DD_Arthur

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.

http://en.wikipedia....St_Nazaire_Raid and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17534194 and even

Todd, this is the second time you've brought tears to my eyes. You're meant to be the gun-tottin' redneck remember? One day, and I don't know when yet, the Euro Dogz and the North American Dogz MUST meet.

But in view of the Soviet-style news blackout from the developers of CoD this just cracked me up. "I'll play fishing simulator!"

Does this come as a complete package with monitor/keyboard. If so it's an absolute steal. If not then it's still a bargain. We tend to think in terms of masses of ram, mega graphics cards and huge HD's 'cause thats what modern games demand but if you're looking for a general purpose pc then this would be more than adequate. Do the kids have a camcorder? If so they might get into video editing in the near future which would be this machines only draw-back so far as I can tell. FT, as a Dell it will almost certainly come with Win7 pre-loaded but you do make an interesting point. I've got a couple of friends who have bought Toshiba laptops in the recent past that were preloaded with MS Windows O/S and a whole heap of garbage proclaiming the wonders of Toshiba and this that and the other on start up and have managed to get themselves into a big pickle by not doing updates, installing aps off the internet which would further confuse things, etc, etc.

Isn't that something we all labour under!!?

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3534109/BF_109_G_6_Replica_Cockpit.html#Post3534109

This would seem to be the right thread to post this in. It's an ad but no, I don't know what it's an ad for either but please feel free to post your suggestions! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NBNnXNaMl4&feature=related

Yes, good luck Mr. P!

SkyPup, you have my sincere apologies for committing a form of vandalism on your words and links. JP; A little Greek!? Well I suppose thats one mid-life crisis I've got to look forward to. Please also accept my sincere apologies for my act of vandalism. Recently I seem to have lost my sense of proportion but more importantly my sense of humour too. I'm working on that. How did Greece get into the EU? The same way and for the same reasons Spain and Portugal came in. They'd all emerged from periods of military rule/fascist regimes and Western Europe was anxious to tie them into democratic institutions as quickly as possible. The same thing took place two decades later and for the same reasons with Poland, the Baltic states and those other countries of central and eastern Europe emerging into freedom after years under soviet hedgemony.

Oh I haven't stepped forward to "confess" yet Rog as I was hoping to have a bit more fun with JP's world view. Sorry to see I've obviously put you to some unwarranted effort over this Rog and you have my sincerest apologies for having done so. As to removing moderation rights, well I'm not too sure what this means as I'm not aware of any form of moderation here anyway. I was however under the impression that political discussion and boorish political propaganda was rightly verbotten here. I seem to have let myself become impatient with the consistent attacks on my country and continent that JP seems licenced to make. It's true I could reply to them but why should I have to bother? I thought we were here as a group of friends with an interest in PC Flight Sims. I didn't realize that we were the Attila the Hun forums too.

Thats 'cause you've got a shit graphics card Friar. FT's 580 gives him a choice of trees, forest, bushes, walls, carpet and lino. Keep up mate.

From my reading of the release blurb the P51 seems to be flyable from the "outside" i.e. don't have no 'pit!

Mmmm.....mine, tonight, now. This is pretty good for me out in the sticks here and being with wankface.com (aka Tiscali) however it'll probably rain later and it'll go down to tin cans connected with knotted string speed again.

+ about a thousand!! 1.53, oh lordy!! You cannot be serious.

Terrible music but some fantastic air to air!

Thats exactly what I thought. I mean, I'm sure it'll be wonderful but.......why?