RE: What got you interested in airplanes in general?
"up in the air junior birdsmen....." hehe I remember that song!
I grew up a few miles from Willow Grove Naval Air Station and watched P-3's coming and going, and of course catching the Blue Angles there once a year in their F-4 Phantoms and later A4 Skyhawks. I always wanted to fly on P-3s. That turned into a carrer as a P3 Inflight Tech VP-46, VP-62 among others.