I agree, Chuck, the P-51 has a special sound especially at speed.
I don’t know how many Spits are still flying, but I watched 13 (I think it was)
airborne at the same time at Duxford – a sight to behold and what a sound.
Unfortunately that was the show at which an old Fairey Firefly (of the Royal
Navy Historic Flight); both crew died. I was there with a former member of the
List, Gary Edwards, and a friend of his who were visiting the UK.
Chris
(who was -4 in 1950 :-))
> On 30 Aug 16, at 00:35, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I second Bob's comments but other things that can always catch my eye are the
> Spitfire and P-51. Any idea how many Spitfires are still flying? Seeing a
> P-51 takes me instantly to my boyhood of about 6-7 years of age. We lived
> next to an Air National Guard base that was equipped with P-51s. There was a
> road that was very close to and paralleled the runway. When I see a P-51 I'm
> suddenly riding my bike down that road watching them take off or land.
>
> When I first started to write this I though I must have been older than 7.
> But I looked up the history of that unit which says they had already moved on
> to F-84s from the P-51 by 1950. I was 7 in 1950.
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