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

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**The OFFICIAL All Sims Air Tour Thread**

bosspecops said:
That's a NICE looking aeroplane, your Stinson. Which model is it please?

I built a small rubber powered flying scale model of one of them about 75 yrs ago now, and it flew superbly! :)
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It's the Piper Stinson108-3. Native FSX but I use it in P3D. I have been updating the VC portion with better resolution textures which are about complete. I can send you the complete package in a few days if you'd like.
 
The plan had been for Suzanne to fly the Falcon today. We had decided on a touch and go at South Bend (KSBN) then landing at Meigs for old times sake.

I was up at 9 am, powering up, to not run the battery down, and working on the radio problem. I tuned in the Kellogg (KBTL) tower frequency but Willow Run (KYIP) replied, same result when I tried the Kellogg ground frequency (121.70).
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In any case the weather had thrown an even bigger spanner into the works: overcast 200’, and writ large on the panel so as not to be missed:

A/C TO BE FLOWN VMC ONLY

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What to do? The three of us gathered in the cafeteria. The reality was it would be stupid to take anything up in the overcast unless equipped with auto land and an airport with ILS. Not many 1930s craft equipped with autoland.
Only one course of action really; wait for the weather to clear.
Time to sample the delights of Battle Creek and if brave venture into Kalamazoo.
 
Returned a few days ago from a holiday in France. While there I visited some old favorite museums for the first time in many years, which will inspire my mounts for the next two legs.

The Musee de l'Air et Espace has on display the incomplete airframe of the Caudron C.714R, which was being built for a world speed record attempt prior to the outbreak of war. The airframe was hidden from the Nazis in the basement of a Renault dealer on the Champs-Elysees during the war, and thus survived to be preserved.

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I had not fired up the Caudron in MSFS for a while. It got me from Atlanta to Greenville, with one fuel stop. I am not done with Caudrons yet. I think the Restauravia C.450/460 for P3D is beckoning to me for one of my next few legs.

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Also on display at the MdlAeE was the famous Breguet XIX "Point d'Interrogation" which, after its epic westward Atlantic crossing, did a tour of the US not unlike the one we are doing.

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Scrub's rendition for FSX was my choice for the next leg to Winston-Salem.

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