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thymekiller Administrator Offline Stick & Tissue Posts: 3237 Location: Missouri Joined: Jun 14^th, 2008	Re: Strange Things In The Sky Reply #8 - Mar 23^rd, 2015 at 2:09am	Print Post
	FIFi came to Springfield once. I got a vid but the sound just doesn't work like being there. That thing shakes the ground!!!!! Love those guys and what they do!!!

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bigrip74 Administrator Offline What did l do this time! Posts: 6486 Location: Austin, Texas Joined: Jan 14^th, 2013	Re: Strange Things In The Sky Reply #7 - Mar 22^nd, 2015 at 4:23pm	Print Post
	Kittyfritters, thanks for the photo of a beautiful airplane. I had the chance to be up close to FIFI for a week while she and many other war birds were at the hanger that I was working on at ADDISON airport back in the late 80's or early 90's my memory escapes me but WOW what a sight. Bob

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Kittyfritters 5 Star Member Offline Stick & Tissue Posts: 713 Location: California Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011	Re: Strange Things In The Sky Reply #6 - Mar 22^nd, 2015 at 3:16pm	Print Post
	I took this photo of Fifi yesterday. I have a video of the entire starting process on my cellphone, but it is too long to email it to myself. I'll have to edit it. When the first engine started, with the typical cloud of oil smoke from a cold radial, someone behind me said, "I guess they didn't have to smog that!" The takeoff was very gentle since they had an 8000 foot runway and it is, after all, an old airplane. I wish I could post some inflights, but I didn't have the $595 to $1695 to take a flight (depending on where in the plane you sit). They did three flights a day for the four days it was here and they were all sold out before the plane got here!

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Kittyfritters 5 Star Member Offline Stick & Tissue Posts: 713 Location: California Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011	Re: Strange Things In The Sky Reply #5 - Aug 29^th, 2014 at 10:35pm	Print Post
	Sky9pilot wrote on Aug 29^th, 2014 at 2:44pm: Out here in rural So. WA I was in the Burger King drive thru when I heard the sound of multi radial engines...I looked up and to my surprise I saw a B-29 going overhead at about 5000 ft. Might have been "Fifi" on tour, probably on way to Seattle. We're directly north of Portland PDX which shares the airport with an interceptor squadron of F-15's may have been an airshow down there. What a treat that was! Tom I am one of the Black Sheep Squadron volunteers that work with the Yellow Jackets model club at the Luther Middle School in Burbank. Fifi had made a tour stop at the Bob Hope Airport the previous weekend and as the lunch time model club meeting was breaking up it took off for its next stop. The school is only a short distance from the end of the runway and the B-29 could not make the fighter like, noise abatement climb outs that the jet airliners make on departure so it rumbled low over the school causing every one on the school grounds to stop and stare. A twenty-something teacher turned to me and asked what it was. I gave her a Tweet length explanation of the B-29 and she was very surprised that something from WW2 was still flying. I'll tell you, it's quite impressive when it is that close.

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Colonel Manfred von Holstein 4 Star Member Offline Posts: 287 Location: Indianapolis, IN Joined: Feb 3^rd, 2014	Re: Strange Things In The Sky Reply #4 - Aug 29^th, 2014 at 3:10pm	Print Post
	There are only a couple handfuls of airworthy Fortresses left. This one caught me off guard earlier this year. It's a sight and sound to behold. Can you imagine a sortie of fifty B-17's with 1800 cylinders of screaming Cyclone engine descending over you with 200 tons of high explosives? By the middle of '45 I doubt there were more than a dozen clean pairs of underwear in Europe.

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Sky9pilot Administrator Offline Stick & Tissue Posts: 12079 Location: Kelso, WA 98626 USA Joined: Jan 9^th, 2010	Re: Strange Things In The Sky Reply #3 - Aug 29^th, 2014 at 2:44pm	Print Post
	Out here in rural So. WA I was in the Burger King drive thru when I heard the sound of multi radial engines...I looked up and to my surprise I saw a B-29 going overhead at about 5000 ft. Might have been "Fifi" on tour, probably on way to Seattle. We're directly north of Portland PDX which shares the airport with an interceptor squadron of F-15's may have been an airshow down there. What a treat that was! Tom

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Kittyfritters 5 Star Member Offline Stick & Tissue Posts: 713 Location: California Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011	Re: Strange Things In The Sky Reply #2 - Aug 29^th, 2014 at 1:45pm	Print Post
	Back in May of 2013 a neighbor of mine was walking about the neighborhood taking pictures of birds. He heard something strange, looked up, and snapped a picture of this.

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Sky9pilot Administrator Offline Stick & Tissue Posts: 12079 Location: Kelso, WA 98626 USA Joined: Jan 9^th, 2010	Re: Strange Things In The Sky Reply #1 - Jan 23^rd, 2014 at 2:13pm	Print Post
	Kittyfritters wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2014 at 12:06pm: the I'm just like a little kid with a Pavlovian reaction to airplane sounds. Guilty! Howard I thought my wife was the only one with that feeling!!! In my rural area here I only get an occasional sight of a Blackhawk Heli every so often. Miss living near an AFB or NAS or airport. Tom

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Kittyfritters 5 Star Member Offline Stick & Tissue Posts: 713 Location: California Joined: Feb 24^th, 2011	Strange Things In The Sky Jan 23^rd, 2014 at 12:06pm	Print Post
	On Monday I was hauling the trash cans to the curb for pickup day when I heard an aircraft overhead. This is not unusual since I am a quarter mile off the center line of the runway at Bob Hope Airport (Lockheed) in Burbank, but this was one damn funny sounding airplane. Looking up I saw a V-22, Osprey, for the first time in actual flight. Now that I know what they sound like I will look up sooner when one comes over. I always know when there is an historic aircraft on tour visiting Burbank because I remember the sounds of airplanes they way my wife remembers the scent of perfumes. I'm close enough to the airport that I can hear something with multiple, round engines taxiing for take off or the piercing whine of the turbos of a P-38 as it's take off run starts...sounds that never fail to get me to dash out of the house to watch them fly by. My wife says that I'm just like a little kid with a Pavlovian reaction to airplane sounds. Guilty! Seen anything a wee bit different fly by lately? Howard

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