Keith publishes RETROGAMER, a printed fanzine published in Liverpool, UK which is dedicated to classic video games. Keith also wrote the monthly retro page in professional UK magazine Computer and Video Games through 1998. He has appeared on BBC television talking about the coin-op Space Invaders and the phenomenon of Pac-Man.
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/| R.I.P. 2019 |\ Founder of AVSIM, one of the oldest and most popular communities for flight sim fans.
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Programmer of Flight Simulator, which kicked off the world's longest running flight simulator dynasty.
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Author of what is possibly the most amazing utility ever seen for flight sim fans: Little Navmap.
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His first four books present stories based around flying the F-4 Phantom during the Vietnam conflict, a subject to which he obviously brings a wealth of personal experience.
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Photographer and author.
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Royal Navy veteran & F4 Phantom pilot
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The creator of the Naval Warfare simulation Harpoon. He applies the meticulous mind of a wargamer to writing and his books abound in credible and detailed encounters on land, sea and of course in the air. Lary Bond co-authored Red Storm Rising with Tom Clancy.
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Gregory "Pappy" Boyington is a legend of World War 2 aviation. He personally shot down 28 Japanese planes and won the Congressional Medal of Honour and the Navy Cross.
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Phil Broad is a World War 2 aviation enthusiast who has a good collection online of his Mosquito snaps. He also runs a Warbirds Squadron so check it out if you are interested in flying a more up-to-date simulation of the Mosquito.
Dale Brown is a former USAF captain who logged thousands of hours aboard B-52 and FB-111's. His novels contain detailed and entertaining recreations of cockpit procedures in the context of gripping aerial action!
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Usually credited as being the author who created the "techno - thriller" genre. He certainly played a major part in it's development by taking traditional "thriller-espionage" genre and added much more technical accuracy and procedural information.
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Lt. Charles 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 here. | Charles H. Cook passed away on on Saturday January 20th, 2007. He is missed by his friends and family.
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Sérgio has been a flight simulation enthusiast for nearly 25 years. His passion with helicopters developed during MSFS 2000 when he discovered the complexity of these aircraft and the challenge it was to control them. Since then he has been primarily a helicopter flight simmer, trying his best not to crash and kill all his virtual passengers. Sérgio is HeliSimmer's editor and writer and one of the Three Grumpy Simmers, a YouTube series and Podcast produced together with YouTubers Bel Geode and NovaWing24, obviously dedicated to flight simulation.
A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he spent 14 years on active duty with the US Army ranging from Tank Platoon leader to operations officer in Korea.
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Dan Crenshaw, prolific flight sim journalist at www.simq.com, made a generous donation of classic flight sims to the Flight Sim Museum Collection at Christmas 2001. Thank you Dan!
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Commercial work for Just Flight, Lago and Abacus, including 'Battle of Britain Memorial Flight'.
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"I have a passion for 3D Game Development and creating compelling user experiences. I love learning new things and I enjoy finding elegent solutions to complex software engineering problems. There's never been a challenge I haven't been able to overcome and I know from experience that there's nothing I can't do. I am able to work independently as well as with a team and am able to take direction as required to get the job done."
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Frederick Forsyth is the reknowned author of "The Day of the Jackal". He is totally capable of matching the technical depth of Clancy and cohorts without sacrificing the trademark Forsyth pace.
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Francis "Gabby" Gabreski had 28 victories in Europe and then 4 1/2 more in Korea during the 1950's.
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Author of "Guts 'N Gunships: What It Was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam".
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980 hours in the RAF's Harriers.
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Despite professing to be not a serious gamer Jos has constructed a wonderful tribute to the Microsoft Flight Simulator series at History of Flight Simulator.
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Author of the Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar Programming Software ca. 2001.
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Home cockpit builder.
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In 1998 Cajun Hawk was one of the very first people to show an interest in my Flight Sim Museum, sending me images of LHX Attack Chopper and a scan of the Advanced Tactical Fighters box, both of which are still in the museum.
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Dudley Henriques has flown high performance planes for over forty years, including at least seventy different types of airplanes from experimental and prototypes to and fighters, both jet and propeller.
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Herman's books populate the world with flawed (real) characters and flawed (real) planes. The stories often emphasise the perspective of the C.O. who has to motivate those characters and develop tactics for difficult tasks.
