Remove Before Flight tag
Posted by -cwp-@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 23 comments
Found at an antique mall. Whoever had it added a tag to it that is engraved “Blue Angels San Diego Airshow 1973”. Obviously the exact history is unknown and this can be debatable but wanted to share what I found.
midnightmaroon13@reddit
I'm sure they are so sad!
zimbu646@reddit
I have one of these on my keychain that I got at the Seattle Museum of Flight gift shop. I do NOT have the airplane key on it, because then I’d have to remove it before flight, and it’s a little hard to fly without the key.
randomtwinkie@reddit
Got mine at the strategic air command museum
neverbadnews@reddit
Bought mine from Tillamook navel airship museum. One of the local FBOs sells them, and t-shirts/unders/socks/hats, in their pilot supplies store. None as cool as a Blue Angels souvenir.
zimbu646@reddit
Very few things are that cool, indeed.
cultured_pork@reddit
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-cwp-@reddit (OP)
That part number is for modern nylon ones.
jdovejr@reddit
How much? That’s very cool.
hatethisapp1@reddit
I see so many people with a ‘remove before flight’ novelty charm attached to their backpacks. I’ve approached ~5 strangers about it thinking they would be pilots, but nope, they just think it looks cool. maybe they’re sold at airports too?
I have no idea why one would want to walk around with that while having little understanding of or sentimental feelings around what it is.
Bacon4Lyf@reddit
Having sentimental feelings about remove before flight tags is very strange.
Awkward_Session3408@reddit
oh that can easily change if it is on a thing you did not remove and it cost you..
sevgonlernassau@reddit
They’re handed out at career fairs and sold in gift shops. I have the planes i worked on and my workplace on my backpack.
rocketshipkiwi@reddit
You can buy lots of different ones for about a dollar each in China.
They are good for making your bag look unique so it’s easier to spot on the luggage belt and less likely that someone else will accidentally pick it up.
OogWoog@reddit
They are a freebie item at probably every aviation conference I’ve ever been to. It’s highly likely that someone with one on their backpack has SOME connection to aviation.
PowerOfEternity@reddit
I have one from Champlin Air Museum, from before it closed. At the time I just thought it was cool, but now I'm also sentimental about it since the museum no longer exists.
Browncoat_Loyalist@reddit
My shop hands new embroidered remove before flight key chains out every few years, I hand them out as gifts. But I have hand sewn a couple thousand tags on the real ones that my shop makes for the F-35 program, and made the flags themselves, so I figure it's fair game.
dvlrnr@reddit
I have one on my backpack. It says "Gripen" on the other side. While an obvious souvenir, not the real deal, it was handed to my girlfriend at the time by the Gripen solo display pilot at the 2015 Turku International Air Show when he walked the line immediately after his display.
gefahr@reddit
I've thought about using one as a highly visible luggage tag, but I'm afraid I'd end up at my destination to find out my bags didn't make it.
flightwatcher45@reddit
They obv have a reason for it lol. And pilots usually aren't the ones removing them, its the ground crew that does, also used a lot during manufacturing and aircraft testing.
saint_nicolai@reddit
Whenever I see a red flag like that (even if it's blank) I think of a pair of 172 cowl plugs flying through the air. Never saw it happen, but damn if it's not a funny thought. FBO service at a field with a part 61 school was a hell of a highschool job.
sourcefourmini@reddit
People put cool dangly things on their keychains. I have a completely shredded "remove before flight" tag that I found in a store in high school 12 years ago and bought because I thought aviation was cool, and guess what? Now it's sentimental to me. You don't need a deep personal connection to a thing to get a keychain bauble related to that thing.
The_Salty-Spitoon@reddit
What are the sentimental feelings around a standard tag, not an antique one like the post?
euneirophrenia@reddit