{"id":1702123,"date":"2026-06-11T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=1702123"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:32:54","slug":"xf-84h-thunderscreech-loudest-aircraft-supersonic-propeller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/it\/xf-84h-thunderscreech-loudest-aircraft-supersonic-propeller\/","title":{"rendered":"The XF-84H Thunderscreech: The Loudest Aircraft Ever Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\nThe Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech is widely considered the loudest aircraft ever built. Its supersonic propeller generated continuous sonic booms that could be heard 25 miles away, made ground crews physically ill, and reportedly knocked a man unconscious on the flight line. It flew 12 test flights, never worked properly, and earned a reputation as one of the worst aircraft in aviation history. It is also one of the most fascinating.\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f4f4;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:28px 0;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">\u2708 Quick Facts<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\">\n<li><strong>Designation:<\/strong> XF-84H (experimental)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manufacturer:<\/strong> Republic Aviation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Powerplant:<\/strong> Allison XT40-A-1 turboprop (5,850 shp) driving a supersonic propeller<\/li>\n<li><strong>Propeller tip speed:<\/strong> Mach 1.18 (continuously supersonic)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Designed top speed:<\/strong> 670 mph (Mach 0.9) \u2014 never achieved<\/li>\n<li><strong>Built:<\/strong> 2 prototypes (FS-059 and FS-060)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Test flights:<\/strong> 12 total (11 in FS-059 by test pilot Hank Beaird; the remainder in FS-060)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Test period:<\/strong> 1955\u20131956, Edwards AFB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why Build a Supersonic Propeller?<\/h2>\n\nThe XF-84H was born from a reasonable question: could a turboprop aircraft match the speed of early jet fighters while retaining the superior low-speed handling and shorter takeoff runs of propeller-driven planes? In the mid-1950s, this was not an absurd idea. Turboprops were efficient, and carrier operations in particular would benefit from an aircraft that did not need the long takeoff rolls that early jets demanded.\n\nRepublic Aviation, builder of the legendary P-47 Thunderbolt and the F-84 Thunderjet family, was contracted to test the concept. They took an F-84F Thunderstreak fuselage and mated it to an Allison XT40-A-1 turboprop engine \u2014 essentially two T38 turbines geared together to produce 5,850 shaft horsepower \u2014 driving a three-bladed supersonic propeller through a long extension shaft.\n\nThe propeller was the key. At 12 feet in diameter, its tips exceeded Mach 1 continuously during operation. This was not a transient phenomenon at high RPM \u2014 the propeller was designed to operate with supersonic tips as its normal condition. The theory was that a supersonic propeller could convert the engine's enormous shaft power into thrust efficiently enough to push the aircraft to near-transonic speeds.\n\nThe theory was wrong.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Loudest Thing on Earth<\/h2>\n\nA conventional propeller generates noise primarily from its blade tips. When those tips exceed the speed of sound, each blade produces a continuous sonic boom on every rotation. The XF-84H's propeller turned at roughly 2,100 RPM with three blades \u2014 meaning the prop generated approximately 6,300 sonic shockwaves per minute, or 105 per second. This was not a periodic noise event. It was a continuous, unbroken wall of sonic booms.\n\nThe acoustic output was extraordinary. Ground crews at Edwards Air Force Base reported nausea, disorientation, and severe headaches when working near the running aircraft. One widely repeated account describes a crew member being knocked unconscious by the sound pressure. Maintenance personnel assigned to the XF-84H reportedly bid for transfers to avoid working on the aircraft.\n\n<div style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,#f8f9ff 0%,#eef1ff 100%);border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:22px 26px;margin:32px 0;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0\"><p style=\"font-size:17px;line-height:1.6;color:#333;margin:0 0 12px;font-style:italic\">Ground crews described it as the most appalling noise they had ever heard from an aircraft \u2014 audible from up to 25 miles away, with a pressure wave intense enough to be felt in the chest by anyone standing behind it.<\/p><p style=\"margin:0;font-weight:600;color:#1565c0;font-size:14px\">\u2014 Accounts from Edwards AFB ground crews, XF-84H test program<\/p><\/div>\n\nThe Edwards AFB control tower, located some distance from the flight line, complained that the noise disrupted normal operations. The aircraft had to be run up and tested at a remote area of the base to minimize the impact on other programs.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Twelve Flights to Nowhere<\/h2>\n\nThe XF-84H's problems went far beyond noise. The aircraft was aerodynamically unstable. The massive torque from the propeller created severe asymmetric forces that the airframe \u2014 originally designed for a jet engine with no propeller torque \u2014 could not adequately compensate for. Test pilot Henry \"Hank\" Beaird flew 11 of the 12 test flights in the first prototype (FS-059). He later described the aircraft as one of the most difficult he had ever flown.