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Offline DaYooper

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« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2006, 05:46:39 PM »
I once heard something special fly overhead on day with low fog.  I went and scanned the local airports later that day wondering what I'd find.  Then I found a P-51 parked.  No one was around, but I know that is what I heard.

I've also heard a B-25 fly over at low alt.  The air was so thick with the reverberations of it's power you could feel it beat on your chest.

Beech-18's have brought me running out of my house to see just what it was, also.  They got the juju too.
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« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2006, 05:54:44 PM »
yeah pounds i meant :D
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Offline TinmanX

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« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2006, 06:55:57 PM »
A c47 flew over my house on Father day. Shoulda heard it, unmistakable. Shoulda heard me too... "GOON, GOON, GOON!!" Whilst running in to grab my camera; "Where's my f@#king camera".

Got the camera too late, all I have is a very distant shot of the bird.
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« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2006, 08:42:51 PM »
I live right under the approach for KWVI, Watsonville, CA. There's a couple of WWII era planes stationed here and it's a popular stop for them as well. At least once a week I'll hear a P-51 or T-6 and run outside to watch it land. Pretty funny playing Aces High and hearing real WWII planes buzzing your house, it can be confusing.
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« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2006, 10:11:31 PM »
we have a mosquito plane{c47} that fly's out of the airport at-least twice a month, it sprays the woods to kill pests, my god i wonder what it was like around tyndall in the 40's...
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« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2006, 10:18:57 PM »
its like a drug.. a few years back they had an airshow here in chattanooga WWII vintage aircraft all over the sky.. I had to work that night... man it was a long night with no sleep that day :)
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« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2006, 11:06:05 PM »
The two best sounds ive hear were a F4U1-D fire up and taxi past me about 40ft away at a local airshow in Geneso Ny . The other was seeing Porky , A P38-J fire up and take off for a performance in dayton . Talk about a chubby :D
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Offline Fruda

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« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2006, 10:43:41 AM »
My favorite has to be the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engine.

I was about two hundred yards from a P-47D-40 idling near a hangar at Hooks airport (just a few miles from my house)... That was the loudest thing I've ever heard (and I had the windows on my car rolled up!).

And a month or two ago while I was riding my bike, a P-47 flew overhead. I might've been the same one, though I'm not too sure. It's kind of difficult to make out a paintjob on a plane that's 2,000 feet up in the air. :P

Anyway, the one that flew overhead was running at about 70% throttle. The "hum" of the R-2800 was very noticeable, though it was still nothing compared to what it could be on full throttle (it was a low-frequency hum rather than a scream).


And a few years ago at Hooks airport, I was very close to a TBM-3 Avenger (I actually touched it a few times). It gave me a bit of a scare when the guy who was maintaining it decided to start it up, seeing as I was only about twenty feet away from it. The engine had the same sound as the P-47's, though it wasn't quite as chunky.

Yeah, I like piston-engined aircraft, too. :P
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Offline 68DevilM

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« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2006, 10:48:38 AM »
me personally...

i love the sound of the la5 spooling up.....or the p47 d
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Offline xbrit

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« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2006, 08:39:09 PM »
Kinda scarey to know 38ruk got a chub at Dayton I think I was stood close to him !!!!!
I will never forget during my time in the RAF doing support for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, it was a thrill to hear those aircraft so close.
Please Please 38 edit your post maybe just say you were happy or something !!!
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Offline Guyver

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« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2006, 09:01:18 PM »
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Kinda scarey to know 38ruk got a chub at Dayton I think I was stood close to him !!!!!
I will never forget during my time in the RAF doing support for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, it was a thrill to hear those aircraft so close.
Please Please 38 edit your post maybe just say you were happy or something !!!


my bro new a few guys from the bob memorial flight. i think he used to do some safty equipment stuff for them. seen them fly alot of times. sounds great when they come over.
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« Reply #26 on: July 27, 2006, 09:09:28 PM »
We used to transport equipment for them and once unloaded normally gave our own C-130 demo this was a fun way to get rid of any sinus problems you had.
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« Reply #27 on: July 29, 2006, 12:38:22 AM »
Xbrti wasnt your wife in dayton with ya hehehe, I was happy !:D
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« Reply #28 on: July 29, 2006, 12:46:19 AM »
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....And a month or two ago while I was riding my bike, a P-47 flew overhead. I might've been the same one, though I'm not too sure. It's kind of difficult to make out a paintjob on a plane that's 2,000 feet up in the air. :P...



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Offline Stoney74

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« Reply #29 on: July 29, 2006, 02:56:47 AM »
Come to Reno, crash on my couch, and listen to Rare Bear or Dago Red slingshot past you at 450 knots--its a toss up between the roar of the radial or the hum of the Merlin.  Either way, incredible... (Not to mention there's about 15 other warbirds flying.  Last year we had a F7F in the races.  So, go Pratt & Whitney times 2.)
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