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BBMF Lancaster is coming over our town in Belgium next Wednesday as part of commemorating those that fought in Limburg during WW2 and also to commemorate the loss of a Lancaster at Beverlo on 12 May 1944 Bommenwerper uit Tweede Wereldoorlog doorkruist woensdag Belgisch luchtruim | Instagram VTM NIEUWS | hln.be

This is one I'm looking forward to! And this is close to where I live, As in Belgium, which is close to the Dutch Border is where Lancaster Mk III LM580 DX-L crashed on the night of 21/6/1944 (The town is called As, it is near Maasmechelen)

Which way is the wind blowing?

Are we going to get Gobekli Tepe on the map? It's about 14NM south of Şanlıurfa International Airport

For Phantom Phans Ian Black did a book featuring the UK Phantom available at firestreak books pheaturing Phantoms phrom 1968 to 1992 Firestreak Books – We are Specialists in Aviation Photography & Techical Books *I have Ian's books on the EE Lightning and they are high quality productions using photographs that Ian has taken himself as a photographer flying the Lightning and Phantom.

Once it is released then we have a way of following the career path of "Roger Ball" John Monroe Smith from F-4 to F-14

Now that they have announced the Phantom which comes with the J79 engine, maybe we can get a U2 with a non afterburning J79

I'm on Win 11 and the Cougar is working fine (almost) on that, one axis on the micro stick on the throttle is a bit short on range just means it goes slower left/right, apart from that Win 11 has recognised it and CCP works Edit: just had a flight and the microstick was working just fine I have changed out the pots in the joystick and throttle with the @Rel4y replacement magnetoresistive sensors, they are working great as the x axis in the joystick was spiking really badly.

Ahhh, Nutty, been a long time since I seen him, an eccentric dentist if I remember right Aye fond memories, now what did I do with my Foxy patches

Sitting on a real F-16 the seat is quite reclined, there is a lot more of your weight on your back than on your butt, it's actually quite comfortable and your feet are elevated with no real weight on them. The instruments are a lot closer to you than you would think, it did feel smaller than the cockpit of a Cessna 150 I used to fly. Sorry no idea of the seat angles

Here is an article about thermal IR and how it works in different types of fog, it is in reference to the equipment in the link I posted above, it does put some numbers to the results. Can Thermal Imaging See Through Fog and Rain? | Teledyne FLIR

Raymarine market a FLIR for boats that has somewhat similar functions as the IRST It has IR search and track in both IR video and thermal imaging, can link to the radar and track plotter/chart and using AIS identify what other ships, buoys, or unidentified targets are around you. FLIR M500 Ultra High Performance Multi-Sensor Camera System | Teledyne FLIR The gyro-stabilized FLIR M500 cooled thermal camera is our most technologically-advanced M-Series pan and tilt camera ever. Designed around a cryogenically-cooled 640 x 512 pixel Mid Wave Infrared (MWIR) thermal sensor, the FLIR M500 excels at both short and ultra-long range target detection and identification. It features a 14X continuous optical thermal zoom, a color HD camera with 30x zoom, an LED spot-beam, video tracking and radar integration. This is available on the commercial market, expensive, yes, but they are being fitted to motor yachts and getting more popular retrofitted to older yachts.

All looks lovely and kudos to ED and the 3rd party developers However I have only 85GB left free on my DCS SSD looks like I will have to clone it onto a bigger SSD this coming year 81GB after today's update

This what they had as a demo at KB airbase a couple of years ago when Belgium was still to decide which aircraft they were going to get to replace the F-16

Here he is back at KB Airbase, I was also at the sunset show with my grandson, it is my birthday pressie to him ;)

since I could first put a midi file on my Nokia for a ring tone, 633 Squadron has been my ring tone, still is on my iPhone today.

There is a programming manual online for the AN/AWG9 airborne Digital Computer from 1965 Airborne digital computer for an/awg-9 airborne missle control system | 102654134 | Computer History Museum From there Google is your friend...

Ian's new book arrived this morning great information and fantastic photographs

At 39,000lbs, 2 Redtop missiles, 450kts/0.87M, it takes 3.1 minutes to climb from sea level to 36,000ft without afterburner, uses 930lbs fuel and covers a distance of 30nm. With re-heat, no missiles, 38,300lbs, from 2,000ft to 30,000ft takes 1.3minutes and uses 905lbs fuel covering a distance of 10.2nm Taken from the F-6 operational Data Manual. Edit: Charts to go with the above One of the things it says in the manual for the F-6 is to deduct 10% in time and fuel use for use with the Avon 302 engine that was fitted to the export version of the Lightning (F-53 F-55)

Looking at it again, the fort is not too bad... the town is missing though! There was a German garrison and barracks close by the town and POWs were kept there.

it was a low resolution block before, I did take a screen grab of it flying past in the Christian Eagle, as of other places I know of.

Nice to hear we are getting Fort d’Ambaleteuse, was there a few years ago

AIM120A ???

I see that a load more documents have been released about the Redtop missile on the English Electric Lightning Appreciation Group on Facebook. Also that Ian Black is putting out a vol 3 to his Lightning books, this one is more of a manual, he was preparing one for Haynes but they cancelled it and he is now releasing it through his own bookstore: New Book – Pre Order – Firestreak Books Grandson with Ian's Lightning Vol.1

That was one of the most enjoyable aspects of a sim that cannot be mentioned, f 16 of us briefing and getting our tasking orders complete with time on target. Flying in low, dodging round the various air defence zones, keeping an eye on the TTG so it did not demand large changes of power if you were coming in late and then hitting the IP on time and a speed up to 500kts for the bombing run over target. As I and my wingman were lining up from our ip to the runway we were about to bomb, we could see the flight ahead of us dropping their stick of bombs on one of the cross runways while the SEAD aircraft were taking out the AAA around the airfield, fantastic sight seeing all the explosions going off all around the target airfield. Ah the joys of connecting via modem to the one guy that had a T3 line and was hosting us connecting via a mixture of ISDN(myself) and 56k modems.