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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2020 5:54:07 GMT -5
Thanks for your comments. For me it's enriching to empathize in such events and trying to implement them in FS9 as best as possible. Furthermore it still keeps vintage and classic flying alive. In a certain way it also will be a kind of paying hommage to all who have contributed during the last decades. Sadly that some of them have gone away.
Bernard
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Post by gsnde on Dec 31, 2020 4:36:45 GMT -5
A very nice story, Bernard.
Where is the Clipper AI coming from? I am looking for one since a very long time.
Many thanks Martin
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2020 11:31:24 GMT -5
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Post by aerofoto on Dec 31, 2020 15:08:36 GMT -5
Dunno how many photos might exist of the service Bernard has re-enacted in FS, but, digging into historical records I found the following images that relate to the B314 CLIPPER's stopover at Mechanics Bay, Auckland, New Zealand just prior to the outbreak of WW2 (although one or 2 may also relate to later post war vists too) .... Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by Herman on Jan 3, 2021 8:58:12 GMT -5
Some interesting photo's of the 314 Clippers at Auckland NZ. Just curious. What is that large building in the background of the 3rd picture.? Herman
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Post by bryan01 on Jan 3, 2021 9:06:08 GMT -5
I think it's the Auckland War Memorial Museum. linkBryan
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Post by aerofoto on Jan 4, 2021 14:25:59 GMT -5
It "is" .... it's the AKL War Memorial Museum/Cenotaph.
It's more of "an AKL based and public national/historical archive" (today) than just a war memorial and cenotaph alone.
I'm not sure it can be seen "as prominently" today (it can still be seen though) from that very same Waitemata Harbor based vantage point given the extent to which local vegetation and the city scape itself have both grown/developed over the years since these images were taken.
Mark C AKL/NZ
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Post by Herman on Jan 5, 2021 8:14:05 GMT -5
OK thank you. Yes, I can imagine that it would be surrounded by other buildings and trees now.
Herman
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Post by Erik on Jan 5, 2021 12:43:25 GMT -5
I have read the whole story there and marked the route in Google Earth. It is all the more fascinating to see Bernards pictorial after that! Thank you for these great contributions, gentlemen. Erik
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