alan2 Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 We were out bush when this old cocky told us of this old biplane behind Gingers house, we went to check it out . He had an old Gladiator in Chinese markings !! "Where did you get that from ?". "Dunno, cant remember, been there forty years, was it from that old Chinese gold digger Lucky Shine ? - think I swapped it for a drum of homemade" . We put some fuel in it. I climbed in and cranked it . It started !! So we pushed it to the nearest road and off I went . Flew like a bird . Flying over Wyndham in W.A I thought I would give the boys some joy and do a dummy gun run on the airfield. CRIPES , fair dinkum , they worked . I was popping bullets at them. HELL, what to do. Best I beat it right out of there and get back to Gingers . They dont know who or what hit them. "Ginger mate, mums the word ok " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Scharnowski Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Very nice! Can you provide some cockpit shots, please? I'm still looking for a high quality biplane (no, the Tiger Moth doesn't cut it for me, as good as it is for freeware. I'm spoiled! ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Nice looking shots. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sangsom Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 You've shown us your rust bucket in a particularly advantageous way. Nice shots,nice story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Scharnowski Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 I've read up on this bird and am not interested anymore. Let's just say I've read that the flaps on the Gladiator don't have any effect on the flight dynamics after three patches, and that I've also seen their reactions to customer inquiries about the flaps problem, and leave it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skooby Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Nice series of shots! Skooby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lovell Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Very nice and old time pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan2 Posted June 30, 2010 Author Share Posted June 30, 2010 Thank you guys, Patrick, the flaps were a problem when I first got it . Somebody gave a link to an .air file mod which I have , cant remember who but its an old post here. It works sort of, an improvement anyway, I can come in slower. I just happened to be using the Gladiator for playing around with fsuic and I found myself having a bit of fun with it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter Dog Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 I certainly like the shots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek McAllan Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Nice set! Been doing a lot of flying around there myself... great bit of terrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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