How many kids are in the forums?

combat flight simulator 2 and 3 were pretty good

im thirteen years old.

i found my inspiration from first a WW2 flight simulator which landed me into WW2 history which landed me to WW2 toys to military modeling. I sound like an air guy but im actually an armor/ figure/air/ship guy It also helped that my dad modeled as a kid too.

Ya'll ever see a B-17 take off? I sure did.

101stAirborne

Ya'll ever see a B-17 take off? I sure did.

Nope, but I have seen them fly over town. They come to an ex-NAVY air field close to my town every once in a while, and they do flights when they are there.

So far, I've been on 5 or 6 B-17s. Of those 6, 4 were repeat visits (I can't remember the names) and one was another B-17 ( I can't remember that one eather), and then there was Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored B-17, that looked exactly like the real Nine-O-Nine looked back in WWII.

I've been To EAA Air venture... I've seen tons of those! I want a ride but it's way too expensive. Now Skyraiders taking off is something of a treat. And an F-15 buzzing the runway on afterburner? Ohhh....

My hat is off to the "kids" who model and participate in the forums. I believe that the next generation of modelers is going to be very strong. We as adults have tamed the learning curve for the younger modelers. The fact that 3rd graders are being exposed to PC software and hardware and feel comfortable in these more advanced invironments leads me to believe that budding modelling talents will benefit from the same phenomenon. P.E. and current weathering techniques will simply be "the way it always was" for them. They do not have to slowly learn and grow from the advances in techniques over the past 20 years like we did. They are arriving in the modeling world at a time when the tools and advice available to them outstrips anything that I saw when I was a kid. I had Shep Paine's book & a Verlinden book......that was it! These guys have resources that would have made me drool.

"KIDS", Take no prisoners. The future is yours and we "old Timers" have paved a nice path for you. Exploit it to it's fullest. Take no prisoners. I can not wait to see what kind of work you guys will be doing when you are 25-30. It all starts with the foundation you are building for yourselves right now. Take the ball and run with it.

101stAirborne

Ya'll ever see a B-17 take off? I sure did.

I sure did! Last year we had one come to the Offutt Air Show here in Nebraska. IT was great to see it flying around too!  Here are a couple of pictures i got of it!

OWL

Railfan 233

 

101stAirborne:

 

Ya'll ever see a B-17 take off? I sure did.

 

 

Nope, but I have seen them fly over town. They come to an ex-NAVY air field close to my town every once in a while, and they do flights when they are there.

So far, I've been on 5 or 6 B-17s. Of those 6, 4 were repeat visits (I can't remember the names) and one was another B-17 ( I can't remember that one eather), and then there was Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored B-17, that looked exactly like the real Nine-O-Nine looked back in WWII.

 I've seen several Forts , in all stages of flight . From the Commemorative ( then Confederate) Air Force's 17 back in the 70s before she became Texas Raiders to Collings Foundation's Nine O Nine recently here at my local airport (only a few blocks away).

 I've had my 7 year old daughter touring through Nine O Nine and the B-24J Witchcraft with a quick trip to a road at the end of the runway to see them coming straight at ya' , then pass maybe a hundred feet over head.  Very, very exciting for both of us! Only thing better would be a flight on board, but that is an expensive deal but worth it , if you got the spare "change".

Earlier this year , had a B-25 H take off and come over the house a few hundred feet up. My girl started calling " Daddy , come here and see!!!".  My thought was "Cool, my daughter knows warbird noise. I'm teaching her well.". 

 It's good to see young people get involved in this hobby . I have my girl doing snap-together kits and helping apply decals and other things on my builds to expose her to a finer level of building . She loves it.

Howard 

 Once upon a time, there was a fort based in Geneseo NY named the 'Fuddy Duddy". It sat on there dirt strip year round. A close friend attended S.U.N.Y. @ Geneseo, so, on "party" weekends, we would go climb around inside the thing in the middle of the night. I have been told that it has been moved/sold to another group inside NY State.

Iain Hamilton

 Once upon a time, there was a fort based in Geneseo NY named the 'Fuddy Duddy". It sat on there dirt strip year round. A close friend attended S.U.N.Y. @ Geneseo, so, on "party" weekends, we would go climb around inside the thing in the middle of the night. I have been told that it has been moved/sold to another group inside NY State.

I remember her very well. My dad lives not far from there, used to take me and my brothers to the airshow there every year. The national warplane museum used to run things in geneseo back then. They used to have not one, but two B-17's there (Fuddy Duddy and Kathleen), plus a PBY catalina. In the early 90's, the guy who owned the Kathleen ( the other B-17) died and his family sold the airplane even though it was in the will to keep the plane in geneseo. The family, the museum, and a few other parties started getting into big pizzing contests and everything started going down hill till the museum pulled stakes and left. They are still in NY somewhere, cant remember where and 1941 HAG (historical air group) runs geneseo now seems to be doing a good job so far. They've been putting the airshow on for six years now. I just wish they could get it back to what it was back in the day, 3-5 B-17's, a B-24, AND an avro lancaster, every year! And that's just the heavies!

Fuddy duddy is in bakersfield california last I knew, kathleen is, to the best of my knowledge, in seattle as Boeing bee. 
 

im 20, bit older, but i get on with younger people, i have got to the age where everyone around me has grown up,  and started becoming snotty, and self obssesed, with not a thought for their (old) freinds.......

me and my best mate might as well be 16 to be honest.....

i'm a kid.

lespauljames

im 20, bit older, but i get on with younger people, i have got to the age where everyone around me has grown up,  and started becoming snotty, and self obssesed, with not a thought for their (old) freinds.......

 

me and my best mate might as well be 16 to be honest.....

 

Remember: Aging is mandatory, Maturing is optional!

Hey! I want to get into this! I am 16. I love planes.

There are some old people who say, "These darned kids don't have the patience for this hobby."

I didn't like what I heard, so I started a aircraft model club(will post pics in A/C forum this weekend).

So far I have six kids who love this hobby.

Hey man, great for you!