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WP 5 - Springfield - airline_seat_recline_extraMiGMan’s World Tour
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- location_cityWashington D.C.
- flight_takeoffDulles KIAD
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WP 3 - Capitol Building
WP 4 - National Harbour. Turn right and follow the Capital Beltway
WP 5 - Springfield - airline_seat_recline_extraMiGMan’s World Tour
- USA
- location_cityWashington D.C.
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WP 1 - Vienna
WP 2 - Lincoln Memorial | Washington Monument | Whitehouse (on the left)
WP 3 - Capitol Building
WP 4 - National Harbour. Turn right and follow the Capital Beltway
WP 5 - Springfield - airline_seat_recline_extraMiGMan’s World Tour
- USA
- location_cityWashington D.C.
- flight_takeoffDulles KIAD
- import_contacts 2021 edit 2021-08-07
- 15 minutes of FUN in the USA | Gallery
- airline_seat_recline_extraMiGMan’s World Tour
- USA
- location_cityWashington D.C.
- flight_takeoffDulles KIAD
- import_contacts 2021 edit 2021-08-07
- Episode 1: Florida | Gallery
- airline_seat_recline_extraMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2020
- USA
- location_cityFlorida
- flight_takeoffNAS Key West KNQX
- local_airportAermacchi MB-339
- personBruce Irving | MiGMan
- tagMiGMan’s PodcastMultiplayer
- import_contacts 2020 edit 2021-03-22
- NAS Key West, multiplayer training missions.
- content_pasteSnaps from our training missions at NAS Key West. Great weather, great scenery!
- airline_seat_recline_extraMiGMan’s World Tour
- USA
- location_cityFlorida
- flight_takeoffNAS Key West KNQX
- local_airportAermacchi MB-339
- personMiGMan | Bruce Irving
- tagTrainingMultiplayer
- import_contacts 2021 edit 2021-07-13
- Great State of Maine Air Show 1997
- content_pasteThe Great State of Maine Air Show 1997 was held on July 19th and 20th at Brunswick Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine, USA. It was a great day for an air show, with blue skies and plenty of warm sunshine.
- USA
- flight_takeoffBrunswick NAS KNHZ
- personBruce Irving
- tagAirshow
- import_contacts 1997
- Can I learn to fly in a flight sim?
- content_pasteYes, and also no. Follow the entertaining journey of FlyingSinger as he gets his PPL, with the aid of some flight sims!
- airline_seat_recline_extraFLY
- USA
- location_cityWorcester
- flight_takeoffWorcester Regional KORH
- personBruce Irving
- tagTrainingBeginnerCivil
- import_contacts 2000 edit 2021-03-15
- Gerald Astor: The Mighty Eighth | The air war in Europe as told by the men who fought it
- content_pasteA wonderful oral history based on hundreds of interviews with WW2 airmen. A good companion to to B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty Eighth and a great read
- USA
- local_airportBoeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- personGerald Astor | Bruce Irving
- tagWorld War II
- Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud
- content_pasteI recommend this book to anyone who wants a detailed treatment (626 pages!) of the air war in the Pacific.
- USA
- location_cityPacific Theatre WWII
- personEric M. Bergerud | Bruce Irving
- tagCarrierWorld War II
- Clash of Wings - World War II in the Air by Walter J. Boyne
- content_pasteFairly detailed overview of the entire air war from the 1939 Blitzkrieg in Poland to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
- USA
- location_cityEuropean Theatre WWII
- military_techUSAF
- personWalter J. Boyne | Bruce Irving
- tagEuropean Theatre WWII
- Flight of the Old Dog
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- local_airportBoeing B-52 Stratofortress
- personDale Brown
- tagBomber
- import_contacts 2002
- Night of the Hawk
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- local_airportBoeing B-52 Stratofortress
- personDale Brown
- tagBomber
- import_contacts 2002
- Fatal Terrain
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- local_airportBoeing B-52 Stratofortress
- personDale Brown
- tagBomber
- import_contacts 2002
- Battle Born
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Chains of Command
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- tagAir to Air
- import_contacts 2002
- Day of the Cheetah
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Dreamland
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Hammerheads
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Storming Heaven
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Silver Tower
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Skymasters
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Shadows of Steel
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Warrior Class
- USA
- personDale Brown
- import_contacts 2002
- Carrier: A Guided Tour of an Aircraft Carrier by Tom Clancy (1999)
- content_pasteIn typically Clancy fashion, Carrier is full of details on every aspect of aircraft carriers, from the process of building one, to the organization of the battle group (CVBG) to the aircraft and weapons themselves.
