My slow dialup does not allow me to access videos, but I'm reminded that, during my senior year of high school, I lived at Sangley Point in the Philippines (John Paul Jones High School class of '65.) The Vietnam thing was heating up and I had one of the most unusual alarm clocks ever: An EC-121 of VW-1 took off from Sangley Point every morning at something like 6:15. I had to be in class at 7, if memory serves. Note also that, as I mentioned earlier in a Lockheed P-2 thread (Your dog chases bicycles or cars? My dog chases P-2s!) we lived in a house closest to the runway about a thousand feet from the western end of the runway.
So, every morning, the EC-121 headed for the Gulf of Tonkin would start at something like 5:45 -- but at the eastern end of the parking apron. Then, about 6 it would taxi by -- perhaps 300 feet from our house. The R-3350s were just idling, but I'd hear 'em and would hear creaking brakes and the like. Then at perhaps 6:05 he'd run up the R-3350s one by one at the end of the runway and I would know it was time to get cracking to get ready for school. By the time he went by on the takeoff roll at full song I was about ready to leave for class.
So -- my 1965 alarm clock had four 3350s, burned thousands of gallons of avgas to get me out of bed and had a crew of 20+! As a side benefit, my alarm clock also monitored the radar picture in the Gulf of Tonkin for the U.S. Navy.
