You know you're a seious Aerofan when...

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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  1. You tell people why the F-14 and -15 look alike.
  2. You memorized the width of invasion stripes for 1/72, 48,and 32nd scales.
  3. Everyone catches you spelling “fanatic” with a Ph instead of an F.
  4. You have threatened to kick someone’s “burner can”
  5. An airshow’s not an airshow if you can’t touch the planes.
  6. You point out the mistakes in a museum plane’s paint, using your always-handy FS color chart.
  7. Pilots have flight logs; heck, you have a “sat-inside” log!
  8. Your aftershave smells like kerosene. (Radial exhaust and oil to a prophead.)
  9. Your kid’s treehouse is a 707 cockpit.
  10. Your “real” garage is ten miles away at the local airport.

Add to this if you like!

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Now those are just too cute.Thanks for posting them.Here are just a few more that come to mind.

11 You always stick your head out the window and yell “contact” before starting your car.
12 When you attend an airshow at the local airport,all the security personel know you by name.
13 You’ve logged more flight time than a WWII vet on your pc flight simulator.
14 Your favorite chair in your recroom is an ejection seat.
15 The weathervane in your back yard has a tail code.
16 Some of the pilots from the local air base dip their wings over your house.
17 Your TV is always on discovery wings.
18 You have a scanner tuned to the local airport frequency insted of a radio in your garage.

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19 your license plate holder says my other car flies
20 You take your wifes favorite painting from the mantle and replace it with a huge portrait of an A-10 being rearmed.
21 When you start your car it goes… "Rrrrr… cough…cough… Rrrrrr… belches smoke… Rrrrrrr… then roars to life.
22 You alarm clock screams “check your 6!!” at 5 AM.
23 you have a guy waiting for you at work who wears a bright yellow vest and guides you into your spot with Light Bataans.

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24 you need to spin your wheels to start your car
25 you keep a driving log
26 you own an airport

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  1. You ‘pre-flight’ your car every morning
  2. When it’s cold outside, you call into the house and ask for a ‘pre-heat’ for your car engine
  3. You drive around town with a kneeboard strapped to your leg
  4. Your car mechanic gives you a funny look when you tell him to give your car an “annual”
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  1. When you hit the freeway, you look over at the wife and say, “gearup”.
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  1. You build models to show off the airplanes you hope to own one day
  2. You build models to show off the airplanes you already own
  3. You use “Remove Before Flight” tags on your car
  4. You pretend to be dogfighting while riding a roller coaster
    36)You can identify an airplane overhead simply by the sound its makes
  5. When you take a turbulant flight that makes all of the other passengers sick, you say it was “A fun ride”.
  6. You run outside whenever you hear a low flying aircraft
  7. You have almost (or have actually) crashed your car trying to watch a rare plane fly overhead
  8. When you pull up on the handle to let someone out of the back seat of a car you say “Eject, Eject, Eject”
  9. You’ve painted your car in low-vis colors
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It’s late at night… Wings is next to come on TV… your wife is standing at the bedroom door giving you that look… but you pause long enough to see what aircraft they’re going to feature… PRAYING it isn’t something cool!!! [:o]

[:D][:D][:D][:D]

Frank

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If you’re talking about “THAT LOOK” [:X]???
OMG!!! Been there, done that!!! [:O] [B)]

Randie [C):-)]

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  1. You’ve replaced all your car’s side reflectors with formation slime light strips.
  2. You feel the urge to build a steam catapult in your driveway and rig your car up to be
    launched out into traffic.
  3. You have your kitchen done up all in stainless steel so you can live in a NMF
    environment.
  4. The blades of your ceiling fan have “Hamilton Standard” stickers on them.
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  1. When you’re right in the middle of doing something really noisy, you can still identify the sound of a radial engine 5 miles away and run outside to see what it is.
  2. When you can determine whether the plane is powered by a Wright or a Pratt & Whitney just by listening to the sound.
  3. When your wife has been trying for 30 minutes to get you up without any luck and the sound of a Merlin or Alison will have you on your feet and moving in 2 seconds flat.
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  1. When you show up at the airshow 2 hours early just so that you can get good pics of airplanes without “regular” people crowding the aircraft.
    50.When you leave an airshow because of your wife/kids persistance… but two hours later, you are still trying watch the aerial demo’s.
    51.You state : " Dropping the flaps and lowering the gear" to your friends/family when you pull off an interstate highway.
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Thanks for making this last so long!! I’m a bit conflicted as to we should feel slighted or flattered when we have done over five of these things!

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you’ve done good by this thread! It shows how much we all share the same wavelengths. semper fi, mike

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  1. youve got the name of your highschool sweet heart painted on you front left fender.
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  1. You try to push the trigger in on your “yoke” in traffic.
  2. The guy 7 car length’s ahead is an “FW190” and youre in a “stang” and youre trying to sneak in on his six for a good shot.
  3. You pull into a parking lot and as you “taxi” you look out each side around the “long nose of your plane”
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  1. All your passengers are mystified, when you drive down the freeway and tell them to hold on while you “Shake the bandit off my six” and wonder why you can’t just say “tailgater” like everyone else.

  2. You have “Danger jet exhaust” stenciled above your car’s exhaust pipe. and “Danger arrestor hook” stenciled on your back bumper.

  3. Instead of “beware of dog” signs, you have Area 51 style “deadly force” security signs on the gates to your property.

  4. You’ve put a “Harrier parking only” sign at your parking spot at work.

  5. Pratt and Whitney has put your number on their “call block” list because you asked them to rebuild your car’s engine one too many times.

  6. To most people, General Electric means light bulbs and household appliances, to you its the beautiful sound F-404 engines in a Hornet.

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61: you say “rotate” when u are riding in a 747
62: you say “flaps and slats deploy” when riding in a 747
63: passengers next to you give you strange looks while you make noseprints on the glass in the 747