DD_Arthur

Take it easy m8. Looking forward to hearing those dulcet tones tonight.

Hmmm......would suggest things you've probably already done. Like checking whether T/S 3 is recognizing your mike, but I think thats in the 'options' panel and if it's crashing when you go into that....... Or re-loading T/S to latest Beta (they seem to upgrade it every week!) and make sure you're not using any linked T/S display application like Tint--that thing crashes T/S for me and I gave up using it.

Hello, AP m8. Will see you tonight. Perhaps we can get you on t/s2 and talk you through the t/s3 problems you're having?

Aha, now this sounds more like it. Cambridge is not very far from Duxford and since we drove back to t'Red Lion from the show I don't see a problem. A night out in Cambridge sounds quite a laugh. I'm sure we could find somewhere to auction off Jedi too.

It's called profiteering. They know there's an event on, they want to cash in. Traditional British hotel trade. Whats the rush? The Red Lion is still there. Treat the Holiday Inn as a flop house of last resort. From my perspective, as the only wage earner in my house-hold; add on the price of entry to the show to the Holiday Inn's attempt at extortion and for the same money I could fly to Toronto and spend the weekend digging Trout ponds with BG. Edit; Actually, the flophouse of last resort is the Red Lion carpark

Happy birthday, Swep m8. Apart from the teeth very glad and slightly jealous to see your having a good time. When you get back=Winter draws on!!!!

Now you know why I declined Friar and JP's very kind offer to kip in their room. My snoring can move furniture, crack plaster, undermine foundations. Wifey makes me sleep wearing a full-face crash helmet!

He managed to bail out of a Mossie twice! That is no mean achievement. Not the easiest of planes to escape from in a hurry. I seem to recall the navigator has to go first, whether out the door or top of the cockpit. Terrifying.

I agree. I'm running an E6600 at stock 2.4 ghz, an Nvidia 9800gt 512mb, 2gig of ram on windows XP. Frame rate is locked to the refresh rate of my 22" monitor so I get a consistent 60fps in perfect mode. Everything looks great. When BoB comes out I'm hoping it'll run it too. If not then I plan to upgrade my processor to an E8400!!!!

Also, be aware that carrier versions would have to take off with rather less ordinance than say, US Marine Corps versions from strips. I seem to recall the Marines could carry eight thousand pounders. That is four under each wing.

Pinched this link from over at the UBI forums. Fascinating BBC2 documentary from 1969 on Battle of Britain pilots. Well worth watching. Also, at last the Beeb are putting some of their huge archive online. My link

Good lord, you've got a lawn out of a hose in three weeks! Sure beats turfing it.

Dick Barton Special Agent!? They don't write em' like that anymore. Mind you, they don't talk like that anymore I think you might be interested in this BG; http://www.archive.org/details/otr_dickbartonspecialagent

Satellite radio? Is this what we call DAB (digital audio broadcasting) over here? We're big on radio in my house. To my kids disgust, I'm a bit of a TV Nazi. I see no reason to have more than one TV in the house. Certainly none in bedrooms. Ten years ago here in the UK we had just four or five channels. On a Saturday I used to sit down with the TV guide and have look at what was on, make a note of it and make sure I'd watch it. Nowadays we have 'Freeview' which is digital broadcasting. We've got something like forty channels now. It's total shite. As there is not enough decent telly to go around most of these forty channels just recycle the same old garbage constantly. I just can't be bothered. Most evenings my wife and I find ourselves banished to the kitchen as my now big kids command the telly rights. Neither of us mind. We can read, drink tea, my wife can thrash me at scrabble. I can smoke the occasional cheroot. We have the radio on. We did have a DAB jobby down here which was great if the reception was working but usually hopeless. It was fine upstairs. Last year I bought a Phillips Internet radio. It's fantastic. Works off the signal from our wireless router upstairs. The choice is truly endless. Despite what I said about modern TV I find radio much less obtrusive and a kind of nostalgic adventure. As a kid in the seventies I used to do my homework listening to the John Peel show and the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. That originally started out as a radio series on the BBC. I still prefer to listen to soccer commentary rather than watch it. Somehow just much more exciting. Been getting into Baseball too. English language radio is endless. Every local station worldwide seems to have an internet stream these days. I get a kick out of listening to local radio from Perth in western Australia knowing that my cousins out there will be listening too as they work at printing money-or pool contracting as it's more commonly known. Local radio ads from the Soloman Islands become fascinating. Even the Goon show is streamed by someone. I'll be checking out local radio from Ontario and Missouri later tonight after coops!

O.K., now up to T-34-85 wiv a bloody gert cannon but I'm runnin' outa gold and sleep

Hey, happy belated birthday Cap'n. Hope you had a good one

Happy birthday Funflak, m8. Hope you have a great day!

Nice pics FruitBat. I think I've seen a piccy of that old boy before. Was it on page 3 of the Angling Times? Oh yeah, shouldn't Painless be sitting in that Spitfire?

I've been wasting my life playing this for about three weeks as ArthurSmedley. So lets get this straight. When it comes back we'll be able to create our own rooms/play as a squad? Fantastic I must say WoT is a great way to use a few minutes waiting for a coop to start!

Ooops. Another one I've missed. Happy belated birthday guys. Hope you had a good time.

Happy birthday Jabo! Hope you and your new shiny multi-coreness have a great day.

Nice pics Jabo. 'That one' is now my desktop. My brother-in-law went to RIAT. He loves jets and the Raptor display was like nothing he'd ever seen before.

What a great weekend. Really good to meet all those familiar voices face to face. Thanks to Fruitbat I found the Dogz sitting beneath the shade of a VC10. Phew wot a scorcher! Had a quick look around the American hanger. Wow, I followed the 'path' up and around and the stuff they've got in there is amazing. And then there was the evening! BG gives a demo of professional scotch whisky tasting Roll on next year.

YES, YES, yes, yes, yes! Was talking to Largie during the finale at Duxford and we both agreed we want to do the Balbo one night. Take off, form up and a couple of close formation low passes would be great. Then see if we could actually land in group formation