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Welcome!! I'll give it a shot and visit your home on the web! Hope to see you in HL or with the DD's

Waaazuuuuuup

LMAO

I'll be a guiny-pig!........dunno about the spelling though.....

So Frior, that prevents going out of the door with a dot still attached on your forehead huh?

All that has said before me is what I was going to say as well.....best investment I ever did!

Managed to get two kills in the same flight covering Dazza at one point I believe...(Warclouds WF server)...and made it back home safe and sound.......

10h30 pm sounds great to me!

Heh, 'till I moved the nose abit, I finally saw I was first to take off...thought the other Spitfire group was in front of me lol..... And I enjoyed winging...got a "bite" on that second Tempest myself Although tempted to dive back and finish the last one off, I didn't want to leave my wingman alone.....following him afterwards was a bit hard, since I still had droptank attached...but all came to a good end I really enjoyed it!

I might be able to make it, ill check on ts if you guys are there.....what time EST you thinking about?

Heh, had a swell time, and really have to get adjusted to the cockpitview in a Betty....it also looked like the planes in front of me where flying sideways lol......

Yesterday, it occured to me once again, how great of a game IL2 actually is! I popped on ts knowing Sunflower would be there, to ask for help on the 408 issue.... Bbloke who was there to, took matters in his own hands, got on my pc and sorted things out....(he had to do the same with Palava a while after...we both couldn't get on HL at first) Anyway.... We started flying on HL, Zeke's vs Wildcats... What I first thought that would be a massacre on my end, by getting shot down before I even could take off, it turned out to be a great time, flying formation, and getting the targets down for our team! It was a great experience getting formed up after take of from carriers (A6M2)/ground (betty's), and fly towards the target.. Offcourse there where casualty's on the way in, and without trying to use the word "great" again and to often, I think you catch my drift, that flying together with friends, giving pointers on position and stuff is just priceless.... My last flight was around 5h30 AM! (that's how much fun I had) with a Val on the Pearl Harbor map..... Flying i formation to the target, we were attacked by a fighter, who managed to cripple my elevators, forcing me to leave formation and head for home... After a while it seemed Sunflower was the one who shot down the fighter (back gunners did the job), prooving how important formation flying is, even on HL... Anyway, I managed to get back to the carrier, did a first attempt on landing, bounced a bit on deck, hook was not capable to connect with a deckcable.. Did a second turn, aproached again, made contact with the deck again, but another no go on the cable....instead of pulling up again, I let the plane slide in the water (was really tired actually), and got out safe and sound... I recorded this aproach, and would like to share, but don't know how.... Anyway, I'm planning on doing this a lot more, so I propose to those who would like to fly formation and have fun to join us on another date! It's nothing compared to flying alone on HL...... Btw, settings where full real, with not even tags over the planes....you needed to get real close to see if it's was enemy or not , which made it as real as it could get.....

It's working now WOOOOOT......... THX BBloke!!

................................ I'm going nuts here.............................

So BG, you want me to re-download the 4071 exe and patchinstall, and then install 408 on top again? One thing though....when I'm done with 4071, I just need to change the conf (copy?) and make a conFOLD? Kinda forgot what you instructed me to do there :/

I can't wait for the next part....enjoyed and laught quit hard with the "dot" thingy situation......LMAO!

Well, have been at it together with BG for about 2 hours....then some more afterwards...I cannot make it work... When game starts, I see version 408...but it only loads to 5% and then goes back to desktop, switching of the game.....

Ok, I guess it's time to put a face on MY name "grin grin" At a big concert on a small tour with Paul Orta (sexiest pic of me playing ever made ) This is me posing before the eifel tower in Paris, while on tour with JW Jones band from Canada, JW took these pic (s ), luckely, he knows more about music then photoshopping Me and my son at his school, 2 years ago.... Each day, a father came to school, showing/telling what he did for a living, I, offcourse, brought the entire set to the school, let them play all together (gave em a cowbell or tom or cymbal to bang on)...was fun time

The link I got from Quazi will take me 2h30m to download 148.7MB at a painstaking 15.5kb/sec... Is it because of the server it is on?

I was thinking of making a back up of 4.071 to "my documents" like I did with 404/405....this way I have the 4 versions?! You guys think that's a good idea?

No, the ones that are "photoshopped" as far one could tamper with a pic in WWII, has been pointed out by the author...the rest of em are the real deal And there was lots more, but because he didn't have the full info (documents got lost) he didn't put them on his website...

I recieved it, but will need help on installing em....I think......

