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Subject: Re: [OM] Mammoth E-30 Product Review - Zone-10 Website
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:25:50 -0500
Chuck,

I don't have any recording, but have fond memories of it.  We saw them 
occasionally over Dayton, where we lived.  The only aircraft that made a 
similar sound, at least to me, was the C-124 double-decker troop transport, 
which had four of those huge engines, rather than six.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Mammoth E-30 Product Review - Zone-10 Website


> Well, I'm envious.  I've seen perhaps three B-36s in outdoor museum
> settings and have often wondered what one would sound like.  Hey, it
> just occurred to me that maybe there's a recording available somewhere.
>  When I was a kid of 8 or 10 I lived along side an Air National Guard
> base that flew P-51s.  The sound is embedded in my brain and causes my
> heart to race.  My dad also maintained P-51s and P-38s during the war.
> So I have recordings of both aircraft on the ground and in the air.
> Maybe such exists for B36s too.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Some of us are, Chuck.  We had a few B-36s stationed at Wright-Patterson 
>> AFB
>> in the early 50s. They were involved in tests and modifications which 
>> were
>> done at the Wright Field side of the base, with a shorter runway.  When a
>> B-36 was on final approach from the north, they passed right over the
>> administrative buildings where my wife worked.  The noise was enough to
>> drive some newcomers under their desks.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] Mammoth E-30 Product Review - Zone-10 Website
>>
>>
>>> B36, eh?  I guess I'm not old yet.  :-)
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>> Paul Laughlin wrote:
>>>> Oh Yeah!!  I used to live under the landing pattern for Carswell AFB, 
>>>> and
>>>> we
>>>> not only got the occasional B-58, but B-36s.  Used to say that the
>>>> railroad
>>>> runs through the middle of the house.  Those six 4360s and four J57s
>>>> could
>>>> really shake things up.  The reason for there only being an occasional
>>>> B-58
>>>> was they were in the test program.  That being said, when they flew 
>>>> there
>>>> was also an  F102 as a chase plane.
>>>> Paul in Portland OR
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:06 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [OM] Mammoth E-30 Product Review - Zone-10 Website
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> B-58s also make excellent alarm clocks if, as I did in the mid-60's, 
>>>>> you
>>>>> live under the flight path of Kelly AFB.  :-)
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