\n\nThe single-rotation propeller produced enormous torque-induced yaw and roll that the control surfaces could barely manage. On several flights, the aircraft experienced uncommanded pitch and yaw oscillations that made sustained flight dangerous. The engine was unreliable \u2014 the T40 coupled-turbine powerplant had a poor service record across multiple programs \u2014 and the gearbox and propeller shaft were sources of constant mechanical problems.\n\nThe second prototype (FS-060) made only four flights before the program was terminated. Test pilot Lin Hendrix reportedly told Republic that he would never fly the aircraft again.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why It Failed<\/h2>\n\nThe supersonic propeller concept was fundamentally flawed. When a propeller blade tip exceeds Mach 1, the shockwaves it generates create massive drag increases and energy losses. The acoustic energy alone \u2014 the noise that made the aircraft infamous \u2014 represented wasted power that was not being converted into thrust. At supersonic tip speeds, propeller efficiency drops catastrophically.\n\nThe XF-84H never came close to its design speed of Mach 0.9. In testing, it barely exceeded the performance of a conventional F-84F with a standard jet engine \u2014 while being louder, more dangerous, less reliable, and far more difficult to fly.\n\nBy 1956, the program was cancelled. Only one prototype survived. FS-059 \u2014 which spent years mounted on a pole outside Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California \u2014 is now on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB. FS-060 made only a handful of flights and was scrapped after the program was cancelled in 1956.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Right Idea at the Wrong Time (or Vice Versa)<\/h2>\n\nThe XF-84H is remembered as a failure, and it was. But it answered a question that needed answering: can supersonic propellers power a practical combat aircraft? The answer \u2014 decisively no \u2014 closed off a technological dead end and confirmed that the future of high-speed flight belonged to pure jet propulsion.\n\nModern turboprops like the C-130J's Dowty R391 operate well below Mach 1 at the blade tips, precisely because the XF-84H's generation of test programs proved what happens when you cross that boundary. The Thunderscreech's contribution to aviation was teaching everyone what not to do \u2014 at a volume that made the lesson impossible to ignore.\n\n<em>Sources: National Museum of the USAF, \"Republic's T-Bolt to Thunderchief\" by Warren Thompson, Edwards AFB flight test records, AIAA historical papers on propeller aeroacoustics<\/em>\n\n<!-- mf-faq -->\n\n<div class=\"mf-faq-block\"><style>.mf-faq-block{margin:34px 0}.mf-faq-item:not([open]) .mf-faq-answer{display:none !important}.mf-faq-block h2.mf-faq-h{padding-top:22px;margin-bottom:14px}.mf-faq-item{border:1px solid #e2e8f5;border-radius:8px;margin:0 0 10px;background:#fff}.mf-faq-item summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;padding:15px 50px 15px 18px;font-weight:600;color:#1a1a1a;position:relative;line-height:1.45;user-select:none}.mf-faq-item summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mf-faq-item summary::after{content:\"+\";position:absolute;right:18px;top:50%;transform:translateY(-50%);font-size:1.5em;font-weight:400;color:#5C91FF;line-height:1}.mf-faq-item[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mf-faq-item[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #eef1f8}.mf-faq-item summary:hover{background:#f5f8ff}.mf-faq-answer{padding:14px 18px;color:#333;line-height:1.6}.mf-faq-answer p{margin:0}<\/style><h2 class=\"mf-faq-h\">Related Questions<\/h2><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What was the loudest aircraft ever built?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech is widely regarded as the loudest aircraft ever built. Its turboprop spun a propeller whose blade tips were permanently supersonic, generating a relentless, brutal noise reportedly heard 25 miles away that could make ground crews physically ill.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>Why was the XF-84H so loud?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Its propeller tips spun continuously at supersonic speed \u2014 Mach 1.18 \u2014 producing a constant series of shock waves. Unlike a normal prop, the Thunderscreech's blades never stopped going supersonic, creating an unbearable, droning roar that earned it its nickname.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>What was the XF-84H Thunderscreech?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>The XF-84H was an experimental American turboprop fighter built by Republic Aviation in the mid-1950s. It used a powerful Allison turboprop driving a supersonic propeller, an attempt to combine propeller efficiency with near-jet speed \u2014 but it became infamous mainly for its catastrophic noise.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>How fast was the XF-84H meant to fly?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>It was designed to reach about 670 mph (Mach 0.9), which would have made it one of the fastest propeller aircraft ever. In practice it never achieved that speed, plagued by vibration, instability and its overwhelming noise across just 12 test flights.<\/p><\/div><\/details><details class=\"mf-faq-item\"><summary>How many XF-84H Thunderscreech were built?<\/summary><div class=\"mf-faq-answer\"><p>Only two prototypes were built, flying a combined total of 12 test flights in 1955\u20131956 at Edwards Air Force Base. 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