Reno Air Races is our annual boys weekend off!!! Been for the last , oh, six
years or so. I do love that sound, oh yes. Who else on the list is going
this September? Perhaps we should have a spridget rendezvous? Sorry, tho, I
won't be driving the Meejit or anything else all the way from Massachusetts.
Geoff Branch '74 Meejit
----- Original Message -----
From Elliott, Patrick <patrick.elliott at attws.com>
To: 'rob thomas' <rob@thomasr.greatxscape.net>; Toby Atwater
<tob.sprite.landcruiser@home.com>
Cc: spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: RE: Sweet Sounds
> The back straight at Stead (Reno), during the gold Unlimited race. Five or
> six Mustangs and a few big round engines at a few hundred feet pushing 450
> mph. 'nough said.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob thomas [mailto:rob@thomasr.greatxscape.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:25 AM
> To: Toby Atwater
> Cc: spridgets
> Subject: Re: Sweet Sounds
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Toby Atwater <tob.sprite.landcruiser@home.com>
>
> > Hey on that note.... does anybody know of a CD with different car sounds
> on
> > it? I think a CD with a full hour of different exotic sounding cars would
> be
> > awesome... Don't know if it exists tho... I have made some recordings of
> my
> > car they can be heard here:
> >
> > I am here listening to them at work... I can't drive my sprite, the head
> is
> > in the machine shop... but I can at least listen to it.
> >
> When I am teaching pilot refresher courses at East Midlands airport, I am
> near to Castle Donnington racetrack and you occasionally get some nice
> sounding cars winding up to the red-line on the straight that runs past the
> offices. Better than that is the sound of the Supermarine Spitfire that is
> based at East Mids. Everyone stops working. The windows get packed with
> people straining to see her climb out and do a high speed/low level run past
> the terminal building. Strange how the sound of a RR Merlin can get so many
> people of all different interests to stop talking and just listen.
> Sorry but you can keep your 14000 rpm Indy cars and you jap motorbikes,
> there's nothing better than a Spit being given a good workout (unless its a
> Mosquito - engine overkill !!!)
>
> Rob Thomas.
> (Buzzed by one at treetop height at Popham airfield when just a teenager.
> An experience to cherish for ever)
>
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