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Nancy said:Phil and Greg, I was fortunate enough to see the WWII aircraft flyovers yesterday afternoon, just sitting on our deck - the best was the B-29 with a large fighter escort. They flew very low right over our house and the sound was like nothing else.
Were B-29s before they figured out how to synchronize the props? When they retired the GALCIT wind tunnel, they flew over all the planes they could find that were designed in it, which included most of the WW2 bombers, and I was told that the sounds were very distinctive between "before" and "after" synchronization. I think they had both for that flyover, though, and with multiple planes it's hard to tell.
I haven't seen any WW2 planes recently, though; for a few years I was lucky enough to spot them at random without going to airshows, but my luck seems to have run out... in 2002 I was driving down the freeway and saw something that looked like a Mustang or a Spitfire doing some stunts, just "out of the blue."
Anyway, happy 4th, everyone!