I copied Jonmacs note:
>Amen to all that. But the sound of a sole Spitfire or Hurribird can do
>things to your tear ducts if sound is allied to vision, while the
>bellowing of a Lanc makes your hair stand on end. Aint no sound in the
>world like a Merlin.
to my father who was in the RAF as a radio mechanic during the time the
spitfires and Lancasters were flying.
He responded with the following comment:
"The enthusiast should try being crouched inside the tail section of a
Spitfire, with his knees by his ears and fixing the radio wiring, with
the engine running."
Mark Hooper
72 TR6
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