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Apr 16^th, 2011 at 5:38pm

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Just a few shots I took using a freeware Tiger Moth I found. It's outstanding, and very detailed in my honest opinion. Enjoy!

Just giving myself a tour

Banking, turning to the heading of the city of Honolulu.

Toying around, attempting to see how much the Moth can take Wink

I need to pick up a pair of goggles down at the shop.. Eyes are watering like there's no tomorrow Grin

-Jake

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Reply #1 - Apr 16^th, 2011 at 6:25pm

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Love #1! You have a very unique style to your shots, with a slight blueish tint... I love them... Great work, keep it up. Wink

I went outside once. The graphics weren't all that great.

Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.

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Reply #2 - Apr 16^th, 2011 at 8:21pm

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Strawberry Yogurt wrote on Apr 16^th, 2011 at 6:25pm:

Love #1! You have a very unique style to your shots, with a slight blueish tint... I love them... Great work, keep it up. Wink

Thank you very, very much

-Jake

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Reply #3 - Apr 16^th, 2011 at 8:48pm

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Blue!!!!!!
Very cool, I also like the first one Cool

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #4 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 4:06am

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Ditto.

But there is something strange about the last one. I can see it better with my glasses off. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #5 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 7:22am

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Awesome shots Jake...well done...

Many World War One Aviators and Aces flew with just the goggles and not the entire leather flying helmet so they could feel the wind in their hair.

When I go flying in a biplane like the Great Lakes or Stearman I seldom use a leather flying helmet, just goggles a white silk scarf and a whisky flask... Wink

I am the passenger or observer of course... Wink

http://www.highlandstore.com/acatalog/Whisky_Flasks.html

I have several black and brown flying helmets with goggles out at the old homestead...our sons use them sometimes.
It looks rather odd getting out of a Cessna 172 or 185 with them on... Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #6 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 11:21am

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Odd but cool Doug! Cool

Very nice set Jake!

FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II

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Reply #7 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 9:11pm

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CHUCK79 wrote on Apr 16^th, 2011 at 8:48pm:

Blue!!!!!!
Very cool, I also like the first one Cool

Thanks Chuck! Much appreciated

-Jake

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Reply #8 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 9:11pm

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patchz wrote on Apr 17^th, 2011 at 4:06am:

Ditto.

But there is something strange about the last one. I can see it better with my glasses off. Roll Eyes

Thanks Larry. haha Grin

-Jake

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Reply #9 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 9:14pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Apr 17^th, 2011 at 7:22am:

Awesome shots Jake...well done...

Many World War One Aviators and Aces flew with just the goggles and not the entire leather flying helmet so they could feel the wind in their hair.

When I go flying in a biplane like the Great Lakes or Stearman I seldom use a leather flying helmet, just goggles a white silk scarf and a whisky flask... Wink

I am the passenger or observer of course... Wink

http://www.highlandstore.com/acatalog/Whisky_Flasks.html

I have several black and brown flying helmets with goggles out at the old homestead...our sons use them sometimes.
It looks rather odd getting out of a Cessna 172 or 185 with them on... Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Thank you very much Doug. I've flown in a Bi-plane before, but never in something like this, just a modern day Pitts. It was pretty intense, but had canopies(obviously). I can't imagine how neat it must be to fly in something like a stearman, with just a pair of goggles and the wind blowin' through your hair

-Jake

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Reply #10 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 9:15pm

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Skunkworks wrote on Apr 17^th, 2011 at 11:21am:

Odd but cool Doug! Cool

Very nice set Jake!

Thanks for the compliment Greg, if I may call you by your first name sir

-Jake

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Reply #11 - Apr 17^th, 2011 at 11:35pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Apr 17^th, 2011 at 7:22am:

Awesome shots Jake...well done...

Many World War One Aviators and Aces flew with just the goggles and not the entire leather flying helmet so they could feel the wind in their hair.

When I go flying in a biplane like the Great Lakes or Stearman I seldom use a leather flying helmet, just goggles a white silk scarf and a whisky flask... Wink

I am the passenger or observer of course... Wink

http://www.highlandstore.com/acatalog/Whisky_Flasks.html

I have several black and brown flying helmets with goggles out at the old homestead...our sons use them sometimes.
It looks rather odd getting out of a Cessna 172 or 185 with them on... Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Here's mine Doug. JD Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #12 - Apr 18^th, 2011 at 2:18am

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Jake Bourdon wrote on Apr 17^th, 2011 at 9:15pm:

Skunkworks wrote on Apr 17^th, 2011 at 11:21am:

Odd but cool Doug! Cool

Very nice set Jake!

Thanks for the compliment Greg, if I may call you by your first name sir

-Jake

Well of course Jake, we're all friends here

FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II

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Reply #13 - Apr 18^th, 2011 at 10:29am

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Good morning all...

Larry you old devil you... Grin

Of course you only take it to Church meetings... Grin

Jake I learned to fly on the De Havilland Tiger Moth and an old Curtiss/DeHavilland DH-4 Jenny...every wood, fabric and piano wire braced biplane sings a sweet song when they are trimmed.
It took awhile...a few smacks to the back of the head by dad, grandfather or one of my older brothers but I soon learned to tell by the sound of the flying wires if I was flying her properly.

The best way to learn to fly is by getting your head outside the cockpit, in other words stop staring at the instruments and listen to the wind outside and watch the horizon...you can even do that in a Cessna Thrifty 150... Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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