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Play at being a fighter pilot.
- Thread starter gajinoz
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My wife - the adorable Spiglet - noted that I watched a UK TV programme about pilot training. She looked into getting me a MiG flight for my last birthday, but the cost - £10,000 if I remember correctly - put paid to that!
Instead, I had a flight in a vintage Tiger Moth. Imagine sitting in a paint mixer, in a wind tunnel. Great fun!
(The photo shows the previous victim to me)
maximus otter
Instead, I had a flight in a vintage Tiger Moth. Imagine sitting in a paint mixer, in a wind tunnel. Great fun!
(The photo shows the previous victim to me)
maximus otter
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Max my boy, this brings back memories. Many years ago a bloke I knew had a half share in a Tiger and every now and then he would invite me out with him and, if he was feeling particularly generous, would even let me fly it for a while. I still haven't decided if it was more fun than sex but it would be a close race.maximus otter said:My wife - the adorable Spiglet - noted that I watched a UK TV programme about pilot training. She looked into getting me a MiG flight for my last birthday, but the cost - £10,000 if I remember correctly - put paid to that!
Instead, I had a flight in a vintage Tiger Moth. Imagine sitting in a paint mixer, in a wind tunnel. Great fun!
(The photo shows the previous victim to me)
maximus otter
Once you got used to the occasional splash of oil in the face and the somewhat alarming pings, bangs, snaps, pops and groans of the wires and wood it was a blast to fly. Loops and barrel roles and spins were all nice slow easy manouvres but you had to keep you mind on the job. It gave me a real appreciation for the guys who actually fought in planes like that.
Hehe- I was just watching one of those Military Channel things today, on the Lafayette Escadrille. They said the motor oil of choice for the WWI-vintage stringbags was Castor, and so much blew back into the pilot's faces that they were always in danger of emergency landings for "personal relief".
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I can heartily recommend two books about WW1 aviation. The first is factual history, the second fiction.
The First of the Few: Fighter Pilots of the First World War by Denis Winter.
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson. He mentions the dire consequences of using castor oil as an engine lubricant...
Winter also wrote Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War. Moving, marvellous reading.
maximus otter
The First of the Few: Fighter Pilots of the First World War by Denis Winter.
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson. He mentions the dire consequences of using castor oil as an engine lubricant...
Winter also wrote Death's Men: Soldiers of the Great War. Moving, marvellous reading.
maximus otter
Back when I was playing Combat Flight Simulator, the online "rooms" featuring WWI-only aircraft were always very popular. CFS included one biplane model, and modders used that as a basis to construct just about any WWI fighter you could imagine.
In Oleg Maddox's IL-2-Forgotten Battles-Pacific Fighters series, we have a few early-war aircraft including the Polikarpov biplane. Great fun to fly.... We keep hearing rumors of a Maddox-based WWI game or at least an approved mod, but nothing yet.
In Oleg Maddox's IL-2-Forgotten Battles-Pacific Fighters series, we have a few early-war aircraft including the Polikarpov biplane. Great fun to fly.... We keep hearing rumors of a Maddox-based WWI game or at least an approved mod, but nothing yet.
