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The Tangmere Military Aviation Museum is a museum located on the former site of RAF Tangmere, West Sussex.The museum was opened in June 1982. [1] Many aerospace exhibits covering the First World War to the Cold War are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines.
Amtix called the game an "excellent" program, and the best flight simulator on the Amstrad. [5] The Games Machine reviewed the Atari ST port: "Despite the age of Spitfire 40, the thrill of combat is present..." [7] Computer Gaming World wrote in 1991 that the game has "poor graphics and poorer execution. It flies like a bus with the ...
Solo Flight is a third-person flight simulator written by Sid Meier for Atari 8-bit computers and published by MicroProse in 1983. [1] It includes a game mode called Mail Pilot. This was the fourth flight simulator Meier wrote for MicroProse—following Hellcat Ace, Spitfire Ace, and Wingman—and the first which did not involve aerial combat.
Spitfire is a two-player game in which Allied and German aircraft engage in combat. The game contains 200 die-cut counters, a large featureless paper hex grid map, and aircraft sheets to track speed, altitude, diving and climbing ability, ammunition supply, and damage suffered. Two scenarios are provided: fighters versus fighters, or fighters ...
Supermarine Spitfire [7] No. 332 Squadron RAF: 31 Mar 1944 – 22 Jun 1944: Supermarine Spitfire [7] No. 602 Squadron RAF: 1 Jun 1943 – 1 Jul 1943: Supermarine Spitfire [7] No. 1310 Flight RAF: 25 Jun 1944 – 21 Jul 1944: Avro Anson: No. 83 (Composite) Group Support Unit: 25 Jun 1944 – 25 Sep 1944: Supermarine Spitfire, Mustang IV, Typhoon
Michael Wilcock of Sussex, England, built the Swandean Spitfire Special, [1] using a Merlin XXV engine acquired from a scrap yard for one hundred and forty pounds. The engine was installed in a home-brewed chassis confected from two Daimler Dingo scout car chassis.
Spitfire Ace is a combat flight simulator video game created and published by MicroProse in 1982 shortly after it was founded. It was one of the first video games designed and programmed by Sid Meier, originally developed for Atari 8-bit computers and ported to the Commodore 64 and IBM PC compatibles (as a self-booting disk) in 1984.
Geoff Crammond is a computer game designer and programmer who specialises in motor racing games.A former defence industry systems engineer, [1] he claims to have had little interest in motor racing before programming his first racing game (Revs) back in 1984, but he holds a physics degree, which may explain the realism of some of his programming.