You’rrre a wee lil’ laad! 🙂

I figured as much from my childhood recollection of accidentally stepping on the wing of a model airplane (I know, the HUMANITY!). But I figured an actual metal aircraft would behave differently, and well, a Hasegawa plastic model is a Hasegawa plastic model, afterall 🙂

😀 I completely understand the innocence with which this has been said, but this thread almost sounds so much like a person from the developed country bemoaning how the natives in Congo have started to wear clothes and that whole rustic, backwater holiday atmosphere has been lost…

I completely agree with you DAirboy, the clank, clank clank as you climb the corrugated metal steps up a jumbo jet; smelling jet fuel, until whoosh, you’re through the doorway of the aircraft and suddenly you’re enveloped in that familiar air-freshner smell…

Think of it this way, you walk up to a house by crossing the front yard and ring a door bell. No one has answered yet:

You’re not in the house,

But you’re on the property…

Well, it’s not like you’re sitting in their living room, right?

But you’re on the property…

But no one’s let you in yet!

But you’re on the property…

Well, Tom Hanks is on the property 🙂

I’ll always remember boarding a PIA 742 in the 70’s and being welcomed on-board by a cabin crew wearing their orchid and green uniform.

(Photo courtesy of http://www.historyofpia.com)

Folk or Classical Pakistani music was the norm as a boarding and “after touchdown” fare. Not that I would expect non-Paks to enjoy the genre, but here’s a sampling of the inflight folk music that I remember…
PIA Inflight Music Page

Just did a quick check on AirPower -power poster on the military forum. Explains the froth-at-the-mouth attitude towards anyone and everyone.

Sum-total of AirPower’s posts:
Present govt in India: Really bad
BJP: Only slightly less venerable than God
Anyone non-Indian (hint: Pakistan): Bad
Pakistan: Very, very, very BAD! (and terrorists!, to boot :))