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Thats why it was called/given the nickname Baby Buff aka Baby B52.

Bring back the piston engined Sky Raider, that would be PERFECT for A'Stan, seriously, great load, great loiter times and fast but slow enough to keep out of harms reach. The Skyraider would be a perfect compliment to the A10 in Stan if you ask me.

This dude once again is nuts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10679543?ls Trying to drive faster than 1000mph in a car with a eurofighter engine which gives 9 tons of thrust and a rocket engine that gives out 12 tons of thrust. And on top of that, the wheels are under a 50 THOUSAND G load, yea you heard right, 50 THOUSAND G. I fear we have another Donald Campbell on our hands, even though Wing Commander Green already drove Thrust SSC a few years back, but this attempt is pushing it too far if you ask me and, No way would you get me into one of them, things with wheels that drive along the ground just arent meant to be driven as fast as 1100MPH. I have the utmost respect for him, but he has a uber scary job when it comes to driving the thing.

Seems to be holding, although they are still pressure testing, but the signs look good as no oil is flowing at all at the moment and they only have 30 feet to go on the drilling of relief wells. So it really does look like its coming to an end, the leaking part anyway, the clean up operation on the other hand is only just begining and will take 20 + years to complete, if not 30+ years. But hey, USA has been polluting everyone elses backyard in their search for oil over the years, it had to come back and bite them sooner or later. I remember Piper Alpha, its only 150 miles away from me and when that happened and killed 167 people and destroyed a rig much much bigger than the transocean one, our government and our citizens didnt go apeshite crazy against the USA like the USA has against BP and Britain, Occidental was US owned yet we didnt let loose with all the crazyness that we have seen so far on TV in regards to Blaming the accident on Britain. Typical if you ask me, I just wonder if it was an American company that had caused the accident if tempers would of still run so high ??? But, after alls said and done, I hope the leak has come to an end now. EDIT: If people are gettin sick due to them helping cleanup the spill, then its their own fault for not wearing masks and protective clothing, everybody must know that breathing in fuel fumes is harmful in large quantities, but saying that, I doubt very much people will get sick to any degree that it lasts for the rest of their life, but in the short term it will make people dizzy, sick, etc etc, but lasting health problems I very much doubt. Unless of course the detergent that they spray to disperse the oil on the surface of the water contains bad ass chemicals, but even then I doubt that because the chemicals supposedly cannot be harmful to a large degree to stuff living in the seas. But knowing America, I expect to see a flood of claims against BP in regards to health problems, which probably have nothing to do with the spill, similar to the 61'000 claims for money that BP think are suspect claims, they have already paid out 32'000 claims with another 17'000 in the process of being paid out, but 61'000 are suspect claims in BP's eyes, so I fully expect the same with bogus health claims, not saying everyone will be bogus, but I suspect a whack of them will be and will eventually be denied. This Quote is Stupidity at its best, it was a US News Item with the headline; Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America. WTF, uber scaremongering or what ?

Looks like the new head they put onto the well has stopped the flow of oil, tis looking good.

Its always been like that, its the way the game is rendered and the FOV. Been like that since day one when the original lockon came out, everyone suffers from it and I doubt that there is a fix coming anytime soon.

Tornado Pilot, I dont know about anyone else, but I love the ejection sequence, am kinda dirty that way. but seriously, I have loads of cool ejection shots form lockon, whne I know I am gunna crash I simply pause and slow the rate down to 0.2 and then push ctrl+Y twice and unpause and then start taking screenies. here is one for your pleasure. ;)

No, If I remember, it was something that nasa used for either the space shuttle or some other type of rocket, possibly the apollo rockets ? Also the KA50 seat leaves the helo unlike in the video, slightly similar but not the same. Dont think they use them now though, as the tv show that I saw had the astronauts either in a cage connected to a zip line that took the people away from the shuttle if they were lucky enough to spot trouble before take off, they would leave shuttle and enter a basket thats connected to the tower and zip line to safety or they had a hand line that lowered them to the ground, the hand lines were plugged into somewhere on the shuttle so that they could slowly descend the outside of the shuttle. TBH, I think it was useless, as if their ever was a problem, chances are that it would blow up before they could do anything. Kinda like the the useless safety rocket on top of the apollo rockets, the one meant to drag the capsule to safety in the event of trouble/rocket blew up, they said it was useless because if they noticed trouble, the rocket would blow up in 1 or 2 seconds, but in order for the safety system to work, it needed about 4 seconds for the eject system radio signals to effect the ejection, by that time the rocket and its occupants would of been destroyed.

I am in the process, nearly 50% done already of uploading an Old Skool Panavia Tornado Documentary, really great documentary if you ask me, I finally got around to decoding the DVD earlier today. It should be completed in about an hour. So anyone who wants to see it, give me a pm and I will link you to the server. Its an avi, but I am not sure if you will need xvid/divx to watch it, normally people will have one or the other installed. Also, it may need a touch of De-interlacing, but other than that its a great Doco. this is it http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Combat-Aircraft-Tornado-VHS/dp/B00004CL65

The KA50 ejection seat, although its classed as zero zero, in reality you have to be above 100 feet or 100 metres, i cant recall which, in order for it to be a successful ejection, now that doesnt mean 100feet/metres if your upside down, or the same but vertical and heading for the deck at 300kph. Just that it has a 100 feet or metre safe limit.

