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Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Pugs #9590672 02/09/15
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Jocko_Slugshot Campfire Tracker J Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 3,927 De-tox	I can remember when the airlines used Lockheed Constellations. I could hear their four Wright R-3350s droning overhead on lazy summer days. Keep your gun-hand ready and your eyes peeled.

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Sharpsman #9590675 02/09/15
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Hammerdown Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 17,181 Northern California	Thanks Pugs Randy NRA Patriot Life Benefactor

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Salmonella #9590715 02/09/15
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calikooknic Campfire Outfitter Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 8,736 San Joaquin Valley, Kalifornis...	Can't seem to embed this, so... Get to spend most March Meets in this crews pit. Great to sit back at ten feet, listen, watch, and drink beer. [video:google]https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=730072130342609&set=vb.100000194862032&type=3[/video] Last edited by calikooknic; 02/09/15. Sean

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? calikooknic #9591139 02/10/15
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Dave_in_WV Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 12,664 West Virginia	Thanks Pugs. Not better but high on my list is the T-56 Allison engine and a J-75 going into AB (telling my age on that one). Nothing sounds like a single stage after burner lighting off!!! The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Pugs #9591165 02/10/15
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dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,107 Kodiak & AZ	I live 2 miles from Falcon Field (FFZ) we have quite a war bird presence here including the confederate airforce museum. I get near daily B17 flyovers above my house! Lots of Texans and Nanchangs, B25, Wacos and the occasionaly P51. Never seen a Spitfire in flight. NRA Benefactor Member Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

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Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? dennisinaz #9591177 02/10/15
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FlyboyFlem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,896 Nebraska	Merlins are great but my genes are laced with radial exhaust.. You better be afraid of a ghost!! "Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops Woody

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Pugs #9591179 02/10/15
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,107 Kodiak & AZ D dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter
dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,107 Kodiak & AZ	Nothing gets my attention like a radial NRA Benefactor Member Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Pugs #9591199 02/10/15
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prm Campfire Outfitter P Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 8,748	Love the sound of those Merlins! I can be in my house and hear one coming and know exactly what it is. But I do like a good american V8 too. I used to love listening to the dragsters and funny cars in the pits at Bandimere speedway. The fumes would make your eyes burn too! Edit: I forgot to add an Italian V-Twin as another source of music. A Ducati or Aprilia is absolutely mesmerizing.

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Salmonella #9591215 02/10/15
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,632 Likes: 2 Orange Park, Florida jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana
jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,632 Likes: 2 Orange Park, Florida	There is noise and there is music, and those Merlins, at least to some of us, is just that... A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Jocko_Slugshot #9591229 02/10/15
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Reloder28 Campfire Ranger R Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 20,918 Likes: 1 Deer Park, Tx	Originally Posted by Jocko_Slugshot I could hear their four Wright R-3350s droning overhead on lazy summer days. Speaking of lazy summer days, I remember being in Phys.Ed. out on the football field and hearing the sonic boom of the jets taking off from Ellington Air Force base. I REALLY miss the sonic booms. "I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country." Robert E. Lee

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Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Reloder28 #9591266 02/10/15
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Timberlake Campfire Regular T Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,721 NE Iowa	Originally Posted by Reloder28 Hearing an Allison. ......or twin supercharged (slightly muffled) Allisons in a P38 The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first. Unk

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? dennisinaz #9592065 02/10/15
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XPLRN Campfire Member X Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 266 Aridzona	Originally Posted by dennisinaz Nothing gets my attention like a radial Being two miles away from FFZ I'm presuming you've been inside the museum and checked out the awesome radial engine displays!?? We were over there for a military vehicle and plane show in 2014. My 95 year old Father-In-Law who's a WWII Vet really enjoyed checking out those radial engine displays!! They also have a radial engine cut-away interactive display that was very cool. I took a video of it in action, click on the link below to watch the video. Also you can click on the icon on the lower right-hand corner of the video to enlarge it to full screen to really see the details. http://vidmg.photobucket.com/albums...%20Plane%20Show/MVI_1707_zpsa951769a.mp4 Oh how he loved seeing the old planes!!

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? hillbillybear #9592287 02/10/15
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Pete E Campfire Outfitter Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 12,895 North Wales, UK	Originally Posted by hillbillybear Here is one of my favorites: That is the sound of defiance and of freedom! Men of Harlech

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? dennisinaz #9592423 02/10/15
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XPLRN Campfire Member X Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 266 Aridzona	Originally Posted by dennisinaz I live 2 miles from Falcon Field (FFZ) we have quite a war bird presence here including the confederate airforce museum. I get near daily B17 flyovers above my house! Lots of Texans and Nanchangs, B25, Wacos and the occasionaly P51. Never seen a Spitfire in flight. Speaking of a Spitfire have you seen this video before?? It was a great video and I like at the end how the guy makes reference to how every pilot should have had the opportunity to fly a Spitfire. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ie3SrjLlcUY Looks like the "Enter A Media Tag" icon doesn't work with this link.

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Pugs #9592714 02/10/15
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,107 Kodiak & AZ D dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter
dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,107 Kodiak & AZ	Yes, have been there several times. They have a radial that you either push a button or put a quarter in and it rotates with cut-away parts- pretty cool! We had a fly-in last summer where there were warbirds everywhere. Must have been 20+ T6s alone. NRA Benefactor Member Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Pugs #9592753 02/10/15
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,107 Kodiak & AZ D dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter
dennisinaz Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 13,107 Kodiak & AZ	That was a great video- thanks. NRA Benefactor Member Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Reloder28 #9593339 02/10/15
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shootinurse Campfire Outfitter S Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,452 north central PA	Originally Posted by Reloder28 Originally Posted by Jocko_Slugshot I could hear their four Wright R-3350s droning overhead on lazy summer days. Speaking of lazy summer days, I remember being in Phys.Ed. out on the football field and hearing the sonic boom of the jets taking off from Ellington Air Force base. I REALLY miss the sonic booms. Not Merlins, but here ya go: [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BHBevPYVzaY[/video] "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Timberlake #9593357 02/10/15
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shootinurse Campfire Outfitter S Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,452 north central PA	Originally Posted by Timberlake Originally Posted by Reloder28 Hearing an Allison. ......or twin supercharged (slightly muffled) Allisons in a P38 [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gYNhWSt-GXU[/video] "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Salmonella #9593387 02/10/15
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eh76 Campfire Kahuna Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52,680 North of Liberalism in Wyoming	Originally Posted by Salmonella With all due respect to the Warbirds, no piston driven engine compares to the 10,000 horsepower Nitromethane burning monsters found in the funny cars and top fuel dragsters of the NHRA. The human brain cannot comprehend this violence unless witnessed in person as audio and video simply cannot capture the spectacle.... Sorry Sal this does it for me as does this one Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.

Re: What's better than hearing a Merlin engine in flight? Pugs #9594735 02/11/15
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local_dirt Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Dec 2013 Posts: 44,556 Likes: 12 south of south	Great stuff. By coincidence, I was walking into my local Chinese lunch spot last week and had a P51 do a couple large hard turn loops over my head. Phuggin awesome. I just stood there in the parking lot with my jaw dropped while I watched. Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH

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