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Happened to see this pop up in my feed live on the weekend, shot from a boat out off the coast, so caught some of the Osprey action, some ferocious F18/22/35 fly-bys too

Thanks for looking Paul...I'm the same mate. Always looking up at the ultimate slide show. I'll tell you what, though, Marty....Whenever I fly my FSX Flight Sim, I always select; "Fair Weather"! ....Hardly a cloud in the sky, around Mid-Day, in June, Mid Summer, for my safety and comfort!... :D ...! Like my Motorcycle rides...I don't like getting wet and cold! Paul...UK... :cheers: ...!

everything is difficult, and I keep forgetting how I just did something... A huge benefit of moving to Blender is that I get to exercise my brain, and get to recall a lot of swear words from the old GMAX days. They say the absolute best way to ward off Alzheimer's is to flex the brain into something new and uncomfortable! Great post, and links that I am going to fall for at some point. What got me initially interested was that you can use Blender on its own, just to do MSFS repaints! (No Photoshop which really excites me as Adobe is on my Utterly Evil nix list.) We could have a Friday coffee...

For those few who might've missed the show... :D Searching YouTube for exercise pitch black 2024 will yield a whole day's worth of watching. I spent time on Day 1 Flying Ops which has good close-up footage The Mitsubishi F-2 is interesting, essentially a Japanese knockoff of the F-16, hence known as Viper-zero. It's slightly bigger too, I reckon it looks Da Bizzness.

Charl.... ... :lol: ... :lol: ...! ...Fahrenheit was wot we wuz taught in school in the 1940s... ...together with; Feet and Inches, Pounds and Ounces, Pints and Gallons, and Miles. All proper stuff until the French took over and tried to convert me to; "Metric Stuff".... In my case, they never succeeded!.... :thumbup: ... :thumbup: ...! One of the reasons why I always enjoy conversing with my USA Chums in North America!.... :D ...! They took the; "English" Language over with them, so we both know what we are talking about!...!... :bow: ...! Paul....UK... (England)... :lol:...

Do you mean a stylus ? That's the one , looks like a pen :)

Bloody hell, what have I done :ph43r: I'm a bit worried about you guys now.....CP in particular ...mate...really :rolleyes:

Amberley is less than an hour away, but I don't know how open it will be for this. Mustapha Luke. :rolleyes:

And they do it in real time, they must have brains like dolphins, that can sleep with one eye open... It's a great talent and with brains like that they would probably make excellent musicians and mathematicians - not to mention codebreakers. Bletchley Park loved to recruit people like this.

Marty, I was only three-and-a-bit in 1952, but the aircraft on display were ones I grew up with. One memory is hearing on the morning news that the Fairey Delta had set a new world speed record of 1140 mph. That made me want to be a test pilot :rolleyes: There is a passing reference to John Derry losing his life at the 1952 airshow, but of course the crash would not have been released for public viewing. This is what happened: I have an old book (published 1969) titled 'Aircrash Detective', about the evolution of air safety. The point is made there that from a crowd of over 100,000, only one...

Visually P3D is lacking and needs lots of add ons to raise that. However, the flight physics are much better than MSFS. Hopefully this will improve with 2024.

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Cheers Marty, I did spend time admiring Foster's building, and you can verbalise at length the inputs and influences on the design. As to Part 4? Well you know this is my trip personal debrief I am dumping, and we've now seen the largely aeronautical/military side of it, which is already a stretch for our flightsim forum! There were other bucket list things, I will admit: Did you know that standing astride the Greenwich Prime Meridian**, your phone's GPS will not read 0 deg LONG **which by the way was moved several times, depending on where the Chief Astronomer of the day had his telescope!...

Yep, 1996 was the last time I was in the UK. The day before Hoof Proudfoot went in with the P-38. Hopefully I'll change that in the next couple of years. Got a Europe trip in a few months that'll tick off a few things.

Yes my pick might've been to just leave English Electric alone to get on with it! Always available for a little misty-eyed nostalgia, Nick, thanks for the reading pointer. I've also been advised to look up Antony Beevor and get Normandy out of my system by reading everything he had to say about WW2.

Great post Charl. I agree with you about Montgomery. His next mistake was Operation Market Garden. He thought that the operation would shorten the war. It didn't and was a very costly operation.[/quote The Market Garden plan was fine, it was the fact that the 1st Airborne landed on top of an SS Panzer division that just happened to be there. That and the Americans failing to secure Nijmegan so that XXX Corps could roll on through in a timely manner. The real error though was the fact that the Allies didn't attempt to push up through Holland earlier. Horrocks and his Corps were stopped from...

Wife 1….Simmer 0. :D Indeed CP .... :rolleyes:

Thanks gents ....handsome he was, and big at his peak deeknow. Mike, evidently he was a silver tabby.

Have the book....its a great read. RIP both of them.