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Just a quick By The Way for you fans of The Old Hangar and Tom Constantine.
He really DID play piano for The Grateful Dead, at least for a while back in the early days. :geek:

I got to meet him when he played a recital at The University of Maine (Orono) back in the early 1980's.

Does that make me the Forrest Gump of FS? :dizzy:
 
Sbob said:
Just a quick By The Way for you fans of The Old Hangar and Tom Constantine.
He really DID play piano for The Grateful Dead, at least for a while back in the early days. :geek:

I got to meet him when he played a recital at The University of Maine (Orono) back in the early 1980's.

Does that make me the Forrest Gump of FS? :dizzy:
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Tom didn't play with the Dead very long. He was apparently a devoted Scientologist with a powerful antipathy to drugs, both clinical and recreational. He wasn't a very good fit for the house band at the Electric Cool Aid Acid Tests.

Sadly, the Dead have been living (dying?) up to their name. Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Keith Godchaux, Donna Jean Godcheaux, Bobby Weir, Brent Mydland, all gone west.
 
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Mick said:
Tom didn't play with the Dead very long. He was apparently a devoted Scientologist with a powerful antipathy to drugs, both clinical and recreational. He wasn't a very good fit for the house band at the Electric Cool Aid Acid Tests.

Sadly, the Dead have been living (dying?) up to their name. Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Keith Godchaux, Donna Jean Godcheaux, Bobby Weir, Brent Mydland, all gone west.
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Mick, it wasn't like it was a standing-room-only crowd at the U.M.O. recital. :giggle:
Tom did a LOT of "..and then I wrote" stuff plus some Ragtime.

My favorite Bob Weir story happened before a show in Boston, I *think* it was at The Beacon?
We were hanging out in the parking lot before the show and this bright red Ferrari (a 308 as I recall) comes blasting through the lot, driven by a knock-out lady with long black hair, sunglasses, and not much else. Bob steps out of the passenger side with a sheepish grin and heads towards the security folks. We all gave him a respectful Golf Clap. :sneaky:

By far, my best music experience in New England didn't have much to do with music. :loyal:
Some friends and I at Orono got tickets to see Hot Tuna (just Jorma and Jack, acustic) play at a hole-in-the-wall joint just north of Portland called Raule's Roadside Attraction. We show up and NO ONE's there, just some bar flies talking to the bar tender and a lady (who turned out to be Jorma's wife) sitting at a table. OK, maybe we got there early so we start to order pitchers of beer. I check my watch, we're NOT early. We were the only people who showed up to see Hot freakin' Tuna. Jack and Jorma finally come out and look around. "Well, what do you want us to do?" says Jorma.
"Hang out with us and drink beer" was our idea.

So, I literally wind up sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with the guy who played the intro to White Rabbit on his bass. Jorma is the real deal BUT to me, Jack Cassidy WAS Rock 'N Roll when I was growing up.
 
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... By far, my best music experience in New England didn't have much to do with music. :loyal:
Some friends and I at Orono got tickets to see Hot Tuna (just Jorma and Jack, acustic) play at a hole-in-the-wall joint just north of Portland called Raule's Roadside Attraction...
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I had something like that happen. It was the spring of 1969. Earlier the Buffalo Springfield played at our senior class concert, the one where Neal Young refused to let Steve Stills do all the guitar heroics and led to the breakup of the band. Neil had released his first album (excellent but nobody noticed it or bought it.) Neal had then formed Crazy Horse and their first album was to be released the next week. Steve had been in New York making the Supersession album with Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper but it wasn't in the stores yet. We saw that Neal and Crazy Horse were playing at a coffee house up the road a piece so eight of us piled into an old van and went to see them. It cost fifty cents to get in, and the eight of us made up half of the house. Neil and Crazy Horse played the entire first Crazy Horse album straight through. They were playing for half of the take at the door, which came to four bucks. They told us that when we all went out for a smoke in the parking lot during the break. They were trying to decide if they should get a taxi back to the hotel or go to McDonald's for a burger and walk to the hotel - they didn't have enough cash for both.) We had just gone in for the second set when Neil looked at the door and exclaimed, "Steven! What the hell are you doing here?!" It was Stills. He joined the band and they played old Buffalo Springfield songs for the second set. A once in a lifetime experience!
 
