how old are you?

[Speedbag]

39, going on 14. 

[Got Duc]

37

in less than 12 hours

38

[geoffduc]

jeez i'm really getting worried am i the only war baby on this forum hey i remember Lenon and McCartney when they were in a group called the Quarrymem never mind A Hard Days Night.

[ducpainter]

62, you young whippersnappers (Curmudgeon emoticon?)

jeez i'm really getting worried am i the only war baby on this forum hey i remember Lenon and McCartney when they were in a group called the Quarrymem never mind A Hard Days Night.

see...

not to worry....

[Grampa]

im dis many 

[CairnsDuc]

I'm 34 (going on 2)

But your only as old as the person you feel, Soooo

my Wife's 28.

So now I'm 28!  

[Tommy T.]

jeez i'm really getting worried am i the only war baby on this forum hey i remember Lenon and McCartney when they were in a group called the Quarrymem never mind A Hard Days Night.

Which war?  I've got a picture of myself sitting on my Dad's lap looking out the window of his B-25.

Elvis was starting his climb while I was in Junior High.  When the Hard Day movie came out, I was working out of Navy Annex as a civilian spy for the Marine Corps.

[geoffduc]

hey tommyt,it was the second world war and WOW one of my favorite warbirds you lucky son.
thanks ducpainter i feel better already.

[androgynous]

20 but every body thinks i'm 28   

[Tommy T.]

hey tommyt,it was the second world war and WOW one of my favorite warbirds you lucky son.

Dad was Purdue grad in engineering who was too old for the WWII draft.  Six months after I was born, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943.  

He soloed in the PT-17 (Stearman), advance training in the AT-7 and got his wings and his commission.  After that Mother and I could live with him while he transitioned to multi-engine in the AT-17 and started flying the B-25 in Douglas, Arizona.  He had his overseas orders when the war in Europe ended and B-25 pilots weren't being shipped out any more.   Some were transitioned to the A-26 but he was made an instrument flight instructor for guys headed to the Pacific and then that one ended.  My second oldest unique memory, one no one else could have given me with constant retelling and one there were no pictures of, was of my fear in crawling over the B-25 bombay to get from the pilot's cockpit to the radio/tail gunner position.  The fuselage of the -25 was to small to have a walkway over the bombay so it was more of a tube.  I was not quite two years old.

Dad used the GI bill to get his civilian commercial and instrument ratings.  For an air force instrument flight instructor, he sure put in a lot of hours paid for by the GI bill to make what should have been a pretty simple transition.  He owned several private planes over the years, the last one being a Piper Commanche, but he always considered the -25 to be "his plane."

My daughter was inspired by him to fly.  She soloed a glider when she was 14 and soloed power on her 16th birthday.  With a year to go before she cound graduate from student pilot to private pilot (17 was the age limit for private), she took aerobatics lessons and learned to loop and roll and tail-spin.  Once we were flying around New England with Pamela in the left seat and Dad in the right one --  I was in back.  Shooting a touch and go at Fitchburg, MA, Pamela followed her glider training and few the downwind high, while Dad chanted "too high, too high."  Dad began to get a bit urgent on base and was hollering "We're going around - call it in 'Going round at Fitchburg.'"  She passed the end of the runway, crossed the controls into forward slip and dropped like rock, straightening back in time to make perfect touchdown.  She turned to Dad and said "Never come in low in a glider."  Dad snorted and growled "Hmm.  You couldn't have done that in a B-25."

[herm]

i like the age ranges.......

[ducpainter]

i like the age ranges.......

perspective....

[Grampa]

jeez i'm really getting worried am i the only war baby on this forum hey i remember Lenon and McCartney when they were in a group called the Quarrymem never mind A Hard Days Night.

I'm Pete Best..... and I do not approve of this message.

[kinetic3]

29 with the mind of a 16 year old.....

[moto]

[moto-zen]

I didn't know if i should vote  20-30 or 30-40. That should tell ya.