What Cheered You Up Today? (39 Viewers)

I used to have a Mi 24 Hind gunship game and also a AH-64 Apache one fir my first PC, loved them and wish i could play them again
You can, install dosbox on your PC.
 
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.
Found it £3.35 !

Might have to buy it for the nostalgia 😁
 
Where is that?
Oulu in Finland
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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