Classic British Flight Sim

I have this:

De Havilland Aircraft sine 1909 by A.J. Jackson
Putnam, 1987.
Page 306

'...Two hundred Gipsy major powered D.H.82Cs bought by the United States Government in 1942 under the model number PT-24, were also delivered to the R.C.A.F....'

Nils

Thank's Gary

I must be getting old

Nils

It IS Farnborough 1950!
I still have my yearbook from that year.
From left to right (top to bottom):

Blackburn B-54 Y.A.5; Vickers V.700 Viscount
A.W.55 Apollo; Vickers V.668 Varsity; H.P. Hermes V (G-ALEU)
Gloster Meteor N.F.11; Vickers V.663 "Tay-Viscount"
Bristol Brabazon

I have seen Viscount ...

Unfortunately I have not seen the documentary, but I am very fortunate to have Commander R.E.D. Ryder's own first-hand story of the attack:

The Attack on St. Nazaire - 28th March, 1942
by Commander R.E.D. Ryder, V.C., R.N.
John Murray, London, 1947 - First Edition.

The book is illustrated with a ...

The 128 and the Amiga were allso too expensive for me, but I did some programming work for Commodore and they paid me by giving me hardware

Nils

Do you also remember the Commodore 128?
Very sofisticated with a built-in 5 1/4 drive.
I still have mine

Nils

...and I still have my Commodore 64 and my Amiga.

Regards
Nils

Dan, Gary, Leifur (Viking name - Gary) and Ian,

Thank You for the warm Welcome!
I can understand that this topic is for the odd subjects and the screwballs :wink:
That suits me fine.

My main interest is old airliners - first and formost propliners.
I have allso done a lot of scale modelling, and ...

Hello all,
My name is Nils Rosengaard (Denmark). I'm a brand new member to this group - even I'm not brand new myself :smile:

I got interested when I noticed that Dan had linked to some of my pictures on airliners.net (b/w CV440 and Caravelle).

My first trip in a passenger aircraft was in 1954 ...