BradB
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I was eight years old , so no memory of this incident . Thanks Brian for posting these video's .
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Well - I think it's time to drop my mask (at least a bit)
My name is Martin, I'm a fully qualified archaeologist but work as a freelance translator. I grew up in planes because my father was constantly posted to exotic places by his company and have survived loopings in a helicopter over Barbados, non-closing doors on Ghana Airways back in the seventies, engine failures on transatlantic flights and made it safely back to the ground after taking near-derelict Russian commercial jets... I actually wanted to become a pilot once, but my eyes prevented that dream from coming to fruition.
I've been flightsimming from the good old Microprose days.
In this pic I was a bit pissed to be dragged out from behind my screen to go for a walk.
My other real hobby is 2CVs. I've had the one in this pic
for more than 23 years now, but currently also call an Ami 6 my own and had AK 400 vans, Acadianes and Visas in the past. The neat part about the 2CV is that it's a bit like flying an old biplane. Wind hits you from all angles, the windows are hinged half-way up like in some Cessnas and the needle of the speedometer gets stuck sometimes, so that you have to tick it with your finger to get it moving again - like in those old airplane disaster movies where they suddenly realise that they have run out of fuel
By the way - the car is commonly known as "the duck" in German - and that's where my Mallard nick comes from (loads of German 2CV drivers only know me under that name)...
Cheers
Mallard
Well Hello Martin , now if we can just get Stillwater (Gerold) to come out from behind the curtain .
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+1 - The first shot is a real stunner .Great shots Tom, especially the first one!!!
Cheers
John
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+1Nice shots and interesting story.
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Hello - looking foward to KSFF scenery - home airport
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It is my turn now to come out from behind the curtain . My real name is John and I started here in this forum in early Jan. 2013 under the name of
johnbow72 . In early March of last year their was a system (Orbx) glitch and my 1,300 post were wiped out . So I started again under the name of
bradb . I have been involved with FS since the mid 90's . I have been retired since 2011 and live here in Spokane with my wife Carleen . We have
between the two of us eight grandchildren ( 3 in Maine - 2 in CA and 3 here in Spokane . The picture below was taken aboard the NCL Star
as we departed Seattle for a cruise up to Alaska in June 2011 .
Cheers
John - (aka Brad)
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