RE: The sound of a B-17 A few years ago was the 50th anniversary of the B-17, big events here in Seattle at the Museum of Flight. So I took the family there. We did the tour of the B-17 and were about to leave when they announced the the B-17 and other WWII warbirds were all going to fire up and take off so I insisted we stay a little longer. And the B-17, the B-25, a P-51 Mustang, a Corsair and IIRC at least one other aircraft fired up, took off, and made a low pass along the length of Boeing Field. I told the boys and my wife to pay attention, theat they would probably never see or hear any such thing again in their lifetime. 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. |
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