- USA
- personTom Clancy | Bruce Irving
- tagCarrier
- charl
- content_pasteCharles H. Cook flew a B-24D named "Cookie" with the 90th Bombardment Group in the southwest Pacific in 1942-1943. At that time, Allied forces were greatly outnumbered, and Japanese invasion of New Guinea and Australia was a very real threat. Bruce Irving has interviewed Charlie Cook and composed this valuable record of his aviation career. The entire article is also available for free download.
- USA
- local_airportConsolidated B-24 Liberator
- personLt. Charles Cook | Bruce Irving
- tagWorld War IIHistoryPilotPacific Theatre WWII
- B-24 Liberator Units of the Fifteenth Air Force by Robert F. Dorr and Mark Rolfe
- content_pasteThe B-24 was heavily utilized in the North African and Mediterranean theaters by the USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force, with operations over the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania being some of the most famous missions undertaken by the big American 'heavy' in World War II.
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- local_airportConsolidated B-24 Liberator
- personRobert Dorr | Bruce Irving
- tagHistory
- The Wright Brothers: How they invented the airplane
- content_pasteWhat impresses me about the Wrights is the combination of inventiveness and persistence that they applied to solving the problems of powered flight. They were pioneers in wind tunnel testing, flight control design, and many other challenging disciplines. They also taught themselves to fly, of course, and then became the first flight instructors. They were too stubborn to give up!
- USA
- local_airportWright Brothers Wright Flyer
- personRussell Freedman | Bruce Irving
- tagEngineerHistoryHardware: Historic
- GABBY: A Fighter Pilot’s Life by Francis Gabreski and Carl Molesworth
- content_pasteThis is one of the best accounts of a flying career that I have ever read. A wonderful book by a true hero.
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personFrances Gabrewski | Bruce Irving
- tagFighterAceWorld War II
- Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilot by Robert Gandt
- content_pasteGandt (a former A-6 pilot) follows one class of advanced jet students as they learn the intricacies of flying and fighting in the F/A-18 Hornet. Good stuff.
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- local_airportMcDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
- personRobert Gandt | Bruce Irving
- tagACMTraining
- About Face by David Hackworth
- content_pasteAction packed from start to finish, this account of a turbulent career describes his battles both with the recognised enemy, and the system he was part of.
- USA
- personDavid H. Hackworth
- tagHistory
- F-22 in the subway
- USA
- local_airportLockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
- personBruce Irving
- tagArt: Press
- Hawaii Canyon Adventure
- content_pasteI just tried flying into and out of that same canyon in MSFS2020 in a couple of different planes. It's really cool and the lighting effects are amazing.
- airline_seat_recline_extraMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2020
- USA
- location_cityHawaii
- personBruce Irving
- tagReview
- import_contacts 2020 edit 2020-09-13
- Flight with Peter MiGMan Inglis, Sept 14th, 2009
- USA
- location_cityWorcester
- flight_takeoffFitchburg Municipal KFIT
- precision_manufacturingDell
- personBruce Irving
- tagReviewCivil
- import_contacts 2009 edit 2020-09-18
- Simulated Flight of Passage?
- airline_seat_recline_extraMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2020
- USA
- personBruce Irving
- tagVFR
- import_contacts 2020 edit 2020-09-22
- Gliders in Sterling, October 2007
- content_pasteI joined a glider day at Sterling with WAPA in fall 2007 (Worcester Area Pilots Association) and that I had taken a ton of pictures that day, on the ground and in the air.
- USA
- personBruce Irving
- tagIRL: In real life
- import_contacts 2020 edit 2020-09-24
- Flight of Passage movie (not quite) and MSFS Test Flight
- content_pasteI found a 2015 journal entry where I wrote about a planned movie of Flight of Passage. | This morning I decided to do some testing of the VFR Flight of Passage re-creation idea in MSFS using the Savage Cub.
