At 03:15 PM 11/5/2010  -0700, Loren Busch wrote:
>An era gone but for some of us not forgotten.  Although
>very young during WWII I was growing up about five miles as the crow flies,
>on the side of a hill overlooking Boeing Field.  Those birds were in out sky
>all the time, you can't forget what they sounded like.

I spent years three through seven a few miles from a SAC base (Pease
AFB) and having the big birds droning by overhead was familiar and
comfortable to me.  The first time I heard a turboprop engine (on the
ground) I wanted to run away and hide.  That eerie whistle...

Yrs,
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