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On the one hand, it helps to be an #avgeek to enjoy my flight sim threads. But even if you're not, I find that they shed all kinds of light on little-known history, or at least history seen from a different, unexpected angle.
Often, I don't know that much about these planes when I begin. Sometimes I do, but I never heard of the Caribou, for instance. But it usually turns out they have all kinds of interesting features and back-stories that I never imagined.
And a lot of times, as you can see, the "skins" (liveries) I can find for them are from real planes with unique stories of their own, if you take the effort to track them down.
And flying them in MSFS 2020, you can take them to the locations where they really flew and get a feel for the environments they operated in. You get a sense how fast or slow they flew, how easy or hard they were to land, etc.
It's also interesting to see what's changed and what hasn't in those places. Which airfields still exist, and which have completely disappeared, or gone from being a small dirt airstrip to an international airport.
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