Swansea_Saint Posted 4 March, 2012 Share Posted 4 March, 2012 Just watched top gear and they played a piece where it was the sound of a spitfire engine!! Awesome sound!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markr27 Posted 4 March, 2012 Share Posted 4 March, 2012 Not as good as a de Havilland Mosquito - that sounds like two Spitfires strapped together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Nothing much better than the growl of a Rolls Royce Merlin Engine to make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Poopey flushing down the drain ? Back on track, an English Electric Lightning on full afterburner and climbing near vertically from take off, or a Vulcan on a low fly-past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Nothing much better than the growl of a Rolls Royce Merlin Engine to make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. I live near the flight path for the airport & have been lucky enough to see/hear them fly past quite often in the last few years, it really is quite an emotive & humbling feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markr27 Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Poopey flushing down the drain ? or a Vulcan on a low fly-past. Not my clip, but was impressive to see live - Vulcan overshoot (with a West Country accent)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huffton Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 The first cry of your new born baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 The first cry of your new born baby. Yeah but the 3,651st a couple of weeks later really ****es you off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petersfield Saint Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 +1 on the Merlin (and Griffon for that matter), Matra V12 racecar engine (showing my age), and bizarrely for an Englishman, bagpipes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raging Bull Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 +1 on the Merlin (and Griffon for that matter), Matra V12 racecar engine (showing my age), and bizarrely for an Englishman, bagpipes Bagpipes........no fecking way, they are by far the most ititating, annoying, dronny, unnesacary sound on the face of the earth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian H. Cope Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulSaint Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Anyone reckon that a decent female singer c*mming would sound good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian H. Cope Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Anyone reckon that a decent female singer c*mming would sound good? Susan Boyle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Not as good as a de Havilland Mosquito - that sounds like two Spitfires strapped together! Or a Lancaster with four ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Anyone reckon that a decent female singer c*mming would sound good? Or a Lancaster with four? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Or a Lancaster with four? Or a King with 14 on climbing the Devon Banks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 A few miles from here, airforce veterans at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum have restored a Lancaster bomber to flying condition. Most weekends throughout the summer they fly it over the city. It goes right over my house. There's nothing quite like the sound of those engines as the thing approaches - instantly recognisable! http://www.warplane.com/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markr27 Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 I like the Lancaster with its four Merlins, but the Mossie was just right with two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 I'm being serious here. A real trouser ripping fart sound. I LOVE that sound when I make it myself, and if I hear it from any other source other than in real life and in close proximity, it just reminds me of some of my most satisfying moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 I must be one of the rare people that likes the sound of Pan Pipes. (Perhaps because my mum hates them and I loved winding her up whilst I was growing up.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 5 March, 2012 Share Posted 5 March, 2012 I must be one of the rare people that likes the sound of Pan Pipes. (Perhaps because my mum hates them and I loved winding her up whilst I was growing up.) Great sound imho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 6 March, 2012 Share Posted 6 March, 2012 Champagne corks popping always sound good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 6 March, 2012 Share Posted 6 March, 2012 The Gurgle of fat in the pipes..... But there was one sound better than a Merlin. Or a Mossie. Or a Lanc. That was a Merlin re-engined ME 109 doing a mock Dog Fight with a Merlin engined Spitfire over Old Sarum Airfield some 20+ years ago. Better because the engines weren't sync'ed as they would be on twin/4 engined planes and they changed RPM's at different moments as they did low level passes rolls and climb outs Never forgotten that summer evening Think there was also a 50th birthday of the Spitfire held at Middle Wallop airshow one year. Think they got about 8 or 9 Spits in the air at the same time for a fly past. Now THAT was a sound The Vulcan of course, Concorde (from inside oh yeah baby) and a B-52 taking off for sheer fillings falling out of teeth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 6 March, 2012 Share Posted 6 March, 2012 Re the Goldie, I think a Manx Norton when the throttle is being blipped. I took the silencer off my Thruxton Velo once and that sounded similar. I loved it but the then neighbours didn't appear to have the same enjoyment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 6 March, 2012 Share Posted 6 March, 2012 Bagpipes........no fecking way, they are by far the most ititating, annoying, dronny, unnesacary sound on the face of the earth! You've forgotten the vuvuzela already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 6 March, 2012 Share Posted 6 March, 2012 The Gurgle of fat in the pipes..... But there was one sound better than a Merlin. Or a Mossie. Or a Lanc. That was a Merlin re-engined ME 109 doing a mock Dog Fight with a Merlin engined Spitfire over Old Sarum Airfield some 20+ years ago. Better because the engines weren't sync'ed as they would be on twin/4 engined planes and they changed RPM's at different moments as they did low level passes rolls and climb outs Never forgotten that summer evening Think there was also a 50th birthday of the Spitfire held at Middle Wallop airshow one year. Think they got about 8 or 9 Spits in the air at the same time for a fly past. Now THAT was a sound The Vulcan of course, Concorde (from inside oh yeah baby) and a B-52 taking off for sheer fillings falling out of teeth Did some gliding at Old Sarum waaay back. There were a few times when the sound of any engine would have been music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbletch Posted 6 March, 2012 Share Posted 6 March, 2012 Some years ago, sitting in the old tin grandstand at Stowe corner at the end of the old Hanger Straight on the old Silverstone circuit layout, a pair of V12 Ferraris came down the straight towards us. As they turned through Stowe corner and away from us, their rear-facing exhausts filled the tin grandstand with the most incredible high-pitched wail of a sound. It was obviously mechanical yet it sounded anything but mechanical. It was so all-consuming that it made you feel nervously scared as if some primordial fight or flight reaction was being triggered. You felt it as well as heard it. Absolutely wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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