Most BIZARRE F18 sound!

[Tarponboy1995]

The sound is made when the blades in the turbine are spinning slower then what the air speed is and it creates that whistling effect I hear that all the time at my house from airliners flying over landing at TIA.

[MrGeforcerFX]

it's something to do with airspeed and the speed of air going into the turbines, can't remember exactly,but i love that sound, especially in a blue angels performance when the diamond does and u have 4 of them doing it at once.

[returnoframbo]

thats weird

[1bearcatf8f]

you hear this alot if you have seen the blue angel's

[stpeteitsok]

Almost sounds like an f104 starfighter thats awsome tho

[nexus1g]

I hear that sound all the time from the F-15's flying overhead from PDX.

[TheZohaun]

That was sooo cool! Also, props on your videoing skills man. Most people that take videos of these try to watch it in person while videoing it and they end up messing up the shot completely.

[BrendsM]

...IT'S THE AIR COMPRESSING AGAINST THE TURBINES...

[anewell41]

reminds me of the Stuka

[Raymund925]

That F-18 has one hell of an Formula 1 race car engine!

[groov539]

turbofan harmonics, oscillation, resonance.. Something like that. Nice capture!

[TH7596]

kinda sounds like a ww2 kamikaze diving

[TheDesertRonin]

Hear it all the time on a carrier. In fact, all the jets have their own distinct sounds.

[damo010]

its called a "blue note" many jets make these sounds, the hawker hunter is famous for this.

[kurthepilot]

thats not bizarre, thats the sound of two general electric F404 afterburning turbofans!

[T1MCPT]

If you live near an airport, you'll hear ask kinds of jet planes make similar sounds. The humming sound is from the air going into the intakes faster than the engines are sucking the air in, the engine power is reduced to idle right before the makeover begins so the plane will be at the correct airspeed, under power. You don't hear the engines spool up because the burner cans are pointed at the camera when throttle went to full military power. Hearing the 414s spool its an amazing sound

[USAmilitarypower]

USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[popsnacks2]

damn am i the only one noticing this sounding an awful lot like a stuka?

[yoyoyoyoshua]

thats the sound that the F-18 makes.

[o0Tamaki0o]

that's the plane sound. NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYYERR­RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR­RRRN

[justmegarry]

that a cool thks,.

[NeonVars]

AHA! that sounds so freakin cool! Its like a future fighter jet from 2060 or something. I guess I'm gonna be 66-67 when that year comes. Bummer, I'm probably gonna have hearing aids by them from all the loud noises i listen to all day.

[ramairss]

Blue Angels make that sound constantly, on their slow rolls and passes at show center. Nothing unusual.

[markriley1]

posted a video response of a couple of F-15Es doing similar sound. It starts about 45 seconds into video. Not often you get to hear it. Good catch

[jdog0219]

if i am correct that is just a fa18 hornet it is not a super hornet i belive that there are 2 diffrent kinds of fa18? cause i here the same sound from the blue angels if you see any of there videos you will here the same sound.

[brent07]

G-LOC proof pilots :)

[aaronmicalowe]

I was once at an air show where a jet did a vertical turn below the height of the control tower. I could hear the wings cracking - a lot like the engine of a car ticking down when it's hot. There was water condensing off the wing tips. It was pretty cool.

[Xrm150]

@aaronmicalowe To bad you don't have a video.  Would of been cool to see!

[kb3glo]

@aaronmicalowe that cracking sound is due to the rapid expansion of ambient air at the boundary layer between the ambient air and the super hot exhaust gases. same reason lightning makes a cracking sound.

[ommerrill]

@aaronmicalowe As an aerospace engineer I can pretty much guarantee you didn't hear the wings cracking.

[lama103]

what's so bizarre about it?

[Xrm150]

@lama103 The sound.

[BloodNorseGods]

@lama103 i guess he expected it to sound like a choo choo train

[r0ckstarnl]

Happens when speed of the air entering and exiting the turbines matches the speed of the aircraft in flight.

[Xrm150]

@r0ckstarnl Thanks. I did not know that. I hear it on some of my other videos but not as long or loud as this one.

[maddogmcrae]

@Xrm150 The F104 makes a cool howling sound too.

[TFZ14]

@r0ckstarnl I've always wondered about that. so how does the vapor appear on the wing?

[k2477456]

@TFZ14 the high angle of attack in a turn(up to 15 degrees) creates a pocket of very low pressure and in humid conditions the air releases some of the water into a cloud(the same kind as in contrails) in the low pressure area over the wing

[spudgunster]

@r0ckstarnl Bull shit! It has to do with air turbulence but not at a certain exhaust speed. Only F-18s make this sound. Who knows what on the airplane makes the sound. I hear the blues making this noise every year.

[lexichronicle2]

@spudgunster "Bull shit! It has to do with air turbulence but not at a certain exhaust speed. Only F-18s make this sound."

I hear airliners making precisely the same sound over my house on a regular basis.

"Who knows what on the airplane makes the sound."

People who know how the engines work. Like the guy you just needlessly swore at.