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holocaust bloopers posted:I distinctly remember having a book about every plane in the USAF inventory from the early 90's. I saw the AWACS, and even as a 6th grader, I thought that was a dumb looking airplane. Jane's sent out that free sample pack of airplane foldout cards. If only my parents had money, I could have caught them all. Also my mom almost became a pilot and dated aerobatic pilots when in college and conned them into giving me puke inducing flights while in middle school so there's that.
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I've got half a dozen or so coffeetable books full of badass old hand-drawn aircraft cutaway illustrations, with a nice history of the plane pictured included. Those were like crack to 8 year old me. http://www.amazon.com/Classic-World-War-Aircraft-Cutaways/dp/1855325268
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Anybody remember Aces over Europe?
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Jane's Anthology + Return of the Jedi battle of Endor. Sprinkle in some Starfox I suppose.
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holocaust bloopers posted:I distinctly remember having a book about every plane in the USAF inventory from the early 90's. I saw the AWACS, and even as a 6th grader, I thought that was a dumb looking airplane. You and me both brother. Spent prime 7 years of my life fixing that ridiculous flying groundstation.
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I've always been interested in mechanical things; my dad did a lot of work on their cars when I was very young (one of which was Porsche 911) so it was a given that I would be interested in that kind of stuff. As for flying, my parents tell a story of when I went back to Ontario (where both my parents grew up) for my first Christmas. I wasn't much more than four months old, and despite that and flying on the red-eye flight to Toronto (on one of Air Canada's brand new, shiny Boeing 767-200ERs), I stayed awake the whole time, apparently enraptured by the experience. More interestingly, on the return flight back, we took a 727 back to Edmonton via Winnipeg, and despite sitting in the back row, surrounded by three screaming JT8Ds, I slept like, well, a baby. The other story they like to tell is from my first airshow; the 1986 Namao Airshow, which was coincidentally one of the last airshows that the CF-104 Starfighter was on display. Anyway, the CF-104 did, according to my parents, the loudest, fastest and sneakiest sneak pass (oh, for the days before the loving Italians ruined airshows forever!) that they'd ever seen - it was so loud that lots of children cried and even the adults were truly rattled by the experience, and I was seemingly the only person in the crowd who was thrilled by the sight and sound of a howling, wailing Starfighter a hundred feet above my head. I also remember, in 1993 (or was it 1994?), getting my very first copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 5; not only that, but it came with a Gravis Analog joystick! You remember, the one with the three red buttons and no trigger switch. I also remember being absolutely furious that my little brother did better on his first flight than I did...he not only took off safely, but landed the airplane back at Meigs Field too, the little prick. MrChips fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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I had Jane's USAF but either it wouldn't run properly on my Gateway Windows ME machine or, more realistically, expecting anything to run on a Gateway Windows ME machine is unreasonable. I could only play a few of the missions without it crashing.
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Dannywilson posted:You and me both brother. Spent prime 7 years of my life fixing that ridiculous flying groundstation. What years? Let me pre-emptively apologize for possibly making you write up a light bulb r^2. I was fresh out of training and operated very by the book. bloops fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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I honestly don't remember exactly what my first plane experience was... It was either watching the red arrows in unpainted planes practicing; running into some kind of NATO display in the middle of the city when I was staying with my grandma, and being allowed to climb all over a luftwaffe F-104G; or being 'buzzed' by a pair of lightnings while standing on the crest of a cliff, and being able to feel the exhaust heat of one. I strongly suspect that my interest in planes is genetic however, my grandma wanted to fly in WW2 SybilVimes fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Mar 11, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 05:14
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space stuff>airplanes>race cars>trains Just so we're all clear.
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Blue Max was the first airplane game I ever played, on my grandfather's C64. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv53rnaYAB8 Later, after he got a PC, it was Aces Over The Pacific. He flew B-24s out of North Africa and England during the war.
