Hear!!!, Hear!!!
Skip (Miss America P-51 Crew Chief some time ago)
At 09:20 AM 11/30/01 -0700, Clay, Dale wrote:
>One day you need to attend the Air Races. You haven't lived until you hear
>a whole pack of unlimiteds fly by "on the deck."
>
>Dale C.
>
>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
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