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You would have a signals square where the direction of take off and landing is indicated, also Aldis signal lamps were used to signal the aircraft either on the ground or in the air, they were also used to give the airfield's ID code or Pundit Code Lots of journals and stuff on here too http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/default/raf-historical-society-journals.aspx Pundit Beacon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pundit_Beacon

As technology advanced through out the was so did the radio systems with VHF radio coming in in time for the Battle of Britain http://spitfiresite.com/2010/04/spitfire-masts-and-aerials.html Oh and don't forget to collect your homing pigeon too... http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/80/a2401480.shtml Some more info, including links to war time film, on radio operation by VMARS. http://www.vmars.org.uk/Film_Recordings Alicatt, GM6JWF

Thanks for that link, a lot of interesting videos/films on that site :)

Will the Tomcats being modelled have the AN/AVX-3 Fast Tactical Imagery sharing system?

A bob weight is used to counterbalance a mechanical moving part, generally they are as small as can be used. It is unlikely that a bob weight on a control linkage would be big enough to drastically alter the centre of gravity of an aircraft.

Even Channel 4 got into the Top Gun theme yesterday with their F1 program :D David Coulthard and Daniel Riciardo took to a helicopter to do the track report with the Top Gun theme tune as a background And then there is Mercedes... [ame] [/ame]

Just downloaded it, quite reluctant to update before I'm told :D Esp. as you have to uninstall the previous first. It was reading the blurb about the new pedals that lead me to check and see if there was an update... As I only have a Cougar, Elite pedals, and MFDs I'm quite content to hold off!

Question, is 1.50 compatible with TARGET version 3.016? Just before I go and update and wreck it :)

Madcatz/$aitek are supposed to be bringing out a new HOTAS range for Star Citizen too, and the one I seen on their reveal was broken :huh:

Same :thumbup: It has been my first opportunity to use some of that accumulated bonus, now to find what I can spend the other $40 on...

Box didn't work for me either, sorry. Thanks for all the hard work :)

I was thinking "I've read this before..." Then I checked the date: 2015???? Oh the tease :D

We had an incident with a USAF F-15 accidently dropping a missile on the forest at the Ord of Caithness, it was on a training exercise dropping practice bombs at the range at Tain a few miles to the south. You can see where the new growth is replacing the trees which were burnt down. The fire closed the road for a few days while they got it under control, and as that is the main route into Caithness it had a big impact on us.

Just how do we import a Retaliator into DCS? :music_whistling:

In the 1960s my father got a microwave oven for the house, it was 6kW input power (4.5kW output to cook with) and was so heavy that it took 6 men to carry it, a few years later when I went to work at Decca Radar the transmitter assembly of our smallest radar was about the same size as the cavity magnetron from the microwave. Oh and a side point, the frequency the microwave worked on, 932MHz, right plum in the middle of the European 900 GSM band :D There were big changes in electronics around then, I went from valve technology to everything on a chip within a couple of years at the beginning of the 1970s.

I was training as a radar technician back in the early 70s for commercial marine radars though not military ones, and we were making radars that had digital computers in them for analysing range, bearing, and speed for anti collision, it was on the training course for these radars that I built my first digital computer.

That's BDU: Battle Dress, Underwater.

If they can get that wrong, something that was out of date 4 years prior, then what else have they got wrong?

Look in your /DCSWorld OpenBeta/Mods/Aircraft/F-86/Doc/ folder, it is in there

Nice, thanks for sharing :thumbup:

Thanks :) Still eagerly awaiting her arrival :pilotfly:

Reason I'm interested is that I used to install MF,HF, and VHF radios on ships for a living, now that I'm retired I am a licenced ham radio operator and still very interested in all forms of radio. I find it a little jarring that what was phased out in the 1940s is being modelled on something that is supposed to be from 1944. If this was a Battle of Britain era Spitfire I would be quite happy with it, I did question it when the first pictures of the Mk IX were shown but never got a reply or reason as to why.

Well, can you tell me why there is a HF antenna on a 1943/44 aircraft when the RAF stopped using HF radios on Spitfires in 1940?

Not even that, we are getting a 1943 spitfire with 1941 equipment, else why put a clothes line down the back of it?