Thunderscreech Sound Simulation | XF84H Startup, Idle and Flyby

[@gordonrea7546]

henlo is this "my name is dominic dominic dominic dominic dominic dominic dominic dominic dominic bBWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

[@BrapBrapDorito]

Yes

[@itsumayo]

Microwave plane Microwave plane

[@GR1MM_REAPER]

dankpod?

[@voronmatt4748]

real

[@eggstatus5824]

This sound could 100% be used as psychological torture. Even if the sound wasn't loud, the tone is enough to fuck with your brain. You can only imagine just how messed up you would be in the head after experiencing this first hand

[@CursedLink666]

Fly over enemy territory, don't bother bringing any ordinance, you won't need it. Now do it again. 3am? "VRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" 6am? "VRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" Noon? "VRRRR*sputter*RRR" Midnight? "VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

[@CJbrinkman602]

Probably a good thing the big brass never got that idea, but again they never figured out how to fly it in the first place 😅

[@Claymore1944]

It made the crew chief for the plane have a seizure

[@TheGenRo]

Don't forget it could be heard 25 miles away.

[@josiahricafrente585]

Ok, so, hear me out… Resurrect the Thunderscreech project. Replace cockpit with electronics and a CPU. A Thunderscreech UCAV, whose weapon is its own sound.

[@davidpar2]

That vibration would destroy glass and concrete, not to mention cause vomiting and seizures

[@camilorodriguez5602]

actually, it did in the testings

[@UnknownPersononGoogle]

While hitting you with sonic booms lol.

[@steazy3239]

and shitting your pants

[@dosh8276]

​@@camilorodriguez5602Yup, an engineer working on the plane got a seizure by hearing this thing.

[@BigWheel.]

The test planes literally shook themselves apart In flight. So many adjustments had been made that they were no longer fitting together well. This contributed to the project's abandonment, primarily cost of maintenance. These would've required complete replacement after only a few flights.

[@lockheedx33]

Here's the crazy thing, we don't actually have an audio recording of the aircraft up close because the noise it made destroyed all microphones that would get close enough.

[@AS-R-bx3zi]

Plus the crews ears

[@lockheedx33]

@@AS-R-bx3zi Especially the crews’ ears

[@thatcreatenoob]

@@lockheedx33their insides too

[@p_filippouz]

Hearing this full volume with headphones is actually triggering my flight or fight and it's TRULY terrifying My heart is literally skipping beats

[@Subieghost]

The enemies are shitting themselves

[@gerarddip]

You’re gonna damage your hearing

[@AverageAlien]

It sounded nothing like this pal

[@p_filippouz]

@@AverageAlien ok then smartass, what did it sound like?

[@DRSmithCreations]

If you got amplifiers in your house that you could connect through a Bluetooth, try that at max volume. Hopefully the neighbors won't mind.

[@lanceortega1]

The sound as a weapon itself.

[@pyro1047]

IIRC the immense sound and shockwaves from the endless sonic booms created by the supersonic propeller were bad enough to cause some miscarriages in the residential parts of the base, in addition to headaches, nausea, vomiting, and 1 seizure among ground personnel around the planes when the engines were on. It was either this plane, or the XF-88 Voodoo which also used a supersonic prop and jet engine.

[@BrapBrapDorito]

This (the XF84H) used a twin coupled turboprop with an afterburning nozzle on the exhaust for thrust, and was the main cause of the harm from supersonic propeller testing. The XF88B used two afterburning turbojet engines along with a singular one of the coupled engines seen in the XF84. The XF88B was able to cross the sound barrier on propeller thrust only, but it was ultimately just a research vehicle and not worth pursuing.

[@TheMelonbros123]

Wouldn't that make this plane the only experimental plane with a kill count

[@Elysium4]

​​@@TheMelonbros123 Not exactly, as experimental planes have a reputation of killing their test pilots with alarming regularity, hence experimental pilots are considered to be a different breed of crazy. But you could say the Thunderscreech is the only single experimental plane, not just model of aircraft, to have a positive K/D ratio if this is true.

[@thejestor9378]

@@Elysium4It also scared off those pilots of a different breed.. they wanted nothing to do with it. Even the widowmaker was a plane with more flights.

[@Fra_bel]

Fuck man, i think with the microphone they used we will never hear the sound properly

[@N-L3]

@@thundergamer4413 Good luck with that lmfao

[@dlxo]

i think the audio recordings back then dont do the actual deafening sound justice.. i would love to see and hear this fly today

[@bronsonstrange3827]

I am almost certain I would puke and feel awful for a bit, but I wouldn't regret it. Hell I've done an oil change in a Walmart parking lot in 30 degree weather right after it rained just for the hell of it.

