This conversation is slightly off-topic, but give some old guys a break.
Thanks for the info and pic. It looks as deadly as I remember except for the jetpacks which were not on the versions I saw. The articles I just read indicate that it could not have flown from March as I thought. Landing gear was hard on runways. Flew out of Fairfield-Suisun (Travis).
Correct mental history everyday. 
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86 here! Iām livinā those glory years that for sure
aināt the good oleā days!
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Turned 84 this week . . . keep on hanginā in there!! Iām beginning to think this as good as it gets!
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I was 91 in January
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I turned 90 last May.
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M20 Kockpit? Just trying to decipher that. My first payware was the Moooooney too
Probably a Mooney (model) M20 K pilot. An old M20 G tried to kill a friend of mine back in 1977 (ā78?) when the air intake froze over in IMC while moving from Whiteman AFB to Vandenberg AFB. They did a TCTO on that model the next year to address that issue.
Regards
My Mooney was 231GV and was on the cover of AOPA Pilot in March 1980.
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Wow!
Iām only 66. 
But Iāve been simming since the early 80s (started on a Commodore 64).
I remember I was thrilled with being able to fly over the Eiffel Tower, rendered in colored wire-frame.
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Jimmy Stewart sends his regardsā¦
Thanks, very interesting.
Iām now watching the ā12 Oāclock Highā TV Series on Netflix in bed until I doze off.
Also āSuitsā which is great.
Iāll also look for this one with Stewart or others on Netflix & Prime.
By the way, why propellers on the rear of the wings?
Is it better to pull from the front or push from the rear?
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Im a āSEENIORā Seventy now and love my video simulations. BCsimPilot from the BC, Canada area
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Sorry for the totally mildly off-topic post here. Quoting myself from this other closed topicā¦
But this is OUT tomorrow 
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Iāve been simming since sublogic flight simulator 1.0 also around 1982. v1 on the Apple IIe and then v2.0 on the C64, MS FS v3 PC, v4 PC & Mac, v5.0a, v5.1, FSFW95, FS98, CFS, CFS2, CFS3, FS2000 Pro, FS2002 Pro, FS2004 ACOF, FSX Beta Tester, FS11 Design Advisory Board (Before MSFT killed off ACES), Microsoft ESP, Microsoft Flight, a couple of alternate replacement sims, Prepar3d v1 - v6, contracted and wrote game design docs on Dovetail Games Flight Simulator Flight School (FSFS) and Flight Simulator World (FSW). Those docs I believe ended up at Asobo and almost all of it is in MSFS.
Love what the Asobo team has done.
Also a real world pilot and grew up with parents working key postions in Airlines in Australia.
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Still enjoying MSFS at 91!
Right now flying the HYPE H160 Helicopter from Tijuana to Ensenadaā¦with live weather and traffic and upgraded landscape (FS2024)ā¦
And I have flown every MS flight simulator since the first one back in the 1970 tiesā¦
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Itās great to see people even older than me (85) enjoying this great pastime! Hoping we all have many more years to see what lies ahead. Wishing you blue skies and tailwinds!
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Is the Hype 135 still available? I might have to pick it up.
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