Thread: CAF 2015 Air Show @ New Century (Old Olathe Naval Air Station)

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Just saw a note that Aluminum Overcast B17 will be in Oklahoma City this weekend, and in Topeka November 20-22 - B-17 Aluminum Overcast Tour Stops | EAA

It's another of the great WWII bombers, and it's great to see one still making the rounds.

All this talk brought back a memory: In 1959, after I graduated from high school, I got a job with a local REA Co-op power company in my hometown of Twentynine Palms, California, and worked there through the rest of the year until I enlisted in the Navy in January 1960. One hot summer day, we were working out in the boonies near the boundary to the Marine Base, and took our lunch break in the shade of a shallow canyon about 100 feet deep. As we were sitting there against a shallow cut in the sand, grains of dirt started falling from the cut and the ground started vibrating; not shaking - yet. We were trying to figure out what was going on when a low whine and rumble came from around a bend, and two F4U Corsairs came around that bend flying about fifty feet above the floor of the canyon - low, and relatively slow. They were dusty grey, and had MARINES on the fuselages, and as they flew past, the pilots gave us a wave and a salute, and they were gone around another bend. They were so low that they probably were not visible from the flatland above the canyon, and we figured that they were involved in some exercise on the base.

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