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Wow, they kept this one quiet! Anyone have a spare few million dollars? https://www.aircraftrestorationcompany.com/fw189

Very nice work Sidly! Especially considering the time restraints.

402nd Mission Report 26/12/44 - Fighter Sweep, Schiedam sector Firstly, great work by all today, it appears both the Yanks and Limeys gave Jerry a bloody nose! We flew a six-ship North West with a view to patrolling the frontline South of Rotterdam, carrying a pair of 500s just in case, as usual. Before we reached our first patrol point and still a good way back in friendly territory (approximately 14,000ft over Roosendaal), White 1 (Perf) spotted a gaggle of aircraft co-alt and another gaggle slightly higher, heading roughly South and closing fast. We climbed hard to intercept and gain advantage, pickled off our now redundant bombs in the process and got into fighting pairs. White flight engaged first, identifying a flight of approx. six Fw190 D9s and a similar number of Ju88s in a stacked formation that circled North. We prioritised the fighters with each of us either downing or damaging at least one fighter each in an exciting multi-level fur ball. Aside from a few scares caused by Jerry seemingly hell-bent on head-on attacks, all were dispatched without any significant damage to us. Shortly afterwards, the Ju88s were spotted higher and to the North in a right-hand orbit, still stacked in a conveniently non-defensive formation. It was around this point that Red 2 (FT) reported total instrument failure and returned to base, I thank him for once again gluing to my wing during the melee and keeping me well covered. After a number of coordinated attacks, all bombers fell to earth and we proceeded to our original patrol waypoints. Aside from bumping into the 485th hammering Jerry ground targets in and around Gorinchem (well done boys), with nothing else happening we headed home for tea and medals. Well done 402 - another sterling effort from all pilots with great teamwork, top gunnery rendering an impressive haul of downed aircraft and above all, no losses.

Weird, definitely a D9 and a Ju88 for me. Don't recall seeing any short nose Focke's in our fight.

Consider me available

402nd Mission report - Patrol Florennes - Christmas Day '44 Bugger all to report from us, an eeriliy quiet day; perhaps Jerry were all huddled in their tents getting fat on duck, goose or rabbit with apple and sausage stuffing? Sure was sad to see our old home desserted and smoking. After patrolling Florennes for a while we headed towards the 485 target area to see if anything could be hoovered up, having set off with a pair of 500s just in case. However, a brief encounter with what turned out to be friendlies spooked us enough to pickle the eggs before we could use them. Not that there was anything to hit in any case. We knocked it off and headed home, with the only further excitment caused by Red 4 (gizm0) nearly running out of fuel. Jabo (Red 3) escorted him to nearby Bierset for a precautionary landing. I've ordered his groundcrew to relearn how to count to 100.

Should be there

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Thanks old bean

Thanks Crasharooney. The lenses don't fit my prescription, so I'll look into others that do. No room for my spectacles in there as I expected. I'll only be using one audio source at a time, either occulus headset or my other headset online and speakers if offline. Fen said there were issues if using speakers for game sound and headset for comms for instance? Hopefully shouldn't affect me.

Hey chaps, so I've finally joined the VR club by way of Crash's Rift CV1. First impressions have been great on just a rough and ready set-up flying GBS on I think fairly high 'HIGH' setting, using SteamVR. It obviously needs tweaking to fine tune it and smoothen the running and wondered what settings you would recommend for my set up based on your experiences? Ryzen 7 5800x 32GB Ram EVGA GTX 1080 8GB (i think) Rift CV1 My tiny mind was also blown at this talk of OpenComposite etc, so any further guidance on that would be most appreciated. Cheers

What about the 402nd? 🙃

Funnily enough, Fen and I listened to that one on the drive back from Sywell last weekend. Jammy sods!

Excellent! You're most welcome Col. I'm still chipping the surface of the 300+ episodes and enjoyed every single one I've listened to so far. That one is on my list, so I shall make it a priority.

Couldn't have put it better, great mini-break with some top chaps. Here are some pictures