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Re: What got you hooked on Warbirds...........?
Posted by T J Johansen on Thu Nov 22, 2001 01:24:14 PM
In reply top What got you hooked on Warbirds...........? posted by Tony on Tue Nov 20, 2001 11:58:30 AM
Summer of 1981, Harvard LN-TEX were visiting our local airfield almost every weekend that summer. I remember the first time I heard the sound of the P&W 1340 when playing football in our yard with my dad. Awesome.......! Then I got to see and HEAR that beatiful bird fly a few weeks later. My dad being the very supportive man he was drove me there all summer, when Anders S?thers Cessna 185 came overhead you knew the T-6 was in the area. In the car and up to the field, you waited while people exited the 185, and then you heard that familiar rasping sound, and that familiar broad cowling came into view. A number of low passes, followed by the landing, and you were within reach of living history. At the age of of 11 this was pretty addictive stuff and to this day whenever I hear a 1340, Twin Wasp, or Merlin over Oslo I always look out through the window! My girlfriend tries to understand this fascination but can?t so I only smile to her and use that old expression: "If I have to explain it, you won?t understand......!"
T J Johansen