Thread: Do aircraft turn your prop?
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04-14-2011 02:41 AM #21
In a word: YES!Do aircraft turn your prop?
Uncle Sam's Canoe Club let me play with them, and sometimes I kick myself for not following on with that occupation. The sound of a radial with a prop, the bigger, the better, excites me to the point of giddiness; makes my insides wiggle.
We live near the North Las Vegas Airport, and there are several planes there regularly that have radials, and often, one or a few will fly in for a visit. I have almost wrecked my self trying to get outside when one flies over. Love the picture of the Connie, Bob, thanks for putting it up; in my mind, the Constellations were some of the downright prettiest planes ever. Some years ago, there was a documentary on the TV about one that was restored her in The States, and then flown to Australia; good show.
After I got released from active duty and went home, and back to my old job building power lines, I had a close encounter with a couple of Corsairs out near Twentynine Palms: We were taking our lunch break, and had gotten down in a dry river bed that was about thirty or so feet deep to sit in the shade of the cut bank to eat. There came a deep throbbing rumble in the ground that got my attention real quick, and I got up to get away from the cut bank for fear it was going to cave off. The river bed was a few hundred feet wide, and pretty twisty. Around the curve of the river came two Corsairs in Marine Corps livery, flying below ground level, down in the river bed; they had their props on high pitch and their engines were just above a high idle. As they came in sight, the pilots spotted us standing there with our mouths agape, and waved as they went by, and disappeared around the next bend. I was so wound up I couldn't sit still for the rest of the afternoon. When we got back to work, we could see them off to the north flying over the ranges on the base.Rrumbler, Aka: Hey you, "Old School", Hairy, and other unsavory monickers.
Twistin' and bangin' on stuff for about sixty or so years; beat up and busted, but not entirely dead - yet.





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