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Travels in Time: Re-creating the National Air Tour

机译:时空旅行:重新创建国家航空之旅

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Imagine a time when radial engines dominated the skies; when townspeople turned out to watch airplanes land at a local field; when perfection was taking off with a buddy, wind in the flying wires and white scarves trailing, to explore the land and sky of a wide-open countryside. Now imagine that it's real. On most days, the Timmerman Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a nondescript general aviation airfield, indistinguishable from dozens of other such airports stretched all across the country. But on this particular September morning, the airport seems caught in a Twilight-Zone wrinkle in time. Pilots in white mechanics' overalls or knickers, flying boots and jaunty tweed caps scurry about, uncovering and attending to a fleet of tube-and-fabric flying machines. Props are carefully pulled through on enormous radial engines, oil levels are checked, and duffel bags are stowed in front cockpits and brass-latched baggage compartments. With the mist still edging the early morning air, it almost seems as if this colorful and rare collection of antique airplanes and pilots could have landed here, like the baseball players in Field of Dreams, through some mysterious, invisible doorway to a bygone era when Johnny Livingston owned the skies and Charles Lindbergh conquered the seas.
机译:想象一下,当径向发动机主导天空的时候。当城镇居民看到飞机降落在当地田野时;当完美与伙伴一起起飞时,飞舞的风和白色的围巾在尾随,探索广阔乡村的土地和天空。现在想象它是真实的。在大多数日子里,威斯康星州密尔沃基的蒂默曼机场是一个无法描述的通用航空机场,与遍布全国的数十个此类机场没有区别。但是在这个特定的9月早晨,机场似乎及时陷入了暮光区。白人技工的工作服或内裤,飞行靴和黄褐色粗花呢帽的飞行员争先恐后地发现,发现并参加了一支由管和织物组成的飞行器机队。在巨大的径向发动机上小心地拉动支柱,检查油位,并将行李袋存放在前座舱和黄铜制行李舱中。薄雾依然笼罩着清晨的空气,似乎这些色彩斑and而稀有的古董飞机和飞行员收藏本来可以降落在这里,就像《梦幻之地》中的棒球运动员一样,穿过一个神秘的,看不见的门到过去的时代。约翰尼·利文斯顿(Johnny Livingston)拥有天空,查尔斯·林德伯格(Charles Lindbergh)征服了大海。

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    《Flying》 |2004年第2期|p.84-9092|共8页
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    Lane Wallace;

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