Happy someone made the effort reading this newspaper lol

Hi, I found the following on a website made by someone from The Netherlands (can't find his name) It would've been easier for me to just copy the pics and translate the text, but that didn't work... So I'll give the link, and all you have to do is keep my translation open and view the pictures... secret projects This man came accross some interesting documents in March 2006 at a fair, with some remarkable drawings from the British plane producer Vickers-Supermarine. Between the numerous letters, pictures and drawings, he found proposals for using the Spitfire for other tasks then what it was used for untill then... Following drawings and pictures where TOP-SECRET at that time! He only shows the stuff that didn't suffer to much from moisture, and with all info found (some info was lost and incomplete) Picture 1: Spitfire VD - RR Camelot 1 of the first serieus projects was the development of the Camelot engine by Rolls -Royce for the Spitfire F MK VD. In principal, this engine was actually 2 Merlin engines placed on top of eachother, where the top engine was put upside down (mirror). This 24 cillinder engine produced 3500Hp and had to make this Spitfire go around 870KPH. Picture 2: Pic of the engines put together, in the middle are the exhausts... In this first design the spinner was very big en the exhausts were in the wrong place. Solution was to use a standard spinner, so an extra cooling was given beneath the spinner. Picture 3: Actual plane in a testflight Also, in the first design, they didn't count in the huge HP produced, and it's effects on the plane's structure (later notes indicates they were thinking of a counter-rotating propeller). The final prototype named MK VE flew for the first time in the beginning of April '42. After some testflights, the project was cancelled, due to the coolingproblems (radiators to big) and high risks of malfunctions. The only excisting MK VE was demolished in the end of '44. This man has some pictures of this plane in his possesion, and the one shown, is the best of all.... ___________________________________________________________ picture 4: Supermarine Mk 99 Twin Spitfire. One of the many Spitfire projects that was highly promising, was the Twin-Spitfire Mk 99. in succession of the US P-38 Twin-Mustang, Supermarine decided to investigate the possabillity if a Spitfire was suited for the same design. Problem was, they couldn't deside on what side the pilot should be seated and the same for the navigator-radaroperator (In GB people drive on the left side of the road), the project suffered a set back because of it. Drawings of "Sheetproject 10099 Tw Mk 99" are the only ones preserved. Picture 5: Supermarine Twin-Spitfire The succesor of the Twin-Spitfire, the Mk 199, was introduced in '46. It excisted out of 2 Spitfire F.21 hulls welded together. While the Mk 99 had a tail section in one piece (pic 5), the Mk 199 had two seperate tails. Investigation pointed out that this (Mk 99 taildesign) influenced the airflow to much in a negative way, and with the latter design, one could tell the difference between the Twin-Mustang and Mk 199 better. Because of the seperate tail sections, the cables had to be controlled electronically (a revolution at Supermarine), to control the elevators synchrone... As known, testflights have been made with the (or multiple?) prototypes, the LA333/334. It is unknown what happened to the prototype(s). Because of the strict confidentiallity (top secret) only 1 picture has been released, heavily censored (see pic 6) picture 6:Supermarine F. Mk 199 Twin-Spitfire ________________________________________________________ A project that only needed the "go ahead", was the succesor of the T9, a trainer version of the Mk IX, used with succes in the Dutch and Irish airforce. But because of the rapid development of the jet, this project only saw 1 prototype. A unique feature of this plane was the low-bi-plane design. This meant that the pilot in training was seated in the same place as in the Spitfire F. XIV, a version he would fly after graduation. (in the T9, the pilot in training was seated more forward to give the instructor more space in the back). In principal, the T 900 consisted of two F. XIV melted together into one plane. Picture 7: Drawing of Supermarine Spitfire T 900 It is not clear when the first testflight had been made (somewhere during summer '47), but there where some problems with the in flight caracteristics, because of the bad planned aerodinamics. The airflow on the forward wing caused a reversed effect on the aft wing, causing the T 900 problems in taking off. They soon ceased to fly the prototype, but they kept on searching for a solution to fix the problem. The Mk T 900 had a Griffon 61 (2005 Hp) engine and would have had a max speed of 705 KpH. Picture 8: drawing, and second pic is the AT 900 prototype during a test flight. (pic taken in August '47, from a Lincoln Bomber) Once the problems solved, a second version was made, the AT 900B (RN222), this plane made several succesfull testflights! Picture 9 Spitfire AT 900B during testflight (back of the pic is dated 27 March '49) _________________________________________________________ Picture 10: Drawing of an impossible project