Being born that really is when it started

Living near to one of our airforce's airbases (where my father and uncle works) pretty much started my interest.

Nice! Yeah, seeing something like that up close just tends to leave a real impact @Aeromotive

@Elicushman That roar of WW2 aircraft engines at power was likely what did it for me as well, never gets old. Pearl Harbor happened to be one of my favorite movies as a kid, along with Battle Of Britain. I actually did a class presentation about Pearl Harbor at one point as well.

this game mostly started it for me.
and i had something fairly similar to what you said about briefly flying a small aircraft.

Aight, so basically

I always really liked traveling as a young lad, and planes were kind of a symbol of that for me. Toy planes were always super fun for me, and I guess it was that feeling of freedom and uniqueness of a plane that I loved. I’d flown to Hawaii twice then, and already had that childish love of the military. On my second trip, we went to Pearl Harbor and saw this informational video in a little theater there, and honestly, there was something so intense but so cool about the roar of Plane engines and the loud explosions in the video that just hit something with me.

I’ve liked aircraft for a long time, but I think it was that trip to Pearl Harbor that really sealed it for me. I even got a. Little toy b-17 on that trip that I still have. After that, I just loved planes. I went to the Pima Air and Space Museum (like, 30 minutes from where I live) a few years later, and loved what I saw. I started drawing them in better detail that just vaguely plane shaped things. And I bought a whole collection of toy planes and helicopters. I met a man who was an officer at an airbase during the Vietnam war in Alaska, and his dad flew anti-submarine missions in a Martin PBM Mariner in ww2, so I mean, that was pretty cool. By now my love of planes was peaked. I got to fly a Cessna 172, and even sat in the radio operators seat of B-17 Sentimental Journey in flight.

Now I’m heading to the navy as an Aircraft Administrationman

I went to the local airport and they let me sit in one of the planes in their collection of old planes

@MrSilverWolf That's pretty amazing

@LucasNicky It do fly

I think that everybody started out making paper planes before they liked aviation. My family is an aviation family, although my dad gave up in CAP, and never went into the AirForce

Seeing Starscream as the F-22 Raptor in Michael Bay’s Transformers films when I was a kid. I became obsessed with finding the name of the jet because it was so cool and different to what I imagined fighter jets would look like so I did tonnes of research before I found it. It’s hard to find such a famous jet when you’re seven and you have to type on Google ‘fighter jet with triangle wings that are not swept back and the ends are flat’ because your vocabulary is so limited you don’t know the word ‘trapezoidal’ is.

I remember about Concorde and tried making a supersonic 747 (age 4 or 5). Age 6 I learned more about making paper airplanes and got my first matchbox helicopter. And then I learned how to draw them, the first one was my Boeing 777 aircraft.

I was also inspired by BJ Habibie, Indonesian president who helped make the DO 31 and AC 130 design. He also made locally made aircraft like the CN 235, R80, and the N250.

Actually, no, I’ve been making paper airplanes as long as I can remember

An airshow

Plane

There was a fly-in at my local airport when I was like 4, and they had a dozen or more of Beechcraft Stagger Wings and Cessna 190s, and also one of the flying club members for that town let me look into the cockpit of that 172 they used, I think that is what really made me want to fly
(I later came back got a intro flight in it, did my first solo in it, all the private license training in it plus the private license checkride all in the same 172 that was out at that fly in, and I still fly it to this day (which is the 172 in my profile picture))

I dont know relaly maybe my first flight on a 747 400 i think

it looked cool

I always like all vehicles especially cars and aircrafts. What makes me interested in aircrafts is games i play like this game and ace combat.

A game called F-15E Strike Eagle for the Sega Genesis

The F-14 tomcat. The day when i got to see the F-14 at an airshow was one of the most iconic days of my life. Ever since I've gotten myself infested in military aviation, most importantly the F-14 itself. I was very sad when i figured out that it went into retirement but then began making concepts of it. Which led to my love of making my own planes. which brought me here

The F4U Corsair

Or pretty much the same reason as @LucasNicky

Me see app on google, and me get...
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Ok maybe fine, honestly I don’t know lol...

I live near a local airbase, I have seen many planes like F-16 and C-130. First time seeing those beautiful machine i fell in love to it