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Title: Remember when?
Post by wahubna on Jan 10^th, 2013 at 5:51pm

Remember when you would sit in a cardboard box and make airplane noises? Yeah...did that today at work in the Great Lakes frame ;D

We never grow up do we! ::)

Ostensibly it was to test my toe brake design... ;D

Post your wonderful tales of cardboard box simulation below!

Tailwinds,
Adam...off to fly my box!

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by Fozzer on Jan 10^th, 2013 at 5:56pm

My childhood cardboard box used to contain myself, and the lush little pig-tailed blond from next-door.... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]...!

Paul...Teleportation Time!... :-*...!

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by 1olehippy on Jan 11^th, 2013 at 4:58pm

My cardboard box had an instrument panel thanks to discarded pages from My dad's DC-7 flight manuals.

Dave....still flying DC-7s :)

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by wahubna on Jan 11^th, 2013 at 5:37pm

1olehippy wrote on Jan 11^th, 2013 at 4:58pm:

My cardboard box had an instrument panel thanks to discarded pages from My dad's DC-7 flight manuals.

Dave....still flying DC-7s :)

I used sharpie and other markers to draw my instruments ;D

The manual pages were our "glass cockpit" upgrades ;D

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by Jared on Jan 12^th, 2013 at 7:54pm

you guys and your boxes and airframes to play in...when I was a kid we had a set of steps and an imagination :)

I've clearly made up for it with the time spent building the simulator :)

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by Felix/FFDS on Jan 14^th, 2013 at 10:50pm

One of the fun toys of my childhood (was 1962 that long ago?) was a cardboard Mercury space capsule, complete with a spining "map" of the Earth. OF course you had to go in through the "hatch" ... On second thought, it was a heck of a way to get a kid (relatively) calm and quiet in one place for a long time!!.

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by COBS on Jan 15^th, 2013 at 4:16am

Hi Fozzer

I like that one.
I have located and obtained a large cardboard box .
Now I'm trying to locate a pig-tailed blond !
It's never too late to to enjoy learning to fly ;)

Cheers
Karol

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by jetprop on Jan 16^th, 2013 at 2:47am

COBS wrote on Jan 15^th, 2013 at 4:16am:

Hi Fozzer

I like that one.
I have located and obtained a large cardboard box .
Now I'm trying to locate a pig-tailed blond !
It's never too late to to enjoy learning to fly ;)

Cheers
Karol

Don't forget the practice your airplane noises! :D

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by waspiflab on Jan 16^th, 2013 at 4:06am

COBS wrote on Jan 15^th, 2013 at 4:16am:

Hi Fozzer

I like that one.
I have located and obtained a large cardboard box .
Now I'm trying to locate a pig-tailed blond !
It's never too late to to enjoy learning to fly ;)

Cheers
Karol

I've been out with a few tailed pig blondes :D

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by BLAZE on Jan 17^th, 2013 at 6:31pm

The good'ol days.

My favorite cardboard box was a refrigerator box I had fixed up with the gauge
cluster and seat and steering wheel from a wrecked 65 mustang.

One of my dads friends owned a junkyard, (little boy heaven!) The only bad part
about the junkyard was the BEES!

The good'ol days

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by expat on Jan 18^th, 2013 at 2:35am

Don't forget, growing old is compulsory, growing up on the other hand is optional........... ;D ;D

Matt

Title: Re: Remember when?
Post by COBS on Jan 18^th, 2013 at 6:27am

Doctor visit 1.
As a 4 year old I got stitches in my knee climbing a barbed wire fence.

Doctor visit 2.
A couple of days later I got my very first aircraft , you guessed it , a cardboard box , unfortunately it was a tight fit with my arms trapped tightly next to my body , well I tripped didn't I .
Crash landed on my chin , more stitches.

For a 4 year old it doesn't get any better , 2 lots of stitches holding me together , and all at the same time , so cool.

Cheers
Karol