I thought the XF-84 was worse, but maybe they are both bad.
#3 on the list is the Mu2 lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H

I have, or used to have, a TU-114 SIC type rating. Yes it's loud, but in a MU-2 sort of way it isn't all that loud inside the airplane, only outside.

Continue....

How does one come across that Type Rating?
Backstory please. Bonus for pictures.

not by choice

the company i was flying for got a contract that required regular deliveries between south africa and germany. Some genius in accounting came upon a cheap lease for a 114 with crew and decided that was a good idea. This was early 90's - maybe it was one of the last ones flying? It looked like it.

The chief pilot decided he wanted one of his own people going along with the russian crew. No one wanted that gig, but there was one young pilot who had no seniority to lodge an objection, and who was coincidentally already headed to the frozen north for 4 days of antonov recurrent. So they told me to plan to stay an extra month for tupolev school and congratulations on being given this great opportunity.

I think we made 2 trips in that pig before someone realized, hey with a fuel stop we can do this same job with the AN12's that we already own and using our own crews. And the container loading is far easier on the antonov. It took so long to load and unload the tupolev that making the trip in the slower plane with a fuel stop, was still faster.

But the one thing the 114 was, when everything was working right it was smoking fast. I remember we cruised at 0.70, once the engineer pushed it up to 0.74 to show me what it would do. And watching those big props at that huge angle of attack in cruise, was mesmerizing.

BTW although I had a piece of paper saying SIC, I never flew. My job was to do the talking on the radio especially in french-speaking territory, and to see that the real crew were mostly sober and if not, to slow down the loading process to give them more time.

Wow,

It looks like the civil version of the Bear TU-95.

"big angle of attack..."

You aren't kidding, they almost look feathered.

--paul

for all the tech marvel and racehorse that the 114 was, it couldn't do the one thing we really needed that the plodding AN12 could do easily, which was this:

The old Gulfstream G1 on the ground in flat pitch certainly has the MU2 beat.
We also had a customer who purchased some old CASA jets for resale sounded like a human range dog whistle on the ramp. We called the whistle jets.

I've always heard the Harrier mentioned when talking about loud airplanes.

I was at Reno years ago when they did a Harrier demonstration on the ramp. It made an MU-2 sound quiet.

I was at Reno years ago when they did a Harrier demonstration on the ramp. It made an MU-2 sound quiet.

It would be great if after the Santa Monica airport closes anyone who owns one of these planes would fly slow circles over the city should they find themselves in the neighborhood.

Hmm... I thought loudest plane was a 2-bladed Baron...



Warren