michaelvader said:
Wow a lot of nice planes
concerning the first of the Pitts special , thats what I feared - a payware. but perhaps I can do just for me a 2D panel out of the screenshot.
Just my humble opinion: I would prefer to see freeware that is accessible for all with out paying. The reason is simply that there exists a lot of freeware that are forgotten today. And there is a lot also of freeware scenery that makes your FS2004 fine.
These words should not to be seen as a bad critic! Only I prefer to honor creators and designers that pass their time just for the love of their hobby to share with us what they passed a lot of time on, than just to pay for a company which has only a commercial idea. I must admit I also have some payware. For example the RealAir Spitfires.

Have a nice day all
Best regards

Michael
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Papi,

There's some very nice fs2004 freeware Pitts models at Avsim ; by Federico L. Morcillo Azofra

ttfn

Pete
 
In the early 1930s Dean Hammond designed the Hammond Model Y, a low-wing monoplane twin-boom pusher monoplane. Hammond cooperated with the aircraft designer Lloyd Stearman to develop the type for production. They formed the Stearman-Hammond Aircraft Corporation in 1936 to build the aircraft as the Stearman-Hammond Y-1. The first aircraft was powered by a 125 hp (93 kW) Menasco C-4 piston engine driving a pusher propeller. The performance was not impressive so it was re-engined with a 150 hp (112 kW) Menasco C-4S and re-named the Y-1S. Although designed to be easy to fly the high price meant only 20 aircraft were produced.
KLM purchased a Y-1 (PH-APY) for use in training their pilots in tricycle undercarriage. Here on final over EBLG.

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And the ungainly Roe 1, the most cantankerous aircraft you will ever fly (it's like arguing with a woman - you think you know where it's headed, then it capriciously goes off on a tangent, and eventually you land anywhere just to get off).

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No problem with multiple installs, as long as the main FS2004 install folder is renamed for another install & the fs9.exe is also renamed, then there will be no conflicts at all.
Aslo, Addon Scenery in one install can be used in other installs, just by telling the Library in one install, to add from another install.
So, my Golden Wings main install folder is called 'Golden Wings' & the fs9.exe is renamed to fs9gw.exe. By doing this, a separate cfg file is created for each install.

I hope this explains, otherwise just ask to clarify.
 
Sorry, but I don't see any reasons to have separate cfg files. They tweaks couldm be the same for all versions.I I stear them with different scenery.cfg.
 
There is one conflict - the Select Airport function - because not all your installs have all the same airports. No matter which install you use, the Select Airport list will be from the last install you used and will include airports not in the currently-loaded sim and omit some from the current sim. AI is also affected. There is s simple fix.

This is how I resolve it. On my FS toolbar I have a link named Airport Menu Fix, and it leads to C:\Users\[you]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FS9\Facilities. That Facilities folder contains several files that differ from sim to sim. To get the current sim to load its airports you go to that folder and delete those files. They are named AIndex, lindex, NIndex, Vindex and Windex. I put a lick to the Recycle Bin right in that folder. Before I boot a sim different from the last one I used I go to the folder and delete those files the current one creates and loads its own versions of them with the data for the current sim.

You don't have to do this if the sim you're starting is Golden Wings because Bill Lyons worked it so that GW3 has it's own independent set of folders and files.

Don't ask me how I figured this out - I did it many years ago and don't remember how I thought it up.
 
I dont have any scenery conflicts, as my various installs each have their own unique sceneries, and my 'Select Airport' list, irrespective of any prior used install, always shows the correct sairports as per the install.
My Platinum Wings install also has it's own sceneries, with all modern airports deleted, similar to GW, which I have combined.
 
The Farman MF7 Longhorn. I don't think I have seen it in this thread yet.

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And the Santos Dumont replica. When you compare the wheels, with those from the AVRO in Pete's post from February 8th, you will understand the model was done by the same Craig Richardson

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