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quote:French Olympic gold medalist swimmer Camille Muffat and bronze medalist boxer Alexis Vastine were among 10 people killed in a helicopter crash in Argentina on Monday, according to Agence France-Presse and confirmed by international media. Apparently two helicopters collided while filming a reality show.
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CommieGIR posted:Anybody remember Aces over Europe? Yup, owned
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I wish DCS would take a stab at the B-17 for DCS World now that they've got WW2 options - Microprose's take on it came too early and was rushed out. I think the technology and average network bandwidth exists today for a proper bomber sim with people manning the guns, etc.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I wish DCS would take a stab at the B-17 for DCS World now that they've got WW2 options - Microprose's take on it came too early and was rushed out. I think the technology and average network bandwidth exists today for a proper bomber sim with people manning the guns, etc. Wasn't that one of the stretch goals on the DCS:1945 kickstarter? It's probably been tossed aside by now though
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I wish somebody would buy the Janes series off whoever the hell owns it now and pulls a Homeworld with it, mainly USAF. Those games were the fuckin' best. I never tried Lock-On but it always felt way more sim-oriented then something like USAF. I'm not real interested in things like start up procedures, I just want to drop LGBs on things.
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Mazz posted:I wish somebody would buy the Janes series off whoever the hell owns it now and pulls a Homeworld with it, mainly USAF. Those games were the fuckin' best. The rights might be do-able since it seems to have been a strictly EA gig. The problem is with the Jane's name since that contract ran out a long time ago, and Janes Information Group is owned by IHS Inc. now.
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MicroProse F-19 Stealth on the Commadore or Spectrum Holobytes Falcon 3.0
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Amiga represent: When I was around 8 we spent a few years living at a remote airport. Regularly got to play in all the transport aircraft flying back and forth (mostly Caribou), and chill with the pilots ferrying Macchis to their grave. We had airforce pilots regularly spend their whole afternoon trying to get a carrier landing hunched around the Amiga 500. What got me hooked was taking a joy ride in a RFDS plane, and getting to sit in the copilot seat the whole way. The pilot let me hold the controls during the landing and for years I was convinced I helped land it.  Of course now I have a horrible addiction where I pour all my spare money into either plastic models or avgas..
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We had a Mac so it was Hellcats Over The Pacific for me growing up, where landing was harder than shooting down a zero
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My parents met at facility making parts for F-16s, so I guess I absorbed it at a very early stage. Anyone following Solar Impulse?  It's been mentioned before in here, but a long time ago. It's a solar powered plane that is on its way to circumnavigate the globe. Not in one go, it will spend five months on the trip in total although that seems to be a very conservative estimate given the smooth progress so far. It's on its second leg now, between Muscat, Oman and Ahmedabad, India. Live stream with telemetry, comms etc here: http://www.solarimpulse.com/ Currently at 25000 feet, around 80 knots ground speed with 30-odd knots of crosswind.
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They've planned so long because its low speed makes it 100% dependent on favorable wind conditions. Still cool.
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That live feed is pretty cool, was not expecting a ground control audio loop. I have two long haul flights booked for April, SFO to HKG on a 747-400 and then PVG (Shanghai) to LAX on a 787-9, I think the last time I flew on a widebody Boeing airplane I was 7 years old. Is there anything of interest I should look at when boarding/flying? I've been on Airbus a350/a320 transatlantic and it was a pretty boring plane from what I remember. The 787 scares the hell out of me, stretched version of a brand new carbon fiber plane. Yikes. I fly on 737s all the time and that doesn't bother me, but it's also made of aluminum with a 100+ year flight heritage. Also, I'm a stomach sleeper and can't sleep fully upright using one of those U-shaped pillows, has anyone seen/tried the Skyrest pillow? It looks ridiculous but I've attempted similar things with my carry on and a combination of pillows and a jacket. SFO to HKG is supposed to be a 14 hour red eye, as is the trip home so I imagine I'd get a lot of use out of this thing.
