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That sorted it. Thanks Kev. BTW the screens are up to your usual standard

Had my first flight in this one tonight in my BoB install. It was very realistic and pretty historically accurate. 16 of us took off to intercept an inbound raid but got bounced by the escort (Fiat Cr-42s). The first fighter was shot down by our gunners, ptrobably thought he was bouncing a squadron of Hurricanes! After that it was a wild melee and the final result was that none of the bombers were touched, the enemy lost only that first fighter and we had 4 shot down, including me(!), and another 7 damaged. It would have probably been worse if I hadn't hit esc to report back to you guys. A couple of points: - I edited the data.ini to change the start date from 1942 to 1939, when the plane actually entered service. - I think there might be a LOD problem, because in the external view the Defiants disappear when you zoom out a short distance from them. When you look at the flyby view it's as if they have a Romulan invisibilty cloak that keeps switching on and off. Although it didn't affect the enemy fighters' aim. Having said all that it was a nice plane to fly. Any chance of a night fighter skin?

Many happy returns mate.

Thanks guys! Here's some screenies of the real raid, using comprnt's excellent Falklands missions pack Tanking before ingress Hitting the runway Heading for home Can you tell I'm currently reading Vulcan 607? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vulcan-607-Rowland-White/dp/0552152293/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270624887&sr=8-1

BAC Thunderstrike S.2 Operation Black Buck, Falklands 1982 Final tanking before ingress GOOD MORNING STANLEY!!! WAKEY WAKEY!!! Hitting the target The Thunderstrike S.2 versions used in the Falklands operation were hastily converted to include and extra fuel tank in the bomb-bay. This had the effect of maintaining the extended range that external tanks would have allowed, whilst allowing the aircraft to carry a wider variety of weaponry than would otherwise have been available had the aircraft been limited to four wing tanks and the bombay full of 'dumb' bombs. The Thunderstrike had a good war, carrying out defence suppression, recon and strike missions, including the use of LGBs, marked by SAS units on the ground. Two aircraft were lost to ground fire in seperate incidents, one to AAA and one to a Roland SAM. All crew members ejected safely; two were captured and would be freed on the liberation of Port Stanley, one was extracted in a daring resue operation by Lynx helicopter, and the remaining WSO evaded capture for some two weeks before finally linking up with Royal Marine units 'yomping' en route to Stanley and was then helicoptered to safety. A third aircraft was reported missing presumed lost in poor weather. No wreckage has been recovered and it is thought that this aircraft was tasked with a reconnaisance of Argentine airfields and\or naval facilities on the mainland and it is known Argentine air defence Mirages were scrambled on a number of occasions against Thunderstrke probes, but in all cases the RAF jets outran any pursuit at low level, using their ECM capabilities to foil any tracking by radar guided missiles. Thanks for the new toy guys!

Many happy returns Kev!

Try downloading the New Nations mod. It includes the basic nations.ini http://forum.combatace.com/files/file/1630-new-nations-pack/

Did the TSR.2 actually get as far as being assigned a name? TSR stands for Tactical Strike Reconnaissance IIRC, so a TSR.2 F.3 (or TSR2. GR.5 or TSR.2 GR.7 for that matter) is probably a bit too much.

Looks great! Looking forward to flying them.

Many happy returns Dave

Any progress on this one? only asking because there'll be a natural home for it once the A-Team release the Wings Over Russia mod and we all set up our Ostfront installs (well I've got one in SFG at the moment but I'll change over to WOE).

Some Jolly Rogers pics to continue the theme: Two kills Fight's on Keep that bandit padlocked Handing over the torch Cat over the Canaries

Check out my blog http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?app=blog&module=display&section=blog&blogid=14&

I would recommend you post your query at the A-team site forum so one of their guys can answer it directly.

RIP Mr Phelps.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7451867.stm So I guess we can expect Judgement Day any time now then?

Many happy returns mate!

Wrench's site has a VF-32 pilot http://wrench1smog.com/wrench14.html

Many happy returns mate!

UK Skynet military satellite system extended http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556585.stm We're all doomed! Doomed I tell you! So kiss your *** and

Meanwhile back in the real world the French are doing it right http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8555664.stm The French navy has captured 35 piracy suspects off Somalia's coast - hailing it as the most successful mission since EU operations began in 2008.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8549069.stm The Desarmes family from Haiti will never forget the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince in January. And they will never forget the earthquake that hit Chile last Saturday. Because they lived through both......

I think they took it from a USMC AH-1 Cobra gunhip and designated it NOGS (Night Observation GunShip). Airfix made a 1/72 kit of it back in the day.

The instructions seem to say to install in the Objects folder. I think it should read to install into Objects\Ground Objects instead.

Congratulations to you and all the family.