On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:10:55 -0800 (PST), William Hung
wrote:

On Mar 3, 10:44*am, Big John wrote:
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The good old days, sure mis them. *I flew in a PanAm 747 a few imes
and an Eatern 727 once as a kid and remember getting the wing from the
PanAm crew. *Too bad I lost that wing.

The good old days when kids get wings from pilots, fire hats from
firemen and badges from policemen. *I jnow the firemen still give out
fire hats at open houses, but the cops are no longer someone that
kidslook up to anymore. *At least not around here.

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Wil

Are you talking about the "Leg Spreaders" they used to hand out?

I still have a set in my box of old airplane memorabilia )

Big John

Don't quite follow you with the "Leg Spreaders", but if you are
refering to the bush jumpers wings, I've seen them. lol I meant the
plastic captain's wings that they gave out. :-)

Thinking back, I remember we kids would run up to police cars when
they showed up in our 'hood'. We would bug them to turn on the sirens
and lights and they would hand out plastic badges. Now kids look the
other way when they see cops.

Shame really.

Wil


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Wil

In olden days pilots were a good catch for young ladies. If you had a
set of wings to wear it was half the battle ) They all wanted to go
out with you )

The wings were metal like real ones but nothing in center saying what
airline, etc.

These were probably even before Berties time )

Big John