Ah, nostalgia! When I was a small boy I lived next to an Air National
Guard base. The time being the late '40's and early '50's the Guard was
flying P-51's. I knew all about them because my dad used to service
them during the war. I used to ride my bike up and down the road near
the runway just savoring the sound of those Rolls Royce Merlins. And
then there was that @%@#$^ guy in the yellow pickup truck who always
tried to chase me away. Ha ha. Never caught me.
Today I have to make do with a CD containing nothing but the sounds of
P-51's. One of the cuts is of 3 or 4 aircraft recorded and re-recorded
with delays introduced so it sounds like 15-20 aircraft. The intent was
to recreate the sound of a flight taking off from an English airfield
during the war. Wow! What a sound. It shakes the whole house.
OM content: I wish I'd had my OM's back then to snap some shots of the
real thing before they all disappeared.
Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
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John said:
One of the best parts was near the end of the show on Saturday when
a multitude of these aircraft took off one, right after the other. The
cacophony of well over a dozen of these old engines in close proximity
gave some feel for what it must have sounded like on the WWII airfields,
not to mention the sound when they were all in the air. I've seen
individual examples of these aircraft fly before, but not entire flights
of them. Impressive is a gross understatement.
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