DD_Arthur

"Sorry, but that does not appear to be a valid image. If you arrived at this screen by following a link on this site, please notify a system administrator" Thats what we get Colin.

Seventy quid including shipping? Unique, custom made, PropNut quality.........................................................................................

Bit of bad news from me now. 'Fraid I won't be attending Flying Legends this year (again!). Earlier this week my wife agreed to do the flowers at short notice for a wedding on this weekend. This involves wifey and her business partner working 'til around midnight on Friday night putting together the bouquets, button-holes and table decorations and delivering them and setting up at the venue on the Saturday morning. It's worth a shit-load of cash to us. The problem is my youngest son. Actually my youngest son is not a problem at all, he's the apple of my eye! but I cannot find anyone to look after him on Friday evening/Saturday morning. My eldest boys are still at Uni. or working on Saturday morning. As some of you know, this time last year I went down to four teaching days a week and I lost all my responsibility points too (don't seemed to have lost the responsibility though, lol). The financial effects of this mean my salary covers the mortgage, household bills, food, etc but being twenty percent down means we've lost the 'cream' for all the nice things in life like holidays, graphics cards, airshows and so on. I can't really complain as my wife's business is growing quite nicely but is an awful lot of hard work too. Her income would be paying for this little trip anyway. So this bit of business is not something we can turn away unfortunately. Jabo, check p.m's.

Isn't the Wings of Prey engine based on the IL2 engine anyway?

Brace yourself Dave but it appears there is only one authorised UK supplier; http://www.flightstore.co.uk/simulation-c8/track-ir-5-p2503 Just had a quick look on E-Bay and found this but not much else; http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?MT_ID=1327&crlp=11799443045_1924481&tt_encode=raw&geo_id=21&keyword=site%3Aebay.fr+e+bay&clk_rvr_id=338902482425&_nkw=trackir+&_trksid=p5197.c0.m627 Careful of non-EU imports as they can attract vat and duty.

Hello Sfrost, interestingly, I used the Saitek stick for about five years and was well happy with it until I got my paws on a MSFFB 2. The difference was night and day. I agree with Fruitbat completely. Remember, E-Bay is your friend; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/forcefeedback-2-joystick-/170833093933?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_JoysticksJoypadsGamepads&hash=item27c672252d or http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Microsoft-Sidewinder-Force-Feedback-2-Joystick-with-installation-disk-manual-/160791890551?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_JoysticksJoypadsGamepads&hash=item256ff18a77 Good hunting!

Welcome Jake. Did you enjoy the Ubizoo coops on hyperlobby tonight.? We do that about four times a week. Nice to see you here.

Pardon me for being a yokel but what is TGI?

There's a real one being restored in the States with the original engine. I believe a man named Crumpp is in charge!

You got it Mick Jabo

Snacko thats fantastic. I am absolutely green!

Oh bugger! Stop now and install the 64bit version. Seriously.

Excellent!! Welcome to the world of RoF and CLoD!!

Ooooohhhhhh. Five whole pounds? Tempting. Very tempting. Before I put my wife's money where my mouth is, it strikes me that all they've got to dig up is the plate thingy wiv' the important numbers on and Bob's yer uncle we can build you a spitty sir!! I mean the one they dug out of the beach at Le Tourquet and "restored" how much of that was in the thing we see flying around today?

Ovy m8, at the moment your machine will NOT run CLoD and it will be a big let down. Your video card is not up to it, you have not got enough RAM and CLoD hates Windows XP. However!!!!! At the end of this week a new beta patch will hopefully be released. This patch is basically a re-writing of the game engine and the devs have been claiming a huge performance increase for it. So this time next week you might be able to run CLoD. We will know soon. Your system at the moment would need to be upgraded to Windows 7 64 bit and you would need a new graphics card in the Geforce460 range or above to be able to use CLoD. Wait and see is your best option.

I just have a great deal of trouble believing there's anything down there period. Nothing has been found yet. This isn't the same team that "found" a Short Sunderland in Lake Windermere is it?

It had to be either him or Ghandi. They're the only ones who have kicked us out or didn't succumb to a superior alliance organised by us Brits!

This is a familiar kind of story really. From The Times, 7th. March, 1990 I wonder what happend to these?

