I am waiting to hear someone say someting like , "When the 1st B52 flew or when we had to wear a suit to fly in an airliner." At least that is what I have been told Ok I confess, I remember flying on TWA and Pan Am........

I lived in the Twin Cities and remember hearing SAC B-36's fly over. You really couldn't see much of them, they were very high and very tiny for such a huge bird, but the rumble of the 6-3 bank-36 cylinder engines made a droning sound I really wish I could hear again. So, yes, Johnny Ram-bro, I remember before the B-52 and it was GREAT!

You forgot about the part (or intentionally omitted) where you get slapped and she demands you take her home RIGHT NOW!!!

You could go out and ride your bicycle as long and far from home as you wanted, and you were considered SAFE (at age 8 or 9)
Orange Crush in the dark brown bottle
Cruisin' on Fri and Sat nites, and seeing how long "a wheel" you could get pulling out of the drive-in restaurant
watching the first Moon launch (and landing) on T.V.

Some sad ones, but most memorable:
Kennedy assassination,
Apollo One fire
Challenger

you guys are doing good. There is some living history out there.

Cecil the sea sick Sea Serpent
Will Robertson
Segregation
Woodstock.

When your daily driver was a 57 Chevy with a dropped straight axle ,327 2x 4`s, T-10 4 speed , 9 inch ford rear end and you ran between the bridges at Gooseberrry Holler every Sat. nite after the drive-in let out .

Hippie Communes

Yes the Canadian Winter. Putting "Frost Shields" on the car windows. Remember doing this with dad when I was a teenager.
How about a Cox U-Control Planes and engines in every K-Mart, Sears, Hudson Bay and Eatons Store. The Bay in downtown Winnipeg had a whole section of just Cox and Testor U-Controls.

Was at a Radio Shack in Houston back in the summer of 2003. Two kids had taken a foamie outside to try in the parking lot. They wondered whether it would fly. It was a Cox F-4. I said it's from Cox. It should fly. They never heard of Cox. [] Sigh, what they missed out on. Darn video games.

when even if you never got that cox airplane to fly, you weren't discouraged and ended up with 30 airplanes in your basement 35yrs later

Ok I am going to date myself here...

Ike was president.

The First Satellite.

A Top Flite 60 size kits less than $60.00

Watching the Nixon Kennedy debate.

I remember when my family moved to Japan in 1958. On the way there we flew in a DC-3, a Convair CV-240, a Lockheed Super Constellation and a DC-7C. The DC-7 was the trans-pacific leg. It was Pam-Am (P.A.A. back then) and it was equipped with sleeping berths. What a way to fly! Heady stuff for a 9-year-old. They'd let kids visit the cockpit, too. I never missed a chance.

papermache

Here is a connie for you it is RC-121D Super Constellation of the Air Defense Command Otis AFB Cape Cod. I remember them overhead all the time, even got a few rides in them as a kid.

The Constellation was certainly the most beautiful airliner ever built. It's definately in the running for most beautiful airplane of all time, but there's a long list to choose from there. I remember that it had the most comfortable seats of any airliner I've ever flown on before or since.

papermache

I remember when all those "so called" antique engines listed now on *bay were on the shelf at the local hobby shop.

I also remember when the toy store sold chemistry sets for kids.

The chemistry sets are long gone, but now the chemist minded kids are cooking methamphetamines.

I remember when we would hear sonic booms from Point magoo N.A.S. durring the Viet Nam conflict growing up in Ventura,Ca.1970
as well as going to the Carter-Ford debate with my older sister and bro at the Palace of fine arts in S.F. seeing history first hand,now theres a debate every other day,back then it was a once or twice a campain event.
K-mart the meca of Cox and Testors planes, I worshipped those little plastic planes.

It was indeed one of the most beautiful airplane ever built.
If I recall correctly it was also one of the most advanced airplanes of its time, one of H. Hughes pet projects before WWII.

I remember when The Hots by Dan Santich was published in M.A.N. with that sunfire color scheme. Still going to build one some day, with that color scheme.

