found this on the internet.

[Steve M]

360 view. Steady frame rates, No BSOD and no jagged edges. Scenery could use a bit of work though.

[Fozzer]

...and we still won the war!...... .... ....!

Paul.... ... ... ...!

[ftldave]

I bet those young flight simmers built it themselves, too. Thanks for the great old pic!

[Steve M]

I kind of question the date. The hair styles and the white shoes look more like early 50's, I wish I had a cleaner photo that shows those pens in our chum on the lefts shirt pocket. Does anyone know if white shoes were the in thing in 1942? Never the less, 40's or 50's we had to use Imagination 2.0 quite often.

[ozzy72]

They're got something a bit like this at the RAF Museum in Hendon, in the kids section. Emi was teaching David how to use it last time we were up there. She's got the makings of a good pilot... David meanwhile has the makings of a good cook. I'm so proud of them both

[Steve M]

Man I wish I would have had a rugrat or two. Kids do the darndest things.
And as a sidenote about these kids, I am Certain that the 2nd chum from the left is the sound man. Pursing his lips and making airplaney sounds.

[Flying Trucker]

Good morning Steve...

All white shoes date back well before the 50s.

Here is a Link that has some info in it...

http://www.chronicallyvintage.com/2013/ ... shoes.html

Taken from the above Link:

While bucks are most commonly associated with the 1950s, they sprang onto the scene earlier on in the century (for example, they appear above in this Regal shoe ad from the forties, complete with classic red rubber soles) and quickly grew to be associated with another (at least on the surface) clean-cut segment of the population: preppies (some of whom they remain a hit with to this day) and by extension, well-to-do college students.


Now Saddle Shoes were quite popular also...

http://vintagedancer.com/1920s/saddle-shoes-history/

Many of the worlds navies wore all white dress shoes also.

There seems to be a come back on Saddle Shoes right now.

The pens look large enough to be fountain pens...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_pen

Looking at the haircuts and shirt style I would say 40s or 50s.

The model aircraft on the top of the flight simulator reminds me of a Hawker Hurricane somewhat...placing the time around the 40s.

Just my thoughts...

[Steve M]

Thanks for the reply and the info Doug. I do remember the fountain pens, I used them in early school years. They were notorious for leaking and staining shirts and fingers. The pens I was using had an ink cartridge as opposed to the older ones which drew ink from a bottle.

[OldAirmail]

As some of you may know, I've just replaced a crashed computer. Actually, at the moment I'm scraping up the old data from my last system.

Anyway... This is my new flight sim project to date.


I REALLY like lots of buttons and switches, it makes it more realistic!

[Flacke]

That shows just how lucky we are. We live in an age of superb desktop low-cost computer Flight-Sims that give us the whole world and allow us to fly on IFR flight-plans with ATC services.We can fly coupled approachs and do just about anything else a real airplane can do. We can fly SailPlanes and we can practice Aerobatics in the aircraft of our choice.
And just think, ITS STILL GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. In next-generation Flight-Sims we may be thrown from our Simulator-Seat in a hard landing and injured and bruised and all that fun stuff, just like real life. But, I hope there is a button that will DISABLE that feature!

[Flying Trucker]

Good evening all...

I am with you on that one OldAirmail...the more buttons the better...

Flacke in most Motion Simulators there is a Red Button, in the Herc Sim it is too the right of the pilots seat which will settle the out of control motion simulator down and place it in the start position.

When the first motion simulators came out the picture that OldAirmail is showing is about only half of the computers which were in a separate room near the motion simulator.

Now a computer smaller than a Lap Top controls most modern motion simulators.

In another year from now Pilots/Aviators won't be required...the computer will take the aircraft into the air and bring it back.

The only thing in the cockpit will be a mechanic or parts replacer and a dog.

The parts replacers job will be to feed the dog...
And
The dogs job will be to bite the parts replacer if he/she touches anything...



Steve when I was going to school and yes it was a one room school house with an outhouse and well.

We used Ink Wells, Blotter and Nib Pens along with Pencils and Chalk.

The only computer was called a Slide Rule or if I got into Dad's or Grandfathers Flight Bag I could find an E6B of some sort...

http://www.pilotmall.com/category/flight-computers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dip_pen

I was never like Fozzer, Hagar or Mark...I would never think of dipping the girls pony tail who sat in front of me in the Ink Well....

[Flacke]

Hello FT, years ago I flew the LearJet Model 25 Simulator at Flight-Safety in Tucson Ariz. We had a bigshot Air Standards Inspector on board to "observe" my flights and I was very pleased that no one had to press the Freeze/Reset button and the Simulator never had to Reset itself at any time. My skills in the LearJet are/were nowhere near perfect but the LearJet is quite forgiving as long as you don't do anything really "out of scope" during a flight. It will allow you to be rusty but it just won't allow you to be incompetent. The sim was so near-perfect that it made me mentally convinced that I was actually flying the Lear 25 that we flew down there in.........the perspiration was proof that I was really into it!