ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ever since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated with flight. Starting with
Paper airplanes, I got involved with balsa wood gliders, static aircraft models
And control line gas models. For some reason, I never got to radio controlled
aircraft. After college and a four-year hitch in the army during the Vietnam
Era, I put model aircraft aside to raise a family and pursue a career as a
radiology technologist and later, as a cardiac technologist.
During my allied health career, I got very interested in computers and thus I
found that path led to flight simulation. I got my first experience in flight
simulation with Microsoft’s Flight Simulator version 3. I’ve been flying the
simulator ever since. It wasn’t until early 2002 that I got into scenery
design, but it was for my own pleasure. With the encouragement of family
and friends and some of the designers I had corresponded with, I published
my first design in December 2002.
Now that I am retired, I spend my time working occasionally as a cardiac
technologist, traveling (mostly by car nowadays) and generally enjoying life,
And oh yes, designing scenery and aircraft for Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
My earliest aircraft was released December 3, 2004 to my website. Though I enjoy
designing aircraft, I find scenery is much easier. Whether it’s aircraft or scenery, it’s been fun all the way.
John B. Loney, Jr.