Originally Posted by norodnik
The 146 has that Concorde smell about it which must be something to do with the way the Brits built them. In addition, those stupid sun blinds that have 2 halves and that seriously loud whoosh that happens about 5000 feet which makes all the newbies cringe..
what a plane!!!!
I hate the smell - it's a sort of puke smell. Yuk. Fokker 100's smell like this as well.
I think the whoosh noise is quite scary - though as they retract the flaps after take off it does give a feeling of an increase in power which is quite cool.