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CWO4 Tim Hecht
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I'm a sailor. Four years Navy and 26 years Coast Guard. I grew up about 25 miles from Wright-Patterson AFB - love the Air Force Museum there, and was lucky to watch the XB-70 Valkyrie in flight as it flew into Wright-Pat to be displayed at the museum. Although I'm a water rat I love the sounds of the War Birds - the P-51, Spitfire, ME-109, FW-190, and the B-17 are just awesome sounding. I spent 2 years onboard the USS MIDWAY (CVA-41) during Vietnam; one of our F-4s shot down a MIG-19 and the flight display the Phantom Pilot gave us was awesome; ending with a high speed, low altitude pass and roll above the flight deck; ending up with the afterburners lit up and pulled up into a near vertical climb before landing. If you don't like aircraft noises taking off and landing - don't move near an established airport or military air bases!

I thought that there might have been a clip of an Aerolineas Argentina airliner on a low and fast pass - my step-son (wife's son) is the Vice President for Revenue Growth for Aerolineas Argentina in Buenos Aires; he'd probably be able to tell me about that pass!

As it is when we fly to BA to visit our granddaughter I pay $900 for a coach seat, he gets his mother a free standby ticket which normally gets upgraded to business class; and my lovely wife trades seats with me! None of the US Air Carriers can hold a candle to the foreign carriers on international flights....
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Let us know one rallypoint, thank you you for the great story!
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CPT Jack Durish
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That's something you don't see every day
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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540 knots at 400' just never gets out of your blood. And that's over regular terrain, not a runway!
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