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Hadlock posted:That live feed is pretty cool, was not expecting a ground control audio loop. I would check seatguru to find the best seating since those are long flights. I wouldn't worry about the carbon fiber. It is incredibly strong. I did the Boeing tour last fall and we were able to see a mockup section of the plane and the material is super strong. If I worried about anything, it would be the batteries, but they seem to be doing OK. The last few years I have flown Delta BE and had lie flats to Asia, but before that when I was back in coach I used Ambien to help me sleep. It worked well, but YMMV. I would test it first before you traveled just to see how you react. Are you on United? I'm not sure they have avod back in economy. That really helps a lot watching movies/shows. Radiohead71 fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Yeah, united economy class, I am planning on bringing my e-reader and one of those 5000mAh usb batteries for my phone + laptop for "in flight movie". Does united really not have avod in economy in 2015? My transatlantic flight on American last summer did. I took a 21 hour bus ride in Argentina (turns out, South America is huge) and they have large array of questionably legal over the counter options to knock you out during the trip and that definitely made the trip shorter/more pleasant. Do you just book an appt with the doctor and ask for a prescription here in the US? I've never done that before. Ambien sounds like a great solution though, at least on a bus they let you out every 4 hours or so to walk around.
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SyHopeful posted:Ahem. How the gently caress did this not get any love? I played em all, from Blue Max, and GeeBee Air Rally (Best music in a C64 game basically ever. It's probably been 20 years since I booted that up last, and I found myself humming it by the second bar,) on C64, and then upgrading to Red Baron by Dynamix on my 286, F-19 Stealth Fighter, LHX, Aces of the Pacific, Aces of Europe, (Aces of the Deep is unrelated, but loving awesome,) B-17 Flying Fortress, holy gently caress the list goes on forever. Nothing at all on this list is in the same room as Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. The campaign game is something no other flight sim bar Falcon 4.0 has come anywhere loving near. It sucked up an obscene part of my early adolescence. It may not have been quite the match for any game on the list in any singly aspect; Red Baron has better dogfights, B-17 had great crew management, and was ahead of its time in many areas, the Aces games are in a class by themselves for obvious reasons, and are the direct forerunners of IL2, but holy gently caress. C: [enter] cd\swotl [enter] runluft [enter] [open another Dr Pepper] 
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Ola posted:My parents met at facility making parts for F-16s, so I guess I absorbed it at a very early stage. Holy poo poo that thing is manned. Also, at night it flies at 60km/h. Just how low is the stall speed on that thing?
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Hadlock posted:Yeah, united economy class, I am planning on bringing my e-reader and one of those 5000mAh usb batteries for my phone + laptop for "in flight movie". Does united really not have avod in economy in 2015? My transatlantic flight on American last summer did. I've done the Narita/Seattle flight more than a few times and mostly what I've learned is this: you gotta go ascetic on the in-flight options if you want to pop ambien because it's way too easy to get sucked into watching "just one more movie" and then before you know it you're at your destination. Also most sleeping pills don't work if you take them with or after a meal. I don't know if your route has avod but Narita/Seattle via United has good avod options, so it's likely yours will. But plan a backup just in case.
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CommieGIR posted:Anybody remember Aces over Europe? I used the massive manual as a reference during AP US History in high school
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Ola posted:Solar Impulse. I used to work in SATCOM, and visited a former-competitor-turned-subsidiary that had made a custom version of their SATCOM unit for Solar Impulse. They were crazy anal about weight, to the point where they made a custom single channel (usual is four) version with custom casing and PCB and everything. They were, oddly enough, not too concerned with power draw, as pilot compartment heating was an issue, so they'd take any excess heat they could get.
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CommieGIR posted:Anybody remember Aces over Europe? European Air War. You could take off from southern England and fly for 35 minutes to bomb France and return home and land. Hell, you might ony be the escort and flt for 30 minutes before you encounter 5 109s and then return to base with a damaged wing.
