On Mar 3, 11:43*am, Big John wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:10:55 -0800 (PST), William Hung





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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 )

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So john, tell us about soe of your sorties in Nam. I would also like
to hear some of the R&R stories as well.

Wil