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Man, I'll tell you, it made an awesome, beautiful noise!
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Man, do I know what you mean. Every year I try to go to the liberation of Reading PA memorial airshow weekend. A few years ago I was there and my uncle and I were standing around looking at Nervous Energy V, a D model Mustang. The pilot and ground crew guy came up and asked us to take a few steps back as they were going to be firing her up so that they could preflight it and get ready for their display. We were standing maybe 15 or 20 feet away when they kicked that big Merlin over, what an incredible and beautiful sound.
There is a CD out that has nothing but aircraft engine sounds on it, Merlins, German DB's and BMW's, you name it. My wife thought I was crazy for wanting to listen to something like that!