The Age of Aquarius car" while not a 4-stroke , it blew us off the fence with it's rocket powered drive >>>>> the alcohol burners which ran first, actual racing would indeed catch you in the chest , just not quite as fast as the "Rocket Car's 3 demo runs .....
 
xbacksideslider said:
The sound, no the actual impact on your chest, the pain to your ears (if not plugged) of a pair of Top Fuel dragsters, running 1000 feet in 3.6 seconds at 330 MPH cannot be beat.

Don’t get me wrong, four Merlins on the deck is great. It’s just your heart actually stops, or skips a beat when a Top Fuel dragster’s explosion of nitro methane blasts by.

Went to the Natl Hot Rod Assn WinterNationals Sunday and as they went by, my heart skipped, my eyes burnt, and the ground shook as if artillary was incoming
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While I can't really agree that the Top Fuel are the best sounding, they certainly are the ANGRIEST........
One has to experience it to even come close to understanding. The closer to the start line, the better.
 
Yes agree,,,
Everyone should go and watch top fuel dragsters run before they die.
Nothing like it,,,,,
 
xbacksideslider said:
The sound, no the actual impact on your chest, the pain to your ears (if not plugged) of a pair of Top Fuel dragsters, running 1000 feet in 3.6 seconds at 330 MPH cannot be beat.

Don’t get me wrong, four Merlins on the deck is great. It’s just your heart actually stops, or skips a beat when a Top Fuel dragster’s explosion of nitro methane blasts by.

Went to the Natl Hot Rod Assn WinterNationals Sunday and as they went by, my heart skipped, my eyes burnt, and the ground shook as if artillary was incoming
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I believe the question was best sounding. not loudest. the guttural roar of a merlin on song....does it for me
 
Well, the sound of Top Fuel is not just loud; it’s visceral.

There is a dynamic beauty to it as well; that last aspect - dynamism - is also part of the sound of the sound of other four strokes mentioned in this thread.

As MichaelB and GRB450 said, you have to experience it.
 
xbacksideslider said:
Well, the sound of Top Fuel is not just loud; it’s visceral.

There is a dynamic beauty to it as well; that last aspect - dynamism - is also part of the sound of the sound of other four strokes mentioned in this thread.

As MichaelB and GRB450 said, you have to experience it.
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understand where you are coming from. heard top fuel and jet engine trucks. for me.. the merlin. iconic would be the word i'd use.
 
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