T-Birds F-100 Memories

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Here is a photo of a puzzle I played with as a child. It probably dates from the mid to late 1960s.

Anyone else have any toys from their childhood that may have influenced their appreciation of aviation?

By the way, my 3 year old son is the proud owner of this now!

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:02 am

That puzzle brings back memories of seeing the real deal when I was a kid. The F-100s put on a great show.......

Here is a vertical fin from a Revell B-24 that a relative of mine gave me when I was a little guy. This was the very first airplane model I ever built. I guess I thought you had to use all the decals on the sheet! Notice that I wanted a PB4Y-1 after a while and "repainted" blue over the olive drab. :shock:

The B-25 is from the old Hornet Doolittle Raid model, probably the first or second ship model I ever put together. Man, I still remember bulding both of those kits like it was yesterday instead of over 40 years ago.

Mudge · **Posted:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:33 pm

Brings back memories here, too. I remember seeing them at Andrews in the 60's. (Don't ask me what year.) That was back in the day when you could park within about 100 yds of the taxiways there. I remember going there in the 'Vette and watching with the top down.

Mudge the geezer

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:02 pm

bdk wrote:

Anyone else have any toys from their childhood that may have influenced their appreciation of aviation?

Nope, all of my toys were borrowed and still are out at the airport

Here is the P-51 I played with

And the B-17

even a B-25

Ztex · **Posted:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:26 pm

I have a couple of things laying around here...the rest are boxed away someplace.

Model parts..anyone need a 1:48 scale Little Boy? complete with partial B-29 rack? This is all that's left of a Monogram B-29 kit from sometime before 1978...

And a T-6 model (Testors I think) that I made for my dad when I was around 12 or so. I had a stand and everything.
And A CAF window decal from @ 1978 as well.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Matt Gunsch wrote:

Here is the P-51 I played with

Didn't play with it, but certainly saw it fly out of Chino. Then saw it going together after the first crash, then saw it after the fatal (to a Chino cow) crash.

sdennison · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:53 am

bdk wrote:

Matt Gunsch wrote:

Here is the P-51 I played with

Didn't play with it, but certainly saw it fly out of Chino. Then saw it going together after the first crash, then saw it after the fatal (to a Chino cow) crash.

Cow crash? :shock:

That had to be a mess. What happened? Cow on the runway?

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

sdennison wrote:

Cow crash? :shock:

That had to be a mess. What happened? Cow on the runway?

Nope, the cow was exactly where she was supposed to be.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001206X01125&key=1

Chicoartist · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:03 am

My first Thunderbird memories were the F-4s, and that was pretty dang awesome, but from what I hear the F-100 era was probably the best from a "viewing experience" standpoint ...

Wade

Hemiman · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 5:33 pm

I think this little guy has his start!

Holedigger · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:45 pm

That's it, start em early!

lmritger · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:27 pm

Holedigger wrote:

That's it, start em early!

First thing I thought of.

And the second is... that kid's camera is WAY better than mine is.

Lynn

Holedigger · **Posted:** Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:30 pm

Fortunately, the lens for that camera match up with my wife's camera and not mine. So I don't have to endure the constant, I want the telephoto, I want the macro, can I have the wide angle, can I have the telephoto back.....and on and on. He has taken awards at a couple photo competitions so we do encourage him as best we can.

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