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Elvis
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Really? I always thought
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEnOeITKZAA.
Actually, Muller, that's a great example of a Merlin roaring by.
I think its great (almost poetic) that each country's "champion fighter" had its own sound.
It was another mark that denoted what it was and what it stood for.
The Allisons, The Merlins, The Daimlers....heck, even
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akTQN_4YcPY
Seriously, how many of us have caught ourselves running out of the house, looking up, like some astonished 5-year-old, when we hear the "pop-pop-pop" that can ONLY come from a radial engine.
...and speaking of radial engines and low passes (as seen on Muller's vid), did I ever tell you guys about the time a friend and I were driving around?
Well, a friend and I were driving around one afternoon and we came upon this house that was under construction.
He was all into housing ideas back then, and seeing how no one was around, we stopped and took a little tour of the place.
I remember standing in what we figured was probably the master bedroom when I hear something.
I motioned him over to the large opening I was looking out of and told him to watch and he'd see an old airplane fly over.
He asked how I knew, and I mentioned the sound off in the distance that was steadily getting louder was from a radial engine, and that usually mean "old airplane".
...oh yeah, we saw an old airplane alright...
It was a B-25 in full dress (minus the guns) doing about 200 knots and 10 feet off the tree tops!
Other than the day the B-29 was delivered to the Museum of Flight and buzzed the shop I used to work at (along with two P-51 escorts) and the free airshow I got for my 18th birthday, that was about the coolest thing I've ever seen!
Funny how well the trees can mask the sound of an engine(s). I could tell it was approaching, but sounded like it was still a fair distance off, then WHOOM! it erupted out of the trees and came right over us.
A memory I shant soon forget.
Elvis
