[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#144)(June 9)]

Pratt Whitney R 1340 600 hp hung on this beautiful Navy Curtiss from this period!

 

 

 

 

[MSFS 2024]

Will Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 be a completely standalone sequel, or will it also be offered as a paid update for existing players? 

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a standalone simulator and the next-generation sequel to Microsoft Flight Simulator that launched in 2020. Current aircraft and airports that are in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), as well as virtually all Marketplace add-ons, will be supported in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

What kind of support can Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) players expect to see once Flight Simulator 2024 has been released? 

We will continue to deliver our Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) Roadmap which has content ranging from Aircraft and Avionics Updates, Sim Updates, City and World Updates, and also the free Dune DLC. We will continue to support Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) post the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launch.

Will all purchases users have made from the Marketplace be transferrable to the new simulator?

With very few exceptions, virtually all add-ons that work in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) today will function in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Add-ons that were purchased from the in-simulator Marketplace will not need to be re-purchased in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

 

https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-faq/

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#143)(June 2)]

1: Douglas DC-3

2: Connie

3: Boeing 727

4: Waco WMF-5

5: Howard 500

6: Grumman H-16

7: PBY Catalina

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#142)(May 26)]

The love of airplanes!  My dad was stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB and lived on base next to the USAF Museum.  Every school day I would walk by the XB-70, Strawberry Bitch B-24, B-25, B-29, etc. out of the base gate.

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#139)(May 5)]

1. Your first pet.
   Blackie... Cocker Spaniel loved playing ball.

 

2. Your first bicycle.
   White 10-speed with ram horns.

 

3. Your first girlfriend.
   Susan White beautiful blonde (10).

 

4. Your first real skill as a kid.
   Owning my own grass-cutting business, paid for my clothes, guitar, and new lawn mower.

 

5. Your first hero (real or fictional).
   John Wayne

 

6. Your favorite candy bar as a kid.
   Taffy

 

7. Your best pal(s) as a kid.
   Brad, his dad owned a farm in Indiana and had fun playing in the barn.

[Older Than Dirt Quiz.........]

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
7. Party lines on the telephone
9. P.F. Flyers
11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H green stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with a lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-in movies

 

Scooter pies... remember those... yum!

Red Chief peddle car... early 1960's... got one for Christmas.

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#138)(April 28)]

All cleaned up and tested on my favorite vintage B-25... Go DUCKS!  Forgotten how cool this bird is!  Lives on in P3Dv3.

 

 

 

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#138)(April 28)]

10 hours ago, wain71 said:

@TuFun my first one was a Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick for Flight Simulator 98, thought I still had both but sadly it looks like they have gone to the charity shop...

I have 3... one Microsoft Force Feedback Pro and two Force Feedback 2.  The Pro power connector broke so Microsoft sent 2 Feedback 2 free of charge. At that time sticks were being discontinued and Microsoft said to keep the extra.

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#138)(April 28)]

Once upon a time as it sits today stored for years.  Microsoft Force Feedback 2 controller is the one I ever used.

Last flight sim P3Dv3.

 

 

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#137)(April 21)]

Had a smartphone 5 years ago and the last time I used one.  Although it's inactive the 911 feature will work if needed.

["OK Gal"]

Thanks guys!  A little background on this bird.  We were in contact with David on the Manfred/Team build C-47 when he was restoring OK GAL to flight status.

Sadly that never happened.

 

CQ Plane Spotting

["OK Gal"]

"OKLAHOMA GAL" parked at Orbx YBBN for restoration display.

 

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#132)(March 17)]

100's of Hot Wheels and other miniature cars over 25 years.

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#124)(Jan20)]

A stranger walking by wanted drink of water from the garden hose and I said wait minute let me get some bottle water.  Gave her two bottles.  She was polite but I had a feeling she living on the streets.   

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#123)(Jan 13)]

My father was into U-control aircraft in the '60's so I was too!

 

My first little Piper flown in the '60's when Dad's friend gave me this U-control model.

Then came the Stuka in the ''60 and 70's.  One each in the those periods.

The Cosmic Wind by Cox... indestructible!

Guillow's P-40 rubber band model I converted to U-control and skinned the fuselage with balsa sheets running a Cox Pee Wee .020 engine.

 

     

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#121)(Dec 30)]

My daily talks with the King of Kings and His Father!

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#120)(Dec 23)]

1965 my dad gave me a Sears Roebuck & Company, J. C. Higgins Model 103.181 22 cal. single shot bolt action rifle that I still have today.

Much better than a BB gun I might add.  Those were the days... best Christmas ever!

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#117)(Dec 2)]

I was the last person to inspect the ejection seats on a F-4E that crashed on takeoff and was award by the base commander for saving the crews life.

I have the Martin Baker ID plate of one of the seats ejected from that aircraft. 

[Are you an addict?]

4 hours ago, Rodger Pettichord said:

Forget the computers. We should get our brains checked. Probably really low on capacity by now?

Well some can read the good book... or (Boo), sorry about Father John I might add. 

[Are you an addict?]

I stopped cold turkey with P3Dv3 and maybe look at for few minutes over the years since.  I'm much happier now... cured! 

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#107)(Sept 23)]

Aerobatics are the hardest to master, but choppers... the same but loads of fun once you get the hang of it.

 

My favorite recording I did with the SA Lama flown in FSX (2011).

 

SA 315B Lama

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#106) (Sept 16)]

WarBirdSim P-51 was my favorite Mustang, but the A2A P-40 is my all time favorite that is the only WWII fighter still resides in P3D!

[Which sim is best?]

For me the best sim is the one Milton and Manfred used. They are both retired and so am I.

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#103)(Aug 26)]

My loved ones are there... final destination when the time comes! 

[This Week's Meaningless Topic (#97)(July 16)]

1 hour ago, wain71 said:

I had to google that, nice read about it though...

Did some work with all new paint, rivets, panels, and bumps for Milton's Howard few years ago.

 

Howard 500 repaint