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Re: What Gets You into the Warbird Spirit?
Posted by Steve T on Tue Nov 11, 2003 07:17:14 PM
In reply top What Gets You into the Warbird Spirit? posted by Tom Royal on Tue Nov 11, 2003 09:34:36 AM
Tom et al--
For me, pretty much any big, "old-sounding" engine note passing overhead can do it. Might be CWH's or one of Gateway Air's DC-3s; might be a Beech or Stearman; might be someone's Harvard--it really doesn't matter. However there's one sound that can send me scurrying in a microsecond for the nearest sky view. Yeah. THAT sound. Even miles off it's unmistakeable: four Packard Merlins in perfect harmony. Riveting, heavenly and sobering at once...noise that somehow means far more than some of the finest music ever could. I count myself fortunate indeed that, excepting perhaps the populace around RAF Coningsby, I get to hear it more than almost anyone else on earth because I happen to live where I do!