[303rd-Talk] MSFS 303rd Repainting Project

[John Joerg]

Hal,
        Thanks for the input, you are talking about the Duchess, not the 
Duchess' Daughter? if so I'll put her on the list. With out input from you 
guys I am going by what I find on the site. I realize that the photographs 
might not link you guys to your favorite aircraft but it's all I have to go 
on without your say so.  I'm sure that few if any of you actually have FS 
and the WOP add-on, chances are then that you have no reason to download and 
open the files. I will tell you that with each repaint I am including a word 
file with a crew photo.  I am using whichever might be linked from the nose 
art page on the 303rd site, unless I get advise or a request to the 
contrary.  In one case so far I researched a bit to get a crew photo that 
included one of the forums relatives who was a tail gunner rather than the 
photo linking it to a particular aircraft commander. On one of them I also 
included a photo of the ground crew, simply because it was there.  I think a 
lot of the uninformed assume that you guys always flew the same aircraft, 
and no one else flew yours. .  Of course the small bit of historical data I 
include doesn't to anything to dispel that myth.  Now that I am writing this 
I think I will come up with a statement to drop in on all of them to make 
that clear.  In a perfect world  I'd include everything I can mine on each 
particular aircraft, but it would make the file way too big. I have a link 
in it to the associations website encouraging them to research anything that 
interests them about the aircraft or group.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "harold susskind" <hasusskind at hotmail.com>
To: <303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [303rd-Talk] MSFS 303rd Repainting Project


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>>From: "John Joerg" <wargroom at localvertical.com>
>>Reply-To: 303rd Bomb Group Talk Forum <303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com>
>>To: "303rd Bomb Group Talk Forum" <303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com>
>>Subject: Re: [303rd-Talk] MSFS 303rd Repainting Project
>>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:19:58 -0500
>>
>>Anita,
>>    The Snap Crackle and Pop repaint on my site was done by another 
>> person, saved me the time and allows me to include it.
>>If you wanted to try flying it you would need Microsoft Flight Simulator 
>>and the add-on product B-17 form Wings of Power.
>>flight simulator 2004 is fairly cheap now that Flight simulator X came 
>>out, and it will run better on most machines. the new flight simulator x 
>>needs a VERY powerful computer.
>>John
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Anita Nardine" <asnh at earthlink.net>
>>To: "303rd Bomb Group Talk Forum" <303rd-talk at 303rdBG.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:39 PM
>>Subject: Re: [303rd-Talk] MSFS 303rd Repainting Project
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>>>Wow! great work. My father was ball turret gunner on Snap! Crackle! Pop! 
>>>There was more than one Snap; it was loaned to another crew for a mission 
>>>and shot down. The replacement was also painted Snap Crackle Pop. Now I 
>>>guess I should learn how to fly it....  ;-)
>>>
>>>Anita Nardine
>>>
>>>John Joerg wrote:
>>>
>>>>Folks,
>>>>
>>>>    A few of you have been to my website looking at the screen shots of 
>>>> the repainting of the Wings of Power B-17 for Microsoft Flight 
>>>> Simulator in 303rd BG liveries.
>>>>Thanks for your inputs.  With that I'd like a little help. Rather than 
>>>>randomly picking aircraft I'd appreciate it if some of you could let me 
>>>>know which are your personal favorites so I can do them first.  The ones 
>>>>I have completed so far are  Scorchy II ( for no particular reason)  War 
>>>>bride ( mainly because it is my wife's e-mail address) Fearless Fosdick 
>>>>( in honor of Jack Rencher due to my early exposure to him and his 
>>>>unusual qualifications and crew when I joined the forum). I also added 
>>>>Snap Crackle & Pop which was painted by another person and was offered 
>>>>to me when he saw my project posted in another forum ( His Dad was with 
>>>>the 351st at Polebrook). In looking around I see Mr. Susskind listed on 
>>>>the crew of Knockout Dropper which is one of the liveries that comes 
>>>>with the package from the developer.  If any of you vets had a favorite 
>>>>or family members hold a fondness for one that a loved on flew in I 
>>>>would be honored to try to get to those first.
>>>>    you can send me these preferences thru the forum or to my personal 
>>>> e-mail  wargroom at localvertical.com
>>>>and once again, the repaints along with some additional screenshots are 
>>>>posted at www.localvertical.net
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>John
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> John..........ALTHOUGH OUR CREW PHOTO WAS TAKEN IN FRONT OF THE KNOCKOUT 
> DROPPER IT WAS NOT MY FAVORITE AIRCRAFT IN SPITE OF ITS OUTSTANDING 
> RECORD. THAT HONOR GOES TO THE DUCHESS. I FIRST HEARD OF IT BEFORE I 
> REPORTED IN TO MOLESWORTH.  IT WAS THE AIRCRFT THAT CARRIED JACK MATHIS TO 
> IMMOTALITY.   We flew it on its 50th mission to Oschersleben, Jan. 11, 
> 1944.  It carried us home in spite of a 20mm found in its gas tank after 
> the mission,  Hal Susskind
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