The next generation…

My son is a complete basket case. Hes been taken to Duxford,Coningsby,Waddington, Hendon seen loads of planes and choppers and stuff. Hes been educated by my dad and myself. All hes interested in at the age of 15 is……….Girls.:confused::rolleyes:

My partner’s grandson can not only tell the difference between a Lancaster and Halifax, but can also identify Welllington wreckage! 😮
(His pronunciation of ‘geodetic’ needs some work though! 😀 )

He is 7, and has already expressed an interest in a walk to a crash site.
Along with his sister, he is pretty clued up as to what happened in WW2, and the meaning of Remembrance Day. Am I proud of them? D@mn right!

Don

There’s Trouble in River City that starts with T and rhymns with P and that means “Planes”. So do you know what your starting? My boy could say Eindekker at three and later followed me into the RAF. He qualified as a Licenced civilian engineer and then moved to NZ and had his own plane and now his son aged three has his own flight log book which the crews on Air NZ sign whenever he flys (which is quite frequent).

So be warned……..

John

You guys have got it easy – only the Next Generation!
Wait until your 12 yr-old grandson emails you from the other side of the world and asks “Grandad, at what airspeed do I put the flaps down on a Lancaster on a normal approach?”. We are on Flight Simulator at this point! I was a UK Met Man from 1952 to 1996. But that is so far back in his head that he assumes that as I was involved in military aviation before 1960 – something that he cannot yet get his head around – he thinks I flew every aircraft ever used in WW2.
That, Sunshines, is VERY scary – I kid you not! You have to have all your wits about you, else Grandad will turn out to have feet of clay!!! Get boned up you lot – your time will come!!
HTH
Resmoroh

at Legends a few years ago, Spits taxied up after their display and we were next to the enclosure by the TFC tent – little man on my shoulders so he can see, usual standard display, superb – my nipper says “You can teach, monkies to fly better than that” hence the footer below

I love telling that story…..:diablo:

I’m determined that miniWP840s first word will be plane and it won’t be long after that before he’ll be saying various expressions along the lines of this and other gems from BoB, Dambusters, Memphis Belle, Top Gun and possibly Tora Tora Tora and Pearl Harbour.

Hello, I am a longtime lurker…(spying for info for the old man!) but I decided that I should finally make my first post to warn you people of the hazards you are creating.

Some of my first memories are of sitting with my dad between bulkheads of his 3/4 Spit being layed up in our apartment living room. Many nights of being allowed to stay up late for rare airings of BoB, Midway, The Great Waldo Pepper, etc…

All of this led to the person you now see working in the aviation industry (during a economically poor period to be associated with planes), building models, dreaming of old planes, spending far too much time on his computer searching for random info about old planes…

My wife wonders how my mother puts up with my father and I since all we talk about is old planes with an occasional old car or beer story thrown in for added spice.

sorry for the long post….but BE WARNED!!!!

cheers,
-Bret

My god – they are breeding!

Joke aside, its great to see how you share the love of aviation with the younger generation. Hours spend on a common interest are never spend badly and will come back 1000 fold.

As i have no kids, I have been trying to indoctrinate my girlfriend with aerospace trivia. She now recognise the C-47 that often passes our home during summer (which might seem quite trivial, but we live close to Kastrup airport near Copenhagen, so there are plenty of planes flying over). She has also agreed to visit Duxford next year.

apologies for telling the story yet again….

at Legends a few years ago, Spits taxied up after their display and we were next to the enclosure by the TFC tent – little man on my shoulders so he can see, usual standard display, superb – my nipper says “You can teach, monkies to fly better than that” hence the footer below

I love telling that story…..:diablo:

Mine are Jack aged 22 months and natasha, six. Natasha recognises Lancasters, Spitfires, Vulcans , JP’s and a range of civvie airlines.She has even tried her hand at a spot of light restoration (well, washing). Jack is obsessed. One of his first words was ‘copter’ and now has extended into ‘plane’. The silly sod keeps looking out of the living room window and yelling ‘Plane!’ in broad Geordie (We are on Newcastle’s flightpath). Already he has a model spitfire above his bed and a Lancaster painting on his wall. Mental.:D

I recall ,many years ago,taking my very young daughter to an airshow.
“What’s that ?”,I asked,pointing skyward.
“Hawker Hooligan !”,came the reply.

🙂 Some great stories, glad to know some niblets still have their eyes in the sky!

I well remember being 4, by then my aircraft recognition was quite good, a few Spitfires, Hurricanes and others were still stooging round in 1944/5.
The odd German plane that flew over was easy to recognise, it usually appeared shortly after the air raid warning.:D

The Doodlebug didn’t bother us, but the V2 was a different story!:(

Glad to say that my ‘lad’ (now 44) kept the faith when he was a nipper.

My Missus seems to be of the belief that when we produce a miniWP840 it is never going to have anything to do with anything military at all.

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It’s Iceman Jr!

Nice pic turretboy.
Its ok untill one day he brings a girlfriend home and its on the wall:rolleyes::)
Ive been there, Ive never heard the end of this one lol:)

Here is Patrick, my little aircrew trainee…..

My little chap is barely talking yet, but whenever he sees a plane on telly he will look at us, spread out his hand like a plane, and try to make a kind of jet noise. The other day he went up to a shelf full of old VHS videos and pulled out the only aviation one, presumably because there was a Red Arrows Hawk on the spine. If Mrs C wants to distract him at meal times she’ll often put one of my DVD’s on for him; for some reason the one about Zurich airport is his favourite. 😀

My son is now 9, has a Mk V Spit chasing an Me-109 on his bedrrom ceiling, being chased in turn by a He-162 “salamander” – he also has a few of my books piled on his floor. We did the cub scout airmanship badge at Duxford a few weeks back, and he has a B-25 Mitchell and P-47 to add to the bedroom ceiling air war. Time to start with my daughter who did like watching “dogfights”…… a start.

I try and add in some of the history as well – very important to me and that seems to be of interest as well. For a Dad/enthusiast places like Cosford with the educational element are fantastic.

Past year we have done Hendon, Yeovilton, Cosford, Coventry and IWM in London.

Then again we have a 3 hour ballet show saturday evening with my daughter – 😮

My youngest Child is 4 and she can recognize the Vulcan among other types, all 5 of mine have developed an interest in aviation to some degree and like others it seems i to have been accused of corrupting them. 😀

You will never guess what my 6 year old son draws 😉

This was drawn on Sunday morning after our twlight do, this is his take on it, he’s in the van :rolleyes:

Ive always kept both my kids interested in all sorts of aviation and history 🙂

They are ‘our’ future

As a kid I was always flicking though my grandfathers photo ablums of his time out in Burma and the Cocus Islands on Liberators with 99sqd, this where my interest started

(he of course not being aware of the credit crunch!)

Paul

If a may quote Saboo the Shaman “If you carnt even handle a little carpet, what you go`na do when we come to the crunch”