- airline_seat_recline_extraMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2020
- USA
- personBruce Irving | Rinker Buck
- tagVFRPilot notes
- import_contacts 2020 edit 2020-09-28
- Air Force One NOTAMS
- content_pasteI still get these notices when Trump is taking one of his frequent golfing weekends in Bedminster, NJ. It doesn’t affect my sim flying though.
- USA
- personBruce Irving
- tagNOTAMPilot notesNavigation
- import_contacts 2020 edit 2020-10-01
- Boston! It’s perfect!
- content_pasteBoston! It’s perfect! And check those frame rates!
- airline_seat_recline_extraMicrosoft Flight Simulator 2020
- USA
- personBruce Irving
- tagScenery
- import_contacts 2020 edit 2020-10-03
- Black Rain for Christmas by Scott Malensek
- content_paste"An American spyplane mission goes awry, and a U.S. Marine pilot goes down. Once again, the United States finds itself stumbling into a war with China and North Korea. To make matters worse, the enemy has complete access to the new American MILNET communications network... "
- USA
- personScott Malensek
- tagFiction
- New England Air Museum: Image gallery. 2006
- USA
- precision_manufacturingNew England Air Museum
- personBruce Irving | MiGMan
- tagMuseumField Trip
- import_contacts 2006 edit 2021-06-06
- China Sea by David Poyer
- content_paste"Poyer's sixth novel about U.S. Navy surface warfare puts series protagonist Dan Lenson in command for the first time. "
- USA
- personDavid Poyer | David Poyer
- tagNavy
- The Passage by David Poyer
- content_paste""This fourth of Poyer's excellent Dan Lenson novels deals, not unexpectedly, with the naval officer hero's experience aboard a Spruance-class destroyer in the Caribbean. "
- USA
- personDavid Poyer | David Poyer
- tagNavy
- Tomahawk by David Poyer
- content_paste"In the mid-1980s, Poyer's continuing protagonist, navy officer Dan Lenson, is a lieutenant commander holding a vital Pentagon position in the trouble-plagued development of the Tomahawk cruise missile. "
- USA
- personDavid Poyer | David Poyer
- tagNavy
- Aircraft Carrier! (VHS)
- USA
- flight_takeoffUSS Independence CV-62
- personBruce Irving
- GITCORP Digital Comic Collections
- content_pastehe standard GITCORP collections contain over 500 issues each. That works out at less than $ 0.10 per issue. This is the only way that these collections are affordable to the average consumer. 10c is about the right price point for collectd e-pubs in my opinion.
- USA
- tagFiction
- Vipers in the Storm by Keith Rosenkranz
- content_pasteIf you fly Falcon 4.0 or other F-16 sims, this book is recommended reading - it can help you to learn real F-16 tactics (it's THAT detailed - avionics and weapon information, altitudes, air speeds - but it's not purely a combat diary, it is also not a bad read).
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- local_airportGeneral Dynamics F-16 Falcon
- personKeith Rosenkranz | Bruce Irving
- Wacky Wally donated these sims to the Flight Sim Museum in 2008
- content_pasteWacky Wally, a.k.a. Bob Schroeder of Florida USA, on assignment with coalition troops in Baghdad, IRAQ made a generous donation of Microsoft Flight Sims and add-ons to the Flight Sim Museum in January 2008.
- USA
- location_cityFlorida
- personBob "Wacky Wally" Schroeder
- tagContributorCollection
- import_contacts 2008 edit 2021-06-02
- Wack Wally's object lesson in packing flight sims for shipping
- content_pasteOne box, well taped up and ready for posting.
- USA
- location_cityFlorida
- personBob "Wacky Wally" Schroeder
- tagContributor
- import_contacts 2008 edit 2021-06-02
- Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering by Robert L. Shaw
- content_pasteIt's the real thing, over 400 pages of analysis of the fundamentals of Air Combat, illustrated with examples from history.
- USA
- personRobert L. Shaw | Bruce Irving
- tagTrainingACMAceAir to Air
- Daughter of the Air: The Brief, Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort by Rob Simbeck
- content_pasteIt succeeds as a flying book, as a biography of a woman who was ahead of her time, and as a fascinating slice of pre-war and war-era American life.
