CaptJackG

This is still a FPS game...I use to play this a long time ago and really enjoyed it. How do I get started with it and should I get a boxed version?

Here is a picture of a RF84F serial no. 52 7421 now located in a museum in Michigan. Next is a picture my brother recently found of our father. I thought you guys might like to see these.

I remember when IL2 first released. It killed my machine, frame rate was a slide show and many ctd's. Today we all talk about what a great sim and how it has persevered over the years. I believe that we'll see the same thing happen with COD. Down the road we'll be talking about what an amazing game COD is for the next several years. There will certainly be some pains for this game to evolve into the standard that others will be measured against but I think that this will be the outcome. Plus COD is the reason I told my wife that I needed to upgrade my computer so I have to buy it.

Howdy Dino Good to hear about your return.

Thread over on SimHQ about release, seveal videos. http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3243806/Russian_version_It_s_out.html#Post3243806

I'm going to work on Tuesday the 22nd and probally not getting home before the 17th of April...so hopefully shortly thereafter I'll have a nice surprise from Amazon. Plus I've got vacation in May so I'll be off until June.

you are truly one with the force young padawan.

One night on a snowy cargo ramp in Pittsburg, Pa the First Officer and I were getting ready to haul a DC-3 load of freight for Emery Air Cargo to Cleveland and then to Dayton.We'd had sleet earlier in the day and now it was snowing so I had a layer of ice with snow on top of that on my Gooney Bird. Since our company wouldn't pay to have the plane de-iced it was up to the FO and I to get the snow and ice off our Douglas. So we would climb up on the wing with big shop brooms and sweep the snow off, sometimes sliding off our selves. We would then beat the ice layer with the broom handle cracking the ice off the plane. Then we went down the leading edge with the handle beating the ice off there. The landing lights on the Gooney bird are in the leading edge of each wing about 1/3 span out from the nacelles. You can see the lens forms to the leading edge and is either made of glass or plexiglass. Ours this night were made of glass. While the FO was beating the ice on the leading edge he hit the landing light lens and broke it. The problem now is the air load in flight can push the landing light into the wing and then cause the wing to inflate. Not a good thing. Not having any spare DC-3 landing light lens' in Pittsburg we took duck tape and completely taped over the broken lens. Flew the airplane that night and the company sent us another lens. Another day in Detroit I had a fork lift driver drive into the outer 1/3 of my left aileron smashing it up pretty good. We took a knife and cut off the tattered fabric to the next good aileron rib and then duck taped up what was left of my aileron and flew the Gooney back to South Carolina. If duck tape can't fix it, it can't be fixed.

That is good to hear...on SimHQ there is a huge thread already about it.

It looks like a Steam account will be required to run COD online and off. Anyone have any experience with Steam? http://il-2-sturmovik.ubi.com/cliffs-of-dovers/blog/uk/?p=1162

Looking forward to getting this when I get home. Hopefully see up flying Snacko

I have pre-ordered COD from Amazon. Says 3/22 release date.

A lady walks into Tiffany's. She looks around, spots a beautiful diamond bracelet and walks over to inspect it. As she bends over to look more closely, she unexpectedly farts. Very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone noticed her little 'whoops' and prays that a sales person wasn't anywhere near. As she turns around, her worst nightmare materializes in the form of a salesman standing right behind her and he's good looking as well.. Cool as a cucumber, he displays all of the qualities one would expect of a professional in a store like Tiffany's. He politely greets the lady with, 'Good day, Madam. How may we help you today?' Blushing and uncomfortable, but still hoping that the salesman somehow missed her little 'incident', she asks, 'Sir, what is the price of this lovely bracelet?' He answers, "Madam ... If you farted just looking at it - you're going to shit when I tell you the price ."

very very funny

Thanks for the info guys.

I have a new monitor that is DVI and also HDMI able and my video card can also do either. Anyone know if there is a difference in monitor performance between the 2 sources?

