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Old age and all...
By: stevieweeks Date: July 17, 2024, 4:22 pm
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Lately I have been amassing a collection of die cast aeroplanes,
to encompass all the planes I have flown on over the years. I
have a long way to go since they are expensive and I am buying
them at a rate of about one a month: I have six now and I'm not
even halfway there yet.
I expected that the Trans Canada Airlines Lockheed Super
Constellation I flew on in 1956 as a baby would be considered
historical but I was somewhat taken aback when the Airbus A320
that just arrived for this month was in a box clearly marked
"Historical Aircraft Collection"
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. I suppose it's
because it is in the old red and white livery but I remember
flying in one right after they joined the Air Canada fleet
sometime around 1990.
The same goes for the Boeing 767 that I flew in 1984... this
plane had been involved in a famous incident in July 1983 and
was known as the Gimli Glider... the plane that ran out of fuel
due to a metric miscalculation and had to land on a dragstrip in
Gimli, Manitoba. This is the only one of the models which I can
definitely say was the actual plane I flew... the others are
all just the same model and livery as I remember.
Sorry for rambling on about nothing... I know I'm a terrible
bore and all...
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Re: Old age and all...
By: David M. Katz Date: July 17, 2024, 4:52 pm
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Interesting.
Photos?
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Re: Old age and all...
By: Jack Date: July 17, 2024, 5:04 pm
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For me, feelings of old age start when the oldies station plays
music that came out after I graduated high school.
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Re: Old age and all...
By: Plagosus Date: July 18, 2024, 4:05 am
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=3238.msg29277#msg29277
date=1721253857]
For me, feelings of old age start when the oldies station plays
music that came out after I graduated high school.
[/quote]
Not to mention going to a science museum and seeing the radio
you had at home is an exhibit.
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Re: Old age and all...
By: stevieweeks Date: July 18, 2024, 5:03 pm
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[quote]Not to mention going to a science museum and seeing the
radio you had at home is an exhibit.[/quote]
This happened to me too except that it was a black and white
television set...
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Re: Old age and all...
By: Jack Date: July 19, 2024, 4:59 pm
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[quote author=stevieweeks link=topic=3238.msg29286#msg29286
date=1721340183]
[quote]Not to mention going to a science museum and seeing the
radio you had at home is an exhibit.[/quote]
This happened to me too except that it was a black and white
television set...
[/quote]
When I was about 6, I remember being invited to a neighbors
house because they had the first color TV on the block.
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Re: Old age and all...
By: Emlyn Morgan Date: October 11, 2024, 3:23 am
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[attachimg=1]... or when you see things in a museum that you
still use! Such as a scrubbing board. How can you get wine
stains out of your foukia without a scrubbing board and a bar of
soap?!
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Re: Old age and all...
By: Zyngaru Date: October 11, 2024, 9:45 am
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=3238.msg29291#msg29291
date=1721426363]
[quote author=stevieweeks link=topic=3238.msg29286#msg29286
date=1721340183]
[quote]Not to mention going to a science museum and seeing the
radio you had at home is an exhibit.[/quote]
This happened to me too except that it was a black and white
television set...
[/quote]
When I was about 6, I remember being invited to a neighbor's
house because they had the first color TV on the block.
[/quote]
Heck I can remember stopping at a friend's house after school
because he had a black and white tv at his house we could watch
until his parents got home, and I had to go home. It was
forever before I saw a color TV. I do remember our first black
and white TV. It was a Philipps. I was the official antennae
for it. I had to stand beside the TV and hold the rabbit ear
antennae until dad could see his show with the least amount of
snow in it.
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