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From: BBC Article Newly released photographs show how a team of World War II experts disrupted Nazi plans to bombard Britain - with the help of 3D glasses like those in modern cinemas. Hitler's deadly V-1 and V-2 missiles were early but effective weapons of mass destruction - unmanned flying bombs which brought terror to southern England. But their impact could have been all the more devastating - costing thousands more lives, lengthening the war and threatening the D-Day landings - were it not for the fact that British intelligence worked in three, rather than two, dimensions. One of the Royal Air Force's most significant successes came with Operation Crossbow, when it tracked down, identified and destroyed many of the V-weapons which could have prolonged the war. It did so by meticulously photographing the landscape of occupied Europe in a way that allowed officers to study every contour. Now the pictures have been brought to life using computer graphics in a BBC documentary thanks to research by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. During the war, the images were painstakingly analysed by a team of photographic interpreters - known as PIs - at RAF Medmenham in Buckinghamshire. Their secret weapon was a stereoscope - a simple Victorian invention which brought the enemy landscape into 3D. Working on the same principles as modern-day 3D glasses, it allowed the PIs to measure height, especially of unidentified new structures - such as rockets and their launch sites. This technique was to prove decisive, and it saved thousands from the V-missile barrage. The Spitfire is well-known for the role it played in the Battle of Britain, but less celebrated is its contribution to this crucial phase of the conflict. Pilots from the Photographic Reconnaissance unit, created in 1940, risked their lives by flying unarmed over Europe to take tens of millions of photographs, generating 36 million prints. To make the 3D effect work, images had to be captured in carefully-plotted sequences which would overlap each other by 60% so everything would stand up when viewed through the stereoscope. It made the job of the pilots - who, in addition, had to avoid enemy fire - an especially skilled and arduous one. Flying at 30,000ft, they were unarmed because of the weight of the five cameras carried on each Spitfire.

If sensor is dirty it is less sensitive and can do as you experience, cleaned up it increases sensitivity and lowers chance of FFB disengaging. I have not had this problem, but as suggested a piece of tape will work. Stick, IIRC, jumps when system is first powered up too!

Downside to that is your stick will continue to feedback. So if you are crashing and take you hand off it will hop off your desk, same if/when the FFB activate game crashes. I do the opposite and keep the sensor cleaned, crap gets in there and reduces sensitivity until it thinks your hand is always on, otherwise it picks up proximity really well when clean

I too used the keys. Now I have a CH Quad throttle that I have trims on, and pitch and mixture too. Mapping trims to the hatswitch is genius, wish I had thought of that!

Yay! Cheers Nick

This financial crisis is forcing State and local agencies to make some tough decisions. If things continue for much longer, there's a real risk that we may have to lay off Jose.

No software for MSFFB2 with Win7. So no macros for it, but you can assign buttons to actions. There is commercial software that can program both though..

Boxed version vs Steam? I have the Steam version, I read that boxed is easier to do the Combined Operations bit, but even with Steam it is a snap so long as you have ARMAII and Arrowpoint. Steam did a mid-week madness last week for it, £17 for the two but back up to £29 now I think. Well worth £29 if you are seeking realism vs arcade.

Just looking into the Normandy mod.. 2 million + objects...

FFB loss only lasts, in my experience, until you respawn. Not so bad in a DF but in a Co-Op a pain. So don't alt-tab unless you have died/landed. Replacing the FFB files is dead easy, once you have the files, as it is simply a case of copying the files over the old ones. I have attached 2 zip files containing (if my memory serves me well - but I can't remember the last time it did) modified ffe files. Backup the contents of the ForceFeedback directory in your install, and extract the contents of either zip to that directory. I think they are two variations on tuning, so experimentation is in order And yes, I should have put these in the vault but want to be a hypocrite today ForceFeedback.zip ForceFeedback2.zip

@Streak, glad you got it sorted. @Propnut, got any details on the Normandy Mission - what is needed to host/play etc? Jake's clan (my son) are quite keen on trying out a WWII aspect, and as they are quite young (15 - 21 year olds) I'm all for encouraging it as it can maintain respect for what was done by many for us. They are a nice bunch, some are NA, and surprisingly mature and very much into the team work aspect this game demands. Unlike BBFC2, MoH, CoD etc. lone wolves have a very short life span, and respawning is usually at least 2 clicks from the action - having chopper specialists ferrying us into action is cool

Great to have friends like that Jim. Impressive pile of wood growing there too!

I've got the Pips for Pippa. That is for sure.

Sweet! Screenies, as ever, show the beauty of IL2

Guys. This was about the appraisal of a wedding. Not an invitation to debate politics and history. The former we avoid (along with religion due to possibility of falling out) and the latter is usually related to WW2 or WW1 Let's keep it on topic please

It should be fully patched. To run combined Ops (after running ARMA 2 at least once) you can either: Right Click Arrowhead in library and select 'Launch ARMA 2: Combined Operations Or browse to the Arrowhead installation folder and run _runA2CO.cmd (send it to desktop, rename and change icon to make it easier).

Well that too, but that is a whole other discussion Kev!

Happy Birthday TOAD!

Made me feel proud to be British again About time we had a good looking Queen, and her sister .. yum!

+1 on the MSFFB2 and CH Throttle combo. There are FFB files you can replace to tone down gun and cannon, this leaves feedback just as you want.

Has been posted in the past, when it was buggy. Several patches, and a multitude of mods later, and it is now an engaging experience. One great feature is persistence (SEOW like) for multi-player. You can leave the sim and rejoin later and the AI will have progressed in your absence. Massive maps populated with AI friends and foes, and civilians, using Warfare mod (Benny Edition) makes this the FPS[imulator] it set out to be. If any of you have ARMAII and Operation Arrow head and fancy a session, I have a dedicated server running We use Mumble rather than TS, largely due to lower memory foot print and the built-in overlay, and you can find it on the default port on RCCLan.com (my son's Clan site).

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