Not just the Encyclopedia needs to explain the contents a little more fully, the sim needs to name some weapons properly, as in my game, the 50 cal strap on browning for the Kiowa Helo, it names it as a Brauning, obviously a german spelling for the weapon, but I am using the english version :)

I cant believe that this has been picked up by all the major news outlets in the UK, seriously, it astounds me that this is actually getting air time as news. Sashimi FTW

Cheers EtherealN ;) I was just curious why all different sizes, as the forum I admin on had a similar problem a while back, and it was due to upgrading to a new version of VB, messed up all the user accounts and a whole pile of other things and to this day we are still re-configuring accounts that have slight problems that get brought to our attention. Its no biggie though, as I said, I was more curious than anything ;)

EvilBivol, How come everyone has different sizes ? we range from 20kb to 100kb to a 1000kb Is it meant to be like that, or is it a case of something wrong somewhere in the forum software ? or has the scripting gone awry somewhere along the line and not updated all the user accounts when the forum got updated ? or is it just a case of, testers get the larger size, the rest get 100kb and the admin hasnt bothered to update his own account and is stuck at 20kb :) Just to add, I see no problem with any of the sig's, I am just curious about the different sizes thats all.

Upon inspection of the user cp, its 100kb as Alicatt mentioned. So in retrospect, testers get room for a larger sig, question answered, now that wasnt such a big deal now was it ?

Dude, it was only a question, no need to go all 'fruity' on me. The reason I asked in the first place was because I was trying to put a sig on another website about 1-2 weeks ago which had larger than 20kb limit and, i knew by the looks of feurfalkes sig that it was way over 20kb. I havent even looked at the user cp/sig page for size limits, I just took it as said by you that 20kb was infact the limit. Hence me asking the question if the larger size was allowed for mod's/testers. ;)

Upon inspection of Feurfalkes sig, it looks as though his sig goes above the specs outlined in your post. It says that his sig picture is 500px X 100px X 48.68kb (49,852bytes) larger than 20kb. So firefox says, is that only for moderators/ed testers or is it allowed for everyone ?

Sure, what I do so I dont have to push Ctrl+E+E+E three times when I want to eject is, I quickly stand up and kick my chair away from me and turn around and run and throw myself out/threw the window. Anyway, to answer your question, why dont you change the eject sequence in the game key binds page to say just a single obscure key, say something from the numpad ? I have eject to work with one button press using my joystick, so it is possible, but I am not sure if its possible from within the game key bind section ? but I would delete the default keybind for eject and then map a new sequence for it and see if that works. If not you will maybe need to use some software to do it for you that is compatible with your lever.

I think Prophet is correct, if I recall correctly, It has a doppler under the tail boom and a A-036A Radio Altimeter also, and one of them is pointing ever so slightly forward. Which one I do not recall, but one of them is.

That ^ and also one of the biggest reasons helicopters are grounded, because of bad weather. Most helos dont have radar to see with in bad weather and the ones that dont have it need to see where they are flying, if the weather is too bad to do so, then they are grounded, or if it happens when they are in flight then they go around or over or under the bad weather if possible, if its not possible to do so then they have to land. If its just patchy cloud, then they fly through it but will be aware of any height restrictions and, also they will be aware of traffic in the area via ATC, so long as they follow ATC's instructions they will be ok to fly through cloud. Grounding happens to military pilots as well as civvies, even if their is a war on. But ingame, you just need to make sure that before you enter cloud that your buddy if he is human isnt right next to you, have some seperation and if he is AI, he should be ok aslogn as you dont do stupid moves which can upset his programming and make him turn you into a supa magnet that magically attracts his helo towards yours. Also the direction of flight/flight path, before you fly that section find the highest point and mark it on your abris, something like the letters 35min (3500m minimum ) or something to that affect will do, so that you will know the minimum height that you want to be at and also will know when you are flying over the highest point of your waypoint. You can also do the same when making a mission in the mission editor, if you know that clouds and fog will be used in the mission, then on all of your waypoints, find the highest point on each and then remain above them for each particular waypoint, so if waypoint 2 - 3 has a single peak of 1500metres in the middle of it and directly inline with your flight path, then in the ME, set your height for say 2000 for that waypoint and if you use autopilot, it will keep you above that single peak and out of trouble.

The only thing that I found sli did for lockon a few years ago was sli AA, that was the only option that was any good, it gave you more AA without a fps hit, the other sli modes did basically nothing, from my experience.

Unless your American :music_whistling:

Could be a heat problem, especially sicne it happens 10-30 minutes into a game.

This is gunna end well. I think MAV seeker sucks also, I can never lock onto them incoming Strela's with my mav seeker, they are too fast for me to catch them on the TV, so annoying.... :p

The new x52 software recognises right alt now. The old sst software and drivers didnt.