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What does this car stuff have to do with Model Airplanes? Get a hobby, Stick, for Pete's sake!

Happy now?

Mode One

Thank you for protecting the rest of us from Stickbuilder's corrupting influence. I know, at least for myself, I am better off not knowing those things. [sm=72_72.gif]

Hughes was a major stockholder in Trans World Airlines at the time, but his contribution to the Connie was limited to the specifications for the range and capacity, and he had some small input into the flight deck layout. The design was another of Kelly Johnson's Grand Slams (with help, of course, from the Lockheed engineering dept).

Well I remember when The Airshow would come to town the Blue Angles A4F's would overfly my house on practice runs..

The flight path for SR-71's going from Texas to Alaska went over my grade school. They flew supersonic so we heard 2-3 had sonic boom's a day from them..
I was 13 when I found out that not all jets make a double boom like the SR-71.. It's all I'd heard before.

Saw RC planes for for the first time when I was 7 at a Mall show.. I thought the one with the red servos was cool.. I think it was 1977
Later that day we went by the old Airport to watch them fly.. That was a cool day..

I remember when only the 'big guys' flew R/C because you had to build the radio and my best effort was a Super Ringmaster with a Fox .35. And I think I had hair. Never see those again!

Not only do I remember the first B-52, I remember seeing fleets of B-29's and the occasional B-36 flying out to the local air base. I was actually there, at the end of the runway, to see the first Boing 707 land at Toledo airport. I used to watch the army play war-games with Sherman tanks while Hellcats, Corsairs and P-38's flew over. I've flown in DC-3's, 4's, 6's, 8's, Lockheed Electras, Connies, 707's, 727's, 737's & 747's. While in the USAF I flew in C-133's, RC-130-A's, AC-130's, EC-130's, C-141's (A & B model), C-5A's, RB-52's, and RB-66's. My very first flight was in a Great Lakes 2T-1A.

I might add that not only do I remember nearly every one of the things you guys have brought up, I remember when we got our first TV - I was 7 and it was a Motorola Console B&W. I still have it, it still works (when all the tubes are running properly) and it's sitting in my office here at home, about 8 feet from me now.

Yeah, my wife calls me a dinosaur rather regularly, but she doesn't push it much. She's 2 years older than me.

OMG, I'm THAT old.

My first plane was a Cox PT-19, which still flies pretty well with the original engine. I also had a Spitfire (I think Cox) and a Corsair that I have no idea who made. The Corsair had very little manueverability but the Spit would do loops reasonably well.

Major geezer alert here! My first NEW car was a 1964 Opel Olympia wagon (47hp, 3-speed column) and I paid $985 for it - brand new. My 1967 Impala-SS cost $1735, and my 1972 Dodge Colt cost a whopping $2250.

Yeah, Sky King, Roy Rogers, The Cisco Kid, Green Hornet, Lash Laroo - those were the days. I had Rheumatic Fever when I was still basically in diapers - I remember the Dr stopping at the house DAILY to check on me and give me medications (UGHHHHH, shots). I also remember the rag man driving his horse-drawn wagon, the ice-man delivering, coal down the shute for the furnace, vegetable hucsters with their horse-drawn wagons and a lot of other things (when I can remember anything at all).

I used to worry about losing my mind, but now that it's gone I don't miss it at all.

Dave

OMG, chemistry sets!! Yeah, still have mine - a Gilbert, and it sits in the basement right next to my microscope (also Gilbert).

I remember taking off in a Cessna 190 from a grass field outside of Tulsa, Oklahoma, then landing in Cincinatti to refuel then having a cheeseburger, fries, and a coke at an airport diner. (1959? 1960?)

I remember building a Carl Goldberg flying wing and painting it with multiple thick heavy coats of PURPLE Aero Gloss dope (there's nothing that smells quite as heavenly as Aero Gloss dope). I think I know why they call it 'dope'.........the fumes melt your brain and turns you into a dope.

I remember my first flight on an American Airlines 707 back in 1968 - the wings flapped as we taxied on the tarmac.