Remember when

I remember flying on Piedmont carrying a few squirt guns in my carry on bag. Must have been around 1985-87.

 

Does anyone remember how loud airplanes were?

 

Loud? I remember when when the exhaust plumes made them look like they burned coal.

 

Can still track the Hercs when they fly over. A little smokey

 

I was born on the flightline.

My father was in the Air Force, and we always lived within ear shot of big jets.

Right after I got out of college, I moved away from the flightline. I had a crappy little apartment next to the railroad tracks. Still, I used to sleep like a baby.

Now we live about 4 miles from the National Guard base and Fresno international airport, so I hear the sounds of freedom daily.

 

KC-135 and B-52s with water injection.

 

They had water injection on the KC135s when i first got to Dyess, that was 93

 

Nice my pops flew the KC135

 

Penny candy was mentioned in another thread.
There was a Ben Franklin 5-10 in our neighborhood. They had a whole shelf of individual candy for .01, .05, .10. You could grab a little paper sack and get yourself 50 tootsie rolls for 50 cents. If you wanted.
Who knows. Maybe you wanted some Bazooka gum or some lemon heads.
Sky's the limit.....you had 50 cents.

 

I forgot that I had this. This is the original ac/dc cassette recorder for a RadioShack TRS-80.

This belong to my father but he never owned a RadioShack machine. He had it on an IBM PC-AT, and I still have it too.

It was originally a 64K machine but he upgraded it to 640 K of main memory.

 

That's what I used to store the BASIC code I wrote on my TI-99/4A when I was in middle school. I wanted the 32k RAM upgrade soooooo bad, but it was ridiculously expensive. At that time 32k of ram was more than you'd ever need in your lifetime!

 

I remember living along one of the local LVI flight paths the sounds of the approaching planes after years just become back ground noise .

Now that I seldom hear any over head planes when I do get one it sticks out.

 

Same. I stop what Im doing and look up see what is...especially helicopters. But that from a former aircraft mechanic

 

a good landing spot for the medivac chopper less then a mile away .

Sadly far to many landings.

 

An old supervisor works on those here. Kinda neat to see up close...especially if you arent IN an emergency.

 

…when companies actually made good, quality products, stood behind their work, and cared about the consumer? — and not only cared about money?

 

Or when service companies actually wanted your business and would return your messages?

 

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