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Juan,
You may be correct. Now let me see where I fit. Definately not 90+;
however, SNJ, SMB, T-33, T2J, T-28, T-34, A3D, A6A, P2V, P5M, R4D. Oh my, I
must be getting old!!
Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder
"Juan Jimenez" <flybd5@prtc.net> wrote in message
news:4594796e$0$15426$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...
> Nah, when you know you're getting old is when you _start_ finding them in
> the museum. By the time you can only find them in museums you already know
> you're an old fart, and you're probably volunteering at the museum.
>
> And I just got a flashback of a 90+ yr old volunteer at the Vintage Flying
> Museum who flew B-17's in WWII and still gives tours, clambering all over
> the airplane to teach people about the history of the airplane. Everytime
> I think about that it reminds me what it feels like to see "awesome" in
> person...
>
> "Wayne Paul" <wayne@soaridaho.com> wrote in message
> news:12p8ijp2j3diee1@corp.supernews.com...
>>I get the same type of a blank stare when I mention A3D.
>>
>> You know you're old when ...the only place you can find an aircraft you
>> flew during your military career is a museums.
>>
>> Wayne
>> HP-14 "6F"
>> http://www.soaridaho.com/
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>> <veeduber@isp.com> wrote in message
>> news:1167342322.391797.172980@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
>>> You know you're old when some kid posts a picture of a plane you've
>>> flown in captioned: 'What the hell is THIS?'
>>>
>>> (It's an AJ-2, son. A nice airplane and one of the largest to have
>>> flown off an Essex-class carrier.)
>>>
>>> -R.S.Hoover
>>>
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