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Does it come with a proper playlist (Stones, CCR etc pp)?
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Does it come with a proper playlist (Stones, CCR etc pp)?
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I do generally listen to 60’s music when flying between Lima Sites in Laos heheThe only chopper in the world that's able to ring my bell!
Does it come with a proper playlist (Stones, CCR etc pp)?
You forgot "Ride of the Valkyries!"
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I took one of my old real four legged best friends for a ride in an old rickety rented Cessna 172 back in the day when I could afford to fly real airplanes. What a terrible idea. I put him in the right seat. Everything went well until I turned base to final - that’s when the struggle began. That particular 172 had a quirk - the right seat would come unlocked and, when pitched down, would slide forwards. Well, with a 70 pound mutt siting there it did just that - at about 500 AGL and a few knots above stall. It took everything to keep him back off the yoke while pushing power in, pulling flaps up, and going around. I maneuvered him into the back for the next landing. I never took a dog up flying again!
Photo-bombed by Ed Force One while working on a recolor job on the Cirrus!
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Two paints now available for the Big Radials Goose:
HK822 (0005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
MV993 (0003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
HK822 (0005) by JanKees Blom, on FlickrMV993 (0003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr
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It all went to hell on Sunday night, Microsoft and Asobo dropped the ball and my MSFS2020 wound up uninstalled. Twenty=four hours later, all the essentials are restored. Stayed awake for one quick flight in South Vietnam from Vang Tau (a major Army fixed wing hub) to An Loc Plantation.
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A couple of Photo Reconnaissance Spitfires....
See that chap in the top right? Here's a very interesting story for you.
The young man was called Campbell McPherson, and his dad, and his uncle, had started a garage in our small Saskatchewan town in the early 1900's. These two men also owned several nearby houses, one of which is now owned by my wife and I.
Although I had heard of Campbell, I had never been sure which of the McPherson houses he had been raised in, but last summer a visitor from Alberta told us that she was related to Campbell, and could confirm that our house had been his home, and that my office/flightsim room had indeed been his bedroom.
How incredible to think that I have flown many thousands of hours in this room, and built several home cockpits here, and that in this very room a century earlier, a young man had been raised who would become a wartime pilot in the RAF.
I also finally learned the fate of Campbell. He had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. He had taken both his Elementary Flying Training, and Service Flying Training in Canada, and had then been shipped off to the UK. He joined No.1 Photo Reconnaissance Unit at RAF Benson, becoming one of the small cadre of pilots who flew unarmed blue or pink Spitfires over key targets in Europe. With no guns or even wing men, speed was their only protection.
On June 3rd, 1942, Campbell took off from Benson in Spitfire R7073 and headed out across the English Channel. But he never returned, being listed as missing/presumed dead and killed in action. Many years later his family would learn he had been shot down, but survived the bail-out, only to get caught in a tree, and shot as he was swinging from the branches. Oh the tragedies of war.
It was after realizing this room of mine held such a connection, that I started researching more deeply the BCATP, and decided to write a Flight Sim book about it. The book evolved into a more expansive theme, and is dedicated to Campbell, and also another wartime pilot whom I knew personally when he was in his 70's in Ontario.
With my mind being on Spitfires recently, I flew this two-ship Photo reconnaissance flight today as another tribute to the young man who must have dreamed of flight as much as I have done in this room in which I am now sitting.
I hope that one day humanity outlives the experience of war. Rest in Peace the fallen pilots of all nations.
See that chap in the top right? Here's a very interesting story for you.
The young man was called Campbell McPherson, and his dad, and his uncle, had started a garage in our small Saskatchewan town in the early 1900's. These two men also owned several nearby houses, one of which is now owned by my wife and I.
Although I had heard of Campbell, I had never been sure which of the McPherson houses he had been raised in, but last summer a visitor from Alberta told us that she was related to Campbell, and could confirm that our house had been his home, and that my office/flightsim room had indeed been his bedroom.
How incredible to think that I have flown many thousands of hours in this room, and built several home cockpits here, and that in this very room a century earlier, a young man had been raised who would become a wartime pilot in the RAF.
I also finally learned the fate of Campbell. He had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. He had taken both his Elementary Flying Training, and Service Flying Training in Canada, and had then been shipped off to the UK. He joined No.1 Photo Reconnaissance Unit at RAF Benson, becoming one of the small cadre of pilots who flew unarmed blue or pink Spitfires over key targets in Europe. With no guns or even wing men, speed was their only protection.
On June 3rd, 1942, Campbell took off from Benson in Spitfire R7073 and headed out across the English Channel. But he never returned, being listed as missing/presumed dead and killed in action. Many years later his family would learn he had been shot down, but survived the bail-out, only to get caught in a tree, and shot as he was swinging from the branches. Oh the tragedies of war.
It was after realizing this room of mine held such a connection, that I started researching more deeply the BCATP, and decided to write a Flight Sim book about it. The book evolved into a more expansive theme, and is dedicated to Campbell, and also another wartime pilot whom I knew personally when he was in his 70's in Ontario.
With my mind being on Spitfires recently, I flew this two-ship Photo reconnaissance flight today as another tribute to the young man who must have dreamed of flight as much as I have done in this room in which I am now sitting.
I hope that one day humanity outlives the experience of war. Rest in Peace the fallen pilots of all nations.