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"Len Hjalmarson was one of the co-founders of www.combatsim.com, which was the one of the first serious and comprehensive websites that focussed on combat flight sims. He has established himself as one of the few journalists who specialised in writing about combat flight sims and had a massive output with an accessible and thorough style. In 2004 Len moved into developing commercial addons for combat sims - www.combatplanes.ca. Len has focussed his passion into other areas in recent years. Flight sim fans will always remember his contributions to our hobby with gratitude. "
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Strike Commander : Playtester.
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The Flying Reporter
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Top Gun graduate James Huston flew F-14's off the USS Nimitz and worked as a Naval Flight Officer before becoming a lawyer and a writer.
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My uncle Keith Inglis was an armourer at Kimpo Airbase during the Korean War. | R.I.P. 2019
Chino's professional background in Optical Science and Engineering neatly complements his aviation enthusiasms. He has written books on space travel and contributed extensively to the Museum content.
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Dr. Carlo Kopp is widely published in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering and Defence.
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From Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to his military and political interests, he is also an avid aviculturalist. He has worked all over the United States, but still lives in the Cleveland area. His first novel is Black Rain for Christmas.
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David Marshall was one of the chief boffins at DI and his experience is indicative of the real world aviation expertise embedded in their products.
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Creator and developer of X-Plane, which from the very beginning of the series had the best modelling of aerodynamic forces available in a consumer flight sim.
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Founder and curator of the Flight Sim Museum.
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Steve Pisanos presentation on how he emigrated to the US prior to WWII, developed a passion for flying, and became a double ace fighter pilot.
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Poyer writes great action novels with an authentic feel and displaying a keen insight into human character. I particularly enjoy reading his submarine adventures whilst in the bath, it adds to the immersion! David Poyer graduated from the US naval academy in 1971. He then served on various Destroyers and Amphibious ships and worked at the Surface Warfare Development Group in Virginia.
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Strike Commander - Documentation, Map design and layout, Mission design, Vehicle, weapon and plane data.
Created fantastic, elegant and concise code which solved a massive google sheets problem for me. Will be engaging Ruben for a total architectural review and streamlining of my projects.
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I have known Bob since the Flight Sim Museum opened as MiGMan's Combat Diary in October 1998. He encouraged me from the very beginning and made some of the earliest contributions to the Flight Sim Museum.
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MiGMan thanks Wacky Wally, a.k.a. Bob Schroeder of Florida USA, for his generous donation of flight Sims to the Flight Sim Museum in January 2008.
Co-founder of Wings Simulations, his first game was published in 1987, but his first real hit was in 1989 with X-Out, which sold in excess of 120,000 copies in Europe.
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Robert L. Shaw holds a masters degree in aeronautical engineering and spent 14 years in U.S. Navy fighter aviation. He flew over 4,000 hours, mostly in the F-4 and F-14. He is currently in the U.S. Naval Reserve and is a flight instructor, airline pilot and consulting engineer.
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A co-founder of Dynamix and the original developer of their 3-D technology, 3Space.
Mike Spick is one of the most respected and prolific writers on military aviation. I find his work enjoyable and informative.
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Highly decorated WWII combat pilot Robert Sternfels provides a first hand account of piloting his B-24 Sandman bomber in a raid on oil refineries in Ploesti that was one of the single most devastating raids against the Nazi war effort.
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Lecturer in the Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Research Group in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK.
His books are gripping reads and abound in "Easter Eggs" for military flight sim nuts. They also put the flying squarely into context as part of larger operations and strategic / tactical goals. They get my highest endorsement.
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Programmer of 'Skyfox' - an absolute classic game featuring 'flight' on the Apple ][.
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Mark Vanhoenacker is a Belgian-American airline pilot and author. He is a Boeing 787 pilot with British Airways and is also frequent contributor for the New York Times, Slate and the Financial Times with a focus on aviation. (Wikipedia)
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A former Marine pilot who writes gripping Air Combat Novels. His books always have a strong emphasis on aerial action and Joe's background allows him to flesh out the details.
Flew 268 combat missions in an F-100 in Vietnam and was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses, fourteen Air Medals, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He was Top Gun in every fighter squadron in which he served in the USAF.
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Dave Whiteside has had a long association with developer / publisher Rowan, and been involved with some of the absolute classics of air combat simulation.
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An industry veteran from FS2 to JF4.
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Cofounder of Apple Computers, Wozniak has a keen understanding of the differences between 'A.I.' and human intelligence.
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One of the most well known Fighter Aces, Yeager flew and fought in WWII,. Korea and the Vietnam War.
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