I just got back from the doctor and tested positive...

[PhilDernerJr]

You got it from your Dad? That's ****ing gross.

lol. I always love hearing stories about how people got into it. :)

[nwafan20]

I'm with Senga on this, I cought it myself.

[Mateo]

Spent my 2-10 years in the right seat of a Bonanza. Haven't been in a cockpit since 1991, but aviation is tough to shake!

[FlyingColors]

Got it at EWR!

[Iberia A340-600]

I got it from a lovely lady named St.Marteen when I was 2. ;)

[AndrewM]

Excerpts taken from an issue of Modern Disease Weekly Magazine-

During a prenatal exam Andrew's parents were given the bad news that he had AGS.

Airplane Geek Syndrome was not a concern when they decided to have a baby, but they knew they would find a way through it. His mom and dad spent endless days up with him, at fence lines around NY, reading magazines while he stared at planes for 6 hours at a time.

"What could we do? I mean I guess we could have drowned him.." said Rick Marino, regarding his son’s illness.

"You just have to nurture them along and hope they find acceptance somewhere in this cruel cruel world" said Andrew's mother.

"I tried to hide my affliction when I was younger since no one shared any of my conditions -- JetA Blood, Chain link fence hand disorder, headturnedskyward disease-- but as I grew older I began to understand that they were others like me."

Andrew did learn to live with his disease and now spends his weekdays managing an airport and his weekends visiting other ones.
"I guess I'm pretty lucky…you know? I found a place where I am accepted...oh and I'm also lucky ‘cause I have huge junk..."

[stuart schechter]

I got it from sitting on planes too long. I don't want to know what was in those cushions! I always had a fascination with planes and I guess that it grew on me. I can't stay away. Should I seek help? :D

[flyboy 28]

Got it at EWR!

You can contract a lot of diseases around Newark. You have to watch yourself. :lol:

Personally, I'm pretty sure I got infected with it when I was four, at my first air show at NAS Willow Grove.

[Mellyrose]

Personally, I'm pretty sure I got infected with it when I was four, at my first air show at NAS Willow Grove.

That's where my first airshow (and last, so far) was too! :)

[mirrodie]

Is that near DC ?


Before age 5, my parents would take me to some airshow, somewheres near DC.

I have pics of me climbing into C5s and C 130s as well as....F111s.

This was in the later 70s to no later than 80.

[VikHathi]

As a kid growing up in Hong Kong - I got it at the observer's deck when I was 4 or 5 years old at the infamous Kai Tak. Waiting by my Mom's side, many times till late nite, for my Dad's flight to arrive on the checkerboard 13 approach on either a Northwest-Orient or Pan-Am from the US. The smell of jet fuel on humid summer nights still brings back the memories.
-Vik

[flyboy 28]

Is that near DC ?

Willow Grove? It's just north of Philadelphia actually.