Last year I was using a friends shop near a small airport...I was thrilled to see a B-17 and B-24. The thing that surprised me was how quiet they are. I was used to the small prop planes and private jets but these sounded totally different. We could stand right at the side of the runway as they took off and landed....awesome.
I can't imagine the feeling that would come over you if you had been on the receiving end of a squadron of those things.
I can't imagine the feeling that would come over you if you had been on the receiving end of a squadron of those things.
Well it's still here. Heard it twice and spied it once between the rather massive live oaks trees around here. They've ruined all attempts to get a decent photograph of.
Wish the wife would allow me to buy a higher end dslr. Her little digitals are not better than 8mp ones in our cell phones. My oldest nikon works great if had film. The motordrive and 300mm f4 tele is perfect for such shots... if you dont mind lugging around a 12lb. camera 😉
And logistics of supplying the right part. With so many incompatable parts was a nightmere, let alone frustrating and costly.
A P51 could replace the A10, but would rather see more P38's
Any Bugatti 100p luvn around here? Slick lines even by todays standard. Hard to imagine in 1939.
Wish the wife would allow me to buy a higher end dslr. Her little digitals are not better than 8mp ones in our cell phones. My oldest nikon works great if had film. The motordrive and 300mm f4 tele is perfect for such shots... if you dont mind lugging around a 12lb. camera 😉
And logistics of supplying the right part. With so many incompatable parts was a nightmere, let alone frustrating and costly.
A P51 could replace the A10, but would rather see more P38's
Any Bugatti 100p luvn around here? Slick lines even by todays standard. Hard to imagine in 1939.
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Speaking of "Connie".......
Still beautiful . 🙂
Qantas 'Connie' Super Constellation Takeoff with flames (1080p HD) - YouTube
Still beautiful . 🙂
Qantas 'Connie' Super Constellation Takeoff with flames (1080p HD) - YouTube
I kind of remember flying on one of those, when that's what we had. I do remember flying much more recently on a "DC 6B, 'Equippe con Radar" in Equador, in the mid '70s Talk about flames coming out of the pipes, starting up at 7000 ft altitude was amazing.
Referring to the video a couple of posts ago, I saw flames coming from the Constellation's exhaust ports during landing - most impressive.
I can remember flying in a 4 engine prop driven airplane as a young child and seeing the flames on takeoff. Despite my fathers reassurance that this was normal, I was convinced that we were all going to die.....I guess he was right. He was a B24 pilot during WWII, and an air traffic controller after that. I don't think the plane was a Connie since it was a short MIA to ATL flight. Probably a DC4 or DC6.
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from 72 through 75 I was a radio operator on a P3-A/B Orion. I hate the sound of them.
Now a DC3/C47, that is another matter completely. I first flew in one in 1960 when my father was in the air force and he was stationed in Constantina Spain.
I love the sound of a pair of Twin Wasp engines idling on the flight line.
I'm a Bristol Hercules fan myself... SAFE Air used to fly Bristol Freighters out of the airport here late at night. A sound as evocative as a distant steam train whistle...
Bristol Freighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Freighter gained a reputation as one of the aircraft known as "20,000 rivets flying in close formation". I maintain that they were in fact flying in loose formation - if they weren't loose, they wouldn't rattle.
"bristol hercules" - YouTube
Bristol Freighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Freighter gained a reputation as one of the aircraft known as "20,000 rivets flying in close formation". I maintain that they were in fact flying in loose formation - if they weren't loose, they wouldn't rattle.
"bristol hercules" - YouTube
Greebster - late reply, but yeah that 100P was frickin gorgeous - remind you at all of Burt Rutan's early stuff? Actually, it could be the reverse 😀
There's a VariEze that bops around the Saanich Peninsula on clear days . While as far one could get from the roaring thunder of any of the droning quads to which this thread is dedicated (TU95 Bear could well win the Oscar there, but how many of us have actually heard one?), there's something bemusing about hearing the very distinctive sound of a unmufflered VW engine flying overhead, and this particular pilot always appears to be having a ball. That little MF is pretty aerobatic
There's a VariEze that bops around the Saanich Peninsula on clear days . While as far one could get from the roaring thunder of any of the droning quads to which this thread is dedicated (TU95 Bear could well win the Oscar there, but how many of us have actually heard one?), there's something bemusing about hearing the very distinctive sound of a unmufflered VW engine flying overhead, and this particular pilot always appears to be having a ball. That little MF is pretty aerobatic
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