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Opera ftw!

http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/01-sto...al-dealers.html

I think that you'll find that the RN with hindsight may say that's not a good idea .... What would be interesting would be if India was to team up with France & the UK on their carrier programme.

Unfortunately the pilot Capitaine Emmanuel Moriuser didn't make it http://www.ec17provence.org/moriuser.html

I don't know about the reconnecting with NATO bit as French military aircraft are regular visitors to the UK & very often tank from RAF aircraft too. Still it's good that the Marine get to keep their carquals whilst they don't have an operational carrier.

that's actually realistic - if you look at real in-cockpit footage you'll see that the planes do move relative to each other even if they look stable from the ground. What I do find minorly annoying is the amplitude on some & the regularity - it should be uneven.

even MS Paint can convert BMP to jpeg & resize.

You do realise that he's Australian & you've called him a limey ... people have died for less I don't think that Brits in general have an aversion to peanut butter (had some myself yesterday) just that we aren't brought up with it as Americans are.

The initial statement is making it look like human error. 1) apparently it was unchocked 2) the aircraft was moving for ~10 seconds before they closed the throttles & it impacted 2 seconds later. Now I'm not a pilot but surely 1 of the first things that you would think of doing was closing the throttles?

The original English spelling is "criticise". Although you do bring up a good point - with the US prevalence for replacing the "s" with a "z" (that's a zed btw not a zee ) why isn't it exercize in the US?

vikbell, never noticed before but I like your choice of avatar ...

Well, a Boeing B-52 did a display here over the wrong airfield (5 miles or so) a couple of years ago - quite embarassing really as everybody at the right airfield could see them & knew that they had screwed up ... As FastCargo said though that's a human problem & not the airframe's.

cheaper from Pixmania, advancetec etc.

Happy Birthday :yes: At least someone is older than me (not by a lot though)!

Congrats on the end of your tour. Great pictures I thought & then I checked your exif & realised at least partly why - another KM 7D user

It's Welsh so probably Baa-rbara (jk Russ & others of the Welsh peruasion)

I averaged 66Kb/s (started of at 200Kb/s) over 5.1 Mb which is on the low side but certainly not 2Kb/s.

They also happen to Boeings ( & other makes too e.g. the recent spate of Dash 8 accidents) with great regularity. As always we'll have to await the investigation results getting out.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/so...missiledes.html

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightbl...ely-damage.html Somebody has a big stoppage coming out of their paycheck ...

there is a suggestion that he didn't actually eject but that the seat with him attached went through the canopy when the aircraft rolled inverted i.e. the seat wasn't attached to the aircraft properly. Best to wait for all the investigations to be concluded - RAF Tornado fleet supposedly grounded as a precaution (similar to the F-15s being grounded the other week after their accident).

afaik it's business as usual at least in the short term (~a year anyway I would think).

Major flight sim & PC gaming peripheral manufacturer Saitek has been sold to Mad Catz Inc for $30 million (seems cheap given the value of the $ atm). Saitek (originally started 28 years ago to make chess computers) was a private company wholly owned by it's founder Eric Winkler. There is certainly a synergy as Saitek appeared to have pulled out of making peripherals for XBox, Play Station etc. & that's obviously a Mad Catz strength whilst they were weak in PC peripherals where Saitek are strong. Mad Catz also recently bought another peripheral company, Joytech. http://www.saitek.co.uk/uk/info/pr_news5.htm http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?...&ID=1077796

"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war" comes from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Here at Combat Ace though we don't have dogs of war - we have eels, lots & lots of vicious eels (aka aalen) with nasty big pointy teeth (a bit like the Rabbit of Caerbannog).

doesn't the patch improve things?