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Subject: [Leica] Be prepared!!
From: s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)
Date: Thu Aug 5 01:12:52 2004
References: <000a01c47a90$fb466370$6401a8c0@dorysrusp4>

Most engine have a characteristic sound..
My two and a half year old daughter can now differientiate between a few
aircraft
and clearly recognises a  CF6 engine.
simon jessurun


> Walker,
> There is nothing else that sounds like a Rolls Royce Merlin engine, not
> even the license built Allisons sound like one.  Likewise a Wasp radial
> engine has its unique melody.  When one of them coughs to life and ever
> so slowly evens out you can believe that the engine knows it is carrying
> death and destruction and only reluctantly bears that burden.
>
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Walker Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:17 PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Be prepared!!
>
> A fine shot with a great "feel" to it! Sometimes the best shots come
> from less-than-the-best equipment.
>
> Almost 20 years ago I saw the "Battle of Britain" Memorial Flight put on
>
> an air show with the Hurricane, Spitfire, Mosquito and Lancaster Bomber.
>
> It was a fine demonstration and I especially liked it because my uncle
> was detached from US forces early in the war to fly recconisance
> missions for the Brits in the Mosquito and/or Spitfire. (He was a P-38
> pilot) He earned his RAF Wings as well as his US Wings and was
> authorized to wear both simultaniously. One of very few so honored with
> most having been members of the "Eagle Squadron", American citizens who
> flew for the RAF and later transferred to US forces when we got into the
>
> fight.
>
> True story: I was a member of a shooting club while stationed in England
>
> back in the mid-1980's. One Sunday afternoon we were in the clubhouse -
> the old WW2 RAF Nissan hut "Scramble Shack" used by the RAF fighter
> pilots and moved from RAF Martlesham Heath to club property - when a
> plane flew over. My friend, a WW2 British vet, immediately said "If I
> didn't know better, I'd say that was a Spitfire"! We rushed outside and
> it was indeed a Spitfire. 40 years after the war and he still knew the
> sound it made instantly.
>
> Walker Smith
>
>
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