Lindy From , joined today!, posts, RR: Posted (9 years 7 months 15 hours ago) and read 214 times:
I dont remember if we were talking about "when for the first time you fell in love with aviation?" Did we?
For me it was in 1984. I went with my dad to WAW (Warsaw-Poland) pick up my mother from that airport. We arrived there early so he took me to watch the planes from the special deck. I was so excited. My mom came from JFK on Pan Am DC-8. Few days later I found picture of that plane in local newspaper, and I cut it off. Since that time I started collecting airliners pictures from magazines, safety on board cards and everything aviation related. In 1989 I started taking pictures of the airliners. Since 1984 I have read tons of books aviation related, and finaly this year I started work for an Airline. I'm contractor for US Airways at IAD but in near future I'm planning to move to DCA work for USAirways itself not as a contractor.
Us Airways From United States, joined May 1999, 431 posts, RR: 3 Reply 1, posted (9 years 7 months 14 hours ago) and read 211 times:
My first time I fell in love with aviation was when I was little and had to go pick my dad up from the old overseas terminal at Philadelphia International. I just was astonished by all the planes. One day I plan to work for a major airline or work for a aircraft manufacturer as a aerospace/aeronautical engineer.
Airplanekid From United States, joined May 1999, 94 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (9 years 7 months 14 hours ago) and read 212 times:
I was 3. My grandfather took me to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport to watch planes. I remember seeing Eastern DC9's. I now have been there 103 times since along with visits to lots of other airports. I bug him to take me now whenever we both have free time. I hope to be a pilot for USAirways when I get older. I now take pictures and collect the luggage tags from different airlines.
Flyf15 From United States, joined May 1999, 6013 posts, RR: 15 Reply 3, posted (9 years 7 months 13 hours ago) and read 210 times:
Well, I have 3 stories.
1. I used to live under the traffic pattern for GSO Rwy. 5 (10000ft long). I would sit in my back yard and be in awe of this huge things flying over like they were weightless. Then my intrest just continued on from there.
2. Every summer I used to fly out to Phoenix to see my grandparents. Almost everytime I went, my grandpa (who also loves planes) would take me to the Pima Air Museum in Tuscon. This is what got me intrested in planes and probably made me start to notice the ones flying over my house in GSO.
3. The thing that raelly started my intrest in airliners (I had already been intrested in the militaries for quite some time) was that one time it was so hot in PHX that the airport had to shut down. When it did, we were stuck there for 3 hours waiting to go to ORD. I just sat there and watched. And I have the image of that United B727-200 (which I was going to fly on to ORD) permenetly stuck in my head.
Those would have to be the 3 things that got me intrested in planes.
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Airplanekid2 From , joined today!, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (9 years 7 months 13 hours ago) and read 210 times:
I got into Commercial Aviation just a few years ago. I used to be interested in trains, and I am not quite sure how I got interested in Planes. I started reading timetables and collecting airline stuff and now I am starting to take pics. I hope to work for an airline when I am older, maybe as a pilot.
Aa727 From United States, joined Apr 2003, 124 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (9 years 7 months 5 hours ago) and read 210 times:
At age seven back in 1977 I flew with my family from Brussels to Johannesburg with a stop in Kinshasa. We were on Sabena. The aircraft was a DC-10, wich was new at that time. At the gate while waiting for preboarding announcements I was watching with my dad the DC-10 that we would be on, and he was telling me: "We are gonna be on a DC-10!" "Wow!" I replied. I was very impressed to see such a big bird for the first time. I could see the stewardesses walking through the aisles. Oh boy I was excited...
On the second leg of the trip, from Kinshasa to Jo'burg, I was invited by the crew to see the cockpit during the flight. I was very impressed to see the cockpit with all the knobs and dials. The flight engineer was writing down something on a sheet of paper and I already wanted to know what he was talking about. Since then I fell in love with commercial aviation and I started to recognize all the airline tails of the world.
I'll always remember that trip.
L1011 From United States, joined May 1999, 1302 posts, RR: 11 Reply 6, posted (9 years 7 months 1 hour ago) and read 210 times:
It was in 1957 when I was ten years old. My grandparents came to visit and they gave me a pack of postcards of the Eastern fleet that they were given on their flight. They were:
Convair 440 Silver Falcon
Martin 404 Silver Falcon
DC-7B Golden Falcon
60-passenger Constellation
Super-C Constellation
When we took them back to the airport (RIC) for their return to PIE, my father helped me collect timetables for all the airlines that served RIC at the time, which I used to plan imaginary trips. Later that same year, when we were seeing my great-grandparents off, they got away before I could say goodbye, so my mother took me onboard their plane to say goodbye. It was an Eastern Air Lines Convair 440, which they were to fly on to ATL, where they would make a connection to PIE. Ever since then, I have been a slave to commercial aviation.
Bryang From United States, joined May 1999, 378 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (9 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 210 times:
Great Topic!!!
My parents tell me that I was interested in planes even before I can actually remember being interested in planes. When I was 2 or 3 years old I would always want them do drive past the little airport in Middletown, OH to look at the ramp.
My first real memory of seeing a plane in flight was watching a lear jet land -- it seemed like the biggest plane in the world back then.
I also lived near the Air Force Museum in Wright PAtterson AFB, Ohio. Spent MANY hours there. That's a dream for an aviation loving kid.
Chris From Canada, joined May 1999, 151 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (9 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 210 times:
I was 13 and flew to England to visit family. Two of my cousins were avid spotters and they got me interested in the different aircraft and airlines. That was in 1968 and they have since lost interest in aviation but I'm still hooked. Chris
David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 7230 posts, RR: 28 Reply 9, posted (9 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 211 times:
I was too young when I took my first flight to remember it now but it was a short hop across the English Channel in a Bristol Freighter with our car on board as well. My early flights were in turboprops like the Britannia, Viscount and Vanguard. We moved about the world every 18 - 24 months so a flight usually meant "going home" to the UK or starting a new life somewhere exciting. Maybe that's why I got so interested in flying but just thinking about a couple of hundred tons of metal flying through the air at 500+ mph and being able to look down on the world from 5 miles up probably had something to do with it.
I feel sorry for people who are satisfied just looking at cars.
Purdue Cadet From , joined today!, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (9 years 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 210 times:
I don't remember when I became interested in planes, because I was too young to remember. I took my first commercial flight when I was 2 weeks old, SAN-LAX-JFK on American. Since then, I have flown hundreds of thousands of miles on AA (I am only 18, so that's a lot for me), making several trips a year to the east coast and now making many trips from Indiana back to California. I have akways loved planes, and now I'm working on a dregree in aviation so that I can fly, hopefully for American, for my life's work.
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