Friar

2011 wow! - great find Blubear - glad you still had it. Does that make this year our 18th? I thought we were older than that?

Just seen in the calendar 25th Aug is Jim's Day Salute Sir and may you still be looking down on us with a smile and mumbling to your self "how long have that lot been doing this...."

@Crash They can not do 4th so its now 25th

Next Date Suggested 4th 25th September Can YOU make it?

I voted but I have a feeling it will not make any difference.

It was a good mission - sparked by the idea raised by Ben afterwards I am now going to start on a custom built night bombing raid mission. Multiple A20's Clear skies, search lights, NO WAYPOINTS! (test our navigation...) and.....a single pathfinder Mossie that will drop incendiary bombs to highlight the target (been thinking about other little "Easter Eggs" I want to include whilst on the train today and am really looking forward to building it, I know I should get out more!) Friar

Pilot Cloisters after a long absence due to fear of heights managed to climb back into a P38. Claimed 1 train carriage and 1 aaa units before ring rust had set in and hit the ground "attempting 1 last pass"

Not sure about the Russian lady picture though? I REALLY do hope they "westernise" some of the tank content when Normandy comes out, eg western numbers and text for the Sherman, if they don't it will be a big disappointment for me.

Update: 05/08/2022 New Air start for bombers added near the coast for anti shipping patrols Two shipping convoys added Road convoy added.

Ticket for Saturday purchased.

The date for the next round has been suggested by 352nd for 21st August. This should be a P38 date, would @DD_Fenrir mind postponing / brining forward a week to make this date available? Is this date suitable for you guys? Please post below to indicate if you are available please. If I get enough positive responses I will go back to Deacon and say we are on for that date. Friar

Salute, I am posting here as I wanted to reach as wide an audience as possible. If you are going to reply to it please do not suggest any tactics for further missions, we have a thread for that Sunday July 31st - Session 3 Mission time-line 10:00 - 12:00 Many thanks to Zukker, Mosquito, Ben, FT, Crash, Sid, Fenrir, Delta, Perfesser, Blubear and Beagle for rocking up and putting in a fantastic shift. In the plan for last night some did not get any action but still did an amazing job, the pilots rained supreme (again) and made it possible for the tankers to do their stuff (a big shout out to Sid for giving me the heads up on a nice side on Sherman kill !) In the session last night we captured 3 new towns, Lens, Bugnicourt and Cantin. We also held Auberchicourt. Star of the night was Tanker Mosquito who captured Lens and made some important last ditch kills to stop the enemy in their tracks, well done sir. Our pilots, lead by Fenrir again created some amazing overhead ballet coming out on top on in an intense last ditch dogfight against multiple P38's, Mustangs may even have been a Tempest in there as well! Its not too late if you want to take part. Not everyone will be able to play every week, we understand that, slots for pilots and tankers available (you do not even have to commit to a plane or tank each for mission), but this is turning out to be a fantastic event against the 352nd. I received a great compliment from one of their guys after we had finished last night saying that it was the best thing they had ever taken part in. Do you really want to miss out on this?...

@Zukker You're In! great show last night - thanks for taking part.

Salute, I have created a new routine to test that as a tanker you can capture a flag ok. I have created a video that explains how it works here. The map will be put up 30 mins before the start so that you can test that you can set the flag ok.

If you are thinking of taking part you will need to download some skins as well. The event will last 2 hours and is a dogfight map. You must be on TeamSpeak by 20:30 Please also make sure you have understood how the map works by reading the brief here... Small edit we have done away with the re-fuel for tanks but you MUST set the fuel when selecting the tank or plane

Social Secretary has given me permission to book Battle of Britain airshow for 10th September. I would be happy to attend on the Friday for the night out and go to the show on the Saturday. Is this a go-er? (staying at the Hilton as Blubear suggests?) - happy to share a room.

Salute Just seen a post on the IL2 forums ref the new feature that is coming where you can customise stick profiles on a plane by plane basis. Jason has suggested you back up your existing profile before updating (its not out, don't get too excited!) just in case. In case you have not seen it (Crash has already linked to it) I thought I would put it here as well. https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/168-developer-diary/page/9/#comment-1200975

oops...!

Looks more like a baby dragon to me....

Home from a really great day at the museum. Thanks to Jabo for picking up and delivering me to the station. Nice to meet Mr Fenrir Snr, also great to see Fenrir Jnr and Blubear. For those that do not know - in the picture in front of the mossie its Right to Left: Fenrir, Friar, Blubear, Jabo

Blowing instead of sucking?

Update: 20/07/2022 AAA group removed.

@Sid and @Painless - no worries chaps, we will tell you all about it.

@Jabo - thanks for the offer but I can get a bus or a cab quite easily from the station. Looking forward to catching up with those going. I guess meet in the car park?

What time are we thinking of arriving. Opens at 10:30. Shall we say 11:30? Does that suit those that are driving?