Re: A beautiful aircraft though
They aren't loud, they're ear-splitting :)
When I was 10 years old I snuck on to the runway at the airbase I was living on to lay down at the end when one of these babies took off (it's last flight from that airbase).
It's a good job I was laying down though, that delta was displacing so much air it felt like I was flattened by a giant air-hand :) Not to mention having to jump into muddy ditch-water on the way home because I was covered in unspent jet-fuel! Not sure when my hearing returned, must have been hours rather than days though - I can still remember the bollocking I got when I got home.
Tip: Muddy ditch water doesn't really clean off jet fuel very well :)
Awesome plane, awesome memories.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
