Whatzit?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

….I actually have real memories going back to when I was two years old.

Me, too. For example, I can recall when:
Dairy Queen first offered its cones dipped in liquid chocolate.
Chevrolet introduced its first Corvette, available only in that red interior and white model we see on the other thread. At the age my friends and I were back then, we thought it was an example of "rocket-science" !
When Reese's Peanut butter Cups were introduced. We thought they were cheating us out of the chocolate missing between the two circular patties.
Planes began the changeover from propellers to jet engines. We used to visit Pittsburgh airport to see the changes in front of us among the parked planes.
Stainless steel first started to be used noticeably in places like our school's cafeteria food-service line.
Toy hard-plastic dinosaurs, approx. the size of shoes. Wonderful play-value!

P.S. We all thought Clarabelle was a huge jackazz, but we loved Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring (!!!)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Do you look these up or actually are familiar with the music? I was listening to this yesterday to & from the grocery store......

Depends. Some I remember, some are things I happened on. I was re-watching the first two seasons of Sling and Arrows and (I think) Murph's post from the Tempest popped up in the course of the show. I remembered Walter Pidgeon's line from Forbidden planet. I always double check to get specifics from wikipedia or google.

Images stick, if a phrase catches my attention, it sticks, melodies that catch my attention stick. Voices stick, I can usually identify an actor from their voice/speaking pattern even if they are 20+ years difference in time. Names don't stick. I can see a face and remember "I know who that is" but I can't pull up a name to match. Hell, I've forgotten someones name within minutes of meeting them, can be quite embarrassing.

I actually have real memories going back to when I was two years old.

Similar here.

[chuck]

My dad worked on heavy construction, mainly concrete, roads and runways. We lived in queens from 1954 till 1960. He worked on the installation of the jet runways at Idlewild, now JFK. On Sundays the airliners parked there new jet liners on the aprons for visitors to walk through. This was before jetways (and the TSA), you climbed the stairs and walked through the plane and walked down the stairs parked at the back. DC 8's, 707's, 880's. Prior to that, the prettiest airliner was the Lockheed Constellation, the Connie.

[rogruth]

I also can forget names shortly after hearing them and I also have been somewhat embarrassed by this happening. Now I can blame age.
@ age 2 is also my earliest memories.

[webenda]

Prior to that, the prettiest airliner was the Lockheed Constellation, the Connie.

My oldest memories are from age 2 also. Biggest memory from age 2 is a Southern Pacific AC-12 leaving Los Angeles Harbor with a string of reefers. When it went through a turnout the rear engine came out from under the boiler. I thought the engine was falling apart.

My first airline flight was on a Lockheed Constellation. I was more than a little surprised by how much the wings could flap as the pilot brought it down though a thunder storm over Alexandria, Louisiana.

[Roy]

One interest my mother and I shared was flying on different types of planes. She flew a Ford Trimotor as a kid. I've flown on a DC-3, a DC-6, a Comet, DC-8s, 707s and many more. I've never flown a Constellation, but I've seen them as our plane taxied to the runway. At the time, I definitely wanted to fly one. I couldn't care less about flying one now, but they're still fine-looking aircraft. I'd like to fly the Eviation Alice some day.

[chuck]

Lockheed 1011 was probably the nicest "jumbo" jet I ever got to fly in while the DC-10 was the worst. The 1011 was too far ahead of it's time while the DC-10 was just a flying trash can. The 1011 had a very comfortable take off roll and even coach seating was very pleasant/roomy. The DC-10 felt/sounded like it was coming apart at the seams on take offs and landings.

727 was probably the most exiting take off and landings especially out of LaGuardia. The planes wings "expanded" by 30% for take off and landings. You could see/hear the wing (and its control surfaces) cranked out and then retract when the additional lift was no longer needed. I don't think I've seen a wing as complicated as the 727 other than on a military plane. Leading edge slats, spoilers, trailing flaps, ..... They were fuel thirsty and noisy but they got the job done.

Wayne, first time I flew on a 707 I got to experience the wing flap effect. I thought the plane was doing an albatross maneuver on take off with the wings flapping and the engines undulating as we "galloped" down the runway on take off. That plane seemed to be underpowered for its size. Pilot set the breaks and ran up the engines at the end of the runway and then popped the breaks. Not much of a "lurch", we just sort of rolled down the runway with a very gradual increase in speed. I was beginning to worry about running out of runway but we did eventually lift off.

