DD_Fenrir

Colin! Happy bloomin' Birthday you top eclesiastical dog you! Seems only yesterday we were celebrating your last and cringing laughing admiring of your fancy foot-work upon the dance floor. I notice we weren't invited to your birthday celebrations this year.... though considering what Sid, Jabo, Kev & I got up to last time, well, I can't blame you.

Bought it. So, the FC3 Eagle - 3d pit is oooh....! Speed is aaaaah... ! New landing physics is hmmm... not in there yet! But aside from that and a regular (but not everytime) CTD when trying to change selected weapon - okaaaayy....! - and non rotating wheels on ground roll, it's a blast. You got to expect this from a Beta release. P51D and even A-10C were chock full of such niggles in early (and even late stage) betas. Not tried anything else but the F-15 yet. Will advise when I have. And yes Arthur. Dived under a nice little girder bridge @ 650knts earlier. Wish I'd got a pic.

More like a TR.9 to my eyes... (fixed tail wheel, two pits).

Chailey, 2004. I was there; never seen a Spit flown below tree height with my own eyes before that moment... :o

Lee was flying the Spit for that canal run; Hoof, was his Dad and yes sadly was indeed killed in '96, flying 'California Cuite' the FCs P-38J.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvmUqRY8fLw

Gents, you will need to patch HSFX 6.0 to version 6.01 - there is a hotfix patch downloadable from the vault. GET THE UPDATER. It will install to your Il-2 root folder & will want to update some Microsoft runtime functions. Let it. Then find the updater icon in your root Il-2 folder and run it. We are at the time of this post at version 6.015 and it might take some time depending on your connection to d/l 6.011, 6.012, 6.013 , 6.014 & 6.015. Thereafter check this thread: http://www.242sqn.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=30&sid=6eb1189668ab00dea7724e4fafb8dbe2 , probably once a week should do it, to make sure that you are up to date. As some of you have discovered, get too far behind and you'll lose a night's flying just catching up with updates. Better to do 'em one at a time.

Just look at the options! And widescreen support to boot! Fruity will be pleased! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=95WGJm3KbxA

File Name: The Hardest Day File Submitter: DD_Fenrir File Submitted: 16 Sep 2012 File Category: Missions A Co-op for Il-2 HSFX 6. Battle of Britain: 18th August 1940, 1400hrs... Major raids have wrought destruction at the famous RAF airfields of Biggin Hill & Kenley; it's been a gruelling morning with heavy losses for both sides. And yet even as the planes of Luftflotte 2 cross the French coast on the way home to their airfields, their comrades in Luftflotte 3 are taking to the air to strike the south coast of England. With the assests in place the Lufwaffe will engage RAF forces in the vicinity of their targets with a numerical superiority of 4-to-1... and they thought things were tough this morning... Click here to download this file

Flying starts at 1030... be a bugger to miss anything eh?!

Sorry to hear that Nick, but understood. We'll take some snaps for ya! Sunday is still the looking the more viable plans wise for me - everyone else?

Sunday is looking logistically like the preferred of the two, but if the weather makes Saturday the better option well logistics will just have to go out of the window! Current weather forecast look like it'll be cloudy with 10-15mph westerly winds on both days but given our climate of late, who bloody knows!

Birthday?!? I thought Streak was hewn by the Gods from solid granite and that Jedi was the test tube product of Nazi doctors attemting to create the perfect human? Didn't relise they'd actually been born. Oh well. Learn something new everyday! Well belatedly I hope you had some very happy hours on the day my good fellows, I shall hoist a glass in your honour this very eve! S!

Salutations and Merriment o' transatalantic bretheren on this the anniversay of your birth! May your respective days be brimming with joy, mirth and warm hearts, as you so richly deserve. A toast I say! To Artie & Tonar!

You need to ask?!

Aw man....! I came dashing in here expecting to find a P-38 model and just get a blinkin' English Electric! Well despite my disappointment, very nicley done Delta; the finish is excellent, Silver paint is merciless in highlighting any flaws, marks or partial gluey thumbprints as I well know, so nice work! Shame about the drying incident, but I didn't spot the tail till you pointed it out and even then it's no ruiner. Just make sur the next one's got twin booms eh?

Welcome Stryker, As a long time Il-2 offliner (and to some regard still to this day) I can say without equivoction that the multi-player aspect of this sim takes a great game an takes it by a quantum leap into new levels of entertainment - and not just going up against a breather in a dogfight, tho I confess my pulse quickens far more when i know or suspect the other machine has an organic brain behind the stick; more the fact that the chaps round these parts are the finest collection of misfits, bounders and just plain idiots (of which I definitively count myself one) you are likely to find on the net. I challenge any other squad to have has much ribald laughter, 'oh crap!' moments and so many double-entendres packed into one evenings flying! I hope you have many happy flying hours to come with us and please forgive some of our more peculiar tendancies (of which there are many - Painless being one); for sure once you catch the bug from hanging round these parts you find it damn hard to keep away! Sincerest regards Fenrir

Bingo! Got it in one Todd.

Oh dear God it's good... so, very, very good....

Whoot! Get DCS: World (1.2.0) here: http://www.digitalco...pos=137&lang=en then when you've installed that go get the finalised P-51 goodness here: http://www.digitalco...pos=136&lang=en Note the most awesome changes!: The headgear-depending-on-skin and the ability to lose the hardpoints are bits of eyecandy that made me grin, but it's the presence of FFB that's really got my juices flowing! Whoot!

Amazing story Rog, thanks for posting! Some oddities though - if on ops over Tunis, North Africa (as the date quoted and the markings on the Fort would agree) I doubt they were flying back to England! Probably more likely Algeria. Also the P-51 escorts seems unlikely; I think the only Mustang variant operational in North Africa with the USAAF at least was the A-36A, a dive bomber. Not impossible though. P-40s would be a more likely IMHO.

Who's that then Dave?

Name: Lockheed P-38G-10 (1943) Date Added: 23 June 2012 - 20:57 PM Owner: DD_Fenrir Short Description: Designed by the renowned Clarence Kelly the innovative P-38 was originally conceived as a long range bomber interceptor. Powered by two Allison V-1710-51/55 V-12 powerplants and run in conjunction with improved General Electric B-13 turbo-superchargers the P-38G-10 was one of the fastest Allied fighters at altitude during it's operational tenure. The -10 was not only was a formidable interceptor but with hardpoints now capable of carrying up to 1600lb bombs or, for the first time, fitted with M10 'Bazooka' tubes (wiring looms having been installed in modified and strengthened wings for this new load carrying capability) could now punch well above it's weight in the ground attack role.Fast and surprisingly manoueverable for it's size - thanks to counter rotating props that minimized torque - and with a heavy forward firepower complemented by excellent forward visibility the P-38s had only two real drawbacks; the first was an aerodynamic flaw inherent to the design that made the aroplane susceptible to compressability earlier than many contemporary fighters. Later marks would have dive flaps to counter this phenomenon. The 2nd was the poor high altitude performance and reliability in the ETO where a combination of climatic conditions (particularly cold & damp), engine coolant system not upgraded with the engines sufficently to cope with the extra heat developed, poor aircrew and groundcrew training on best management & maintainence of the powerplants & a related lack of ultimate ceiling as a result of all these factors took their toll on the apparent usefulness of the machine in that theatre. However, in the Mediterranean and particularly in the PTO the -38 was in much demand and when flown to it's strengths a formidable and dangerous opponent. View Aircraft

Bloody Nora! Christ that's low!