Gr.Viper

I used to sleep in a room full of common home spiders for a month... It was very refreshing to wake up at night and discover a few them crossing the sheets - when the larger ones are walking over you they tickle! Hard to sleep under that massage.

DanW, got any Meteor shots?

That pic is so cute! Copperheads are vipers so I kinda feel close to them Oh, wiki says they're pit vipers which is even better. Can't go wrong with an extra IR sensor.

It's going further right and up around the rock

Hey, somebody's brown hose has escaped!

The props are inside!

Редакторы и под XP требовали совместимости c Win98, а уж под семеркой да еще 64-битной ему, наверное, совсем плохо.

No. From what I understand Thuds normally carried an extra fuel tank there in Nam.

Hey, it's a game. Mod the avionics, add TV, modern weapon capacity... Can the bomb bay be used for a load of AIM-120? With enough of those you can turn any crate into a air superiority missile vector. Then somebody could use the fake pilot method to add some extra covers to stealth it up. Actually I'm kinda curious what a Silent Thud ( ) might look like.

Amazon has nothing to do with it. It's import tax plus the normal practice of overpricing all new hardware here. Software can be dirt cheap though. BTW, I was surprisingly close http://www.oldi.ru/catalog/element/0130939/ 13942 rubles = $480

Either they've got balls of steel or they are utterly stupid. Anyway, what does it have to do with "Military and General Aviation"?

It's too early to establish cause/facts, not much is known yet. The incident is more complex that the basics which are repeated by the media. That morning three planes were to land at that strip. A Polish Yak-40 did it, a Russian Il-76 failed after multiple attempts (some say it was the Il that did 4 passes, while the Tu was in waiting pattern) and diverted, a Polish Tu-154 is the one we're talking here now. They won't figure out the cause until the flight recorders are decoded.

*torn between periods of early planes, early jets and early missiles*

Yeah, mid-air collisions are umm.. broken. In most cases one of the planes takes severe damage while the other one gets away unscathed. I once sliced a wing off a Beagle on F-4 by ramming, with no harm to my plane.

Damn... Sad and stupid. Getting high state officials into one Tu-154 (from what I hear the 2 planes Polish government uses are quite weathered) and rushing it to land on an airbase surrounded by forest and known to be covered in mist at that time of day. IIRC the ATC offered them to land in Minsk...

Actually the Soviet infantry shovel is desgned to be both a shovel and an axe, it has sharp edges. There are even US-made replicas out there http://www.coldsteel.com/spshovel.html

I remember times when sims wers still allowed to have the towers in NY and Meigs Field was not a fictional airfield.

If Soviet experience is to be trusted low-level flight in Afghan is hell. Any word on what got the bird?

SF2 series are a better pick for that toy 1) I could run SF2 on 1.6 GHz Intel Atom with Intel GMA 950 graphics. If your CPU is not cut in operations per second for the sake of battery life it could perform better. Mine was playable in limited engagements (gun kill on F4!) but massive Linebacker campaigns caused fps drop to something like 1 frame per 2 seconds. 2) It can use DX10 rendering which is faster I presume. You might be able to use good graphics settings but large-scale missions, high-desity SAM launches and carpet bombings by B-52 will go painfully slow at times.

Holy Grail, anyone? http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/articles/tic/19560-monty-pythons-holy-grail

How dare you speak ill of your masters!

That's the one I watched. Still has a lot of editing and still the guy peeking round the corner holds a wide tube-like object which could easily be a laucher.

"And in one shot, I swear, you can see everything, but my friend tells me it's just the way he's holding his spear." Monty Python

I'll just imagine crack Soviet troops pulled from all the way from Germany for deployment in China being loaded on the trains yet again to go the other way. Mind, it's not a short trip http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

So, people will be able not only to count rivets but to discuss how deep they are?