It's a Norseman.

I have a repaint of Joe's Norseman for fs2004 that works in fsx. I think I downloaded it from flightsim.com.

I love the radial... It would make other planes cry... I was taxing behind one in my friends plane, and it misfired and it sounded like an up close gunshot

Hi BlackAce...

Thanks for the comment...

I sat BEHIND AND BETWEEN large radials for most of my flying career...

Yes they do have a sound all their own.

Before I was married and going to university the summers were spent flying C180s and Norseman on floats with out any radios.
Department of Transport now Transport Canada soon put an end to that...thank goodness...

I took up smoking cigars (5 to a pack) and one cigar would last all day. 
That killed the smell of fish...still hate that odour...

Draft Beer was something like eight to ten cents a glass and we sat in mens rooms with long rows of wooden tables and chairs during the evening.
Waiters waited on an entire row of tables carrying trays of glass beer.
Women were only allowed in the Ladies and Escorts rooms.

Most of us were either Swampers, Miners or the odd group of Lumber Jacks (who usually had their own camp).

At the end of the long hot summers of Swamping (Float Flying) I would return home broke...dad and grandpa would just laugh.

Yes the old radials hold some fond memories, bloody noses, swollen lips (still have all my own teeth) sore and cut knuckles from bar fights and the thought of eating sow belly with beans day in and day out...

Flying Trucker wrote on Jan 30^th, 2012 at 9:42pm:


Ah yes, but you were richer in spirit... or something like that.   
Some pilots would pay to spend a summer doing that kind of flying, sow bellies and all! 

Good old Norseman... aka "the other one"... 

Flying Trucker wrote on Jan 30^th, 2012 at 9:47pm:



I do remember working out of town and coming back without two pennies to rub together. I came to Canada about 5 years before the old Hotels began changing so I got to sit in quite a few. In Ontario you couldn't buy a drink on Sundays and quite a few hotels were required to close between 5 and 7pm to force the men to go home for supper. (I suppose). What really happened was we just went to the bootleggers and bought it anyway.  All of the old Hotels in my town are gone now, or renovated into shops and condos.

Flying Trucker wrote on Jan 31^st, 2012 at 9:14pm:



It was a different time, when rules were made for women and children, and then they got wise to us. So many deep discussions came from those tables, so many dreams and promises, business deals and friendships. When a man got home his wife was sure to set him straight.  Sorry, I got off topic. Again.    

What a beautiful plane. I built a balsa remote control Nordyn Norseman, although I had to sell it a while later 

I would really like to get another one, because... Look at that girl! She'll give ya a ride of a lifetime!