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Old 01-19-2015, 05:59 PM
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Skip ahead to 3:20 and just listen to the takeoff and initial climb. Love how the power comes up and the turbo-compound 3350s make their characteristic sound. I had relatives who lived a few miles south of McClellan AFB in Sacramento back in the '60s-'70s and on dead-calm mornings you could faintly hear the EC-121 Super Constellations actually taxi out to the runway and perform their run-up checks. Then the sound would die off until the power came up for takeoff and then we'd go out into the yard and wait. Even a couple of miles after takeoff the 121s were maybe 1500 feet over the house. MCC was also a depot for F-105 overhauls and there was nothing quite like a 450-knot four-ship in-trail departure of 105s screaming over the house. I must have blown the screen door off its hinges a hundred times.

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