[simpits-tech] Real World Viper Question

[Gene Buckle]

>
> I live under the approach to Tucson International, and the Guard station
> there flies Vipers.  Kewel.  I'll get
> real wingies when I fly F4.  But what the heck is that whistling noise the
> jet makes as it's on final?  Sounds, oddly enough, like a bird trapped in
> the engine, chirping to be let out.  As the F-16 whooshes overhead, you hear
> chirp..........chirpchirp.............................chirp....   etc.  This
> is not a thottle tweak - I'd know the difference.  You can hear the sound
> quite clearly above the single faucet noise, and it's very random.
>
> Of course, it does make it convenient to know when I should be looking up,
> although a flight of A-10's fooled me a couple of weeks ago (Davis Monthan
> is on the other side of I-10 from me).... when I looked up, I was expecting
> to see a KC-135.
>

Isn't it obvious?  The little bird is trying to get out.  :)

g.