Surely not?! If this occurs at it's maximum focal length why not consider it a 70 - 295mm zoom lens and keep on using it?

Some more on this story from the Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph...rned-to-UK.html The more I read about this story the more sceptical I get. None of this makes any sense whatsoever and seems to be based on the hopes of a retired Lincolnshire farmer. They are apparently Mark II's that were buried in their crates in July 1945 because why exactly? If you change the date to 1942 when the British were retreating then this makes much more sense. It is ironic that the Burma campaign produced Britains best general of the war in the shape of Bill Slim but was also the most pointless. In no way could events in Burma hasten Japanese surrender and the Burmese cetainly didn't want the British back after 1945. By the summer of 1945 the Japanese armies in Burma were reduced to starving wretches and in no way capable of making any sort of advance that would threaten any major airbase and the re-assembly of crated aircraft would be done at a major base not an operational airfield out in the Arakan. If these things exist in their shipping crates then I would think they would be preserved to a degree. They would have been packed to survive a long and potentially corrosive sea voyage but by 1945 supplies and equipment for Burma were usually landed in and around the Indian ports of Chittagong and the delta. Aircraft would certainly be reassembled at the big bases there and then flown into operational bases in Burma. Why on earth would Lord Mountbatten, the C-in-C South-East Asia have any say in something as mundane as the disposal of a few Spits? Why Mark II's? Long obsolete by 1945, even in training squadrons. Buried 40' deep!!! That's one big, big hole to dig in what must have been a hurry. None of this adds up. I think our Lincolnshire farmer has fallen victim to his over-enthusiasm for delightful myths and the local Burmese's willingness to go along with anything as long as someone is feeding them delicious, hard foreign currency! P38's buried in ice not withstanding, these sort of "discoveries" rarely come to anything tangible. Local rumour here has it that the USAF buried dozens of jeeps and Harleys when they left Dunkeswell airfield in 1946 but nobody has ever found anything. I once shared a long train journey with a middle-aged train-spotter who assured me that in the mid-sixties British Railways had sealed up dozens of steam locomotives in tunnels in North Wales as a "strategic reserve" and they were there waiting to be rediscovered. He was quite convinced. However, I am prepared to eat my hat. You never know.....These things are usually more mundane. The only eldorado of this sort I've ever seen myself was about twenty years ago at the Classic Bike show at Staffordshire showground. A guy was selling fifty complete, battered 850 Norton Commandos out of the back of a container. He'd been a civil engineer out in Saudi and one day come across a scrap yard where the Saudi airforce police had abandoned their complete inventory of Nortons when they got bloody Hondas! He bought the lot from the amazed locals for a pittance and shipped 'em home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17710598 Twenty crated Spitfires, buried for sixty-seven years!!?

I reckon there's enough room for JP to do a spot of Pole Dancing in there!

The stuff you use to remove the residue gunk from the cpu/heatsink surface...whats it called....Nail varnish remover!! or something similar, a clear solvent of some sort. Should be able to remove all surface gunk. Apply sparingly with cotton buds and dry surfaces thoroughly afterwards. It's that or run it under the cold tap!

JP, It's in Green Park in Central London. Get off the Tube at Green Park station and cross the road into the park. If you keep walking you'll pass the memorial, go out of the park and walk up Constitution Hill and you'll find yourself at the end of The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace.

Rox, thats just brilliant! How do you manage to guide yourself onto the Leo Triplets without using a telescope in the first place!? I've never been able to afford an imaging set up which is a pity as I live out in the sticks with pretty dark skies. From my back garden I have an uninterrupted view of the Eastern horizon. My "observatory" consists of a pair of 10 x 50 Binoculars mounted on a camera tripod and a 200mm SkyWatcher Dobsonian 'scope. The best bang for the money. Also, I'm very very lucky in that this place; http://www.normanlockyer.com/ Is a mere five minute drive from my front door! I've been an active member for eight years and done quite a bit of planetary web-cam work using the 6" Lockyer telescope - it's got the best drive and optics of all the telescopes at the observatory - my laptop, the humble Philips Toucam-pro and Registax. I'll dig out some images. I also use this very handy bit of web based freeware for locating Messier objects http://www.stellarium.org/ Finally, have you seen this site; http://stargazerslounge.com/ Very useful, very friendly. Plenty of good advice and enthusiasm on hand.