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Golden Age Simulations Ends Operations

Paul, thank you and your team for your many contributions to the flight sim community. I still have many of your creations from FSX and am enjoying both Stearmans in 2020. I wish you and your team pleasant travels, fair winds and blue skies with much gratitude and appreciation for many memorable classic aircraft. God speed.
 
Sorry to hear of the closure, but needs must.

I too, have enjoyed many of your aircraft over the years in the various simulators I've had.

I guess we all have to eventually hang up our wings.

Good luck & Take Care!

Keith.
 
lagaffe said:
Although I am 6 or 7 years younger than Paul, I still plan to continue in the FS creation for a few more years. I have some freeware projects in mind. An anecdote I remember is that when Paul sent me his first email, I was starting a seagull-winged Monocoupe 110 ... not to mention the Electra L12-A which I would have liked to build in October 2024 when the Model 75 were released and a new "Rhinebeck Airport" which can be achieved for MSFS ...:cool:

To conclude, I would like to thank Paul, Gil and Jim once again with whom I have not seen these 2 years pass and whom I now consider as my friends ... on the other side of the Atlantic or even near the Pacific.
I also don’t forget the whole TEAM of testers ( I don’t want to name all of you because if I forget one ... :sick: ) who were patient, who tried to help us as they could and if these planes pleased the buyers, they have a big part in these successes.

Thank you all.
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In July 2023 when Paul send me a first e-mail (via FSDeveloper), I was surprised, honored and finally worried. Worried about being able to meet the challenge he was asking me.
The two years spent in the company of Paul, Gil, and Jim were very very very interesting. I learned more about FS in 2 years than during the past 15 years. There are a good dozen new technical subjects that we have implemented, subjects that I did not know and despite everything, Paul fully trusted me in their realization ;)

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Way back in the last century, during the FSX days, I was flying GAS's Stearman. I had read somewhere where biplane pilots used to land by listening to the singing of the wing support wires. They could guestamate the airspeed by the sound of the vibrating wires.

So, I picked a empty field below me, killed the engine and tried to see if I could make an emergency engine out landing. Lo and behold, I could heard the wires humming away. At that moment I became a fan of GAS and proceeded to buy most of their products.
 
Rumor has it - the Stearman pilots back in the post war crop dusting days would occasionally put off servicing their aircraft - including the main landing gear oleo struts and often let the hydraulic oil in them get low, maybe slip past the optimal replacement date
for the internals springs and seals...when this happens sometimes on departing the runway at takeoff the main gear on one or both sides might not 'extend' as they should - they would stay in the compressed state they are in when on the ground. This means that upon landing
there would be no compression of the gear legs to absorb the impact on touchdown. You could get an ugly bounce or worse, if only one leg is affected - a very bad ground loop. So pilots who were delinquent on maintenance got in the habit of looping their Stearman - either just before entering the pattern or on occasion - on the downwind leg.
The 'dusters had the larger 450hp motors and could pull it off - and as the big biplanes reached the bottom and pulled out of their loop - BANG - due to the weight of the wheels and tires, the oleos would pop down to their full extension and hit the stops. Now that you have to be independently wealthy to own a Stearman
most owners can afford to stay on top of their maintenance schedules so the practice isn't widely remembered...
This is not my direct first hand knowledge but was conferred to me in lengthy discussion with someone I took to have it.
 
I'm so sad to hear this news, but totally understandable. Life is too short...and no one ever looks back and wishes they spent more time at work or in front of a computer. Please accept my heartfelt thanks for all your quality offerings over the years. I pretty much owned 'em all, with your sublime Boeing Model 40 being my first. The combo of GAS aircraft and FS2004 Golden Wings was a match made in heaven...one that I suspect might never be recreated. Godspeed!
 
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