I was a kid during WWII and used to build models of all those gorgeous
planes. To this day, I still love them. I highly recommend that anyone
who likes these old airplanes go to the military aircraft museum in Dayton,
Ohio. It's not to be missed!
Sumner Weisman
62 TR-3B
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:56:00 -0400
From: Cliff Hansen <chansen@exis.net>
Subject: Re: the airplane thread
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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