l'il Reaper, aka new squeeker in town

[DREDger]

Cute kid.

You should teach him how to use the F12 key....muhahahaha

[Reaper90]

<S> to bringing up another future SAPPer.

WTG!!!

a future SAPP'r   

Thought you guys would appreciate that! He and I just finished a model of a P-38J "Arkansas Traveler" that is gonna hang from his ceiling in his room.... I've got a model kit of a bf-110 that'll be handing right in front of it, about 200 out!

[Kazaa]

sticky fingers + CH gear = sad daddy.

[DREDger]

I've got a model kit of a bf-110 that'll be handing right in front of it, about 200 out!

I used to do that as a kid, had planes hanging all over the place. 

A cool trick is to stretch out cotton balls and be creative with grey/black spraypaint to simulate smoke.  Can make it look like it's getting shot down.

It's also cool to get rid of old models by smearing modelling glue all over them and jamming a firecraker in the cockpit.  Light on fire in the backyard when mom is gone   

[slimmer]

 

[thndregg]

These are my youngins... the red head, Kyle is 8 years old and eager to play. Incentive for doing good in school, I think.

[texastc316]

Think it might be some incentive for us older guys to realize who is listening to us and learning from us while we re online.

[CAP1]

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These are my youngins... the red head, Kyle is 8 years old and eager to play. Incentive for doing good in school, I think.

did someone flash you guys as that pic was snapped?

the one nearest you.......looks somewhat scared/shocked......

the one in the middle......looks like OMG!!!!!!!

THE ONE farthest from ya.........looks like.........yea baby, that's it show us some............

 

[Ack-Ack]

My boy James is 6 years old and is a WWII airplane nut, and loves nothing more than going to airshows, playing with model airplanes, and flying on the computer. Up until last night he had always sat in front of me, and just held on while I flew it. Gradually I let him fire the weapons, and fly a little when there were no cons around. Last night I put him in the offline practice area and let him up a P-38J (his mostest favoritest bird of all!) all by himself, and told him he was going to fly it with no help from me. Well, 10 minutes later he was doing loops, rolls, and had managed to taker her up to over 17K with nary a single crash! He flew that bird forever it seemed, and finally ran it out of fuel. Funny thing is, he brought it down dead-stick and crash laneded it without getting killed! The SAPP guys would be proud, the damage list showed both engines gone, the elevators, rudders, and right wing gone also. But he was alive, and yelling for me because he didn't know how to end sortie and take off again! Heck, I shoulda told him how to put his gear down, but didn't figure he would need it!

I promise I'll keep him in the offline practice til he can actually reach the rudder pedals!

That picture reminds me of my youth.





ack-ack

[Shuffler]

sticky fingers + CH gear = sad daddy.

My controls are sticky...... margaritas 

[shppr01]

Shoot .. Put him in now he is already better than I am !!!

[Vudak]

Cute kid, Reaper

You should take Morfiend up on his TA offer.  Being a trainer, your kid's eyes and ears will be relatively safe, and again, he'll have something more interesting than a circling drone to shoot at. 

[usvi]

I dont think Tonyjoey is much older it looks promising 

 

[Reaper90]

Cute kid, Reaper

You should take Morfiend up on his TA offer.  Being a trainer, your kid's eyes and ears will be relatively safe, and again, he'll have something more interesting than a circling drone to shoot at. 

I'll do that, tho right now he doesn't seem as interested in shooting at things as he does just flying around doing loops and rolls. He seems to love climbing up high, killing the engines, and gliding down while spialing and looping, then firing it back up and climbing back up. So far he's just more into relaxing flying than killing stuff, but with his penchant for anything destructive (his name around the house is "James the Destroyer") I'm sure a yearning to blow up airplanes is not far off.

[Reaper90]

I used to do that as a kid, had planes hanging all over the place. 

A cool trick is to stretch out cotton balls and be creative with grey/black spraypaint to simulate smoke.  Can make it look like it's getting shot down.

lol, you're describing my own room as a child! I had the largest furball imaginable happening right in my bedroom, involving everything from a P-40B right up to an F-15C and a B-1 bomber, all turning and burning! All hung from the ceiling from the thinnest monofilament fighing line I could find so the line would be as invisible as possible. IIRC probably ended up having somewhere in the order of 20+ models hanging from the ceiling of a room that was about 12x14 (as best memory serves).

We've already got all the kits waiting to be built to recreate some great dogfights in his room, problem is I'm so slow building them that it'll likely take a few years to put them all together.