AOPA Pilot Magazine - December 2019 - 36
PILOT BRIEFING
MUSINGS
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A heritage, a legacy
Reader's memories honor AOPA's eightieth anniversary
BY ED HARRISON
36 | AOPA PILOT December 2019
My father was standing beside me at
that airshow; and I remember him pointing
out, as he always did, the many different
types of aircraft and telling me about their
engines, their purpose, and how he knew
about them. It seemed he knew them all
and, to me, he was the smartest man on
Earth. He had shown me pictures of many
of these same airplanes from a box of
World War II photos he kept. Those pictures included a B-17 flying home with
most of the vertical stabilizer gone and
other aircraft landing with gaping holes in
their fuselages.
My father was not a U.S. Army Air Forces
pilot. He used to say that he was the one man
that every pilot could not fly without. Forget
being a mechanic, he was the cook-he kept
'em flying with his food. He told me stories
about going out to the flight line in North
Africa and then Sicily to watch the airplanes
leaving and returning from missions.
Although a product of the post-World
War II era, I felt like I had lived part of the
SEAN MCCABE
IN ALL MY 7 YEARS of life never had I seen
a more beautiful sight: a line of beautiful,
silver P-51 Mustangs coming toward me,
zigzagging their way down the taxiway,
at the then-named Torrance Municipal
Airport, now Zamperini Field in Torrance,
California. As they passed by, I could feel
the power of those mighty Merlin engines,
the smell of the exhaust-and I understood
for the first time in my young life why my
dad talked about such machines with a reverent awe.
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