GroovyMotion
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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)
:smile:Aha! I knew you were a John!
Yikes 8 grandchildren!! Must make huge holiday receptions!
I couldn't even imagine one GroovyMotion Junior lol
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Well, it's time to come out of the closet (lol no not that one!). I used to run the Unofficial Fly web site and Fly Virtual Airlines back in the Fly! days, which didn't last long unfortunately!
I am from Montreal, Canada, lived there 99.5% of my life as I have now stepped in the dark side and moved to Ontario. There used to be a big fight between Quebec and Ontario, anglos versus frenchs but what is funny is that I live in the easternmost region of Ontario where it's actually more french speaking than Montreal!
Anyways, enough of this, I am 40 years old and I always had a passion for aviation, my dad worked for Pratt & Whitney and Air Canada so I was really lucky I could travel on passes all my life !
Other than aviation I am a car nut, modified most of my cars and my dream is to have a lightning fast AWD car and a supercar on top of having a few aircrafts
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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
wow nice to see you Mallard, it's funny how with just a username and an avatar we imagine people!
It's my turn to reveil myself later today!
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