Classic British Flight Sim
has been around since 2001, evolving from the forum that
Tom Matthews had originally set up for David Maltby's website.
In those days, Rick Piper was largely a painter, hence the
title of his website "Rick's Paintshop".
Due to technical problems, the original forum
disappeared, but resurfaced again, thanks to the generosity
of Henk Hugo at the Shackleton Project in South Africa. Henk
allowed CBFSIM to have a section on his forum for some 18
months. It was during this time, some of the original members
of CBFSIM decided they would like to bring the forum back
to the UK, and have the forum run and managed in house.
On 17th June 2004 CBFSIM came home to the
UK. The day to day Admin of the forum is done by the extremely
hard working David Booker, Garry Russell, Ben Watson and "Tonks"
leaving the developers free to work their magic.
The team has grown over the years
at a steady pace, with Dave Garwood joining the ranks of the
guru's in 2004 and our newest guru's; Derek Palmer and Fraser
McKay.
Over the past few years we have
seen forum membership rise greatly and non registered visitors
also increase beyond what we imagined.
As well as providing support for
models by Rick Piper, David Maltby, Dave Garwood and Derek
Palmer, we also have helpful advise and friendly chat about
Classic British Flight, both in Microsoft flight Simulator,
and in the real world.
This year we have seen Garry Russell
take to the modelling side, currently working on his Bristol
Super Freighter.
A new development has been the
introduction of our very own Virtual Airline, with much hard
work from John Payne. this has proved very popular and adds
yet another dimension to CBFSIM.
Thanks for taking the time to read our intro, and we hope
you enjoy www.cbfsim.org |
