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Postby wifesaysno » Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:51 pm

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!

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Adam...off to fly my box!
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Re: Remember when?

Postby Fozzer » Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:56 pm

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

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Re: Remember when?

Postby 1olehippy » Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:58 pm

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

Dave....still flying DC-7s   :)
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Re: Remember when?

Postby wifesaysno » Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:37 pm

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

Dave....still flying DC-7s
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Re: Remember when?

Postby Jared » Sat Jan 12, 2013 7:54 pm

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 :)
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Re: Remember when?

Postby Felix/FFDS » Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:50 pm

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!!.
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Re: Remember when?

Postby COBS » Tue Jan 15, 2013 4:16 am

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  ;)

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Re: Remember when?

Postby jetprop » Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:47 am

[quote]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
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Re: Remember when?

Postby waspiflab » Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:06 am

[quote]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
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Re: Remember when?

Postby BLAZE » Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:31 pm

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!
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Re: Remember when?

Postby expat » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:35 am

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

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Re: Remember when?

Postby COBS » Fri Jan 18, 2013 6:27 am

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.

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