This set of images tells the story of how to fly the SPITFIRE PR XI World War 2 style. It comments upon what is not achievable in any "simulator". I have every year since 2013 flown my "Simulation" of the 617 Squadron RAF raid on the Ruhr Dams back in 1943 and part of that was of course the Photo Recon flights starting in February 1943 and concluding the day after the end of OPERATION CHASTISE, May17 1943. I FLY using the appropriate PILOT'S NOTES as was formed in WW2. My aircraft is set to cruise at 30000 ft at a boost and rpm setting with PN fuel flow rate complying with the Pilot's Notes "55. Economical Flying" and therefore the re-enactment is as good as can be expect from any simulator. The aircraft is not just chucked in the air. IT IS FLOWN. Why not read, then try doing it with your PR XI!

Updates for Jens B. Kristensen's Lockheed Orion, of which will be required to install first. I've given it some new cockpit textures, with a new set of gauges. I've updated the cfg's to adjust the lights and autopilot functions. Details can be found in the supplied readme file. Enjoy! -Bob

Some updates for Jens B. Kristensen's FSX DH.91 Ablatross. I gave it a re-textured interior and gauge package. An excellent vintage prop plane for cruising around Europe. Details can be found in the supplied readme file. Enjoy! -Bob

Some updates for Jens B. Kristensen's Vultee V-1 passenger plane. Has new textures for the cockpit and passenger cabin. And a new gauge pack. Also has updated wheel, engine, and prop textures. Details and instructions can be found in the supplied readme file. Enjoy! -Bob

MSN 04211 was built in 1948 for the Secretary of State for Air as G-ALFM. Transferred to the Royal Air Force in March 1949, she became VP961. From June 1953 to October 1960, she was part of the Queens Flight, and designated as Prince Philip’s personal aircraft in which he logged 128 hours. Civilianized in 1985 as G-ALFM, she had four owners before becoming G-HBBC in 1996. Still on the UK register, currently she is in store “somewhere in the United Kingdom”. Textures only for Derek Palmer’s fabulous DH Dove model which you will need, this repaint shows G-ALFM as she was in 1985, when owned by three aviation enthusiasts.

Some updates for Jens B. Kristensen's Douglas C-74 Globemaster. With FSX native conversion by LLS, of which will be required first. Cockpit has been re-textured, along with a new custom gauge set for a new look. Details and instructions included in the supplied readme file. Enjoy! -Bob

Built in 1941 for the USAF, msn 77-4176 was assigned to the Portuguese Army as 707 in March 1943. It was re-serialed 1608 in 1952, and at some stage, modified to a T-6G standard. Civilianized in January 1979, it became G-BGGR, and was then sold to an owner in Germany in April 1979, becoming D-FOBY. Nowadays it is displayed on the terminal roof terrace at Stuttgart Airport. Painted on to J.E. Narzico’s admirable T-6 model, along with Daniel Nole’s T-6 panel, this shows D-FOBY after delivery to Germany.

An updated version of the North American O-47, by the late Paul Clawson. Adapted for FSX with a new set of gauges and cockpit textures. Along with updated cfg. This is a stand-alone pack, and won't require any other downloads. Details can be found in the readme file Enjoy! -Bob

MSN 1021 was built in 1937 as a Miles Magister 1 for the Royal Air Force, being allocated the serial N3988. It was civilianised in 1948, becoming a M14A Hawk Trainer 3, and was registered as G-AKUA to Fairey Aviation. Sold on in 1953, it had two further owners before being destroyed in a fatal crash at Burnaston Airport in July 1957. Painted on to Edward Cook’s excellent Miles Magister model adapted for FSX, I have shown G-AKUA as it was in service with Fairey Aviation.

MSN 111-29080 was built in Dallas in 1944 and delivered to the USAF as 44-10947. After the war, it was sold to Paul Mantz as NX1202. Mantz converted the aircraft to a “wet” wing where the complete wing is a fuel tank. He then won the 1946 and 1947 Bendix Trophy Races, and, with different pilots in the cockpit, NX1202 came second in the 1948 Bendix race, and third in the 1949 race. Mantz then sold the aircraft to Captain Charles Blair who, on January 31, 1950, set a world record flying from New York to London in 7 hours and 48 minutes. On May 29, 1950, Captain Blair flew from Bardfoss, Norway, over the North Pole to Fairbanks, Alaska, in another world record of 10 hours 27 minutes. He then set yet another world record by flying from Fairbanks to New York in 9.5 hours. In 1952 Captain Blair was awarded the Harmon International Trophy by President Truman. N1202 was sold to Pan American World Airways in 1953, who promptly donated her to the Smithsonian Institute. Today, she is on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington DC. Painted on to A.F. Scrub’s magnificent P-51B Mustang, I have modified, with permission, the wing to give Trans-Continental and Trans-Atlantic range. Enjoy