DD_Arthur

You are right, Swep but.......it was called the Transport Plan and it involved the dislocation of the railway system in north eastern France, Belgium and Holland. The allies bombed railway junctions, bridges, anywhere they could create a bottleneck to disrupt the rail system and prevent the Germans bringing in supplies, reinforcements or heavy units to face our armies in Normandy. It was successful but in the spring of '44 it cost the lives of several thousand civilians in these countries. Large unexploded bombs used to be fairly frequently uncovered in the UK but these discoveries have become much fewer in recent years. I believe large bombs are still being dug up in parts of Germany on a weekly basis. When I was a kid, anti-shipping mines were still being hauled up out of the coastal waters of the UK by local fishermen. If you've been for a walk along the seafront at Folkestone you might have passed one now being used as a letter box by our post office!

Luckily we don't have much like that over 'ere, FT. However, we do have plenty of nuclear waste stored in rather dodgy conditions in remote and unimportant parts of the country - or "Oop north" as we soft southerners would say - and we do have this; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery I can't really see what they could possibly do to dispose of this thing now. The chemicals in the explosive will have broken down into some really nasty, volatile compounds. Moving anything is out of the question. If this really did detonate - well, I expect our men of Kent would certainly hear a bang!

Hello Swep! Hope you had a great holiday. I hate Facebook with a passion and have nothing to do with it so how about posting some pics of Spanish sunshine and pale, knobbly Swedish knees here?

Wow, look at the date the tree was planted. Montgomery has attracted a lot of flak these last sixty years, some of it well deserved - most not - but he really did make a balls up in Holland.

He was worried by 'planes flying about looking for stuff to drop great lumps of exploding ironmongery on? That would seem a fairly reasonable thing to worry about. It worked though; you exist FT!

Semper Fi

Hmmm......having taken part in a similar odyssey from Brize to HK in a Herc. about thirty years ago, I'm not too sure that would be money well spent! $40k to be frozen, deafened, a sore ass and vibration white finger? Mind you, I've always wanted to visit Iceland.

The perfect birthday!

Hope you and the missus have a great day and you enjoy your first birthday in Iowa!!

Whilst there have been big discussions about the landing characteristics of the PE-2 over on the BoS forums, I have discovered the most fun thing to do is landing on the PE-2. Give it a go but be quick; next week we get a propeller damage model

I don't blame him! Much too good to risk. Would love to see some more of your work Gary. Looks fantastic!

It does look alarmingly familiar.

Server updated? Fantastic! I have an urge......G50

No import duty; Croatia now in the EU. Edit; now they are in the EU, vat - at the Croatian rate would be included in the price anyway - so not a bad deal really.

Doh!!! Sorry Snacko - just realised I posted the wrong link. This is what I'm trying to show you; http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/5104-project-x-55-germany-mod/ Sorry for the confusion - I'm an idiot.

I thought the interesting bit was about new software that is available from the Saitek site but not the Madkatz site yet.

Check this out Snacko; http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9870&p=108535#post108535

Couldn't help but notice how we all (eight in total) successfully got off the ground in a formation take off, intercepted the '88's without ramming them and then returned to Manston to land without crashing on the runway or nosing over. Kudos to Crash for pulling off the classic Spitfire landing at the end with us all watching and Jabo for actually getting the Blenheim into the air! @Nage; nail the kids into bed early on a Wednesday and join us. CLoD is cheap and epic now.

Mothers Day. Since I don't 'ave no mum no more and was a sunny spring day, we took my wife for a stroll along the beach at West Bexington. Followed by possibly the greasiest fish and chips I've ever tasted

A little vid wot I made of our excursion on Wednesday night. Was good fun. A bigS! to Kev for all his work on our server.

More GoPro goodness.

BoS multiplayer. Now available 24/7. The approved technique when flying the LaGG against '109's? Climb to a reasonable height and then just......plummet!

I seem to see life through Beer glasses most weekends at the moment . Sid, just go into video options and enable AA to any figure above 0 and you'll have AA in game. If you've fiddled with Nvidia control panel make sure CLoD has anti-arsing set as "application controlled".