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Hadlock posted:Yeah, united economy class, I am planning on bringing my e-reader and one of those 5000mAh usb batteries for my phone + laptop for "in flight movie". Does united really not have avod in economy in 2015? My transatlantic flight on American last summer did. I never fly United, and I looked on seatguru, but couldn't see for sure if they had avod in coach or not. It's in first or business. I told my doctor that I was flying and wanted some Ambien and he wrote me a script for like 10 pills. It does cause some people to do weird things, but it doesn't me. Again, I would try at home first before using it in flight. I've used it 3x on long flights and it worked great for me. If you are on flight 869, that one takes off at 1:30 Pacific time and takes over 14 hours. I would definitely try to sleep on that flight in some capacity. I'm a stomach sleeper too, but using an eye shade, ear plugs, ambien and a neck pillow allowed me to sleep OK years back. You might try getting a window seat, which would let you lean up against the side of plane with a regular pillow. The reviews of the United 747 in economy are pretty dismal. http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/United_Airlines/United_Airlines_Boeing_747-400_B.php
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I found airplanes interesting for so long that I can't really point to any single formative experience. I do remember reading many of those Time-Life "Epic of Flight" books when I was a kid. That, and the F117A flight sim. To this day about 80% of what I know about different types of Radar comes from that game. The airship obsession is less explainable - in high school I was utterly fascinated by a National Geographic article on the USS Akron and Macon I found. Some years after that, during an unhappy time in my life, I found in the university library a copy of "The Zeppelin in Combat" and kinda officially became obsessed with LTA craft.
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Hadlock posted:That live feed is pretty cool, was not expecting a ground control audio loop. The 787 is an amazing aircraft to fly on. You genuinely feel less jet lagged and lovely due to the lower cabin altitude and higher humidity. Of course it will have the latest and greatest IFE system as well. I can't sleep at all on airplanes, I usually spend long haul flights watching terrible movies, listening to music and playing games on my phone. I've been a shift worker most of my adult life though, so despite not being able to sleep when I want to, I can function fairly well on no sleep and hosed up time zones. My advice for red eye flights, which may not work well for you if you have a natural circadian rhythm, is either push through it with food and caffeine, or, if you can, nap for a few hours when you get to your hotel/home. Take some melatonin the first night before local bedtime, and again the second night (second night is always the worst) and it's not too bad.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Blue Max was the first airplane game I ever played, on my grandfather's C64. I spent so many hours playing that game. Ever fly under the bridge? You had to use your guns to see if you were low enough. I remember being blown away by the graphics in F-15 Strike Eagle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTrZLlC643c I was dumb.
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slidebite posted:Whippersnappers Meigs Field  My first exposure was FS95, followed by Novalogic's F-22, F-16, and Mig-29 (came in a 3-pack). xergm fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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drunkill posted:European Air War. You could take off from southern England and fly for 35 minutes to bomb France and return home and land. Hell, you might ony be the escort and flt for 30 minutes before you encounter 5 109s and then return to base with a damaged wing. I remember Battle of Britain for these kinds of campaign scenarios. What a phenomenal game. I was an F-19 Stealth Fighter guy too, and MSFS, and a bunch of others I don't recall offhand.
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Pfft.. y'all are scrubs. 1983 with a VIC-20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VWtyYqBxHU
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Ola posted:My parents met at facility making parts for F-16s, so I guess I absorbed it at a very early stage. They seem to be having some issues right now. The Autopilot isn't working, they're drifting further off course, and the aircraft is unstable with no turbulence. And the pilot (I think) asked "What do we do now" a few minutes ago lmao
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Hadlock posted:Does united really not have avod in economy in 2015? My transatlantic flight on American last summer did. My brother deployed to Korea last summer and flew United from SeaTac to Seoul on a 777, he said his economy seat had AVOD and a USB charging port.
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