You can, install dosbox on your PC.
What Cheered You Up Today? (3 Viewers)
- Thread starter twoeagles
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Most is abandonware. You can download the stuff and use the iso file in dosbox. You don't even need a cd rom or diskette anymore.Unfortunately i do not have the discs anymore
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Have look if it's really msdos software or windows 95.Found it £3.35 !
Might have to buy it for the nostalgia
Viking1066
Brigadier General
Finished at 11:30 today so I can get all of my weekend chores done today!
Where is that?
Oulu in Finland
Viking1066
Brigadier General
Dad chores done for the moment. I found the baby's fangs and the oldests Gothic gloves.
special ed
1st Lieutenant
- 7,138
- May 13, 2018
Working in my shop, I heard the sound of multiple round engines. Ran outside and there were four AT-6s practicing diamond formation. I watched nearly 1/2 hour as they disappeared over trees and I could tell by the props as they turned to circle back. An airshow like performance of turning and circling. Standing, watching, I enjoyed an old man type imagination to realize these same sounds were heard 80-85 years ago in Texas training fields. The sounds of the props and engines only T-6s make. One AT-6 turned back, flew over trying to get his smoke to work. It looked more like puffs from a steam train. He then turned and rejoined the other three who had also turned back. They then continued on towards home, calling it a day.
A4K
Brigadier General
Used to see Harvards (as we call AT-6s) regularly at airshows in New Zealand. I hope they are still around.
special ed
1st Lieutenant
- 7,138
- May 13, 2018
The very first time seeing aT-6, that I remember was 1948 or 49. We kids played in the corn fields behind the houses, when suddenly a T-6 flew over so low that we could see the pilot and his cloth helmet. That was the first time I heard that engine/prop combination sound. We lived reasonably close to the McDonnell plant at St. Louis, so there was some traffic, but to high to identify. One sighting from 1949 stayed in my memory till today. It took a couple years of being an aviation nut to realise I had seen the then new McDonnell FD-1. What had my attention in 49 was as he flew towards the plant I thought he was on fire due to the thick black exhaust. A trademark of McDonnell jet aircraft.
A4K
Brigadier General
I'm a '70s kid myself, but even so grew up with DC-3s, Piper Cubs, Tiger Moths and Harvards. They were still common enough sights (and sounds!) when I left NZ in 1996.
MiTasol
Major
The black exhaust is a result of the engine, not the airframe.
Incidentally when they mandated the smokeless civil engines there were two undesirable outcomes. Firstly, on the JT8s, and probably other engines as well, the fuel consumption went up so in reality the "clean" engine was not as clean as the old smudge pots.
The second side effect was that you could no longer easily see the smudge pots in the circuit with you which made the see and be seen part of flying in the vicinity of airports more difficult and stressful.