[@bmdoes_stuff6861]

I mean… you wouldn’t “love” to hear this with what it’ll do to your ears

[@dlxo]

@@bmdoes_stuff6861 but i would

[@crystalsedm1272]

@@bronsonstrange3827 30 degrees isn't that hot.

[@Nurse_Xochitl]

@@bmdoes_stuff6861 maybe it's fine at 30,000 feet away... lol

[@colestrains1]

Sounds from hell itself

[@Mister_McCanless]

This is the screaming banshee of all aircraft

[@nm2000]

The only Airplane in History that could make you shit yourself.

[@Majaweed17]

That flyby sound is terrifying

[@Toon_Lucario]

When your engine starting up sounds like a sci fi weapon charging up you know you messed up.

[@exxusdrugstore300]

The fly by sounds kind of funny initially, but imagine hearing that as an enemy on the ground. It would probably start as a distant wail and rapidly get more deafening and all-encompassing, ending with you being completely incapacitated on the ground, holding your bleeding ears.

[@bonfist1252]

this would still be perfect today for psychological warfare

[@Menaceblue3]

LoL the plane wouldn't need to be armed.... Just loiter around the enemy's airspace! 😖🤢🤮😵

[@Goofster-goober]

Buzz em for deafened troops!

[@limjunjiesebastian532]

Buzzing sound is good for disrupting the radar while dive bombing like Ju-87 Stuka.

[@NascarAviationDude]

0:03-Uhhh, Why Is It Powering Up?

[@JayDodgeYT]

WHT ARE YOU SAYING ?

[@NascarAviationDude]

OH MY EARS!!! WHY WOULD THEY BUILD SOMETHING LIKE THIS?!

[@JayDodgeYT]

@@NascarAviationDude WHAT?

[@NascarAviationDude]

HUH?! DID YOU SAY SOMETHING???

[@JayDodgeYT]

@@NascarAviationDude RAPTOR WHAT

[@companymen42]

Fun fact. Scientists discovered that a sound with 400Db of magnitude would be enough to rip a hole in the fabric of reality and create a black hole. This may be close enough 😂

[@jayeasley2050]

Hey I'm not disagreeing but could you cite that?

[@aircraftandmore9775]

Holy crap that sound

[@Zeke_-dg6fo]

Yeah they should use this at air shows

[@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernIL]

I can’t imagine how epic it will sound at the Chicago air and water show. I can imagine how it will sound as it’s approaching the beach from like 50 miles away and you start to hear and kinda feel a low hum reverberating through the ground getting louder and louder. Then it gets even louder, starting to drown out the voices of ppl and city noises and people start wondering what kind of monstrosity is about to fly out of somewhere and make comments about how loud it is getting. Then it gets so loud that some ppl cover their ears, and you can see the XF-84 turning to position itself for a high speed pass from air show left 2 miles away and once the nose of it faces you, the noise dies down back to city noise and the announcer announces that the XF-84 is about to perform and that it will be ungodly loud and it gets closer and closer at it’s full speed, then it gets almost in front of you but you still can just barely hear it. Then it zooms past and you get hit in your whole body with the absolute loudest noise you ever heard a fighter jet make, louder than anything that has an afterburner in existence as it flies away and the sound reverberates through the atmosphere and the buildings making it sound like god is using a desk fan and every single atom in your body, the ground, and the air shakes violently and ppl are just speechless

[@aircraftandmore9775]

@@SirensAndAlarmsOfNorthernILit would be so loud I believe they would have to fly it around once.

[@johngeneric3437]

the best asmr known to man

[@liubolun]

Sounds like a great weapon than the A-10, unlimited soundwave as ammo as long as the fuel lasts.

[@wobblewarfare4494]

listening to this with my earbuds makes it sound like a microwave

[@MrSkillIssue_90]

Random bad guy: YO DO YOU HEAR ANY AMERICAN PLANES BRO!!?? other random bad guy: *WHAT!?*

[@themysteriouspencil4766]

Actually tho, get like 5 of these and fly them low over enemy troops... that feels like a war crime actually... dont do that, please

[@osirisjohnson5165]

Only in rimworld

[@BaddAtom]

It's not a warcrime the first time --Canada

[@GWR82]

i wore headphones and shit it sent shivers and goose bumps down my arms

[@TheMexicoBear]

Anyone here from Tym3Glitch?

[@FarawayTreeWishingChair]

Very interesting!

[@OculusNoctis]

bassboosted microwave frfr

[@Nokia800tough]

My PC when I load RTX Minecraft with 64 chunks render distance : 0:00

[@jayeasley2050]

Bet the lights dim too

[@solarizx]

gonna make flyby sound longer

[@Spoogamer]

I need a 1 hour version of this

[@Razor_2960]

Now this what a call Noise Bomb.

