"Vintage Flyers"

[dharris]

When I was younger, did not pay much attention to the bi-plane era. But now that I am a bonifide senior citizen, they are as slow as I am getting! Great screen shots, Keep them coming, Don

[Bomber_12th]

Some more putt-puttering around. ; )

[Bomber_12th]

[FSX68]

I found yet another nice Jenny out there made for FSX:

It's nice but the wings are a little transparent

Can you guess who made this one? here is a hint:

[Bomber_12th]

That is a great model of the Jenny, too! I know the designer kept the wings semi-transparent so as to show-off/display the internal wing structure that he went through the pain to produce. Thank you for posting the screenshots, too! I think Dirk made a very nice Model T for FSX that came with one of his Jenny's, that I had installed at one time - I'll need to track that down again.

I'd actually like to see this thread continue to be expanded, with screenshots from many others! None of that 1, 2, or 3 picture business, but 10+ images, and perhaps even a story behind the images or the flight - and keep it all to the 1900's, 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's, military and civilian aviation.

[Javis]

You are an artist, John. You should definitely try oil painting. You have a great eye and feeling for putting a subject in the best dramatic position possible. Use your fantastic screenshots as an example. You'll have to learn the technique but i have a good feeling you'll get away with that easily. You'll LOVE the smell of oilpaint !

Don't spend your great talent on digital stuff only, but please DO continue with that too !


Cheers,
Jan

[Roger]

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I'd actually like to see this thread continue to be expanded, with screenshots from many others! None of that 1, 2, or 3 picture business, but 10+ images, and perhaps even a story behind the images or the flight - and keep it all to the 1900's, 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's, military and civilian aviation.

Okay, John's suggestion that we show off our vintage aircraft is a great idea. No stickie (we're tring to reduce the stickie pile) but members can keep this one floating on page one if there's sufficient input.

[FSX68]

OK John,
I'm Keeping up with the traditions....

At the end of Sept , in 1911, Anthony Fokker left a field near Haarlem in his Spin (Spider) and flew over the city. After a 360 around the Great- or St.Bavochurch he landed save in another field. That performance made his name as an aircraftbuilder.
Haarlem is celebrating of course, with the Fokker Spin Centential. (It's in Dutch, but maybe Google can give some sort of translation ;D)
Some Dutch simmers planned to make the flight in FSX, but there was no aircraft! (The last Spin was made for FS98!)

Additional info on the Spin (SPIDER)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_Spin



if you want to try the Spider, you can pick it up at his website;


http://www.sundancer.demon.nl/FSX_Fokker%20Spin.zip

[stiz]

aahhh the days when you had to fly the plane rather than just sit there and let the plane fly you! The 1910-1943 era is deffenitly my favorite, after 1943 they'd pretty much figured out what made a plane fly and how to keep it flying, great if your flying in the real world etc etc, but all the planes start getting "samey" and loose their character, at least in my eyes

[Roger]

Very nice stiz...is that Ted's Be2c?

[Crusader]

I think between John and Roger and a few others, you are both in my top five favorite screenshot artists . Excellent shots here ! I readily admit I'm not very good at it .

Rich

[stiz]

Very nice stiz...is that Ted's Be2c?

sure is

[TuFun]

Thought I would add a few...

[robert41]

Great pics here. Love the vintage aircraft.
I have a few of the CR1 Ford Trimotor.

[Bomber_12th]

Thank you Rich, Stiz, Ted, and Robert for all of these additional, wonderful, screenshots!! They all provide for some great inspiration to fly some types I haven't flown in a long time.