If anyone on the list is a fan of big round radial engines, today I was spending a restful day at a Benedictine abbey on Lake Memphramagog, which is near here, and I heard the unmistakable sound of large, very large, piston radial engines, and at low altitude! To my surprise a CL215 water bomber along with its newer CL415 turboprop, were doing water scoops on the lake. I don't know if it was practise or to put out a wildfire somewhere (it's been horribly hot, dusty and dry here), but it was quite a show. At one point I was in the abbey church and I thought the 215 was going to come through the roof, he was so loud! One of the monks invited me up the abbey tower to watch them but alas, the show was over by the time we got up there. There was another monk up there watching though. Turns out he has a PPL (airplanes) and CPL (helicopters), and after all that ended up as a Benedictine monk...go figure! I digress though: nothing beats the deep pounding sound of large round engines! (well, except maybe for the monks' Gregorian chant). Mike Gammon