brett
Posts posted by brett
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Downloading now....
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Appreciate the answer to my question Joe, I wanted to keep both for now so I have time to decide which one works better for me. I had pre-purchased 2024 but wanted to wait until the startup niggles have been worked out, hence my question.
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Like the tile says, can I run both sims in their default locations with no problems or file conflicts.
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Well done, to the RAF crew and their daring escape. they made all the right decisions during their ordeal and should be praised.
Thanks for another interesting story Frank.
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Thanks for this story about a hero and his award which was well deserved.
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Intoxicating
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It seems Pearce indeed was a great inventor and probably deserves more of an entry in history than the likes of Wikipedia can come up with, i.e.,
Pearse
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Main article: Richard Pearse
Richard Pearse was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward claimed that Pearse flew and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew. [82]: 21–30 Documentary evidence for these claims remains open to interpretation and dispute, and Pearse himself never made such claims. In a newspaper interview in 1909, he said he did not "attempt anything practical ... until 1904".[83] If he did fly in 1903, the flight appears to have been poorly controlled in comparison to the Wrights'. See the Wikipedia page here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation#Further_reading
Perhaps you should write them and add your conclusions. I wonder how much information Pearce had from those before him such as 'Physics of flight by Sir George Caley along with other inventors that first made gliders and then others that didn't fly but did work on powered flight.
Along those same lines, what did the Wright brothers learn from others before them and did they know about Pearce's work.
All that said, I enjoyed learning about Mr. Pearce's efforts at powered flight, he almost got it right and with help might have beat the Wight's in the first controlled flight. Thanks Frank.
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they are Delicious
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Not among my top five WWII aircraft but it certainly was liked by its pilots and is a good-looking bird. During the war the planes shot down around 3,800 planes on both sides of the world and was known for shooting down at least 1,800 Japanese planes, no doubt it helped bring down ships and ground targets. Not sure why they never used it for bomber escort since it was capable of high altitude and long-distance flying.
Thanks for the look at its beginnings and it's travels across the U.S. of A.
Side note, Mitchel Field has a long history on Long Island, NY, It’s now the home of the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Nassau Coliseum, Mitchel Athletic Complex, Nassau Community College, Hofstra University, and Lockheed. Along with a few of my older buddies and many others, used the old Army/Air Force family housing as vacation homes in upstate New York. When the land of the field was sold, the new owners figured they could save demo costs if they gave folks a short period of time to take down the old housing dwellings at no cost and they were surprised at how many people took them up on it.
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The plane has nice lines and great visibility, I hope it had great venting along with that because with all that glass comes heat from the sun. At first, I thought it had de Haviland engines because of the look and sound, looking it up I found the engines were powered by Walter Minor 4-III engines. With the undercarriage being wide and retractable, clean cockpit panel and the planes overall look I think I'm a fan.
Thanks for the looksee Frank.
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Sweet!!!
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Good one!
I don't know why but when I first started sim flying and for some time after that, I would actually get scared some when bad things would happen like a crash. Even tough IFR flights would turn my knuckles white, it was an odd sensation since it was only a sim. Now I'm a lot more relaxed yet still have those quick moments of unease when things get tense.
I might be the only one that feels this way but it certainly made for some exciting flights.
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I wouldn't have tried that in a simulator much less real life. Why, why, why, is the question, it makes no sense.
Thanks for the look at this accident recreation, I wish I saw this way back when I was a pup pilot and crashed into a mountain.
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Have you ever BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE
AND THINKING, SURELY, I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD.
WELL . . . YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE.
MY NAME IS ALICE, AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOMFOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST.
I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME.SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY
WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 30-ODD YEARS AGO.
COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN?
UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT.
THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACEWAS WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.
AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK HIGH SCHOOL.
'YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG,' HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.
WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE? I ASKED.
HE ANSWERED, 'IN 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?'
YOU WERE IN MY CLASS! I EXCLAIMED.
HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.
THEN, THAT UGLY,
OLD,
BALD,
WRINKLEDFACED,
FAT-ASSED,
GRAY-HAIRED,
DECREPIT
SOBASKED,
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Americans and their Cars
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Seems the man had a storied career and should be praised for his work. Considering his earlier crashes, one might assume his disappearance might have been a crash also (50-50?) especially with no evidence of being shot down. What were the conditions when he went missing, time of day and so forth.
Thanks for this interesting story Frank.
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I already let them take my money, I'm a sucker for flight sims.
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Sold!
Except for the dulling of colors in the Grand Canyon everything looks much improved. or should I say ten times improved. Thanks for the look.
One thing I hope they have done is to show a bit of color difference between a mowed grass strip and the non-mowed, in MS2020 it's been all the same with that moving thick half grass, half weedy looking stuff. It has made finding the exact strip a bit tough.
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Andrew, thanks for that. I'll look and see if I can upgrade my RAM, although I haven't had a problem yet it's something that we can never have enough of. Whether or not I can do this with this laptop is another question.
I would have stuck with the Standard edition, but they smartly put the analog panel on the Cessna 172 in the Deluxe one which tells me it is still a popular choice for flying. I took on the task of learning and being comfortable with the glass panels which are great for IFR flying but those buttons drive me nuts when I just want a relaxing flight. Score one for Asobo.
It's funny, when I first got into flight simming I couldn't get enough of trying to fly every plane available, now I fly a group of the same ones that I feel comfortable with and have a certain level of realistic assets.
Anyway, appreciate the helpful comments.
Still Not Found After 43 Years - Aussie Crash 1981 (MSFS)
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It would be nice to find the crash site and give some closure to their families, unfortunately mountain plane crashes are very hard to find.
Thanks for the look at this sad tale Frank, it's a reminder to all pilots the dangers of icing conditions.