Skiing on a sunny day at Deer Valley ... a P-51 flies around overhead almost
every good day from the Heber airport just over the hill.
Wes
on 11/29/01 2:15 PM, Albaugh, Neil at albaugh_neil@ti.com wrote:
> Russ;
>
> Well-- surprise-- I was an "Army Brat", too. I never did get to see an
> operational B-36 but I finally did see one in the AF Museum in Dayton. Man,
> were those things big!
>
> I was at an airshow, too, where a P-51D made a very low- level high- speed
> pass over the crowd and then pulled up in a high "G" climb. A real thrill.
> What a sound!
>
> Armored vehicles make neat sounds, too. Hearing a tank moving in the dark in
> your bivouac area is not a comforting sound-- even when you know darned well
> that it's one of yours. The movie "Patton" had the most realistic scenes of
> armor that I've seen in the movies. The scene where an armored column is
> moving on a muddy road through the falling snow to relieve the Airborne in
> Bastogne is so real that I could almost reach out and touch the cold metal.
> They got the tank sounds right, too.
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtmack [mailto:RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:54 PM
> To: Albaugh, Neil
> Cc: 'RTMACK@concentric.net'; 'Rose & Terry Hunt'; Land-speed@autox.team.n
> Subject: Re: Recips.
>
>
> Neil:
> I was an "army brat", and travelled around-- but a lot of my growing up was
> in San Antonio, a great air force town. I remember the sound of the 6 Wasp
> Major (28cyl) radials on the B-36s (couldn't even hear the 4 little
> turbojets)-- like prolonged thunder, for minutes at a time. I would lie on
> my back in the sunflowers and watch them for hours, from the time I was 4
> 'til about 7.
>
> But the first Merlin I ever heard "up close" gave me a better scare than a
> wooden roller-coaster. At 12 years old, my best friend's dad (ex- "Mighty
> Eighth"; B-17s) took us to a small airshow at Stinson Field. As the
> audience was in the bleachers awaiting the opening of the show, a distant
> scream began to build and grow closer-- and CLOSER! We all strained to see
> where the sound was coming from, and it was right out of the sun. With the
> hair standing up on the back of my neck, I dived under the stands along with
> everyone else-- and peeked out to see a P-51D level-off a couple hundred
> feet above our heads. It's a wonder nobody had a heart attack-- or maybe
> they did; I was so focused on the airplanes that day, I might not remember.
> I do remember being glad that I had just gone to the bathroom! I've wanted
> a 51D ever since.
> Russ Mack
>
>
> "Albaugh, Neil" wrote:
>
>
> Great story, Russ. Those Constellations were certainly great looking planes!
>
> Big radials are great sounding engines... but a hot V-12 Merlin ain't bad,
> either!
>
> Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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