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Another Sim, I Really Eat My Words!

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Ok, many times I've sat in tearoom conversations at various places of work and harped on "Yeh, but sims and games will never be like the real thing", ok so now I am beginning to eat my words. Thank goodness I have a teenage son, otherwise I may have missed it.... Oh yes I want one!

rFactor : (M1 Turbo @ Norisring)

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I just randomly found this on You Tube. I know this is a sim and I am eating my words, but I really enjoyed sitting on the edge of my seat watching this. I had a go on a sim like this with a feedback wheel and the experience was so immersing and above all, FUN.

10 Clarinet Concerto K622 mozart & Out of Africa

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Gee Bee Z Engine Roar on Taxi Run

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The Aviatrix And The Auster

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Thank you Jerry Hughes Thank you Ray Barber Over 15 years ago I was introduced to Lisa. Very bright, tall and slim with sparkling curious eyes portraying a glimpse of something a little different. At the time, Lisa owned a share in a Jodel, a small late 50's tailwheel aircraft, flying from a small idyllic,colonial style farm strip on the Wiltshire and Gloucestershire border. Having spent that afternoon as Lisa's enthusiastic passenger, visiting midland airfields and welsh coastlines before cutting across the little wilderness off the Brecon Beacons. Flying at low levels only too suitable to dramatise the sudden vertigo prompting, dizzy drops of steep wind filled escarpments. Throughout all of this Lisa reveled in the challenges of navigation, crosswinds and fidgety aircraft handling. 15 years later and I am all the richer for having had the opportunity to be involved in many more flying adventures where in some form or another Lisa is involved. The list of aircraft flown and ow...

BSA C15 Faber Spl. Running At Last.

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Chain idle wheel from Nylon Some atmospheric photos, reflecting lots of late nights.... appropriate quote from a friend "It takes 5% of the time to do 95% of work and 95% of time to do the last 5% of work." How right he is. And it started... first kick.. but then I would say that! I did have a witness though. Sounds nice, with a nice ex pop as the throttle is rolled off. Next to a new project. More on that soon.

Bf 109 pilot Franz Stigler and B-17 pilot Charlie Brown's first meeting

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DISS Delage Progress

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Adventures of the Piper Cub, Landing on small pond

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DAVE HOUGHTON ELVINGTON

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