FlexibleFlier

Like almost all aircraft of that era she is a "tail dragger." She flies nose down because they wanted to give the pilot a more level view for landing. This was accomplished by setting the angle of incidence of the wing, which then flew level (after all, it is the wing that keeps the darn thing up), resulting in the nose being lower in flight. Interesting idea that never caught on, and eventually tricycle gear solved the problem.

Hey, Top Gun, Nice flight...brings back memories. I graduated High School in 1959 (so we're both "old farts") with my Private Pilot License in my pocket. Got my Commercial, etc. a few years later and managed a copilot flight in a DC-3 in 1963; I even got a couple of hours stick time, but no takeoff or landing :(. Wound up with a full 47-year professional career, including 5K hours helicopter. What a life. :pilot:

Try A2A for payware. I think I still have their FS9 version somewhere in my library. They also had a nice package of fighters: P-47, P-51, Zero and ???

This is great news! Back in the day - wa-a-a-y back ('62) - I took my Commercial training in 140's at a flight school in Ardmore, OK. We were all so young and cocky, and did fun things like drag the runway with only the tail wheel on the ground. Did my long x-ctry Ardmore to Waco, TX, during which the left leading edge screws came loose and I made a not very "emergency" landing at Dallas Love Field. A good mechanic with the right tools and I was on my way in less than half an hour. I actually finished the run with the return to ADM ahead of the "partner" who left at the same time: for some reason he liked to be low-level - claimed he could match the route to the chart flight plan better - but I liked 6500 feet and got good winds. That area is known as Tornado Alley (see the recent Texas flooding for proof) and we arrived at home base only about 40 minutes of a beauty. Good day all around: long solo flight, mechanical problem solved, good flight planning and beat the bad weather. Nothing quite like being 21, 10 feet tall and bullet proof, eh?