I have to say the most impressive sight I have
ever seen was at the Farnborough International
airshow here in the UK two years ago. I lived in
Farnborough then and was just leaving the Aldershot
Tesco Supermarket when I saw a Stealth Bomber
banking over Aldershot, the view of the top side
of the plane was remarkable, the plane was banking to
do a return flyover the airfield on its way back to a
US airfield or the US.
On the drive home the plane literally flew over the top
of the road I was on, it was literally a flat line
in the sky that had I not known it was
there I would have looked right past it.
Seeing the Shuttle take of earlier that year at Kennedy
was a close 2nd.
David Allinson
1958 TR3A
1974 Stag
{} At 12:02 PM 8/13/98 +1000, Allen Nugent wrote:
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{} >At 14:53 12/08/98 -0400, you wrote:
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{} >>All this talk of WW II planes reminds me that at the Westwood, NJ show a
{} >>while back, a B17 flew over.
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{} >Cool! I once saw a 747 do a barrel roll, at the Abbottsford Air Show. (Kind
{} >of like truck racing, now that I think about it.)
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{} I saw the B-17 in Portland OR several years ago, in company with two P-51s
{} and a P-47. You could hear them coming for miles - sort like my TR4A which
{} shed its excuse of a muffler yesterday. I kinda like it :-)
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{} However, the most impressive airplane I've seen in action is a B-52, flying
{} at about 20 feet over the Pacific. I looked across the deck of the USS
{} Independence and watched the tailfin go past, like a shark. He pulled into
{} a climb in front of the ship.
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{} Cliff Hansen
{} 1966 TR-4A CTC64615L
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