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Oh that was harsh :music_whistling: The Amiga was a fine machine:thumbup:

Lost a set of activations too yesterday, still got 8 left but not good that updating used 1 set up. :(

Umm, having owned a farm with beef cattle I had always assumed that a heffer was a castrated male bovine.... :D

With CA now in World, GCI would be nice as that is the mode of operation of a lot of older aircraft. Would love to scramble a EE Lightning to intercept a Bear over the North sea :D During the cold war Lightnings were held on Quick reaction alert and could be launched in a matter of minutes. Even the Vulcan could be up and running before the pilot got strapped onto his seat!

Aye, Ye hodder him 'n I'll heeder him

Same as in a LHD car a RHD car and a motorbike I have one of each and swap between them without any problem. That being said, there is the "occasional" moment when you have to think carefully about which side of the road you have to drive on it can be embarrassing when going from Europe to the UK or vice versa.:smilewink: Esp. the motorbike as it has no reference as to which side of the road it should be on.

and it is on youtube too :D It was the ill-fated ZU-BEX that he went up in

Finally finished downloading the World Torrent now leaving it uploading all current modules Ka50(upgrade version), A10C, P51D, CA and World

it is bouncing around between 100kb/s and 800kb/s upload just now with 6.8GB uploaded

I'm supposed to be fitting a new LNB to Grandad's sat dish today ....:music_whistling:

Even with a 100Mb/s line it is still saying 23hours to download World, it has got better as about 1 hour ago it said 2 weeks :D

Thanks Nate now just to wait out the 2W3D that Torrent says that it will take to download the DCS:World all the rest of the modules are good to go ;)

Great, thanks :thumbup: The SFM, can it and the AFM both be installed and used as and when I wish? ie. I want to fly with the AFM but I want to let my grandson fly with the SFM. Still waiting for the torrent of World 1.2 to finish :)

Part of the BBC Program about The Empire Test Pilots School course 44 was about dropping a 30tonne digger out of the back of a Hercules. It was in Episode 1 about 2 minutes into the program, an excellent BBC series from 1986

Nope but I do have a picture of me with that Vulcan :) A friend is one of the driving forces at Solway Aviation Museum and he gave me the keys to their Vulcan for a look see :) http://www.solway-aviation-museum.co.uk/ I used to work with David Kirkpatrick in CCTV for ADT, the director of the division I worked for was also a big aviation fan, down to having a a flying spitfire in his office going round and round hanging from the ceiling :D

Being a kid back then I do remember the contovosy over it and getting confused by why the RAF wanted a BAC111 instead of the TSR2 :D

The lightning has been flown by civilian pilots for many years in Cape Town South Africa, so I would think that most of the cats are out of the bag now :) http://thundercity.com/lightning.htm A few times I have concidered packing my bags and heading there for a flight, but the wife would kill me if I did!

I thought that honour went to the TSR2 and it was faster than the lightning and parts of the program lead to the Tornado. Part 4 of this series at 7:35 mentions the first and only time Roland Beamont took the TSR2 supersonic and left the Lightning chase plane behind.

Well there is the tale of one Lightning intercepting a U2 spy plane over the UK. The only "combat" that the RAF lightning seen was shooting down a Harrier after the pilot had ejected, so could we say that it was combat proven? ;) But the harrier got it's own back on the Lightning, the Lightning pilots after beating the F15 to 30,000 feet issued a challenge to the Harrier pilots but while the lightning was still taxiing to the runway the Harrier did a vertical take off from the pan and got to 10,000ft before the lightning got off the ground

I think it would be more this kind of driving sim that is needed Had some fun playing with this :)

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Beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing. The Swordfish is a big aircraft, I had not realised that until I got a chance to see it close up at Yeovil Airbase a few years ago. I am now retired and it is at momments like this that I miss my job, getting access to the flight line was one of the big perks of it. Sigh!

I did at Leuchars back in the late 80s early 90s, still got a cap badge from him too :) Also got a go in the Lightning cockpit and a F4 Phantom, then after many years of trying, finaly in the Tornado sim :D

I guess you missed the wink at the end :smilewink: :D