Music With Breakfast

While I was finishing my bowl of gruel I heard a distinctive rumble in the distant south. After a second or two, I knew what was coming and since there aren't any neighbors close by, I rushed outside in my PJ's in time to see a B-17 gracefully cruising by. Sentimental Journey is here.

 

I know that this doesn't impress anyone but if you lived with these airplanes for any length of time, they become part of your system. The sound of those R1820's increased the heart rate as it always does since they never leave your recall. The characteristic sounds of the P-51, Spitfire, B-25, F-8, and B-17 are unmistakable and always awaken your past. Now, all we hear is jets.

 

To help those who might not know, that second picture shows the chin turret gun sight and control to the right. The gunner in that position was the bomb aimer guy when he wasn't bomb aiming. Also, a correct interior that doesn't have the zinc chromate paint on everything as they were bare aluminum except in the flight deck to cut glare.

 

Four on one side five on the other and all straight. Great clattering sound!