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OH GOD OH MY GOD! My biggest aviation wish come true! I demand video footage! I thought the only 801 in restoration was the one that Kettendude guy from ubizoo is working on... Wait...I need to....lie down for a second....

I'll do that, though I wonder how it will affect my game. I get sliiiiight framerate drop with normal UP clouds when there's plenty of them, in normal view, but in zoom view It drops to 5-ish fps if a big cloud is behind the target I'm aiming at.

I took these in-flight. Don't have patience to record and then play for screenshots and then want to change something but be unable to since it's a track. I like to to be able to change angles and backgrounds on the fly for picture taking. I should just watch out for the messages on the right and take shots when they're not visible. Speedbar can easily be cropped out These were all taken rather hasty, I'll take better ones and modify them slightly to look better soon...

Couple pics of my favorite planes May post more of others later, work on the brightness/contrast etc...

It looks like it's trailing thunderstorms

always rewarding to break the usual search and destroy routine with messing around with a crap plane and actually doing something useful with it. I would have got 130 points if I made it back, probably more as I still had ammo. Compared to later when I flew in with a 109 over the channel only to be shot down by flak twice

On Friar's MDS earlier tonight. I flew in low from France, on my special infiltration & sabotage mission. My ride? A marvel of engineering. As quiet as an I-16 after pulling negative G, as stealthy as a Catalina with a leak. Armed not to blow up and destroy, but to stab through the heart. As I crossed the channel after 23 hours of flying from France, I went in low south of Dover, the flak never noticing me in my superb discretion, furious battles raging above. I approach my target area at grasstop level, decrease speed, (and start recording). ICH MADE IT! First ich dealen mit possible threat. Mein 7.92 kaliber ist die beste! It blowen up artillery zu smitherines-en. Ich bin ingoren geparkt aerokraften becaus main ammunition bist limitieren. Ich searchen fur softeren targeten. Ich habe founden trucken. HA! Taken das british autos! BMW senden its regards-en! MEHR DESTRUKTION! After destroyen die dreimal A und die autos, ich wanteden zu turnen arounden and shootzen ein big barrage balloonen, aber ich hat made ein miskalkulazion un gekrashen in hausen. If ich hat back zu France managed geflyen, no doubten Goering would 130 pointen on mein uniformen awarden. From Nazi Hell, Yours sincerely, Friedrich Heinz (Nazi satan ist forzen me lektures aus deutsches language gelernen)

Most beautiful aircraft ever created, as far as I'm concerned. Also my first in game choice for ground attack. Wish I could do better with it in air to air combat though...

nope it was ny plan, because I already climbed the mountain in summer daylight 3 times in the last 2 years

If you're wanna be dumb, you've gotta be tough? Well when I come to the UK, which will certainly happen, whether for Duxford or in another time, I'm all for climbing anything you have there.Or do the forest thing. Though if that involves carrying a 20-30kg bag uphill, it's not an experience I'm looking to repeat in this lifetime I'll also post pictures of the mountain I took on previous climbs a year and two years ago, during summer, and some awesome pictures on the top above the clouds, practically the most beautiful thing I ever saw in my life, sober at least...

this I named this bush King of the mountain 2 years ago packing our stuff that we left at the camp site this is the way we climbed funky tree remember this? a year ago on the way to the car this is her, another folk tail is that the mountain is a sleeping giant, the summit being the head and the two small peaks on the right the legs. It's interesting that the summit looks very different when viewed from different sides The night ascent was one of the more fun and exiciting things I did in life, especially due to the harsh wind, it was as if the mountain didn't like to be disturbed so late We got home at 11 am, I proceeded to smother myself with the warm sheets of my bed and sleep until 8pm. Bear Grylls would have cried like a pussy if he was with us.

a steel cable fence that doesn't reassure much as the wind could probably push me right through it the mountain from near the top, the way we came, the red light is a transmitter near the mountain lodge 200 meters below a bit more light aaand the rest of the mountain in daylight, the small peak (there are actually two, the other is behind this one) is often used by alsinists as vertical climb training, as are the cliffs of the summit itself summit soon alien light started shining through the fog, and then the fog itself lifting. Soon only a dense cloud ceiling some 20-30 meters above the summit remained. The sunrise was utterly unreal, but having already seen the sunset above the clouds on this mountain before, I knew what to expect. These pictures do little justice to this spectacular show of nature. my camera has been through a lot and the specks are due to lens and light sensor damage mountain shadow the transmitter near the mountain lodge, this time in daylight helipad from the summit

