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General Chat / Post a picture of yourself....

« on: July 17, 2008, 05:03:52 am »

taxiing onto runway 29 for departure at KHAO on monday for my lesson.....went well, nice and smooth....as of today, im up to 10.8 hours

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General Chat / IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

« on: July 17, 2008, 04:54:08 am »

one more year until you ARE out of the house, or one more year until you HOPE you are out of the house?

and congrats on friday

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General Chat / Show your colors - The Liveries Topic

« on: April 09, 2008, 05:20:14 am »

Quote from: "Leitner"

Quote from: "FWA2500"

Where you have found the blank plane?

the Falcon and Caravelle are off a french site and the DC-8-61 is from a russian blue-print site. the DC-8-50 i made by removing the sections of fuselage that were added when Douglas stretched the DC-8 and i made the CV880 from scratch based on a very accurate drawing.

and also, google image search is your friend

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General Chat / Show your colors - The Liveries Topic

« on: April 05, 2008, 05:28:09 am »

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**General Chat / What do you Name Your Planes?**

« on: February 29, 2008, 07:06:21 am »

mine all receive reg. #s based on aircraft type and which devision it is in. my long-haul fleet also gets names based on classic rock songs, but no names for the domestic and regional fleets

N###FB = mainline
N###FC = cargo (when ever that starts being active in the game)
N###FS = shuttle

example from my 1970's fleet:

N863FB Douglas DC-8-61 "Kashmir"

i like classic rock if you cant tell

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General Chat / New Round - You Airline

« on: February 25, 2008, 09:34:58 pm »

ill still be Freebird International Airlines (FBD)......

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General Chat / Big Jets

« on: January 29, 2008, 01:29:04 am »

tristar is by far my favorite widebody, but......i have to go with what is featured in my sig

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General Chat / x1 747 or x2 DC-8's

« on: January 18, 2008, 05:47:36 pm »

Quote from: "StephenM"

I hope you are comparing the Russian pre-glass cockpits with "Western" pre-glass cockpits? Because I'm sure flying a Trident would equally be as difficult as flying a TU-134.

And I am a fan of Russian craft too, they have character along with the more 1960s/70s British aircraft.

not to mention that you never get hot in the cockpit because there is ALWAYS one fan each for the pilot, co-pilot, navigator, radio operator and any other cockpit crew

gotta love russian planes, they do have a hell of alot of character....

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General Chat / Andy's 1970 sigs

« on: January 05, 2008, 09:15:41 am »

Quote from: "AndyC"

the ones I find on the web (and believe me I've looked all over!) are almost always inaccurate in one way or another.

no kidding....i have yet to find a decent one of Caravelle model....then there are also all those little variations between sub-versions of each model and such......im just not great doing everything from scratch, lol.....liveries and paint jobs, im fine, but if i dont have the print to work off, im screwed, haha

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General Chat / Andy's 1970 sigs

« on: January 04, 2008, 07:51:44 pm »

nice shading work

where do you get your blueprints? most of my sources have mostly cars with a few superb aero one on the side....

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General Chat / Everyone have a Santa's Sleigh?

« on: December 27, 2007, 10:58:17 pm »

mine was scrapped the instant i realised i coudnt do anything with it....

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General Chat / What year do you want the next round to be?

« on: December 22, 2007, 10:39:07 pm »

Quote from: "Seattle"

Modern day planes aren't all made by machine! They are designed on computers, by people who put all their soul into making the planes!

thats the thing, they are all designed and calculated out by computers, but penned out on paper, or a napkin while on lunch break.....there is no soul in the design any more, just technology....and for me, even being the tech geek that i am, that is not a good thing...

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