How 'bout the Early Days?

OH! I like to fly the J-3 Jenny! And I also like to attempt to fly the Wright Flyer.

Concorde105 wrote:

OH! I like to fly the J-3 Jenny! And I also like to attempt to fly the Wright Flyer.

Yeah! I have both of those! The Wright Flyer is a bit difficult. Without any landing gear on it, I found it tricky to land without crashing it. So far, I haven't been able to land without crashing.

The Jenny is cool.
I also have the Vickers Vimy. That was a 2-seater WWI bomber that was converted to carry Air Mail after the war. It's a big twin-engine. It has a very slow climb and it's not very agile. It's LOUD too! 😀
http://www.military-aircraft.org.uk/bombers/vickers-vimy-bomber.htm

Just DL'ed a B17 and it is fun to fly. I like to fly the old planes.

A B29 landed at our airport a few years back. Was from the Confederate Air force I think. But anyway we were allowed to go on the plane and look around. When I saw the cockpit I was surprised at the simple, and not many of them, instrument they flew with.

FSX has a few older types that are fun to fly, Beaver, Goose and the DC3. Also the J3 cub is kinda neat as well.

7ECA-Captain wrote:

FSX has a few older types that are fun to fly, Beaver, Goose and the DC3. Also the J3 cub is kinda neat as well.

Yeah, the FSX Beaver's fun to fly if you enjoy making left turns. 😂
I have the Standard Edition so I don't get to fly the Grumman Goose (which totally bums me out because I really think sea planes cool!) 🙄
I like the Cub but I like the Super Cub (add-on) even better. Don't forget the Douglas DC-3. All those are "older" but I don't consider them to be from the "Early Days".
IMO, WWII brought us into the modern age of aviation. So, in my peronal opinion I consider the early days of aviation to be pre-WWII. But that's just one man's opinion.
Someone else might consider it to be prior to the Jet Age or prior to the Space Age. 🙂

Ok, if you like flying a sopwith camel.... I've only had the Beaver do the left hand wing low thing once in a while, otherwise it's not so bad. Only drawback is there are very few seaplane bases in FSX in canada alobg the BC coast, so you can't do much there with the Beaver. The Goose is great as it's an amphibian and flys pretty much like a real one. And it's a twin. I'd look at upgrading, or looking into a download as the goose is a lot of fun. I'm thinking the Golden age of Avition passed when you no longer had to Fly with a rudder. Some time when that Cessna guy invented the 172. In sometihng like the citabria you need to fly the airplane until it stops moving, and you need to be very aware of rudder and all control inputs, very much like any taildragger like the Beaver, Goose, Maule, Cub, or any of those real airplanes. We've lost a lot by designing aircraft to be so called idiot proof.