When did you first become interested in Warbirds?

syscom3 · 01-05-2006, 04:01 PM

Save your money for the Chino Airshow in May 2006.

Glider · 01-05-2006, 05:37 PM

When did I start. The earliest I can remember is having a childs book on aircraft, the type that had a picture of the plane its speed and the engines. I noticed that one of the slower ones had two engines and the faster plane one. I asked my Dad why and he didn't know. A number of my toys were metal aircraft. This was before we moved from Liverpool so I must have been six at the time.
I did a lot of Wargames from about nine years old and the ones I like most were aviation or Naval wargames. When I was 14 with an older member of the wargames club we wrote a set of WW2 Naval rules. Everything grew from there.

syscom3 · 01-05-2006, 08:00 PM

I remember getting interested in warbirds when I was growing up in Minnesota (in the 1960's), under the flight path of one of the main runways at Mpls/St Paul airport.

There was a USAF/USN joint reserve airbase there, and I would watch C-119's and PV-2's taking off and coming in to land.

One day I bought a PBY Catalina model ( I think it was when Revell still made thhose fine 1/32 scale models) and my next door neighbor told me he was a pilot of one of them in the Pacific during WW2. I thought that was so cool, especially when he told me he was still a pilot in the Naval Reserve and would on occasion fly one of those PV2's over our neighborhood.

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 01-08-2006, 06:43 AM

For me it was being around Aviation my whole life. My dad flew Hueys and he would take me work with him and from then one I knew I wanted to fly and be around aviation. I started studying planes and then with my love of WW2 history naturally it carried over to Warbirds. I remember being 5 and my dad taking me to museums over here in Germany with the Luftwaffe aircraft and me touching the wing of the Bf-109G-6 and going "WOW!"

the lancaster kicks ass · 01-08-2006, 10:32 AM

is that why you like the -109 so much?

pbfoot · 01-08-2006, 10:43 AM

I think I became interested in aviation as kind of a genetic defect through my Dad who was one of the first 6 fitter riggers used in the BCATP and because of him always look up at the sound of any aircraft though i tend not to look at helicopters as they are little to prevalent around here unless they have that heavy military sound my first airshow i saw the Golden Hawks with the Canadair F86 Sabres

DerAdlerIstGelandet · 01-08-2006, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass

is that why you like the -109 so much?

That has part to do with it, being it was the first WW2 aircraft that I ever saw. Mostly though because I like the design of it. I like the way it was shaped and the Luftwaffe camo on it.

the lancaster kicks ass · 01-09-2006, 11:17 AM

fair enough, the main reason i like the lanc is because i saw a documentary on it when i used to think planes were cool but didn't know anything about them, if it was a B-17 documentary i proberly would've like the B-17 like i like the lanc