[@fernandog.ramirez.6917]

That thing would be a great psychologic warfare tool.

[@android584]

Maybe this gives us an idea of what the sound was like.

[@trueMSB]

Would be pretty effective as a sonic weapon

[@SamaelVR]

Nice

[@onenote6619]

The Soviet Union managed to get an aircraft into service with four supersonic propellers - the Tu 95 'Bear'. How did they manage that, when the US couldn't get around the noise and vibration issues, though? Simple, they just ignored those issues. Crew with any substantial amount of Tu 95 time generally have some measure of hearing loss.

[@GhostDancer-u8h]

Anyone out there tell a guy why this sound is literally calming

[@outlawdingo3020]

900 sonicbooms per second at idle just from the prop

[@judgegixxer]

The 2nd testpilot was able to do it so many times because it was either that or stay home and listen to his wife bitching at him.

[@RafaelQuluzad]

The flying Real mosquito

[@tattierlivee7326]

How accurate is this?

[@dlxo]

not quite sure but i think its the actual audio from 68 years ago… i feel like the audio recordings back then dont do it justice, not even sure how they were to even record the sound coming from it you would think the sound generated by this aircraft alone would blow the mics

[@BrapBrapDorito]

@@dlxoThis isn’t the actual recording, the actual recording barely captures any of the noise. This is my best shot at a recreation.

[@BrapBrapDorito]

Honestly it’s pretty inaccurate most likely. This is my own attempt at a recreation and there’s only one recording of the real thing in flight.

[@MV3312MS]

Flyby sounds Like Trimming Machine 💀

[@DRSmithCreations]

Sonic Doom!

[@manuraly9678]

MY F×€KING EARS THEY BLEED

[@DeadChan67]

Flyby almost sounds like a siren

[@Tarnc]

when stealth is optional

[@Goofster-goober]

It’s stealthy if no one can hear it coming

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

Alright, now where's the motorkanone, flares, and mounting points for the ultimate war crime. R&D didn't see they were on to something. Too busy having panic attacks and seizures. Just imagine this thing buzzing around your airspace late night. E M O T I O N A L D A M A G E Every time vaguely benign shit fires up- GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

[@ryguy-qh2qk]

How the HELL did a human operate this thing without getting seriously injured or dying ?

[@LimeFTF_26763]

this sound is so cursed

[@DeadlinePhil]

The whole concept of this plane is cursed "so we need an interceptor that can keep up with enemy fighters, oh I know let's build a plane with props but really fast"

[@alfaeco15]

Could use sound instead of infrared to guide a sidewinder

[@In_a_cup]

Man the enemy wouldn’t really hear it, cuz they can no longer hear anymore

[@brianschultz]

stealth by hearing loss.

[@Morjensful]

Overload capsule

[@Testsubject276]

Tinnitus simulation aircraft.

[@alwenke212]

I'm sorry,,, what was that ?,,,,,,, did you say something,,,,, wait,,,,,,

[@Oat_meal_YT]

DID YOU SAY SOMETHING!?!

[@GWR82]

0:03 wait whys it powering up-

[@RhinoMen10]

#BringBackTheThunderscreech

[@ciettysilva3746]

#stopbringbackthethunderscreech

[@Calxero]

every earrape song:

[@ignacedionisi788]

Why the fuck does this sound like a flying microwave on steroids

[@aviationgamingeditz]

Earrape joined the chat

[@pontushaggstrom6261]

this was traumatising

[@jonv.6213]

Flying earrape

[@skollsaros9241]

I can feel my teeth

[@Mister_McCanless]

If I were offered $100,000 just to fly this aircraft I'll do it😂

[@brianhiles8164]

I suppose you are being clever and stimulating the _neuropsychological_ effect of such a sound and volume, but your interpretation of the sound cannot be more wrong. The “Thunderscreech“ was so darn loud because its propellor´s wingtips were supersonic. Especially when there is a complex admixtureo of subsonic and supersonic flow, the resulting sound can be described as teeth-rattling white noise and an unholy howling shreek -- _Not the modified hum of a square wave generator._

[@BrapBrapDorito]

So two things: 1 - this isn’t a square wave, it’s a triangle 🤓👆 2 - The sound was definitely more like static or white noise than this, but the constant sonic booms of the propeller would create a sound of this frequency, just far punchier. Recordings don’t do it much justice because it just blew out any microphone used on it. I may retry this at some point.

[@OriginalBatman]

It could have used it for interrogation

[@LVRR-e5f]

Microwave

[@observer4916]

Toilet fart aeroplane

[@OliverFlinn]

Wtf is this B6ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZU Beep beep beep beep

[@aestheticcruise8807]

It sounds like an oversized wankel rotary engine

[@SergeantHartman-p9p]

Flying earrape