DD_Arthur

That's a ...er...remarkable story line! How is she getting on with her career now Todd?

Have you seen this? Looks very interesting. http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11042

How dare you!? And where the bloody hell did Fenrir get that picture of my wife? Happy birthday guys. Hope you both had a great day. Looks like Tonar did!

Yeah, I know what you mean. My computer flying habit grew in 2007 when my older kids were in their teens and did their own thing of an evening. Now they're men (sob!) and do their own thang all the time but my job now is full on and my youngest is nine and there won't be any more after him so................................. However, they'll be increasing windows of opportunity in the future and the stuff coming through now like CLoD, DCS and BoS are running at a new level and more and more people are moving on to them. How about building your own box with a quad core, new mobo and ram and Win7/8 and sticking the gtx460 in for the time being? It'll certainly run CLoD no problem and then you can contemplate a new graphics card at your leisure. I've got an Nvidia 660ti and I think it's a great card and BoS runs like a dream on it but it's apparently getting long in the tooth now and Ebay is your friend.

I might be talking out of my arse here - as usual -but doesn't Windows 8 give you the option of installing Windows 7 anyway? Tonar, the gtx460 you are running now is more powerful than a GT610 card. I just did a quick check of NewEgg and as long as you screw it all together yourself - for just over six hundred bucks you can get an AMD 760K cpu. Thats a quad core running at 3.8ghz. A Gigabyte mobo to stick it on, a 1 TB hard drive, 8 gigs of DDR3 memory, a 600w power supply, a case, a DVD drive and an Nvidia 7600gtx. Re-use keyboard, mouse and screen but operating system will be extra. This system will run CLoD, RoF and BoS on pretty much max. without any problems at all.

BoS at - I think - sixty per cent;

Hear, hear!! Welcome back Deputy. Nice to see you.

Hello chaps! I'm in Perth, Western Aus. It's chilly and five to two on freakin' Saturday morning but can't sleep yet as my stomach says no, it's Friday evening in the UK and is expecting a takeaway curry. Saw Bongo's shout about the Seafury at Culdrose airday. Bugger, bugger. Found this on the 'tube; Looks to me like the engine lunched itself and he managed to get it onto the runway - just - with a no power approach, flaps down and held off dropping the gear until he was sure of making the apron. Looks like an emergency drop of the under carriage and the right hand leg didn't lock down. Pretty good piece of flying me thinks.

Everyone deserves their fifteen minutes of fame.

So no tea tray?................sigh.............

I see. That sounds interesting. I personally have very little knowledge of RAF uniforms but we do certainly have an ex-member of the RAF and a couple of people who do have a lot of knowledge on this subject. Posting some pictures of what you've got would be a good idea. All I can tell you about Sqn. Ldr. Goodman is that he was flying one of 617 Squadron's Lancasters when they sank the German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord in late 1944.......I think.

Hello benbenny. Welcome to our forums. You have some old uniforms I understand. What exactly is it you'd like some help with?

Really enjoyed that Bongo.

Lol, Crash Bob Monkhouse?

It's part of our cultural heritage Jabo. Do you remember "Opportunity Knocks" with Hughie Green or am I wandering into 'old fart' territory here?

Mmmm......yes please.

If none of this works Crash, have you thought of having the missus stand behind you and hit you over the head with a tea tray whilst singing 'Mule Train'?

Greetings Son of Horus - or even 'Ello Kev m8 and welcome to the Dogz. Got an X55? Check this thread out; http://dangerdogz.com/forums/topic/11318-my-x55-rhino-came-today/

Bridges!

Fantastico!

I used to be able to strip and re-assemble an SLR in just under 4 hours and thirty seconds blindfolded. Thats thirty seconds to strip and re-assemble and four hours crawling around looking for the freaking gas plug!

It is now but see if you can find some history on the funding and funding as a percentage of government spending. Funding as a percentage of government spending counts for more in all EU decisions than straight cash. As usual we came late to the funding party as we had our own programme up until the seventies whereas the ESA and its predecessor organisations go back decades. As in all these things we were in at the beginning but were reluctant to trust those slippery europeans with our own wonga. Thats why the ESA is dominated by France. I don't have a clue as to the figures but I'm willing to bet Germany has been the biggest contributor for donkey's years. Its a pity the ESA is going down the astronaut route at the moment as on a science only basis unmanned missions offer much, much more scope for scientific research than trying to keep a human alive in orbit. However, I am now willing to concede the main point; the US won't let Brits fly as they obviously hate us! S!

Lol, Bongo! The ex-brits flew because they were very good at what they did. Look at Colin Foale's record. He is one of the most experienced astronauts in the world. All these other guys from Belgium, Mexico and Timbuktu flew once and they flew for reasons that were primarily political, not scientific. Its quite true that Britain abandoned its space programme in the early seventies on the basis of cost and in true British style we called a halt only after we'd spent vast amounts of money and produced a working launch vehicle! But in the UK theres only so much cake to go around and a space programme was abandoned in the face of other pressing demands. We are not contributing members of the ESA but I think we can all take pride in the fact that we are now spending a vastly bigger sum on two large floating boxes now taking shape in the Firth of Fourth. Sometime in the distant future we might even be able to afford some aeroplanes to put on.....one of them. .

The Mexicans and Belgians flew for much the same reasons the Saudi guy flew and in the future I've no doubt there will be Malaysian, Filipino and Vietnamese passengers astronauts flying NASA too. For most of these people, forget about the window-dressing of scientific research, its about being a pal of Uncle Sam. If they were US citizens they would not have flown.