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Topic: Aerial Drone Video of PT658n Underway taken June 11 2014 |
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Jerry Beasley
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Posted on: Jun 13, 2014 - 2:17pm
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I would really like to see a picture of the drone and camera setup that you used to film it. If no picture then the nomenclature for the drone for sure.
Thanks
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Dick
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 Posted on: Jun 14, 2014 - 9:37am
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My bad . . . . wasn’t think the river’s flow direction just the simple north and south up or down direction.
I’m well aware of the Willamette river flow, I fished in/on it for many a year as a six grader through college years. Growing up part of my life in the Eugene area, It was advantageous to spend many hours fishing the Willamette from the confluence of the Mckenzie river and its ice cold waters from the Cascade mountain range to the east, on southward, on the Willamette’s eastern fork through Oakridge and/or the costal fork through Cottage Grove. For those not knowing the Oregon area the Willamette river is the states main inner river flowing from the mountain in southern Oregon, northward through great Willamette valley to Portland, where it flows into the Oregon/Washington shared Colombia river.
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MN Gal
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Posted on: Jun 21, 2014 - 7:34am
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Hello All,
We had a great time in Portland visiting the 658 and the crew.
It was really a dream come true.
We would highly recommend the trip to everyone.
It just could not have been a better experience.
The first sighting of the boat was emotional, it was like a dream to see it. We jumped off the transit train (MAX) and ran up a hill on a bridge to get a glimpse of it as the crew was out with the boat when we arrived. It was an unbelievable sight to see. I will try and post that photo. I tried to be creative and shoot the photo with the 658 in the diamond of the next bridge, like I had any choice. I didn't get another chance of any other photos at that time because we had to get back on the MAX.
The first step on the boat and when my husband Bob was at his fathers battle station, was another moment I had to hold my breath.
Did I say it was a GREAT Trip?
Jerry I would like to thank you personally for making our visit so memorable.
This is a fantastic video, I am sending it to all my family and friends.
I was wondering if someone could add some good WWII music to it?
When I have time to organize our photos I will post a few more.
Greetings to All our PT Boat friends,
Bob & Julie
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Randy Finfrock
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Posted on: Jun 21, 2014 - 8:03pm
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Jerry, that was fantastic footage. Like David, I was mesmerized by the wake, but kept turning up my audio in hopes that the engines would come to life! I had several questions while viewing, but all have been answered already as others asked the same things.
One thing I was wondering, is there any possible way to try to describe the sound of the engines on a PT Boat? I've heard them on films before, but never in person. C.J., Earl or others...can you take a shot at describing the sound, and the vibration effect in your own words?
Thanks again Jerry, I hope to get up to Portland some day!
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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Posted on: Jun 22, 2014 - 2:45am
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Thanks you guys. Randy we'll leave the light on for ya. Jerry
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CJ Willis
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Posted on: Jun 22, 2014 - 11:30am
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Randy I am a Higgins man but Elco's with the open exhausts were great to listen to especially when they started. They created enough noise that you sure knew where they were tied. The Higgins with under water exhausts have a more muffled sound but Elco's sure sounded sweet with the open exhausts. I liked to hear them when idling with the exhausts open. Both boats when running full speed had more of a roar sound. Randy it is hard to explain how they sounded.
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Pat Rogers
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Posted on: Jun 22, 2014 - 12:03pm
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When the Wisconsin -Illinois Bull Session group was fairly active, there were regular meetings headed up by Armin Meyers, Madison WI,and Ted Lepke, Waukesha, WI, The meetings were mostly around the Milwaukee area but I also attended the Green Bay and Sheybogan area. There was also a couple meetings in Illinois, Batavia, Sterling, Mount Prospect. Regardless where they were held they were enjoyed immensely. Every meeting there would be a collection taken up for PT Headquarters. Then Armin would arise and ask for a collection for the PT658 effort in Portland, OR. He could be quite persuasive. I am quite happy to know that our Bull Session contributions over the years helped to put PT658 afloat. I was an Elco man myself - PT154, RON 9.
P.S. I am now 92 and I am having trouble remembering names and knowing the spelling.
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Jun 24, 2014 - 7:31am
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I believe Frank Andruss posted a llink to an audio of the Packards starting up and running for a few moments sometime in the past...
You can also hear them start up and roar on the soundtracks of the two classic Hollywood PT boat movies, "They Were Expendable" (1945) and "PT 109" (1963), as well as on the Warner Bros. wartime documentary "Devil Boats" -- and maybe on the Elco documentary "Giant Killers," too...
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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Posted on: Jun 24, 2014 - 5:16pm
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Hi Drew,
The soundtrack of the engine room startup on the PT109 movie is not realistic. It sounds more like an aircraft engine startup to me. There is no High pitched whine on the real things. I think the sound recording technicians just found something that would fool most of the people and fit with the pre-conceived notion of what it might sound like, and trimmed something into the allotted time period to fit the scene being shown on the film. There is a blower that you should run to rid the engine room of any gasoline fumes before starting the engines, but nothing else makes that distinctive high pitched whine as you hear in the movie. I think that aircraft engines have an air motor that makes that noise when spinning the props during a startup. Just so you are aware of the truth. Jerry
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