How many remember ?

I was -33, so I don't remember LOL

yeah, that was a few years before me too... although I am a bit older than 33... But as a little kid growing up in the late 60s when I started building models and my dad working for TWA at LAX, I do remember building a LOT of airliner models. 707s, 880s, DC-8s, the Boeing SST... and I do remember them having window decals over solid fuselages... not that my feeble skills had much luck with getting them to look anything like the big kids could do...

Well I was -2 in 58, however I do remember windowless decals for the Airliner models I built as a young sprig in the mid/late 60's. I never could get them to line up.

I was negative 11, and have never built the airliners.  

I was 18 and graduating from H.S. and remember them.  Good Luck.

Jim 

Let's see now... I would've been -6 in 1958. I sure wish I could've been around and in the USAF in the late '40s to the mid '70s, though. Man, what progress was made on aircraft technology back in those days! Seems like new aircraft designs were coming out every year. Don't see that nowadays.....

Devil Dawg

Let's see now... I would've been -6 in 1958. I sure wish I could've been around and in the USAF in the late '40s to the mid '70s, though. Man, what progress was made on aircraft technology back in those days! Seems like new aircraft designs were coming out every year. Don't see that nowadays.....

Well Dawg, that makes ya a '52 model like me guess!  I bet I can guess your aches and pains! 

Gary

I still find kits with decal windows- both the clear ones that go over holes in sides, and the colored ones that represent the windows on kits with solid fuselage sides.  I know some folks do not like them- either kind- but they are okay with me.

I did the Revell series of airliners like the DC6, the Boing 707, the Caravell, the Comet, the F-27, Constilation, etc. I still have the Airfix first jet "Air Force One" Boing 707 kit.. Back in the day we heard sonic booms on a regular basis. Aircraft were developing on a daily basis. I remember the story about the Cleveland air race winner that became a Boing test pilot who did a barrel roll in a 707 prototype for potential customers, "Tex" something or other, darn it won't come to me at the moment. Someone told me there is a film of this, anyone? I think Revell did a model of the prototype 707, but I'm not sure. The aircraft was painted brown and yellow. What is amazing to me is the longevity of some of these early 1950s jets that are still in active service today, e.g. the B-52, The A4 Skyhawk, the T/A 37, the T-33, the C-130, the Boing 727, 737, 747, DC 9, DC 10, etc. What is "OFF" the drawing board that we will not know about for 20 years, like the F117.