You guys should move to Seattle and you'll get lots of chances to see
that sort of hardware, flying or otherwise at the Boeing air museum. If
you are ever in town, it's a real treat.
Joe Curry
Cliff Hansen wrote:
>
> At 12:02 PM 8/13/98 +1000, Allen Nugent wrote:
> >
> >At 14:53 12/08/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >>
> >>All this talk of WW II planes reminds me that at the Westwood, NJ show a
> >>while back, a B17 flew over.
> >
> >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.)
>
> 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 :-)
>
> 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.
>
> Cliff Hansen
> 1966 TR-4A CTC64615L
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