YSSY Kingsford Smith Airport

  • Botany Bay

  • Botany Bay is where Captain James Cook first stepped ashore from HMS Endeavour on April 29th 1770. Initially thinking this to be a suitable site for the 1st settlement, he changed his mind upon sailing 10 miles north to the mouth of what became Sydney Harbour.
  • airline_seat_recline_extraAustralia 1
  • Australia  Australia
  • location_cityN.S.W. | Sydney & Surrounds
  • flight_takeoffYSSY Kingsford Smith
  • 2022  edited: 15-12-2022
  • Sydney at night in a Vought Corsair

  • Breaking every rule in the book I fly under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, through a football stadium, and frighten the diners 60 floors up in Centrepoint Tower's revolving restaurant! Oh, and it's at night in a Vought Corsair, which Microsoft thoughtfully provided for us in every copy of Flight Sim 2004.
    And then I land at Sydney International Airport... probably in the wrong direction...
  • airline_seat_recline_extraMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2004
  • Australia  Australia
  • flight_takeoffYSSY Kingsford Smith
  • local_airportGrumman F4U Corsair
  • precision_manufacturingMicrosoft
  • tagSimulatedMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2004  
  • Douglas DC-3 flight over Sydney, Australia, 2006

  • On an unusually grey Sydney afternoon in October 2006 MiGMan was a guest of Microsoft at the launch of their new flagship product - Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
    The creme-de-la-creme of Australia's gaming journalists gathered at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, and embarked on a champagne flight over Sydney Harbour in a C-47, the military transport version of the Douglas DC-3.
  • Australia  Australia
  • location_citySydney
  • flight_takeoffYSSY Kingsford Smith
  • local_airportDouglas DC-3
  • precision_manufacturingMicrosoft
  • personMiGMan
  • tagIRLMiGMan’s Combat Diary
  • 2006  
  • First Australian Flight Sim Expo 2004

  • MiGMan was keynote speaker at Australia's first ever Flight Sim Expo, held in the old Ansett terminal at Kingsford Smith International Airport, Sydney.
  • Australia  Australia
  • flight_takeoffYSSY Kingsford Smith
  • precision_manufacturingMiGMans Flight Sim Museum
  • personMiGMan
  • tagPress
  • 2004  edited: 01-01-2004
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