http://biggeekdad.com/2010/01/tango-mike-mike/

Subject: Qantas: Engine Problems Mean its A380s - - - By Brett Snyder December 16, 2010 You'd think that the Qantas A380 saga would be winding down by now, but you'd be wrong. Qantas is still struggling with the fact that it can't operate the A380 to the U.S. because the engines simply can't handle it. This means that things continue to get worse for engine-maker Rolls-Royce, and I imagine legal bills have only started to pile on. Rolls needs to get this thing under control, because right now Qantas is in a bad place. While Singapore and Lufthansa both use the Rolls-Royce Trent 970, Qantas had to use the 972 to get 2,000 pounds more thrust for its operation. There actually isn't much of a difference in the engines at all, but one is rated to give a little more power. For Qantas, that little bit extra is really important. Qantas has re-started flights from Sydney to places like Singapore on the A380, because it doesn't need full thrust to operate that route. However, the prize has always been flights to Los Angeles, and that's a different story. At nearly 7,500 miles, Qantas needs every bit of thrust to get off the ground at LAX with a full passenger load and a lot of fuel. And that full thrust requirement is apparently why Qantas is having bigger engine problems with this airplane than anyone else. Any time you use full thrust, you put more stress on the engine. Engines are supposed to handle that just fine, but not in this case. Qantas has now found that it can operate no more than 75 flights at top thrust before it needs to replace an engine. That's ridiculous, considering each engine can cost $10 million or more. And it leaves Qantas with a huge problem. Rolls-Royce had suggested last month that Qantas operate the engines with less thrust. That suggestion is completely worthless since it would mean Qantas could carry a mere 80 passengers on the LA to Sydney route. The airline might as well just operate a 747 at full capacity for a lot less cost with a lot more passengers. If it can't carry a full load on the A380, that airplane is worthless. The funny thing is that Qantas didn't even want the more powerful engines in the first place. It opted for the same ones as Lufthansa and Singapore originally, but then Airbus announced the A380 would weigh 5 tons more than planned. That pushed Qantas to order the higher-thrust engines in order to make the airplane viable on the LA route. So now Qantas is stuck between a rock and a hard place. It has A380s on the property but it can't fly them where it wants without needing a multimillion dollar engine change every few months. Rolls-Royce is going to have to fix this problem or Qantas is going to have to find an alternative. The silver lining for Qantas is that it's not going to be responsible for any of the cost here. Rolls-Royce and Airbus (to a lesser extent, if any), however, are going to have to open up those wallets. For Qantas, however, it would much rather just have an airplane that functions properly. Instead, Qantas now has to go through its peak travel season without the ability to use the A380 to the U.S.

WOW...I just pray that if I ever crash land on a remote uninhabited Pacific Island with just a nail file and a toothbrush you'll be with me to rebuild the plane and fly out. Very impressive PS: you might want to redesign the throttles...I might be a little leery of holding those peni.....I mean throttles in my hand.

http://www.cdsg.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=337

Merry Christmas to you bunch of Scurvy Dogz. As the New Year approaches just wanted to say that finding you guys to fly with has been a real joy and I look forward to many more years with the Dogz. Best wishes to all for the coming new year.

THIS IS BEYOND AMAZING !!!! IT'S INCREDIBLE !!!! Very , very interesting, scientifically proven................. Six Truths in Life 1. You cannot stick your tongue out and look up at the ceiling at the same time . . . a physical impossibility. 2. All idiots, after reading #1, , will try it. 3. And discover #1 is a lie. 4. You are smiling now because you are an idiot. 5. You soon will forward this to another idiot. 6. There is still a stupid smile on your face . I sincerely apologize about this, but I'm an idiot and I needed company. You now have 2 options...delete it, or send it along to put a smile on someone else's face today.... I decided to pass it along to all my flying buddies

Case Antec Nine Hundred Two Gaming Case - Black Internal Expansion [6-Port] NZXT Internal USB Expansion System Processor Intel® Core™ i7 960 Processor (4x 3.20GHz/8MB L3 Cache) PowerDrive PowerDrive Level 1 - Up to 10% Overclocking Processor Cooling Liquid CPU Cooling System [sOCKET-1366] - Enermax Dual Silent High Performance Fan Upgrade (Push-Pull Airflow) Memory 6 GB [2 GB X3] DDR3-1600 - Corsair Dominator Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 - 1.5GB - EVGA Superclocked - Single Card Video Card Brand Major Brand Powered by ATI or NVIDIA Motherboard[ SLI] ASUS P6X58D-E Motherboard USB / SATA Interface Motherboard default USB / SATA Interface Power Supply 850 Watt -- Corsair CMPSU-850TX Primary Hard Drive 1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 64M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive Optical Drive [10X Blu-Ray] LG BLU-RAY Reader, DVD±R/±RW Burner Combo Drive - Black Sound Card 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard Network Card Killer 2100 Gaming Network Card Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-Bit Here are my new system spec's. Just wanted to see if you guys have any thoughts on this setup. I'm hoping to be able to max out Storm of War.

You Don't Have To Own A Cat To Appreciate This One! You don't even have to like them! We were dressed, and ready to go out for the New Years Eve Party. We turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet, and put the cat in the backyard. We phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and we opened the front door to leave the house. As we walked out the door, the cat we had put out in the yard, scoots back into the house. We didn't want the cat shut in the house. Because she always tries to eat the bird. My wife goes on out to the taxi, while I went back inside to get the cat. The cat runs upstairs, with me in hot pursuit. Waiting in the cab, my wife doesn't want the driver to know that the house will be empty for the night. So, she explains to the taxi driver that I will be out soon, 'He's just going upstairs to say Goodbye to my mother.' A few minutes later, I get into the cab. 'Sorry I took so long,' I said, as we drove away. 'That stupid bitch was hiding under the bed. I had to poke her ass with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off, so I grabbed her by the neck. Then, I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from scratching me. But it worked! I hauled her fat ass downstairs and threw her out into the back yard!' The cab driver hit a parked car.