Erik

Impressive this. http://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2014/apr/image-opacity-slider-master/index.html?ww2-dday

I laugh every time I read this. Enjoy. "This is an expanded excerpt from Brian Schul's book Sled Driver : Flying the World's Fastest Jet. There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment. It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet. I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury. Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace. We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground." Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios. Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground." And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn. Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground." I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money." For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one." It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast. For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there."

Maybe something we should consider supporting or at least giving the modders a home for those that are interested.

Never heard of such a thing but glad you fixed it. :)

Posting your solution could help others.

Direct links don't work on our site. If you're following a link you've saved or has been provided for you that points directly to the download file you will receive that message. All downloads are randomly generated at the time of download from the actual file page to prevent hot linking. This has been the "norm" for at least five maybe six years now. We have no files that are missing or broken at the time of our last catalog audit which was about 10 hours ago as that task runs daily. I do see your errors in our logs and my advice is to verify where you are getting your links from. Thanks.

Our firewall thought he was a threat and dropped all his requests. I've yet had time to look through the logs from a week ago to find out why but I'm sure it's shady. No comment on the rest it hits too close to reality and I'll let you decide which part. The mystery continues. *insert favorite cliff hanger music here*

http://www.newegg.com/Controller-Panels/SubCategory/ID-11

I tested your account and it works fine. Got to be something on your machine with cookie settings or java, something because on my machine your account is fine. Check your browser settings. Check your internet security suite. Check your permissions. Those are the three things that come to mind. Thanks.

They are all snippets of national anthems, last verse generally.

I moved you back to the default skin. Try it again on that skin and let me know. Thanks.

God bless him and his family no matter the uniform he wore. My hat is off to him and I raise a glass to his courage and service. За вас!

#4 best bang for buck imho and I'd throw another 4 Gb minimum of memory in each of those machines.

The badges feature has a glitch. Fixing said glitch isn't worth the time because we're about ready to leave all this old code base behind us when we move. My quick options are leave the glitch or turn off badges. E

It's a rather small mock up if you look at the image carefully. Unless of course those extension cords just happen to be exceptionally big, like 30/0 AWG cable. I know they have built full size mock ups of aircraft carriers out of cardboard and wood before so when they are shot from satellites they cast the shadows and give cause for second looks. It's all propaganda aimed at scaring the uneducated or bolstering their support depending on the target audience. I think these are good people for election insurance, just my take on things. E

I switched it for you but there's a big link at the bottom that says "Full Site" or something like that. If your browser isn't fixed after you refresh your page, close it and restart it and all should be fine if not find that button on the very bottom "Full Site" click that and you'll be fine. E

Clear your browser history, delete your cookies from our site, close and restart your browser then check. The only permission you need is to be logged in, guests can't mark forums as read. Erik

Yeah that sometimes happens but we give you 6 downloads a day as a new member. If I may suggest make sure you're not using a download accelerator which opens multiple connections and downloads files in segments. Sometimes known as download boosters or speed boosters. When I look at your download log I see multiple downloads of the same file which usually indicate this is happening. There's a big red exclamation point on all the download pages about it because we want everyone to be aware of things. Our system counts each connection as a download so if you open six connections for one file you've burned up your daily limit. There maybe some changes coming up when we upgrade software but for now that is how things work. Here's what I'm seeing on your log: Hope that helps, Erik

Drop Epizikl a PM or post in his forum under the modder section. He's Russian and mods so he can for sure do it for you. E

"We will never forget them, not the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God," President Ronald Reagan Written for the Challenger disaster but now they both have slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God. Travel well good friends. ~S

I can watch drum lines all day ... but if you want to see some incredibly fast hands watch this.

I misunderstood what you were looking for. Specifically you need someone to help you out with production. Putting all the pieces together packaging them up with screenies and readme.txts then dropping them into our downloads section in the appropriate area with all the information required to do so which will include uploading the final package and such. Is that more accurate?

This is a complaint we've heard many times from the modding group as a whole. Most people are unaware of the hours of exhausting work that goes into detail. While most modders have accuracy and function in mind it simply takes time to get it released into production. If your specialty and enjoyment comes from a certain aspect of modding then putting a team together of guys that do different things usually works best. Seems like you've tried this which is a good thing. What I can do to help relieve the burden is provide you a private forum which will allow you to coordinate your work before it gets released. If this means that it slows down the overall rate at which things are released so the model guys, skin guys, aircraft data ini guys all get their work done the adoring audience will just have to wait. Don't let anyone one person distract you from what you enjoy that's when this hobby becomes a boring task. Trust me and keep your wits about you there's nothing worse than that end game for the modders themselves and the ones who just like to download shiny new bits and bobbles for their enjoyment. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. E

Sad and yet amazing to see. Good generation lost to salvage but the girls they've been replaced by are 20 times the machine they were, at least we better hope so we've got 1/20th of the fleet we had back in those days. I'll pop a top to solute the generous years of faithful service they provided. I hope their final resting home is maybe a bridge with a fantastic view. Salud!