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A. It was unbearable to the ground crew, pilot is protected by the aeroplane hull
The Pilot could hear it good and well.
Have you ever been up in a prop. plane?
It would seem not.
The sonic boom from the propeller could be heard 25 miles away, and ground crew wearing more protection than the pilot became sick.
One More Bit of Aviation History
The XF-84H Thunderscreech likely set a radar reflection record as well, though to our knowledge, nobody was checking. Radar, as every stealth engineer can attest, reflects off of all surfaces to some degree (some surfaces more than others) and reflects best off of panels that angled 90 degrees to each other (thus giving rise to flying wings, faceted surfaces, in-canted paired vertical stabilizers and the other various shapes one sees in the stealth world). However, radar also reflects off of sonic boom shock waves. That is why until recently stealth aircraft were subsonic — the reflection off of a sonic shock wave looms large on a radar scope for all to see. As many air-to-air missiles are radar guided, by the 1960s, this was already a very important issue. The XF-84H Thunderstreak most likely would have shown on a radar scope as something bigger than a battleship flying along at subsonic speeds, making it an easy target. In retrospect, the Thunderscreech seems to have been a bad project no matter which way you look at it.
You may now return to your trolling.
It would be very polite to provide source for this insert. So super sonic aeroplane is size of a battle ship in radar…was F-22 RCS measured while it was stationary ?
Ok…I found it myself; http://fly.historicwings.com/2012/07/thunderscreech/
It is all speculative opinion of the author of the story….no fact to base it upon.
Anyway I agree…a plane with P-51H standard version power to weight ratio going 670 mph…must have been a lame presentation…anyway you look at it….or was it ?
Also it was super sonic in a dive..unlike any other propeller driven AC.
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