Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen Traditional Cache
Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen
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Should be an easy find. You are looking for a lunchbox filled with airplane related toys. Take care on the road right-of-way.
"Up in the air, Junior Birdmen; up in the air, upside down,
Up in the air, Junior Birdmen; with your noses to the ground.
And when you hear the grand announcement that your wings are made of tin,
Well, then you know, Junior Birdmen, it's time to send your box tops in.
For it takes: 5 box tops, 4 bottle bottoms, 3 coupons, 2 wrappers, and one thin dime!"
Although it's possible that the song may have been featured on "Captain Video" in the 1950s, it appears to have originated in the 1930s among model aviation enthusiasts, as a parody of the Army Air Corps song "Into the Air, Army Air Corps." The Army Air Corps was the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force, and the song was altered accordingly, becoming "Into the Air, U.S. Air Force." The "Junior Birdmen" version, after having been created by airplane model-makers,was used in jest by actual aviators in World War II, and later in Air Force ROTC training. Finally it became a campfire song popular among Boy Scouts.
This cache is for the kids and kids-at-heart. And who ever was able to resist the desire to fly like the swallows in the sky. When I was a boy, I spent all summer saving money, collecting probably $10, and took my money to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in September to buy a model airplane. Not any plane, mind you, but one that actually flew. And every year, I would buy a model plane, take it home, spend hours gluing the balsa, (remember the smell of airplane glue?) and then...ah, yes,... and then...
the flights were always of 2 types: crash and burn, or off into the sky for a brief moment of euphoria, before leaving my sight forever.
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