Cold_Gambler

Sounds like fun... which (if any) was your plane?

http://www.khotkovo.ru/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2600&PN=1 Pretty neat-

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I think you just need a molex (see cord with red, yellow and 2 black wires above). If you look at you power supply unit (PSU) you'll see they're connected to your CD/DVD drives and your hard-drive. If you there's one that is not currently being used you can just connect it (with the machine off- of course :wink: )

@ JensenPark: Clockwise from bottom left to bottom right- 1- Vibrating headset. 2- Leather strap with velcro; used to strap CH throttle to left leg. 3- house fan + open case = overclocking insanity 4- Trac-IR hat with active IR source powered by 9 volt battery. The geekBorg look. I've been assimilated. 5- Trac-IR1 unit (gift from BunBun) 6- LEGO biplane 7- IL2- laminated map- used once. 8- MSFFB2 (Microsoft rant) 9- Teething ring In the center: my nest of wires. There may or may not be a slice of 'zza there that's evolved and taken up residence. My CH pedals.

Good Lord, I AM a slob.

Very nice... does it eat up any frames? what's the hit, if any?

Interesting, VT- I tried to get the cockpit for a PK on each of my passes but most (all?) of my kills came from destroying the engines. Hm..... On the other hand, it is kindof difficult (without doing the arcade=1 setting) to know if the bullets are actually going in the 'pit, given that the 8 .303s sort of "shotgun" in a general area. Doing this mission in the Spit after the Hurri is FUN!

Track sent

I did head-on after head-on... it helped that the bomber's flew straight 90-180-270 headings so it was relatively easy to fly parallel and then turn back into them. On almost all passes I'd get at least a fuel leak or an engine smoking- I only killed the last one outright (engine fire + boom) all the others crashed on landing. I didn't take much damage doing the head-ons, only towards the end did my engine suffer as a result of parking on the last bombers 6. I changed my gun convergence to 100m as I typically opened up at about 70 m out. I can send you the track if you like.

Woohoo! Got' em all with the peashooter... I *did* use time compression but only to speed up-

Tough one :shock: My best was two kills, two down (belly-landed), one prop feathered and another with the engine smoking- with two blissfully flying on undamaged. Out of ~ 30 passes only one resulted in critical damage (burning engine).

Most definitely count me in- I'm really looking forward to this one. It looks very promising. Every Thursday a new update comes out, better than the previous week's. I think Fall of 2006 is optimistic, though. As a complete guess I'd say maybe Christmas '06 release date. There's a lot of work left to do, even if they are cranking out new aircraft models every week.

Nevile Shute. A great writer indeed.(And a really interesting bloke aside) A misplaced pommie who came to Australia and liked it so much he stayed. "Round the Bend" was the flying one, right? Yep, that's the one; of course then... nope must not spoil :wink:

I found Lindbergh's war-time diary very interesting; first his involvement with the America First Committee, then with the aircraft manufacturing industry, and finally doing testing and flying of the P-38 and Corsair in the Pacific. For fiction I highly recommend "Round the Bend" by Nevile Shute.

Very very Zeus Thanks, and do keep posting pix as the project goes forward please

My pleasure guys. I knew you'd appreciate the pics. There was other stuff: -his ID card, pay-book, a RAF issue correspondence case, other pictures of that same lancaster, pictures of his mates, a picture of the King and Queen apparently on a visit to the airbase, some pictures of a sea-side village. Very interesting correspondence from my grandmother in Canada to him (she was not especially happy that he'd gone overseas leaving her with my 2-5 year-old father :wink: ). I'm really hoping that we can find that large tube of reconnaissance prints; that little tube of negatives was interesting but showed essentially three photo runs: so most of the pictures overlap. That tube, as I recall it, contained any developed images of different locations.

I've just taken apart an old Logitech FF USB stick which I junked ages ago (it was the fourth one that crapped out on me within a couple of weeks of purchase) so I am also going to try my hand at creating a button bay. I'm thinking 4 sliders: 3 trim + flaps 6 buttons: engine start radiator airbrakes eject supercharger next supercharger previous 8-way hat-switch: not sure... shame really, as there are 8 "buttons" available with it. Perhaps if I attach a stick to it and cut an 8-branched asterix that would work. In any case, this will have to wait until after I've moved into the house we've just bought (minimum two months away), so I look forward to seeing your efforts. Between that, the MS FF stick and CH throttle I shouldn't need the keyboard. I'll post an MS paint diagram later this evening.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! Good one, ewe fuckers.

Went to dinner at my Aunt's place tonight. I'd asked her if she could pull out some of his war-time stuff for me to look at. Here are some pictures: My grandfather served with 427 Bomber Squadron from '42 until '45: He worked in the intelligence section (aerial reconnaissance). Here's a picture of his kit bag, "wedge" and a cannister of undeveloped film negatives: The images on the negatives appear to be of potential targets, many bridges and a railhead next to a river. I say potential targets because there is no apparent damage to the structures and a complete absence of bomb craters; most of the footage was taken at high altitude with a camera pointed straight down, but some of the images were taken at lower altitude (~1000-2000 ft is my guess) and sideways from a position just behind the trailing edge of the aircraft. Here's a Lanc; note the sheep (below #1 engine) Here's an interesting photograph (sorry about the "flash-glare"- I suck)- it's difficult enough to see in the original but there are about 8 lancasters heading home, one of which is trailing a long plume of fuel from the starboard wing tank: This is his mess kit: And here are his medals: Nothing of great note, mostly recognition for his service. I'm quite sure there are more reconnaissance photos/negatives. I have a (mistaken?) recollection that there is a large tube (approx. 3 feet long by 2 in diameter) in my aunts basement but she didn't seem sure what I was talking about. Hope you found this of interest, sorry about the size of some of these- C_G

Sorry to hear that the family's buddy passed on to the great squirrel chase in the sky, Kelly. I grew up with three pulis (Hungarian sheepdogs with the rasta-dread coat)... let's just say I got herded around a fair bit (I'm only half kidding) by them. My dad was actually hit a lot harder when they died than my sister or I, as they were really his dogs (he was definitely the "alpha male" of the household to them).

Have you stopped accepting submissions for the second challenge yet? I have a track to send you.

:sign4: (:sign4) Kind of appropriate that this one made it twice :spam2: (:spam2)