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I use 250 m convergence for both, and fly wide view (sometimes in gunsight, sometimes outside, depending if the view is appreciably better or not), and fight in normal view.

Great skin, mate! Can't wait to fill it with 30mm holes...oh wait, you're the one always handing me my butt in a sling...

check out this link... http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/ ... index.html

Put me down as a Jap/merc. I hope to be able to fly for at least one whole mission. We'll see. It depends on the Sergeant-Major of the household :wink: By the way Glenn, thanks for the training missions. I managed to get a Kate off of a carrier, and then land it again too. I have some tips for others if they wish, but I will only share with my M8's :wink: !! Not easy to fly, especially with no trim... Looking forward to it!

Well, leave's been cancelled (I think BG found out I was switching his drink with Johnnie Walker Red Label...) I will be around Saturday night; hope to see someone there!

I like F19_Olli72's reply to the your Ubizoo post too...

I'm going camping with the family this weekend, so I assume that this will all be sorted out for the upcoming weekend, right? RIGHT?? Oh well, I've always been welomed by the Hell Hounds late Saturday nights...

i'm just going thru the Castaways 1st!

So that's where Duffy's been hiding: at MS! Doesn't matter anyway, I get bored very quickly of flying things that can't fire or drop bombs.

Looks like we'll need to manually fly the Mistels in that one for now, Carl.

Check out this link: http://www.ww2guide.com/guns.shtml#heavym I do not know the authority of this site, but the numbers seem reasonable. The slower muzzle velocities (ones by 100 m/s) seem to be the ones that drop considerably. As a former tanker, I can tell you that the modern .50 fires with a very flat trajectory to 1000m, but then drops off considerably. It is useful out to 2000m on a vehicle mount (not a pintle mount, but one with a built in sight, etc.) I was surprised at the mv of the ShVak, as in the game, this weapon seems to fire like a laser! The Safat .50 is as horrible as the 20mm FF, except the FF has its great hitting power.

Top student, eh? Does that mean he gets to keep his Corsair? You flew a Corsair, right Pook? I think that a DD gong is in order, and drinks are on Pook in the Mess! Congrats, man! Semper Fi!

I agree wholeheartedly, Jim. It's a great autobiography. It's one that I own as well.

Yes, I saw that. Didn't they place a plaque there honouring the dead, as well?

To reply to all my "fans": Rog, the laptop disappears whenever I stand up. The owl is our disciplinarian: it is especially useful for those who "dis" my ties. :twisted: As for the tie, it is cubic, not the hair. As for the hair, old habits die hard. Also, it takes 20 sec. to dry after a shower, and I haven't needed a comb since 1986!

Here's one I found of me on my laptop. Don't I look all professional-like?

Got the track? or it didn't happen! :wink:

I also still fly on Warclouds, as well as Pacific Conflict occasionally. I agree with the rest of the guys: there are a hard-core group of pilots on these servers who seem to do nothing but fly, and wait for noobs to join, then mercilessly pounce on them from great heights. They are always on comms, and they do tend to hover around their friendly lines of base. There is little attempt to destroy ground targets, but that is what I still tend to do. I normally hate ground-pounding, but this is one of the only things available to do at times. Staying low, you can often take a fast 'Jabo' type, and hit your objective, then RTB.

Angus, you bastard! Don't worry, Stephan. No hard feelings! Now, let's get to some serious flying!

BTW: I've never heard of a Tiger or any tank other than a Churchill Crocodile pulling a fuel trailer. You wouldn't catch me dead pulling a trailer of any kind! For long distances, tanks were put on truck transporters or railed. Anyway, enough on this topic for me, unless anyone wants to discuss it further?

I understand, and I've even seen that footage from a post on the forum before. Without secondary confirmation, I challenge anyone to tell me what vehicles those were on the ground. Again, just because someone says something on the History channel, I don't have to believe it! I've taught armoured vehicle recognition for 12 years in the Army, and I can't tell what they are. Not trying to show you any disrespect, Stephan, but it seems quite unlikely.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Been watching Charles Durning lately as Tommy's Dad on Rescue Me. I have personally fired .50 AP at 10mm rolled homogenous armour, and it barely made a dent (0 deg. incidence 100m range.) If anyone claims to have taken out a tank with a machine gun, let me get into my old tank (Leopard 1), they can get into their plane, and we'll duke it out. I'll bet I win! Don't believe all the stuff you see on the net! I would even doubt 20mm hispanos or 30mm mk 108's would do much. Maybe a mk. 103 30mm, but only the AP rounds, not HE. BTW, the guy was in a Firefly: all of their tanks were Fireflies, as their divisional commander, General Worthington, wanted them to have the best available as they were an in-front of the front lines divisional recce regiment.

You find them right next door, often enough. This is a fellow from my regiment in WW2, the South Alberta Regiment. As the link states, he was a mechanic, and a militia (reservist) volunteer. http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/citations/currie Quite a guy. Met his wife and grand-daughter in 1987. Great mess-dinner that one was! My brother commandeered the Lt. Gov.'s limo for an hour!

Here's one I was mentioning to the guys last night (24 June) as we were busy trying to attack/defend a carrier in drydock: "Terror In The Starboard Seat" by David McIntosh. Great read about Mossie F/B operations. I believe that I even have it around somewhere, but in our last 4-5 moves it has become inextricably packed. "The late Dave Mcintosh will be remembered for this terrifying, hilarious, bittersweet account of his experiences in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. As the starboard-seat navigator for a JewishAmerican de Havilland Mosquito pilot hell-bent on single-handedly defeating the Nazis, the author was wellplaced to appreciate the harsh realities of war."

I'm getting worried that my machine will not do well with BoB. I hope that I will not be left out when it does come along...(I'm not holding my breath for Fall of 2006 either!)