Leaderboard

I made myself a set of working DVD backups in folder format yesterday and today. This set is going to Gypsy he's and old TUSA pilot, that I've known for years and took a much longer hiatus than I have from the game. He has Clod, but can't get 1946 to install on his Win 10 system from the Original disc. SOOO It took two disk for stock 4.12.2 and three disk with HSFX. He doesn't need the plain stock one, as we all know, but it would give him a fresh start anytime he needs one or to build any of the other arrangements out there besides HSFX.

I remember Taildrag. His wife was in a care home and the kids had moved away.....BG used to email him and he joined us a couple of times for UbiZoo coops. He was very well spoken and had old-school manners - called everyone Sir. It was pretty humbling to fly with him. Does anyone recall his full name? I'd like to read an obituary. I seem to remember he had quite an extraordinary story. He was interested in flying as a kid and got a job at a local field. In the course of this they taught him to fly. This was around 1940 -'41. Just after his eighteenth birthday he applied for pilot training but was rejected as he didn't have a college education. He became a Marine flight mechanic. Fast forward eighteenth months and .....where was he? Was it Saipan? I think it was Saipan. They'd been working their asses off, his unit had been taking losses and he was feeling pretty blue. One day he decided to take a Dauntless he'd serviced for an unofficial air test! He did a couple of circuits and then decided to land it and face the music. After all - what was the worst thing they could do to him? Send him off to war! What they did do - shortly after his interview with the CO - was send him to flight training school and he arrived back in the Pacific to see out the end of the war flying Corsairs. I hope he's with his wife now and may they rest in peace together.

RIP Mate, They don't make 'em like you any more...........

Nice thing to do Todd