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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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"Vintage Flyers"

You are an artist, John. You should definitely try oil painting. You have a great eye and feeling for putting a subject in the best dramatic position possible. Use your fantastic screenshots as an example. You'll have to learn the technique but i have a good feeling you'll get away with that easily. You'll LOVE the smell of oilpaint !

Don't spend your great talent on digital stuff only, but please DO continue with that too ! :cool:


Cheers,
Jan
 
Bomber_12th said:
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I'd actually like to see this thread continue to be expanded, with screenshots from many others! None of that 1, 2, or 3 picture business, but 10+ images, and perhaps even a story behind the images or the flight - and keep it all to the 1900's, 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's, military and civilian aviation.
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Okay, John's suggestion that we show off our vintage aircraft is a great idea. No stickie (we're tring to reduce the stickie pile) but members can keep this one floating on page one if there's sufficient input.
 
Fokker Spin for FSX!

OK John,
I'm Keeping up with the traditions....


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At the end of Sept , in 1911, Anthony Fokker left a field near Haarlem in his Spin (Spider) and flew over the city. After a 360 around the Great- or St.Bavochurch he landed save in another field. That performance made his name as an aircraftbuilder.
Haarlem is celebrating of course, with the Fokker Spin Centential. (It's in Dutch, but maybe Google can give some sort of translation ;D)
Some Dutch simmers planned to make the flight in FSX, but there was no aircraft! (The last Spin was made for FS98!)


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Additional info on the Spin (SPIDER)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_Spin



if you want to try the Spider, you can pick it up at his website;


http://www.sundancer.demon.nl/FSX_Fokker%20Spin.zip



 
aahhh the days when you had to fly the plane rather than just sit there and let the plane fly you! The 1910-1943 era is deffenitly my favorite, after 1943 they'd pretty much figured out what made a plane fly and how to keep it flying, great if your flying in the real world etc etc, but all the planes start getting "samey" and loose their character, at least in my eyes :engel016:

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I think between John and Roger and a few others, you are both in my top five favorite screenshot artists . Excellent shots here ! :applause: I readily admit I'm not very good at it .

Rich:guinness::guinness:
 
Thank you Rich, Stiz, Ted, and Robert for all of these additional, wonderful, screenshots!! They all provide for some great inspiration to fly some types I haven't flown in a long time.
 
I still need to pick that one up one of these days! Beautiful shots of it, Ted! I've been looking forward to seeing if the restored airworthy Hawker Fury at Duxford (the only example of its kind - besides the airworthy Nimrods and Hinds) will be flying some displays this year.

BTW, I don't know how hard/easy this question would be to answer amongst the folks here, but...

What is the only aircraft/airframe that started out being powered by a Rolls Royce Kestrel engine, and that the last types were fitted with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine?
 
Bomber_12th said:
BTW, I don't know how hard/easy this question would be to answer amongst the folks here, but...

What is the only aircraft/airframe that started out being powered by a Rolls Royce Kestrel engine, and that the last types were fitted with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine?
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Hmmm interesting and unexpected answer to this ...the Messerschmit Me-109!

BTW what model is that of the SE-5A?...looks very nice!
 
Correct, Paul! ; )

The SE-5A in Ted's screenshots is the Just Flight/Aeroplane Heave model. Another one I need to get! It really looks excellent in those shots!
 
Ted, admiring your shots of the Fury some more, that fourth one down is absolutely killer! As is the second to the last SE-5A shot! Incredibly dramatic.
 
Message to TuFun

TuFun , you also will be in Rich's five all time screenshot artist list along with Roger and John .
You have always been the best video man I've ever seen in the flight sim hobby . Keep them coming . All these shots are beautiful ! :applause:

Rich
 
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