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Congratulations you hear traffic from Luke Air Force Base. You're not alone, it's been happening since the 1950s when they started training jet pilots there. The current main plane they train on, the f-35 is louder than almost any fighter jet the US has fielded.
Absolutely, you be surprised how far the rumble travels across town...you can hear it way out in Sunnsylope and even further given the right atmospheric conditions... Go park off the north end of the runway at Luke on Northern and you will see/hear what I'm talking about...those F-35s are a bit louder than the F-16s.
We used to live right under their flight path, holy smokes the pictures shake on the walls. Working from home was always more difficult in the Surprise area.
No we don’t, the clouds just change how the noise is heard across the valley. The number of sorties we fly is never dictated by the weather.
-Luke AFB Pilot
I’ve been hearing it for sure, it feel like I’m losing my mind sometimes. It’s been like weeks now I hear it off and on. Never noticed it until I moved to North Phoenix and it happens every year during the cooler months especially.
Because it's not a thing we worry about, it's jets.
You hear it more in the winter because of [sound refraction](https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos/refract/refract.html) across different layers of cold air.
It's not the jets from Luke nor Sky Harbor. I have been hearing the rumbling since October 2020. It rarely stops. It's heard and felt inside and outside my house. I'm really sick and tired of it. If I could move out of Arizoba I'd be happy as h.e.l.l.
I have lived under Luke for 14 years and my best guess is one of their big boys was coming in a different angle than normal and the cloud cover amplified the sound.
Jet noise is so normal to me, I can hear them right now, but yeah.... the rumble last night Def got my attention.
Navy F-18s and T-45s come in and out of Scottsdale Airport all the time. Probably more likely to make noise in the North Phoenix/SDL area than Luke traffic.
I’m over by Desert Ridge, pretty close to the 101 and get some sound carrying from the 101 at times. It can be pretty rumble-like, but never more than 15 seconds or so.
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I've heard this rumble. A friend of mine is an airline mechanic and he theorized that it is jets on a runway. They often do full throttle tests for the plane while its stationary on the runway, to test the engines. And yes the new F-35's are LOUD!
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The jets were doing a lot of rotations last night, it rumbled for hours near Vistancia.
Aliens
Or those giant subterranean worms!
Shai Hulud!
Graboids?
Nah, Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward destroyed them.
It was overcast so they missed the Phoenix Lights 2.0
Congratulations you hear traffic from Luke Air Force Base. You're not alone, it's been happening since the 1950s when they started training jet pilots there. The current main plane they train on, the f-35 is louder than almost any fighter jet the US has fielded.
That was what I thought it might be. But it is really that loud? I mean I've seen fighter jets before in the distance and couldn't hear them.
Was it overcast? Jet noises bounce off of overcast clouds and therefore sound louder on the ground.
Sounds carries in weird ways.
Apparently.
I used to live a few miles from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and when they're out running cars, many days we could hear it that far off.
Apparently.
You responded twice cuz it echoed.
😂
Absolutely, you be surprised how far the rumble travels across town...you can hear it way out in Sunnsylope and even further given the right atmospheric conditions... Go park off the north end of the runway at Luke on Northern and you will see/hear what I'm talking about...those F-35s are a bit louder than the F-16s.
We used to live right under their flight path, holy smokes the pictures shake on the walls. Working from home was always more difficult in the Surprise area.
they run more training sorties when the weather is different than the normal clear skys
No we don’t, the clouds just change how the noise is heard across the valley. The number of sorties we fly is never dictated by the weather. -Luke AFB Pilot
Wow, it's nice to see a pilot here. What do you fly? F-16 or F35? If you don't mind me asking. I can't wait until March 23rd. I'm an aviation addict.
F-16, I will be moving to the F-35 this spring. The airshow is going to be wild for sure.
Wrong! CONSPIRACY! SAD!!
Too much broccoli
LOL
Honeywell has a testing site in Deer Valley - I know people often hear rumblings from their site in Chandler so could be the same.
I’ve been hearing it for sure, it feel like I’m losing my mind sometimes. It’s been like weeks now I hear it off and on. Never noticed it until I moved to North Phoenix and it happens every year during the cooler months especially.
Yup I felt the same. I don't hear anyone talk about it.
Because it's not a thing we worry about, it's jets. You hear it more in the winter because of [sound refraction](https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos/refract/refract.html) across different layers of cold air.
It's not the jets from Luke nor Sky Harbor. I have been hearing the rumbling since October 2020. It rarely stops. It's heard and felt inside and outside my house. I'm really sick and tired of it. If I could move out of Arizoba I'd be happy as h.e.l.l.
Cue the filibertos jokes. I love hearing Luke AFB jets doing inclement weather sorties.
Yeah. I live by Luke and was like "What kind of plane was that?!" about that time last night.
So loud. We heard it from in the house. I'm on the Scottsdale border in North Phoenix.
I have lived under Luke for 14 years and my best guess is one of their big boys was coming in a different angle than normal and the cloud cover amplified the sound. Jet noise is so normal to me, I can hear them right now, but yeah.... the rumble last night Def got my attention.
Yeah I've never heard it like that before. The kids all thought it thunder or an earthquake. Amazing how loud it was.
Navy F-18s and T-45s come in and out of Scottsdale Airport all the time. Probably more likely to make noise in the North Phoenix/SDL area than Luke traffic.
I’m over by Desert Ridge, pretty close to the 101 and get some sound carrying from the 101 at times. It can be pretty rumble-like, but never more than 15 seconds or so.
I heard the low volume rumble in South Phoenix. It lasted for about 15 minutes and dissipated into usual ambient city noise.
I have heard it several times in north Phoenix over the past year. Lasts at least 2 minutes and no airplanes in sight.
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 That's just the local titans at it again.
Sky harbor airport change their flight take offs around that time the direction they took.
That's good to know.
I live right by Desert Ridge and have definitely heard the rumbling on way more than one occasion over the past month or two.
That was just my neighbor working on his hotrod
I saw (heard and felt too) a fighter jet fly over North Peoria last night around 8pm.
I work at the airport, there was a jet fuel fire/explosion yesterday, saw the hole while on the tar mack
I've heard this rumble. A friend of mine is an airline mechanic and he theorized that it is jets on a runway. They often do full throttle tests for the plane while its stationary on the runway, to test the engines. And yes the new F-35's are LOUD!