New PM9/ trigger finger issue

[getsome]

Wow what a coincidence, My office is about 3/4 mile from the end of the main runway at Peachtree Dekalb Airport which is the 2nd busiest airport in Georgia next to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson...This is nice for me as I'm on the 10th floor with a window seat and a big time airplane buff....Its a great spot to watch take off and landings if you enjoy aircraft as I do....Well just a short time ago I heard a loud engine roar, louder than normal so I turned around and there is The Liberty Belle B17 lumbering along on take off... She flew a short way then came around for a landing...The air show's are in the early spring and fall so Its a little early for the plane to be here unless they are doing maintenance or something.....Anyway man that plane is so beautiful and one of I think 15 still airworthy of 12,761 produced from 1942 to mid 1945...Turns out this particular airplane has been restored twice...In 1979 it was destroyed in a tornado but has since been brought back to life to fly again.... Just goes to show what lots of money and hard work can do.....sorry, I get excited sometimes....I'm just a big ole kid!!!!

[wyntrout]

Getsome, thank you for the kind words. I think I had 3,400 hours or so in the BUFF -- mostly training, of course. I got into them in '74 just after they returned from SEA and got out in '88 before they were used in the First Gulf War. My younger buddies went and they all made it home as far as I know. The BUFF had other names like the Aluminum Overcast and Silent Death... And monkey-killers after LBJ's tree-killing raids. I heard those suckers bombing over there while at Da Nang and I heard the New Jersey and other ships' shells pass overhead in support of the grunts. The BUFF is an awesome aircraft and all but the "overhead" officers are younger than the planes now. It's hard to believe that the newest ones are over 55, I believe, and they talk of 40 more years -- go for a hundred!
As for recips, I saw a Lancaster fly by in an airshow at Abingdon, GB, I can't remember which TDY to England. That was really awesome hearing those well-tuned big engines roar -- Wow! I also must have seen one of the last flights of the Vulcan -- the British delta-winged bomber. Those beasties were scary because the engines were fully enclosed -- a nightmare for engine fires.
I get my excitement shooting my pistols now. I must have gone 3 to 4 years without shooting, until I heard about the P380 and then I just got my PM9. That's what I'll be shooting mostly, now, that and the K9. I like shooting the S&W 645, but I carry the PM9 and want to keep it simple. If I ever get my darn P380N, I'm sure that will be main carry piece... maybe.
Wynn

John Murtha, PA congressman, 77 just died. Man, it's hard not to say "One down...."