# Well, That Made My Day... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-made-my-day/172494 "2003-05-01T22:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-made-my-day/172494/1 "2003-05-01T22:51:51Z")
This is Truly M&P, but I thought IMS… So I’m in my sister’s garage mudding the drywall we put up over the last couple of days. I’m pluggin’ along and I think I hear what sounds like a fast drum roll on tympani from down the street, maybe. I figure a loud car stereo at first. But it just keeps getting louder and louder. I’m enough of an airshow freak that when the windows start rattling I know what it is I’m hearing: BIG radial engines. I drop the trough and trowel to run outside and see a B-17 at about 1,000 AGL nearly overhead. And she’s not alone. There’s an A-20 and a gaggle of T-6’s flying along out of some personal aviation dream and they’re doing it just for me. I’m such a plane geek. My friend Bob McMath was a B-17 driver and I miss him. But that’s not why I’m getting misty. A piece of our history flew literally out of the blue today and I was there to watch them fly. Tailwinds, guys. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-made-my-day/172494/2 "2003-05-01T23:33:30Z")
I wonder if they flew over me, too. I’m just a few miles south of you, as the crow flies. Or the planes, whatever. It’s cool - I get tickled by the little things. I think that’s what makes life fun sometimes.