A new game... Post pics from your cel phone V.1.0

[94touring]

See if a 120 degree bank and nose down recover video will upload. 

We also attempted an Air India crash recovery trying it a couple different ways and crashed every time.  Couldn't get the engines back up soon enough.

[MiniDave]

yep, that was exciting......do you feel the weight/mass in the sim like you would in the real thing?

[94touring]

Yeah it's full motion so you get all the sensations. Not necessarily G forces but everything else.

[94touring]

Driving right by minispares

[MiniDave]

Surely you're going to drop in and say hello?   

[cstudep]

I was thinking we should probably all come up with some parts lists he can "smuggle" back for us LOL

[BruceK]

I went to MiniSpares in 1992 when they were on Friern Barnet Road in far north London in a store front. In those pre-internet times, it was kind of a pilgrimage to visit it if you were visiting the UK. The only way to place an order was to phone them (very expensive at that time) or send an hand-completed order form in the postal mail. (Or fax it to them). Then a follow up call to give the credit card number a couple of weeks later.

Anyway, when a Mini nut from a country like the US or Japan stopped in they were extremely gracious and basically just let us walk behind the counter and up and down the warehouse aisles, filling our own boxes of what we wanted. It literally was like being in a candy store and getting to pick everything you wanted. When I was visiting there, there was also some Japanese Mini people and they were going crazy seeing all the things that MiniSpares had.

[BruceK]

Found another photo (not mine)

[94touring]

How long have you owned minis Bruce?  That had to be a cool experience.