Typhoid

the trick being to pick second rate opposition.....

a retired old guy working as a contractor maybe.....

yea.... There actually was a gent named Darling in my preflight class. It was quite entertaining seeing the hard bitten DI's walk around that one!! (they managed....!!)

everything is up

HaHa!! have heard variations of this for years - always hilarious. true story - On a long cross country we were working the HF and managed to hook into a CB channel and chatted with some truckers. One of them asked who we were and we said were a radar tracking plane. His question was whether we could track trucks - and I said yes, and I'm holding you 14 over the speed limit. Turns out that was dead on. He and everyone else on the channel are now True Believers.....

HF phone patch

helluva good job in a tragic situation

Well, two days ago when I set up the download it was the old 1.0 version

I’ll check in a couple of days, thanks!

can't seem to download it. the regular menu loads up version 1.0. If I try to get the 1.1 it tells me that I'm not authorized.

And?

HaHa!!

I imagine he's going to get an interesting callsign after this....

nice new targets..... seriously though, not unexpected. We've known for several years the Soviets, er, Russians were working on this. A significant accomplishment to relocate their production and spin up the program with all new avionics and weapons.

maybe, maybe not....

was thinking about it. does it work with a standard joystick or do you need an xbox controller?

fast.com was the slowest on my computer, the other two returned speeds about twice as fast. all slower than my contracted speed, which is not unusual at this time of night. the evil conspiracy doesn't seem to be happening.....

One of my favorite movies of that era. With lots of cool shots of my old workstation!

heh pretty funny!!

my computers got trashed on a regular basis several years back. I switched to Norton and has been smooth sailing ever since. remember which anti-virus program has links back to Russia. The REAL Russian connection..... but nothing is ever completely secure. It does take vigilance and frequent checking. I check my stuff every time I bring the system up and its the first thing I do. of course, OPM, IRS and Equifax have all handed all my stuff and security background files out there.

Cool video!!

pure fantasy. Most likely a "what if" history or flight sim mod.

No. I don't believe the hype and the phony politicized science that rewrites history and ignores thousands of scientists in their field with other explanations. Warming stopped almost 20 years ago by the way. the climate has been changing for longer than humans have been around. We are not the cause and there is nothing that we can do that will have more than about a half degree difference. Regular climate cycles are much larger. And a hurricane in the Gulf? Imagine that....

Erik, with all due respect - that "mother nature's last warning" is nonsense. global average temp has not changed in almost 20 years. 12 years without a cat 3 or higher storm hitting the US has never before occurred since records have been kept. if you want to get off fossil fuels - you can't. The technology isn't there unless you go nuclear (ok by me!). Renewable energy doesn't work unless it's backed by conventional power plants (or lots of very expensive batteries with short life-spans) that's reality cheers