- USA
- personRob Simbeck | Bruce Irving
- tagPilotWorld War IIBiography
- Warthog and Strike Eagle by William L. Smallwood
- content_pasteSubtitled "Flying the A-10 (and F-15E) in the Gulf War", these books are based on many interviews with the pilots. They present a detailed picture of what it was like to fly these airplanes in combat over Kuwait and Iraq. Many of the missions are described in great detail - wonderful stuff for sim pilots and other air combat aficionados.
- USA
- local_airportFairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt/Warthog
- personWilliam L. Smallwood | Bruce Irving
- tagPilot
- Allied Fighter Aces: The Air Combat Tactics and Techniques of World War 2
- content_pasteSpick presents analyses of aerial kills including movement diagrams for the encounters.
- USA
- personMike Spick
- tagWorld War IIPilotHistoryAce
- The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets
- content_pasteFrom insects to 747's it's all the same simple rules.
- USA
- personHenk Tennekes | Bruce Irving
- tagPhysicsNon Fiction
- Hellcats
- content_pasteA WWII novel.
- USA
- personBarrett Tillman
- tagWorld War IIFiction
- Douglas TBD Devastator
- content_pasteThe first monoplane aircraft ordered by the US Navy for carrier operations.
- USA
- personBarrett Tillman
- tagWorld War IICarrierNavy
- Skyfaring: a Journey with a Pilot
- content_pasteThis is a fantastic book I read in 2015. Mark is an American who ended up flying 747’s for British Airways (now 777). He’s also an excellent writer.
- USA
- personMark Vanhoenacker | Bruce Irving
- tagPilotPilot notes
- edit 2020-09-19
- Primary Target
- content_pasteDecember 1999. As the once powerful former Soviet Union descends into social and economic collapse, a group of hard-line Communists has devised a strategy to return their country to it's former glory. In league with the most ruthless militant extremists of the Middle East, they will hatch a plot to eliminate the one person with the power to stop them -- the president of the United States.
- USA
- personJoe Weber
- tagFictionBiography
- Defcon One
- content_paste1990 - A Cold War thriller
- USA
- personJoe Weber
- tagFiction
- Rules of Engagement
- USA
- personJoe Weber
- tagFiction
- Honourable Enemies
- content_paste1994 - Terrorists vs. the CIA.
- USA
- personJoe Weber
- tagFiction
- Shadow Flight
- content_pasteHijacking of a B-2B Stealth Bomber!
- USA
- local_airportNorthrop B-2 Spirit
- personJoe Weber
- tagFiction
- Scream of Eagles: The Dramatic Account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun Fighter Pilots: How They Took Back the Skies
- content_pasteThis book was recommended to me by Antonin from Canada, who said: "It is an awesome book on the Vietnam air war and the creation of Top Gun. If you have not read it and you like incredible descriptions of the air battle in F4's, this book is a must."
- USA
- personRobert K. Wilcox
- tagTrainingAir to Air
- The Right Stuff (book)
- content_pasteTom Woolfe's book drew liberally from the life story of Chuck Yeager. It dramatises the journey from Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in "Glamorous Glennis" to manned space flight in the Mercury programme.
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- precision_manufacturingNASA
- personTom Wolfe | Chuck Yeager Test PilotSpaceAce
- The Right Stuff (film)
- content_pasteTom Woolfe's book drew liberally from the life story of Chuck Yeager. It dramatises the journey from Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier in "Glamorous Glennis" to manned space flight in the Mercury programme.
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- precision_manufacturingNASA
- personTom Wolfe | Chuck Yeager Test PilotSpaceAce
- Yeager
- content_pasteDescribing the adventure filled life of probably the best known fighter Ace and test pilot, this book delivers "The Right Stuff"!
- USA
- military_techUSAF
- personChuck Yeager | Chuck Yeager
- tagTest PilotAceWorld War IIVietnam War
- NAS Key West, Florida, USA
- USA
- location_cityFlorida
- flight_takeoffNAS Key West KNQX
- local_airportAermacchi MB-339
- import_contacts 2021 edit 2021-07-12
- airline_seat_recline_extraGrand Canyon
- USA
- tagExhibitCivilScenery