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Keep in mind with the OP, it's no "ordinary" airplane. This is a high performance (wayyy high performance by the legal definition) aerobatic aircraft, with "just enough wing to get the engine off the ground" so to speak. Point is, it's all engine. Of course you can hang it on its prop with that many horses under the hood. It's managing the torque that's the trick.
A bit of debunking.
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"Lets Eat Grandma"
"Lets Eat, Grandma"
Punctuation saves lives.
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I just remembered and was going to mention thinning. Remembering back to my days of futile attempts at modeling, I didn't get the whole thinning idea, and attempted to put the paint on full thickness right out of the bottle with a brush (young and not experienced at-all! Especially in the process of "patience, it's the process that's half the fun"). Hate to mention it, knowing that masking at that level can be a cast iron bitch, but maybe the whole "remask for each application" still stands? I would think that the thinner the paint, the less likely it would be to lift. That's how it is with the stuff I do anyway, it's the thick sectors that like to lift with the mask.
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I have mine "free floating" shall we say. On the rare occasion when I want to fly, it swaps places with my mouse, both to the right of my monitor. Keyboard center, and throttle taped down on the left, but only because it wanted to walk and was being annoying. Rudder pedals stay below the desk. Works for me.
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Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious here.
1. Mask it, paint it, and remove the tape *immediately*, while the paint's still wet and before the tape has a chance to really stick, as that will minimize glue being left behind when the tape is removed.
2. I find that it helps to pull the tape back along itself, kinda back on top of itself, yet also at around a 45 degree angle towards the paint.
Keep in mind that the painting I do is not scale model, but rather full scale.
Good luck!
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With the December 7, 1941 attack on the U.S., the government needed a way to protect the president from possible assassination attempts. Due to regulations at the time, no car could be armoured as it would cost far more that the maximum allowed. Time constraints were also a factor, and the end result was that the government needed a car *right now this instant*, not "in the near future". Solution: Take Capone's confiscated armoured 1928 Cadillac until another way could be found. The car was overhauled over night, and the president rode in it the next day to deliver the "Day of Infamy" speech.
http://voices.yahoo.com/al-capones-armored-1928-cadillac-was-used-president-365026.html
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Woah! Something that's actually based on the weapon systems themselves without the usual "shoot people" (other than silhouette targets)! Me likey!
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Not to play devil's advocate, but whatever happened to "find another airport" under those conditions?
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Will do Jabo... when I find the time. Time seems to be at a premium what with the additional job and all. Thanks!
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"are if you are on XP" check
"they will show a 'Out of Memory error'" check
Yup. Those are the issues, but the sim seems to run okay anyway. Is this a major issue?
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Well, seems it's worked, despite a few errors it said it had. Did as stated "run repeatedly until errors are fixed", and it worked for some, but appears not others.
However... It's running okay. I guess I'll just have to wait until I can hop on when someone who can host is on to see if it really is okay for MP.
Thanks all!
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Awesomenessness. 18%. Might be good to go by late flying time. We'll see.
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Good point. I've tried that in the past (pre-crash). Trying it again. Right now it says just HSFX 7. I guess I'll recheck for 7.0.2 later...
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HSFX 7
How long does this blankity blank install take??? I've been at it for twelve solid hours (not joking), and instead of counting down, the silly "Time Remaining" counts up! It's up to 69073 minutes and 30 seconds. Unless there's another way, I will most definitely not be joining you guys in the virtual skies until another halfway reasonable form arrives!!!
Notes: Installing from scratch over clean disk install of IL2 (4.07) upgraded by increments to 4.12.2. Since the external HD crash, I've not much space and none of my backups...
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There is one other largely unknown example of an airliner disappearing. This one was a good condition ex American Airlines jet that was chartered to central Africa. The pilot and mechanic was then "persuaded" to stay on for quite some time (months), rather than immediately return as was the plan, flying the plane for the new operators. Of course, it was allowed to deteriorate ridiculously. Then, after sitting on a ramp collecting dust (and weeds), someone, they aren't sure who, came along and started getting it back to flyable (note I did not say "legally airworthy") condition. One day, it fired up its engines, taxied to the end of the runway, took off without clearance, and disappeared to the west over the South Atlantic. A search of the pilot's movements turned him up missing, with little if any evidence that he was at all involved in the disappearance of the aircraft. The original charter owner (in the southern US as I recall) claimed (and I believe got) the insurance for the aircraft, and that was that. It hasn't been seen since. The restructuring of the aircraft as a "tanker" with massive internal fuel bladders that were, as I recall fed into the fuel system, mean that the thing had a ridiculous range, at least in theory. That meant that despite being a short range 727 in theory, in practice, it could fly the Atlantic in one go, something that troubled the US, thinking it could be used in another attack.
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Shows various locations revisited by modern photographers and overlayed with WWI images of the same location.
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It is Seagate. Seatools you say? Looking up. Thanks. Got a friend who did a physical teardown on one of his and got at least a little back. Not everything, but I've someone who's been there before so if all else fails, might be able to learn a little from him. I'll keep you posted.
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Symptoms:
When plugged in, it won't let my OS load. Windows (XP) says it's loading, then it goes to black screen and just sits. If I unplug it and do a hard restart, the OS loads fine. When I go to plug in the offending HD after a good start, it kills everything on the desktop except my background picture, and if I have programs running they start to thinking really hard, and then either give up (not responding), or I do and shut them down manually. Unplug the drive, and it all pops right back up almost instantaneously. Could a factor be that the entire system has endured several complete power losses while running recently? That's got to be hard on the hardware. Gave it a good going over with the compressed air, just in case. No change.
The system has twice within three days done a system check where it checks kernels et al on startup to make sure there are no problems (blue screen for an hour plus worth of checks), and it says there aren't on that drive, though I don't believe it... and the fact that it recognizes it means that something's getting though, and it knows it's there and how much is on it kb wise. I remember saying I wouldn't, but this drive's been run fairly constantly for half a year plus, as I kept files on it that I was accessing more regularly than I thought I would. Nothing absolutely can't-do-without critical, but would be really nice to recover, if only to get it onto a new and hopefully more stable drive and/or disks.
Thanks for the thoughts and ideas.
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Yeah, you should hear the idiots around here. Complaining after three storms. Three! "Boo hoo, when is spring? Sniff." It's not THAT bad, people.
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Makes sense. Must have some sort of light to be able to see that far down the barrel, though. Thanks!
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is this guy doing?
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Request For "drunk Assist Mode"
in Jim's Place
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Amen to that! Same goes for simulated rifle shooting. Not so good, for some reason.