bushp04

Good read! I enjoyed. You overflew parts of what used to be in my sales district, so that's what first caught my eye.

Thanks for the post.

bushp04

Does time even exist for a blog? Ha! Great posts, both, Luis and Mike.

On a trip to visit my grandparents in the early 50's, our American DC-6 had engine trouble and landed at Washington. I'll never forget the unplanned deplaning, and the professionalism with which the American crew handed over their passengers over to a Capitol Airways crew. We boarded their Viscount for a short night flight the rest of the way to Philadelphia. The Viscount cabin was so different! The crew was great, and we enjoyed a smooth, quiet ride!

Thanks for the posts El Kapitan and Mike!:)

Hi,

Yeah, I've been out of the sky for a while until I got everything straightened out on this PC of mine.

Sorry if I misled you on the Skyhawk. I was talking about RazBam's military model A4-C.

Hard as heck to fly, too, at least with Kazunori Ito's flight dynamics. Worst part is the tri-wheel config. They're so close together that it's impossible to taxi.

I have a very good friend who flew these off the USS Hancock in the early-to-mid 50's, and he's told me the carrier landings were nightmares! He also 'splained why the difficulty in taxiing--Douglas Aircraft built it with extra high landing gear so as to accommodate an Atomic bomb--no B.S.! Although they never had to to carry one into combat, the high-and-tight gear config. made the plane easy to tip over in cornering.

Only wanted the plane for a repaint anyway. I wanted to honor my friend's service of many years by painting a "Scooter" as the Skyhawk's were called, in the colors and insignia of his fighter group VA-113. However, Ito's freeware model is an A4-M, a much later model than the one my friend flew, thus the reason for my looking around for payware.

BTW, my friend led a precision team of A4-C's known as the "Stingers," and you might find it interesting to know that one of his wing men at the time was Gene Cernan, the last man ever to walk on the moon!

I ended up repainting (with permission) Ito's A4-M, and my friend was very happy with it, but I would still like to upload a repainted A4-c to flight.sim.com.

Best regards,

bushp04

Great looking aircraft. I don't know what the payware peeps do to make their textures look that way, but whatever it is, it beats the heck out of most freeware ones. I wonder about frame rates. Maybe I'll crawl out from under my rock and sample. I wanted to start with Razbam's A4C Skyhawk before I saw this!

Have a good one.