• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • Special Server Maintenance

    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
    4. November 7th - 8th restore backups and upgrade forum software.

    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated we will post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

OT: 1939 Cleveland Air Races in Color

A flight simulator based in the late 30s would be quite something. Period autogen, period ATC (almost none at all), period traffic (air, land, rail, sea), period aircraft and period navigation (airmail beacons and LFRR). Excuse while I daydream on.
 
These videos are a terrific find - thank you to the OP for posting the links!!

mankind took aviation from a crawl in 1925 to a full sprint by 1932 - from top speed, to air frame strength, to engine output and durability.

Aviation went from being a reckless hobby for extreme individuals, to a viable mode of passenger and freight mass transportation and it happened in less than a decade thanks to the air racers and aircraft racing engineers in that era.

The great warbirds of the second world war were also forged in that fire. Blown canopies, supercharged air cooled radials, and liquid cooled inline engines, and the fighters and bombers that could help decide the outcome, along with enough pilots to fly them...all of whom were most likely inspired by the great racing pilots like Roscoe Turner, Jimmy Doolittle, Lowell Bayles, and so on.

a fully dedicated Golden Age flight sim would be outstanding...this is why I appreciate the work that Golden Age Simulations is doing. Whether you like the the general aviation works of that time period (so many small startups and individuals were drawing up and trying to establish aircraft mfg concerns) - or the racing realm with all that raw energy, the Golden Era is a complete piece of aviation history. Exactly like any war period that has been modeled time and again.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top