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heywooood
Mayor Emeritus of Taco City
referring to the Sterling P-25A ? - I am currently stalled on it as other requirements have been imposed on my time. She's on the bench waiting to be resumed.
The dollhouse project has had some developments as my Granddaughter has decided on some colors for the exterior and trim. I might be able to post some pictures of that - I also imagined
using pea gravel to replicate a river rock foundation. The young one has agreed to the plan so as soon as that work is done I'll post those images too
The dollhouse project has had some developments as my Granddaughter has decided on some colors for the exterior and trim. I might be able to post some pictures of that - I also imagined
using pea gravel to replicate a river rock foundation. The young one has agreed to the plan so as soon as that work is done I'll post those images too
heywooood
Mayor Emeritus of Taco City
I was also working on the most recent Stearman update for GAS as a beta tester. I sent Paul and Didier an initial impression but had been flying it extensively since then and prior to release to ensure the initial evaluation was accurate.
It was. Since it was so well done, I have been flying and enjoying it a lot more. The other day when I was landing on a short field I cut the engine to idle and side slipped down to the treetops with a very noticeable song coming from the wind in the flying wires.
You know when you get the time of day and the weather and the location just right, in an open cockpit, in your favorite airplane - and you have all the elements of a radial engine chugging, prop whirling, wind whistle-moaning, plane and shadow converging over the runway and that gratifying little bump
of a three pointer and all is right with the world?
It was like that
It was. Since it was so well done, I have been flying and enjoying it a lot more. The other day when I was landing on a short field I cut the engine to idle and side slipped down to the treetops with a very noticeable song coming from the wind in the flying wires.
You know when you get the time of day and the weather and the location just right, in an open cockpit, in your favorite airplane - and you have all the elements of a radial engine chugging, prop whirling, wind whistle-moaning, plane and shadow converging over the runway and that gratifying little bump
of a three pointer and all is right with the world?
It was like that
heywooood
Mayor Emeritus of Taco City
Well now. Given the recent news about Golden Age Simulations I've got some thoughts.
First, I feel gutted. I thought for a while there that, in the midst of the Stearman 'conversion' which was really a devoted and concerted effort to transform that package for MS2020, some crucial pieces had fallen into place that would solidify GAS and help to create a powerhouse development team for the reimagining of their
entire existing catalog of irreplaceable Golden Age aircraft for flight sim. I was hoping that the work would continue because of these improvements and other factors. Such as the subject matter which brings us to the next thought.
Second, The thing you hear often on the other site, and this board sometimes too is 'groan - not another Piper/Cessna/Boeing' when an airplane is released. No matter how good it is, it's still an all too familiar plane. The Golden Age had an answer for that. a whole catalog of answers to that problem.
Who will build them all now? Sure the top selling types - WACO's maybe a few Stinsons, but only if they can be perceived as money makers. There wont be as many 'passion project' one man operators going forward with the increasing complexities of developing for MS flight sims from now on.
Third, What happens when these planes and pilots and companies at the forefront of aviation development - the fellers that took flight from the wood and linen 80hp era and in just over a decade jumped ahead to an all metal, 450hp more or less modern piston powered reliable era of flight - are forgotten?
Left out of the flight simulation experience because of their ROI ? Who is going to make a New Standard? a Pitcairn Mailwing? Fleet Finch? a Great Lakes 2T-1A?
We are older than the average flight sim 'players' and remember these planes - we've traveled just to see them fly as often or more often than we have to see the Blues or Thunderbirds at the larger more commercial airshows. We remember them.
It was a Global phenomenon too, This epoch resonated around the world as information was shared (in the old ways granted) and every developing nation benefitted, through competition and camaraderie at the Schneider, Thompson, Bendix and Dole events. Money flowed and
dreams were realized day after day. Boldness, Innovation, Fabrication and design, pilotage and navigation, all coming together at once.
All things must come to an end. This is always going to be true, but it does make a feller sad to feel the weight of all that falls to the wayside in our headlong rush to the future - to be forgotten by generations with no memory or even cause to remember the things we hung our hats on.
here are just a few to consider --->
First, I feel gutted. I thought for a while there that, in the midst of the Stearman 'conversion' which was really a devoted and concerted effort to transform that package for MS2020, some crucial pieces had fallen into place that would solidify GAS and help to create a powerhouse development team for the reimagining of their
entire existing catalog of irreplaceable Golden Age aircraft for flight sim. I was hoping that the work would continue because of these improvements and other factors. Such as the subject matter which brings us to the next thought.
Second, The thing you hear often on the other site, and this board sometimes too is 'groan - not another Piper/Cessna/Boeing' when an airplane is released. No matter how good it is, it's still an all too familiar plane. The Golden Age had an answer for that. a whole catalog of answers to that problem.
Who will build them all now? Sure the top selling types - WACO's maybe a few Stinsons, but only if they can be perceived as money makers. There wont be as many 'passion project' one man operators going forward with the increasing complexities of developing for MS flight sims from now on.
Third, What happens when these planes and pilots and companies at the forefront of aviation development - the fellers that took flight from the wood and linen 80hp era and in just over a decade jumped ahead to an all metal, 450hp more or less modern piston powered reliable era of flight - are forgotten?
Left out of the flight simulation experience because of their ROI ? Who is going to make a New Standard? a Pitcairn Mailwing? Fleet Finch? a Great Lakes 2T-1A?
We are older than the average flight sim 'players' and remember these planes - we've traveled just to see them fly as often or more often than we have to see the Blues or Thunderbirds at the larger more commercial airshows. We remember them.
It was a Global phenomenon too, This epoch resonated around the world as information was shared (in the old ways granted) and every developing nation benefitted, through competition and camaraderie at the Schneider, Thompson, Bendix and Dole events. Money flowed and
dreams were realized day after day. Boldness, Innovation, Fabrication and design, pilotage and navigation, all coming together at once.
All things must come to an end. This is always going to be true, but it does make a feller sad to feel the weight of all that falls to the wayside in our headlong rush to the future - to be forgotten by generations with no memory or even cause to remember the things we hung our hats on.
here are just a few to consider --->