Originally Posted By: Malo83
Originally Posted By: Astro14
When it was fire season in Colorado, the fire bombers were often flying from JEFFCO, 4 miles from our house. I used to love hearing the sound of the big radials as the PB4Y Privateers (a single tail, USN version of the B-24) would climb out over our house...with all 4 PW R-1830s at full power...
There's just nothing like them...
Back in the 60's and 70's the airtankers, (Borate Bombers) as they were called back then would fly over our house when they would turn east towards the Sierras fighting another wildfire, the sound of those recips was like music to my ears, B17's,F7F's,TBM's, C119's,DC4's,DC6's AND 7's and an ocassional PB4Y, PBY. They would fly out of the Porterville Air Attack Base.
To this day I think of summertime in Porterville when I hear a large recip. Our neighborhood must have been near their pattern.