Flight Sim Historian

If you don't see much of me on the YouTube front..... I've been playing other games on the side. For instance, the Mass Effect trilogy..... And I have been having fun. Still a bit sad about Bioware.....

A little plane spotting at Meacham today.

youtube.com/shorts/CcoWkZxRU… Stopped at Vintage Flying Museum after work yesterday… Caught the Goose starting up and watched it leave.

*Jaws theme intensifies*

There was a B-52 in the pattern at the local base today. I just so happened to have been in that part of town, so I set up and got some pics and video.

youtu.be/xoisoyTEqJc?si=qmRK… A bit of fun in DCS World for the day. I hope y'all enjoy!

Someone has fun… You don’t see a Pilatus PC-7 around these parts very often….

Fouga CM-170 Magister, a French two-seat twin-engine jet trainer. This example belongs to a private outfit in Fort Worth. I would love to fly this aircraft. It looks like a lot of fun.

A couple of firefighting tankers came through Meacham overnight, and left this morning.

Not every day that a 727 comes through town

Some other aircraft that were flying at the Rose City Airfest, including 3 F/A-18C Hornets, a TA-4 Skyhawk, a C-17 Globemaster III, and a team of kit planes performing formation flybys:

There were some L-39 Albatros jet trainers out at the Rose City Airfest, as well.

A few shots of the Viper Demo Team F-16, flown by “FEMA”, performing at the Rose City Airfest in Tyler, Texas.

Not easy to tell from this photo, but I caught some T-45 Goshawks going to Alliance.

Cessna 172. This particular plane and I have a bit of history. Back in 2014, after a several years long hiatus from actually flying, I took a “rediscovery” flight in 87G, flying around the Eagle Mountain Lake area before landing back at KFTW.

One of VMGR-234s KC-130J Hercules tankers made an overnight stop at Meacham. Caught him heading out this morning.

youtu.be/YUrkx93ctT4?si=L_b4… Getting some practice in, just in case the Super Connie decides to throw a curveball at me when I do my audio-visual redo episode soon....

Apologies in advance to any of y’all who are Patriots fans. I couldn’t resist…

Attended the 2026 Big Band Hangar Dance at the Vintage Flying Museum, as I have done for at least 8 of the last 14 years. The DC-3 “Southern Cross” was the centerpiece of the event this year. Didn’t take too many pictures, but I did manage this black and white shot of the DC-3.

The Coast Guard made a brief visit to Meacham Field today with one of their HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft.