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03-05-2005, 04:13 PM
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#196 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | No problem joining the TA a Friend at work has not long finished his tour in Iraq on patrol and he's push his forties which I thought was a bit old for front line duties
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03-06-2005, 12:40 AM
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#197 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
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| Became interested in warbirds at age 10, when I got the classic Red Baron II for my new computer  Good times...
As far as WWII-specific interest goes, the original Combat Flight Sim was what pulled me in
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03-27-2005, 08:32 PM
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#198 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Ploiesti
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Country:  | Nice Pics Less...sorry...this is the first time i lay my eyes on them... I first becam interested with warbirds after I was taken in the air by a Zlin-526 prop plane... I loved it's saound, and the feeling it gave me... soo... which planes can outperform it? You guessed it... the ww2 warbirds... Thus... and eventually, after 6-7 years, I ended up here, a story with a happy ending.
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03-27-2005, 09:12 PM
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#199 | | Forum Politruk
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Originally Posted by trackend No problem joining the TA a Friend at work has not long finished his tour in Iraq on patrol and he's push his forties which I thought was a bit old for front line duties | I think the British Army is desperado for any trained people they can get their hands on. | |
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03-27-2005, 09:20 PM
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#200 | | He who does not skim
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Country:  | I'm afraid they're not the only ones. It's our own damn fault though.
But then, realistic long-term military planning has never been a Canadian hallmark.  | |
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04-16-2005, 01:02 AM
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#201 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas
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Country:  | My interest sparked somewhere around 5th grade, I'm probably not as old as you all seeing as someone saw the valkyrie land, that would have been the coolest thing ever. 5th grade for me was around 1996-97 I guess? Just started reading up on anything and everything, WW2 birds were always my favorite. I live in Dallas so I never saw anything except an occasion P-3 or C-130 go by. If one did I could tell you what it was by the sound, I love seeing military planes go over. I'm glad to have found a forum to talk about these things. 
__________________ "I had ten rockets on board, and as I wasn't particularly fond of head-on attacks, I salvoed the whole lot at him. The rockets didn't hit him but but they must have scared the bejesus out of him, for he did a steep turn to starboard... I let him have the full blast, all eight fifty-calibers. I had never seen an aircraft completely disintegrate in the air the way this Me-110 did..."
Bill Dunn, 406th Fighter Group 
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04-16-2005, 06:57 AM
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#202 | | He who does not skim
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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04-16-2005, 11:49 AM
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#203 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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Country: | At about 4 or 5 years old, someone bought me a GI Joe in fighter pilots garb. Next thing I knew I had a F9F (to put GI joe in) and was bombing the "Briges at Toki Ri" behind my house.  By the time I was 15, I had about 150 models in my room. 
Today my wife tells people if she wants to get me to do a chore around the house, she puts a propeller on what she needs done! 
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04-16-2005, 08:48 PM
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#204 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Saffron Walden/Sheffield
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Country:  | 150 models!!!
How'd you fit anything else in your room?
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04-16-2005, 10:04 PM
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#205 | | Minister of Whoopass
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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Country: | Maybe he had a big room??? 150 is probably a slight exaggeration, but even so, its still a crapload o' models.........
I had 15-20 or so hanging from my ceiling back in the late 70's / early 80's.....
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04-16-2005, 10:06 PM
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#206 | | He who does not skim
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Country: | les! 
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04-16-2005, 10:10 PM
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#207 | | Minister of Whoopass
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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Country: | Very busy with work..... Also hooked up with 2 old Teammates and been doin some crazy shizit.... Makin some $$$ on the side... SShhhh...........
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04-16-2005, 10:10 PM
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#208 | | He who does not skim
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04-17-2005, 05:54 AM
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#209 | | Konfused with a 'K'
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Turin, Italy
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Country:  | Welcome back les!
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04-17-2005, 11:14 AM
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#210 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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Originally Posted by mosquitoman 150 models!!!
How'd you fit anything else in your room? | YEP -150! AFTER THAT MY FOLKS TOLD ME NO MORE!  I started doing the normal thing one would do with excess models - lighting them on fire, putting firecrackers in them and blowing them up, throwing them off my roof, lighting them on fire, putting firecrackers in them and then throwing them at the neighbor, etc., etc., etc.
Les- glad to meet you, I was an AD2 
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