Re: Fun with used cars

Posted by DavidPackard On 2020/5/8 12:30:14
Interesting VE event today:

Seems the Commemorative Air Force did a low speed, low altitude fly-over of the general Phoenix area. I was sitting in my home office and heard the unmistakable sound of 'big round engines'. I ran out of the house just in time to see a North American B-25 (likely the Maid in the Shade), a Boeing B-17 (likely the Sentimental Journey), and a Douglas C-47 (likely the Old Number 30). Just as I spotted them they flew out of sight around a local rock formation.

Wow 16K + cubic inches rumbling around the sky, and I didn't think to take a camera or cell phone. I live about 9 miles north of Falcon Field, which is the CAF's home base. During the winter you'll occasionally see individual or multiple WWII aircraft, but the larger aircraft normally don't fly in close formation. Today they sure did.

Quite a sight, we had Wright's and Pratt's, but alas no flying Packard's today.

dp

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