Tribunus

In Blairgowrie's world Lake Erie is a serious pond.

~S~ T_O_A_D The top guy is a self taught amateur.

From the BBC WWII the peoples War Charlie Brown was a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 379th Bomber Group at Kimbolton, England. His B-17 was called 'Ye Old Pub' and was in a terrible state, having been hit by flak and fighters. The compass was damaged and they were flying deeper over enemy territory instead of heading home to Kimbolton. After flying over an enemy airfield, a German pilot named Franz Steigler was ordered to take off and shoot down the B-17. When he got near the B-17, he could not believe his eyes. In his words, he 'had never seen a plane in such a bad state'. The tail and rear section was severely damaged, and the tail gunner wounded. The top gunner was all over the top of the fuselage! The nose was smashed and there were holes everywhere. Despite having ammunition, Franz flew to the side of the B-17 and looked at Charlie Brown, the pilot. Brown was scared and struggling to control his damaged and blood- stained plane. Aware that they had no idea where they were going, Franz waved at Charlie to turn 180 degrees. Franz escorted and guided the stricken plane to, and slightly over, the North Sea towards England. He then saluted Charlie Brown and turned away, back to Europe. When Franz landed he told the CO that the plane had been shot down over the sea, and never told the truth to anybody. Charlie Brown and the remains of his crew told all at their briefing, but were ordered never to talk about it. More than 40 years later, Charlie Brown wanted to find the Luftwaffe pilot who saved the crew. After years of research, Franz was found. He had never talked about the incident, not even at post-war reunions. They met in the USA at a 379th Bomber Group reunion, together with 25 children and grandchildren who are alive because Franz never fired his guns that day.

BG, our Emperor, has certainly put together a unique group.

I had that happen to me with my old computer when I first installed IL2 '46 as a single install.

Congratulations.

Welcome to the Dog Pound Mate.

I never knew that so many Danger Dogz were pilots in real life.

That's all very nice, but it's still not powerful enough to play BOB-SOW with the settings set to excellent.

It was the late 60s and it was a sport called Team Handball. I don't know about it being a communist sport, but it was very popular in Europe, so I suppose you could call it a Socialist sport.

~S~ Campi Be careful Mate.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

I found this at the Ubi Zoo and wanted to share it.

Welcome to the dog pound.

~S~ T_O_A_D I've got a brother like that.

Wonderful. Thursday is the end of the work week over here, so that works out well for me.

Jim, Do you normally host on Thursdays?

Thanks for all the hard work that you've put into this FoolTrottel.

LOL At the most basic level you are absolutely correct.

Sorry, I forgot to reduce the size of the photos. I took no offense guys, and I understood the humor better than most.

~S~ All I've thought about this one a long time before I posted.

“Westminster City Council rejected a figure of the late Air Chief Marshal as too traditional.

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~S~ Sweper IL2 does not formally support the 6 degrees of motion that the new TrackIR allows.