You Know You Are Old When

   / You Know You Are Old When #3,901  
I think we all have these dreams. I'm in school and not ready for a test, I'm back in the Air Force or back at work having

some kind of problems.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #3,903  
I rarely remember dreams, my wife on the other hand can tell me 3 or 4 dreams she has every night.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #3,904  
I'm a morning person, I tend to get up when daylight comes up in the summer when the sun starts to peep through the blinds, about 0530. Even during the winter. Then stay up to the Late Show.
I'm a morning person too, I'm generally toast by 9:30 or so. Can't stand Stephen Colbert.
I rarely remember dreams, my wife on the other hand can tell me 3 or 4 dreams she has every night.
I've found that the older I get the more my dreams are...weird. Generally make no sense but are often a loop and keep repeating until I get up.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #3,905  
Ok, on the subject of dreams -
Weird to me is a dream within a dream.
I'll find myself in a situation that a part of my mind seems reasonable, like working at my old job repairing something like a computer, then some interaction causes me to get in a tense situation and a part of me knows it can't be real. So in what I perceive to be the dream I do something to shock myself to wake up. Like touch a live 12 volt fan line. And WHAM I'm out of the dream.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #3,906  
Ok, on the subject of dreams -
Weird to me is a dream within a dream.
I'll find myself in a situation that a part of my mind seems reasonable, like working at my old job repairing something like a computer, then some interaction causes me to get in a tense situation and a part of me knows it can't be real. So in what I perceive to be the dream I do something to shock myself to wake up. Like touch a live 12 volt fan line. And WHAM I'm out of the dream.
That's "Lucid dreaming".
Stranger yet are dreams I have of the future, sometimes years into the future about events that later happen exactly as I dreamed it would. One saved our life because of remembering the dream I was able to avoid it.
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #3,907  
15 cents for the ones that were propeller driven by a wound-up rubber band.
Nickle gliders

Guillow by brand. They flew so much better than the larger (10c and 25c) offerings.

Clay, paperclips, wing warping. We kids had a real head start on design engineering because if them.

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I just went "looking" for the nickel gliders.. alas...no returns of the type. Sad.....
 
   / You Know You Are Old When #3,908  
Nickle gliders

Guillow by brand. They flew so much better than the larger (10c and 25c) offerings.

Clay, paperclips, wing warping. We kids had a real head start on design engineering because if them.

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I just went "looking" for the nickel gliders.. alas...no returns of the type. Sad.....
You gave up too soon. Add "vintage toy" or something similar to your search.


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   / You Know You Are Old When #3,909  
That is no
You gave up too soon. Add "vintage toy" or something similar to your search.


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that is not the model that sold for 5 cents. that;s the 25 cent rubber powered model.

The 5 cent type had a red plastic three lobe joiner that connected the wings to the body, The tail plane slid into a slot, as dis the vertical stab,
There was a metal U shaped nose weight. Flight qualities were adjusted by moving the wings forward or back.
 
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That is no

that is not the model that sold for 5 cents. that;s the 25 cent rubber powered model.

The 5 cent type had a red plastic three lobe joiner that connected the wings to the body, The tail plane slid into a slot, as dis the vertical stab,
There was a metal U shaped nose weight. Flight qualities were adjusted by moving the wings forward or back.
My kids had a bag of about 25 of the "5-cent" versions, about 5 years ago. I suspect my wife must have bought a big lot of them as party gifts, and the leftovers were just stuck in my kids' toy bin.

The wood quality was so bad that it was hard to break them off the sheet without a wing splitting, you might get 3 good builds for every 5 kits. But, they were indeed the exact design you describe here.

I suspect they cost several times more than 5 cents now, but so does a Coca Cola.
 

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