At 03:15 PM 11/5/2010 -0700, Loren Busch wrote: >An era gone but for some of us not forgotten. Although >very young during WWII I was growing up about five miles as the crow flies, >on the side of a hill overlooking Boeing Field. Those birds were in out sky >all the time, you can't forget what they sounded like. I spent years three through seven a few miles from a SAC base (Pease AFB) and having the big birds droning by overhead was familiar and comfortable to me. The first time I heard a turboprop engine (on the ground) I wanted to run away and hide. That eerie whistle... Yrs, d |
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