December 14, 201312 yr Author But essentially all aircraft are dear to me. I never get tired of watching them and my second favorite place to be in the world is at an airport. A sentiment I share. When I'm cooking I sometimes stick You Tube on my iPad and watch '4 hours of PLane Spotting at Narita INtl' or something similar. My son thinks I'm bonkers, but I'm fascinated by every approach, every landing, love the sounds. OH my- in that case I go back to being thrilled by Tiger Moths and standing under the wing of an AVRO Ansen at an RCAF recruiting exhibition. A few years later our Grade 7, 8 Manual Training class was asked to make wooden scale models (painted flat black), of a new and unidentified fighter plane. Only near the end of the war did we finally learn we had been making pilot recognition models of the soon to be famous P51 !! january Bloody hell! If I can be bold, how old are you January? ! Now there's nostalgia, and there's living history ... - Paul Elliott http://www.avsim.com/topic/450607-amy-johnson-london-to-australia-attempt/
December 14, 201312 yr Author Ever since I was a kid, I would take the United Airlines 767-300 from Chicago KORD to Paris LFPG and it was probably one of my favorite parts of the trip to France! It's even gone to the point where i actually like the in flight movies and food! Since I left home, planes fell by the wayside while I got my degree and obsessed with history and started my career, but in recent years I've done several long haul flights that got me interested again, one to Egypt, two to Australia (25 hours) and one to Nepal. I loved the flights, the stop-offs, the spicy Eastern food on these carriers was amazing (Royal Brunei, Gulf Air, Singapore Airlines) and the stewardesses lovely. I think it hit me flying over Iraq in 2009 as the sun was coming up, and on another flight over Afghanistan in the moonlight, all the craggy side walls of mountain valleys lit up by pale blue moon light and the odd light of a lonely Aghan house. I'm not sure anyone else was awake, or cared so much. But it got me interested in aircraft again, so I looked up the 777-300 LR we were on and discovered the awful howl before takeoff was intentional and not a defect! When I move on to airliners eventually, I'll be replicating those legs of my long haul flights.... - Paul Elliott http://www.avsim.com/topic/450607-amy-johnson-london-to-australia-attempt/
December 14, 201312 yr When it comes to simming, though, I've found that nostalgia can sometimes be a trap, at least to this extent - I've found myself buying an aircraft that I absolutely have to have, because I have such affection for it, only to find that the sim rendition isn't very good or very satisfying. And on the other hand, thanks to some truly excellent simulations, I've discovered aircraft that I wouldn't have known much about otherwise - the Stratocruiser by Scott and his team at A2A comes to mind. So while I love to remember those BOAC VC-10's going overhead (you always knew they were coming before you saw them, because of the tearing sound of the engines, nothing else sounded like that)... my flightsim experience is sometimes just a little bit to one side of my nostalgia. Understand what you mean. Have a google at Maltby FSX planes- there is a website where David Maltby has some FREE classic planes - 1-11; Comet Trident VC10 The latter may not have a VC. But the others have and all switches as per the real cockpit are depicted and work. i fly them almost exclusively- they are the best cockpits of any plane I have seen including payware. No FMCs. Proper flying where individual auto and semi auto pilot systems have to be learned. Originally made for FS9 they have now been made for FSX too. Install instructions on site And all this is FREE. See what you think. cheers
December 14, 201312 yr Bloody hell! If I can be bold, how old are you January? ! Now there's nostalgia, and there's living history ... That info is a classified secret! But I can clearly recall the adults being terribly worried and upset by radio news that the Japanese had bombed some place on the other side of the world. I wondered where the heck is Pearl Harbor?? If you are into nostalgia, as a teenager I remember seeing a Lancaster bomber with Rolls Royce piston engines PLUS a Canadian designed Orenda JET engine slung under the wing - flying around Toronto airspace- doing engine tests for the CF100 fighter AND the Canadian designed AVRO JETLINER which flew Aug 1949 - just 13 days after first flight of the DeHaviland COMET. Later, I had a pal who worked on the AVRO CF105 fighter design. If it hadn't been cacelled in favor of the unworkable BOMARC missile system, the CF105 would have been fastet in the world!!! (Mach 2+, I believe- in the 1950's!!) january
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