I suspect the 747 wings flapped as well put everything was so large it was harder to tell. Now that was a plane! Smooth take offs and landings and I don't recall much in the way of in flight turbulence. I may have been lucky on the ten or so flights on 747's but I like to think the plane was so large and massive it just shrugged it off.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[chuck]

You're a nightcrawler, colonel. A peddler. You sell information.

......

Do you know who Judas was?" "

"Yes, I know who Judas was. He was a man I worked for and admired until he disgraced the four stars on his uniform.."

[Roy]

I've heard the A380 is a nice ride. Two full decks. They were on the way out even before the pandemic. It's hard to imagine them coming back, now.

[chuck]

I've heard the A380 is a nice ride. Two full decks. They were on the way out even before the pandemic. It's hard to imagine them coming back, now.

It's hard to imagine how/why that plane got built. It's all about the fuel cost to move "a" but from point a to point b. This plane was so large that it needed more buts than were generally available to make money on sustained scheduled runs. In order to make a profit you have to actually reduce the number of scheduled flights between points a and b to fill the plane. The people flying aren't going to accept that. Almost everyone flying has a schedule of some sort and the flying times are usually more critical than the air fare unless it is a monstrous difference. A 380 didn't offer that kind of difference and the airlines were hoping to pocket whatever it did have. Smaller more fuel efficient wide bodies had better operating costs and were more flexible in terms of scheduling/range. I don't even know that their was much technological breakthroughs on the 380 to have made it a decent R&D airframe. In retrospect it seems more like a publicity stunt gone wrong.

[Roy]

Yes, and only the largest airports have runways built heavily enough, to support the A380 weight. And, it's a quad jet. Probably the last of that species. I hear they now have turbofans larger than 737 fuselages.

And, I hear that airlines are getting away from hub-based operations, which favored big planes.

[chuck]

Nothing to do directly, just a funny lyric that was laid over the closing credits on a YouTube video by Max Models, a series of videos on the history of plastic kit model makers/importers. Sung to "The Time of Your Life"

Hey honey have you gained some weight in your rear-end?
That dress you wear reminds me of my old girlfriend
And where'd you get those shoes? I think they're pretty lame
Would you stop talking 'cause I'm trying to watch the game

If you're a man who wants to live a long and happy life
These are the things you don't say to your wife

I planned a hunting trip next week on your birthday
I didn't ask you 'cause I knew it'd be OK
Go make some dinner while I watch this fishing show
I taped it over our old wedding video

If you're a man who wants to live a long and happy life
These are the things you don't say to your wife

Your cooking is OK but not like mother makes
The diamond in the ring I bought you is a fake
Your eyes look puffy dear, are you feeling ill?
Happy anniversary I bought you a treadmill

If you're a man who wants to live a long and happy life
These are the things you don't say to your wife
If your a man who doesn't want to get killed with a knife
These are the things you don't say to your wife

The YouTube recording by the author of the altered lyrics is actually harder to understand than the MaxModels recording over the closing credits to the Minicraft story.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hey honey have you gained some weight in your rear-end?

Fat Flabby Annie was incredibly big
She weighed just about sixteen stone
And then a fake dietitian went and put her on a diet
Now she looks like skin and bone.
Do the meditation and yoga
And she's thrown away the good food guide
And she's given up the alcohol and pizzas
And the pies and now she looks as if she's ready to die,
You can't see her walk by.

Don't eat no mashed potatoes,
Don't eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.

Living on the edge of starvation
And she says she's got no appetite
And her father and her mother
And her sisters and her brothers
Couldn't see her when she walked by
She looked like skin and bone.

Don't eat no mashed potatoes,
Don't eat no buttered scones
Stay away from carbohydrates
You're gonna look like skin and bone.

She used to be so cuddly,
She used to be so fat,
But oh what a sin 'cause she's oh so thin
That she lost all the friends that she had,
She looks like skin and bone

If you look flabby
And you feel overweight,
And you want to lose a couple of stone,
Take a crash course diet do your daily exercises
And you'll look like skin and bone.

Come on rattle them bones,
Put your hands up to the ceiling,
Bend your hips and touch your toes,
Do your daily exercises,
You're gonna look like skin and bone,

Don't eat no mashed potatoes........

[webenda]

This whatzit was found in Kentucky. The image is a small piece of something bigger.