Ola. This weekend we finally pulled off what I was planning for a month before, climbed a 1200 meter high mountain in the middle of the night and waited for dawn. I've been to this mountain 5 times before so I knew the way, it's my second favorite place in the world. It's the mountain "Klek" 6-ish kilometers west of the town Ogulin here in Croatia. (if you find it on google earth you can click the panoramino images, the majority of which are mine from previous climbs). We arrived at the base of the mountain at 00:30am, and immediately found out that the wind was blowing insanely fast, the sound of it blowing through the woods was literally like standing over a big waterfall. There's a sign with pretty much useless text at the beginning of the trail. The shape is supposed to be that of a witch, not that of a chicken, folk rumors being that witches meet on top of the mountain. something ate the second paragraph First 2/3 of the climb is through woods. Going through the dense dark forest where wolves and bears live was interesting. Having to stop all the time for my fat friend to get some air was not. I was packing a glock knife and starter gun with CS rounds in case of a bear encounter, not that I thought it would help much at all since I would most likely not be able to even draw the gun if I saw a bear charging me. Ironically, when I got home there was a hunter on the news who was nearly killed by a bear elsewhere in the country. Friend was bringing firewood from below in a plastic bag. this is my failed imitation of the Borg more accurate lighting things start getting steep, a fall into the darkness to the right means tumbling down a very steep and very long slope of sharp broken rocks. after some 45 minutes we passed the mountain lodge without stopping, didn't want to wake the people inside as it was about 1:30am Continued onwards towards the summit, from the mountain lodge onwards the trail is more and more dangerous, conventional forest is replaced by cliffs and very steep slopes. The wind is freezing us to death all the time, we pass a large but short cave and rest inside, drink warm tea and energy drinks. Continuing onwards, walking along the base of a 200 meter high cliff, then upwards along the cliff on some very steep makeshift "stairs" (will post a daytime picture later) very near the top now, there is a part where you need to use all fours, a rope is provided for convenience try falling here Following this steep ascent we can again climb without the use of hands. Very near now, the trees are gone, now it's just grass and rocks, and the wind trying to literally blow us off the mountain, we were a bit edgy about walking over some parts of the trail very near the 200 cliff we had just climbed under and were now on top of. After some more climbing, we get to a very basic and small concrete helipad, the top is in sight, 5 more minutes and we are on the summit, it is past 3am the concrete blocks were the base for a communications instalation during the war, when I first climbed the mountain in 2001 it was still there but they took it off eventually. In the background is a small unmanned metereological container-house-thing. success! by the way the summit is surrounded by high cliffs from 3/4 sides nearby town of Ogulin We had planned to stay on top or near it until dawn, but the wind changed our mind. We backtracked for 15 minutes back to the tree line 100 meters below, jsut before the rope part where you have to use your hands In the cover of trees and a big rock, at 4am, we find shelter from the wind. We make ourselves cushions from fallen leaves, wrap ourselves in blankets and sleeping bags, light a small fire and keep ourselves warm with some rakija while waiting for the dawn (if you don't know what rakija is, be glad). Then a friend decides it would be a good idea to drop 10 boxes of matches, a box of fire starting cubes and 2 small packs of firecrackers into the fire which was half a meter from us. The next hour spontaneous explosions threw sparks, ash and ignited wood all over us and the heaps of dry leaves around us (which were thankfully semi-wet and didn't really burn well). My sleeping bag got burned, and we all almost died from the continuous smoke blowing into our dirrection yed refused to reposition ourselves because that would mean a) getting up and losing precious body heat. So we settled for choking, eyes burning and possible carbon monoxide poisoning. The smoke wasn't blowing at us all the time, just some 60% of the time. When the fire, which was not that big, ran out, we almost froze to death. Some pictures of these 2 hours of utter silliness tooth ache? inventory check a friend thinking he will emerge as a butterfly in the morning and just fly hope to a warm bed, you wish. As the sky started getting lighter we return to the top for the sunrise On the way to the helipad taken from the helipad looking at the top

*drooool* the explosion pictures are fantastic

<--is banned from there hopefully I can find them on youtube

Nothing much I can really say that hasn't already been said, best wishes to you and your family Jim, good vibes and remember, it's not over yet.

Absolutely. If you want to play it by the book they ass rape you, if you say "enough of this shit", you are a thief and criminal

That sucks BG, best wishes! You'll be up and excavating before you know it