Legendary WW2 Aircraft

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Legendary WW2 Aircraft

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I found this video on youtube while showing my grandson some "a-planes".

He don't care much for modern jet aircraft. He likes the old piston and rotary engine sounds.

https://youtu.be/6dwgLvGs6uE
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rock-steady wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:49 am I found this video on youtube while showing my grandson some "a-planes".

He don't care much for modern jet aircraft. He likes the old piston and rotary engine sounds.

https://youtu.be/6dwgLvGs6uE

really nice - thank you! :D
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rock-steady wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:49 am He don't care much for modern jet aircraft. He likes the old piston and rotary engine sounds.
Somebody is raising that boy right! The kid has class! :wink:

I liked them all, but especially those that my Dad crewed in WWII -- the Spitfire, P47 Thunderbolt and the P51 Mustang. Love that B model 'Stang with the Malcolm Hood! Notice the small rear-facing mirrors on the Hurricane and Spitfires; the Yank pilots who flew with the RAF Eagle Squadrons carried those over to their T-Bolts and Mustangs when they joined the U.S. 8th Air Force.

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I'm also with the kid! Something went out of my interest in planes when I say my first jet (in 1949?), probably a P-80 Shooting Star from Hamilton Air Force Base about 20 miles south of our ranch.

Every few years the Navy and Marines would hold a war game off the Northern California coast sending strike aircraft to test the AA defenses of the San Francisco Bay area. We lived on the north side of a long ridge called Sonoma Mountain, which was split at the western end by a narrow canyon called Burns Canyon, the eastern border of our ranch.

Sonoma Mountain made a great radar shield for the "raiders" because it ran west to east about 18-20 miles north of the northern radar sites protecting SF and the air base. They would fly up Bennett Valley north of the mountain (right on the deck and shielded from radar) and "pop through" canyon, flying right at the airbase.

At first all the raiders seemed to be flying Corsairs, but in later "strikes" it was a mixture of Corsairs and Skyraiders, then Panther jets and Skyraiders, then A-4 Skyhawks. Great fun to watch, especially since we knew just how narrow that canyon was--fitting an AD through there took some serious 'nads and skill! This usually happened at dawn before school, which gave us a great view of the "raid."

Better positioning of radars and Nike batteries ended those shows, but not before we got to see an A-4 do a dummy run of the "A-bomb toss" high speed climb-and-roll maneuver! Bye-bye Frisco!
I later saw NATO maneuvers in Spain where an F-5 did one of those using the Sierra Morena for a radar shield to "hit" a Spanish city (can't remember which one). He added a sonic boom to HIS run!
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rock-steady wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:49 amHe likes the old piston and rotary engine sounds.
Who doesn't?! That Soviet Rat is a neat sounding work.
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that was a treat! I followed that with the P-38 documentary, which is well worth the time.
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