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Indeed, with this add-on, both when you prepare to
  leave from your chosen location to when you arrive at
  your destination, it will look to you in the virtual world
  very much as it would in the real one. It is the overall
  clarity that the add-on provides that makes this a
  necessity for those who wish to wrangle out every last
  drop of realism from their virtual flying experience.
                                                           “Wait for me, Daddy” is one of the most recognized
          View/download in the file library here.          photographs in the world and has become iconic for New
                                                           Westminster.
  Photoreal Scenery
  Depending on what type of plane you are flying and, in
  turn, at what altitude you are operating at, determines
  how much of the terrain below you can see. What is for
  sure, however, with the various photoreal scenery add-
  ons – many of which are completely free, for example
  – it will be detailed and authentic in the extreme.




                                                           The photograph, which became integral to Canada’s effort in
                                                           WWII, was captured on Oct. 1, 1940, in New Westminster,
                                                           B.C., by Vancouver Daily Province photographer Claude
                                                           Dettloff and became one of the most famous photographs in
                                                           Canadian history.
                                                           The little blond boy in the photograph was the five-year-old
                                                           Bernard, who broke free from his mother Bernice's grasp as
                                                           his father, Pte. Jack Bernard, marched down Eighth Street,
                                                             heading off to war with the B.C. Regiment.

  So whether you are ferrying commercial civilian airlines  The photo made the next day's morning paper, but not long
  across the metropolis-splashed landscapes of the         after it was featured across North America, including an
  United States or most of “modern” Europe, or whether  October issue of Life magazine. It was eventually hung in every
  you taking smaller, single-engine planes to look at the   school in B.C. during the war.
  wonders of the ancient worlds in modern-day Asia or
                                                           The Sculpture
  the Middle East, it perhaps goes without saying that
  whatever you are looking down upon from your virtual
  cockpit, needs to be as realistic as possible.
  Needless to say, the Photoreal Scenery add-ons is
  perhaps as good a place as any to start once you wish
  to start fleshing out your environments, and will
  without a doubt, make the world you are about to
  explore from the comfort of your computer chair as
  close to the real thing as is currently possible



                                                           The City of New Westminster commissioned internationally
                                                           acclaimed sculptors Veronica and Edwin Dam De Nogales to

                                                           creat the war memorial sculpture.
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