Herve Devred
was born in 1953, in a city 100 km north of Paris. My mother
was a teacher for very young children and my father was working in
the coal mines. In the early fifties, in a small town of France,
there was neither TV nor fridge, few cars in the streets and the
milkman was bringing a bottle of milk every morning at the door of
the house...As far as I can remember, I was fond of aeronautics and space. I was listening to the radio to get information about the space conquest and drawing superfast aircrafts with my coloured pencils.
Now I am an engineer. I have been working for almost twenty years in companies dealing with aerospace. I have been married and I have two daughters. The oldest studies math and data processing at the university. The youngest prepares her general certificate of education.
I bought my first microcomputer in 1991 (386, 20 MHz, 4 Megs of RAM!) and caught immediately the virus of flight simulation. I tried a lot of them: ATP, Falcon 3, Aces of the Pacific... and, of course, FS4, then FS5 and now FSFW95.
One year ago, I began to write a C++ program to view 3-D models of
plane. A few weeks later, Flight Shop was made available and I
decided to stop my own program in order to design models of
warbirds, WW I fighters (we call them "old cuckoos" in France) and
othe pre-WW II planes. I am also an aeromodelist.
Regards,