An excerpt from an article in the U.S. "Flying" magazine, Feb. 2004*...
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Travels in Time: re-creating the Nationial Air Tour.
"Imagine a time when radal engines dominated the skies; when townspeople turned out to watch aeroplanes land at a local airfield; when perfection was taking off with a buddy..."
A re-creation of the U.S mail plane service across the U.S flying the original planes...!
"We weren't just commemoration history.
We were re-creating it, in living, real-time colour"
"....But perhaps the most telling moment of the tour.....had been to worry about wether people would want to fly or see old aeroplanes touring around the country---came at one of the very first stops.
As the tour planes were starting up and getting ready to go, a North American P-51 Mustang landed and taxied by.
Nobody...not the tour pilots, not the airport personnel, not the spectators...turned to look."
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LOL...!
There you go...!
If you want to excite your spectators, pilots, ground crew, etc, forget about F-16's, P-51 Mustangs, etc, just fire up a radial engined Boeing Stearman Speed Mail, a Ryan W-1 Mailplane, or an old Ford Tri-Motor mail plane, etc...
and watch the tears flow from their eyes...!
Cheers all...!
Paul....an avid radial enthusiast...!
* http://www.flyingmag.com
