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I lived for a while right at the end of the Terminal Four runway at Heathrow. You could fairly reach up and touch the departing planes, and obviously cups and c

I lived for a while right at the end of the Terminal Four runway at Heathrow. You could fairly reach up and touch the departing planes, and obviously cups and cutlery would rattle on the table as they passed overhead. However, Concorde really wasn't the worst offender. The 747s delivered a noticeably deeper and more earthshaking thunder. I am aware this is completely anecdotal, and that once supersonic, the Concorde would drown out anything Boeing.

zentiggr 10y ago
Lived for a few months within yards of the approach for Pease AFB, New Hampshire... KC-130Qs and F-111s. (Yep, that long ago.) The F-111s were cool sounding, almost a metallic screech of those long thin supersonic engines. The KCs used water-augmentation (I think) on takeoff with a full fuselage of fuel, and honestly sounded like the sky was made of 100 layers of cotton and someone was tearing them apart with their hands. 2 solid minutes of "hey, they're ripping the sky again" and the water would run out and they'd sound like a normal heavily loaded Boeing chassis again. Miss it still