I was watching an f16 demo at MLU this weekend and I was amazed at how loud they were. Granted, we were on a balcony viewing area and I’m thinking that the glass and aluminum are great reflectors.
But those things are loud even out in the open.

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Posted by Spelt it rong

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:41 pm to Tempratt

Moar powar

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Posted by whitetiger1234

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:42 pm to Tempratt

Plane go fast engine loud produce heat and big noise

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Posted by meeple

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:43 pm to Tempratt

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Posted by auggie

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:43 pm to Tempratt

So you can hear them over the people with the bass thumpin at the traffic light.

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Posted by TheRouxGuru

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:44 pm to Tempratt

If you think the 16s are loud, you should hear the f-35s

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Posted by billjamin

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 9:46 pm to Tempratt

Same reason your boiling pot gets louder as you crank the propane up baw.

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Posted by stbtiger87

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Posted on 5/7/24 at 10:01 pm to Tempratt

Maybe more than you really want to know but overall sound pressure level (OASPL) scaling really strongly with the Mach number of the exhaust. Something like M^8 for subsonic jets down to M^3 to supersonic jets, I think it gets even worse with high temperature jet cores ( NASA Reference)

With that kind of scaling the amount of literal power in just the noise itself is scary.

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