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Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!" Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!" ************************************************************************* Tower: "TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees." TWA 2341: "Centre, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?" Tower: "Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?" ************************************************************************* >From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: "I'm f...ing bored!" Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!" Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not f...ing stupid!" ************************************************************************* O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o'clock , three miles, Eastbound." United 329: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this...I've got the little Fokker in sight." ************************************************************************* A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your last known position?" Student: "When I was number one for takeoff." ************************************************************************* A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down. San Jose Tower Noted: "American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadeloupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport." ************************************************************************* A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich , overheard the following: Lufthansa (in German): " Ground, what is our start clearance time?" Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English." Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany . Why must I speak English?" Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war!" ************************************************************************* Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7" Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway." Tower: " Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7. Did you copy that report from Eastern 702?" BR Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers." ************************************************************************* One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee. Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, "What a cute little plane. Did you make it all by yourself?" The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with a real zinger: "I made it out of DC-8 parts.

"Tactical and Technical Trends" was published by the U.S. Military Intelligence Service in WWII from June 1942 to June 1945. http://www.lonesentry.com/intelbulletin/tt_trends.html One from Malta The heavy and persistent air attacks on Malta have rightly earned for that small Mediterranean island the description "the most bombed place on earth". Because of its importance to antiaircraft artillery, a brief review of the aerial tactics used by the enemy is presented here. All heavy attacks were by day, with a few light raids by night. The Germans never employed straight, high-level bombing. Full use was made of the sun and any available cloud cover. The practice of feinting was used--starting to dive towards one objective and then turning to attack the real target. Until the middle of March, with one exception, only JU 88's were used by the Germans. Later JU 87's were also constantly used. The JU 88's approached between 12,000 and 18,000 feet and came in at angles that varied between 30° and 60°, releasing their bombs at 6,000 to 9,000 feet, sometimes pulling out as low as 4,000 feet. Generally, the JU 87's dived very steeply, pulling out at the same height as the JU 88's. The early attacks were by successive waves all approaching from the same direction and attacking the same objective. As the attack developed, the tactics varied, and synchronized attacks by waves of bombers approaching the same objective from different directions were common. The synchronization became markedly better with practice. Alternatively, heavy attacks were made simultaneously on two targets, the object in either case being to confuse the defense. Later "wingers" would peel off from the main attack to make individual attacks on heavy antiaircraft gun positions on the lines of approach or close to the target, or small formations would make deliberate diving attacks on gun positions, synchronizing these attacks with the main attack. After delivering their attacks, bombers took violent avoiding action, turning and changing height until clear of the island, and did not normally come low enough to make good targets for light antiaircraft guns. They did not attack light antiaircraft gun positions. Bomber formations were always strongly escorted by fighters. After a raid, some of the latter would machine-gun British dispersal areas, gun positions, fishing boats, or fighters about to land. Bombers were preceded by a fighter patrol and always followed by reconnaissance from a great height. ME 109's often carried bombs, which were dropped with accuracy from a height until special Maltese spotters (who have remarkable eyesight) were established in observation posts to identify bomb-carrying fighters so that the guns would engage them. At least in the bombing attacks on Malta, Germans showed the trait, observed in the last war, of doing the same thing at the same time every day. During the heavy raids it was normal routine to receive an attack of about 75 bombers soon after breakfast, a second at lunch time, and a third at about 6 in the evening. This regularity was found to be a great convenience.

Sigh, unless I win the lottery I'm stuck with the 1:48 scale version. Like a TV commercial for Greenpark Homes used to say. Yes, we can afford to build it at the same quality and price but it will only be this big. (holds up doll house)

Wow, I thought the 787 was on hold from lack of orders.

Ahh so it's a real windmill, not the Mickey Mouse ones they sell today. They couldn't even fathom the thinking that goes into MTBF philosophy back then. I think the new ones I see all over aerate. Wouldn't take much to run an air pump.

Just how well does the windmill work?

I had no problem with the E button. Just went to WEP power and bound it. The clutch I did play with, it's bound to F7 in my profile above and I use that as TS transmit. If you forget to load the profile it doesn't work, sometimes I jabber away for minutes before I clue in.

I bound almost everything in-game, about the only thing I had to bind was my teamspeak transmit key(the "clutch" button, center of small wheel, left thumb) Another extra:

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I did see an overlay is integral with the program which would probably function as a web page display if the server also has the overlay.

We tried Vent and GSC. Ventrillo was a bit clearer with some cool stuff but TS had the least delay so we stuck with it. This new one is worth investigating.

Dunno if it's just me but the "Show unread posts since last visit" tab hasn't ever worked reliably. This morning I got a PM that was sent 11PM the night before even though I had been here as recently as 2am.

I could never understand why people need "desktop themes" in the first place. Same for forums, it's the information content, capability, ease of maintenace and security that's important.

America's Army 3 Release Date AA3 will be released on June 17th.

They do look a bit cheap. This is for hardcore gamers, you better make it high quality.

Has some nice features, others not so good. $300 is a little steep even if you do get the pedals too. Force feedback, split/single throttle, dedicated trim functions (but in the wrong place). Pretty much guaranteed the software is better than Saitek. http://gizmodo.com/5275549 LOS ANGELES — E3 — June 2, 2009 — To provide flight simulation enthusiasts with a realistic experience, Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) today unveiled the Logitech® Flight System G940. The latest addition to the acclaimed Logitech G-series line of gaming peripherals and the company’s first force-feedback flight simulation controller, the design and controls of the Flight System G940 were inspired by military and commercial planes and helicopters. “There’s nothing ordinary about a G-series gaming peripheral, and the G940 is no different,â€

You could always become an Autoworker for GM or Chrysler... Or Magna, off a couple of months now ... the party will be over soon.

The rope could have been tied to the tree left and would have gone a long way to helping. I cut a tree in the summer when it was in full leaf, had a 10,000lb tie down strap securing it so it wouldn't go the wrong way. A gust of wind came up(prior to a thunderstorm) and that strap snapped like a bit of twine. Tree took out 20 ft of the fence. My neighbor was not amused.

You want me to wiggle my HOT ASS? I always wondered about some of you guys.

I see there's a post by DD_GreyKnight in their forums. He's having trouble getting it to work with IL2.

Had I known of these I would have bought them rather than the ones I did get. Medusa is known for their high quality. Same price as the ones I did get.

Depends how much $ you're willing to spend. I used Logitec Internet Chat ones for a long time. About $40 I found them reasonably comfortable. Decent sound, good mic. http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/review ... set-review Got a pair of these, horribly uncomfortable. $30 Still have em, free to anyone foolish enough to want them. http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gamin ... 8&cl=us,en When I finally gave in and decided to try the 5.1 sound thing I got a pair of these. $100 http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efhpa2/home.aspx I was looking for some that I could easily attach my Freetrack emitters on to. They crushed my ears at first but the addition of some adhesive backed foam weatherstripping fixed that up. The curve is tight so I had to stitch them on in about 5 places to hold but it was enough. It's now a few months, great sound, good mic, no problems.

These things are amazing Jack. Half a dozen of the planes I'm used to would fit right in there. Is this how air starts work?

My colleagues at home here seem to do all kinds of things and protest all my accusations with "I did nothing" while the evidence suggests otherwise. Set them up with a guest account on your machine and password your admin account. They won't be able to do anything beyond the permissions you allow. http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=747

No doubt they used to work for Microsoft and it's natural for them to decide what's best for us. Or perhaps he's been at work too long and should get out more.