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Okay I have just received the Haynes Manual for the Avro Vulcan. So far the book has got some great photos in it and seems a bit short 160 pages. In those it covers most major events for the Vulcan including the restoration. But so far its well worth the asking price for such a classic piece of Aviation history.

Yeah my dad bought it for me as part of my Birthday... And I have a good collection of Motorbike Haynes manuals mostly not covered in oil... I would recommend the Vulcan one if you are a fan and I suppose the Spitfire one will be just as good... I suppose getting parts for one would be difficult though...

Thank you my friend...

I like those trainers when can I get a pair ???

Any landing you walk away from is a good one... Dont know who did the quote but its correct !!! Nice pics...

I remember reading Hammers Slammers about 15 years ago when I picked it up in a book store in the US... It was an enjoyable read as well... Good luck with it I hope it works well

Okay some good news is that it is not hard coded as far as I know, I am currently playing out a campaign that has 707´s and Airbuses instead... But as to how to do it I dont know... but I would be curious to know myself...

Tales of the Golden Monkey that brings back memories...

Okay I think there is a Sticky in the Knowledge base. Its been that long since I did this I cant remember... You need whichever weapon pack to download get the weaponpack first Bunyaps is a good starter also you will need the Weapon Editor both can be found in the downloads section. Drop the Weaponpack into the Weapons folder and then run the weapon editor... and it should work... I can´t be more specific at present as I am away from my Games PC...

Well last night 2 more sorties... Sortie 1, Armed Recce... 2 A-4G Rocket pods 2 Sidewinders Centreline tank Reports had come in of a truck convoy heading over the mountains down towards the coast. We where tasked to go hit it thats if we could find it in the Jungle!!!... Anyway Take off nothing special but flying a lightly loaded scooter of the pointy end of the boat is always fun. Headed in okay without any problems and proceeded to look for the convoy the radar was no use so had to rely on a visual sighting as if that would happen... Anyway once in the area the convoy was last located we picked up some small arms fire from a couple of light guns so we headed in to rocket them instead at least it wouldn´t be a waste of jet fuel, when my wingie picked up some moving targets on his Radar and we went to investigate and we found 3 trucks moving at about 30 mph and all of them carrying SA-2 Rockets. So we split and I rolled in while my wingman covered me I fired both pods and took out all three trucks. We couldn´t find anything else so we rolled off and head back to the boat. Where I for once got a good landing... looks like I got my groove as they say... Sortie 2 Flak Suppression. 2 A-4G Rockets and AGM-45´s Okay the afternoon run in the heat was a lot of a nightmare. Number one the heat meant we had to fly light no centre tank and only rockets and shrikes not a good start. Anyway take off was more of a stagger into the air type... Join up and climbed to 15000ft to help the jets out was a bit of a struggle we where only 60 miles or so out from the target area and as soon as we where 20 miles out we picked out the target all on a mountain top not good at all as there was a town with an airfield about 10 miles away with an SA-2 Sam site. Life got interesting to say the least. We rolled in and the FANSONG painted me and the battery fired a pair of missiles thankfully I was lined up on the FANSONG just in case so I loosed a shrike and headed for the jungle. The SAM´s missed me and I missed the FANSONG so I hit it with rockets and then zoom climbed back to height while my wingman took out a triple a site. Unfortunately Wingie took a few rounds of 23mm from a Shilka and he staggered off pouring smoke, he banged out cleanly and was picked up by one of our Seakings on station. I went back to the Radar site and hit it with my remaining rockets taking out the guns on the site but taking a few hits myself as I cleared the area I noticed a flash of silver as a Mig-21 came up to play. Here´s me in a shot up jet and this joker comes up to cause me more problems he was on my six quickly and he fired an Atoll at about 1.5 miles which I evaded with ease I headed down to the deck as usual as some of the damage was causing problems with my control of the jet so low level egress it was the mig followed me down and fired the second Atoll at 1.5 miles again another dodge was done and the missile hit the sea. The mig though carried on closing so I turned into him as fast as I could and fired a quick hope like hell burst at him which connected with his port wing down he went with flames coming out of him. After that I headed for the boat. Landing was to my surprise another good one. Thought what the chiefy of the jet said about me bringing it back all holey and it was now only fit for use on Sundays... said is not exactly printable... My Wingman for the sortie is injured and was flown back to the mainland as he picked up a couple of chunks of metal in his leg doc said he should be fine after a few weeks. And I got promoted to Lieutant.

Okay does this mean that the Hairdressers cup final is now over ??? And I can come out of my server room without being hounded by Hairdresser fanatics ???

One word Outstanding...!!! :clapping:

To be honest the last thing I usually read is the readme... and if we are all honest we have all done it at some point... Its a Bloke thing... we all have a habit of reading the instructions last...

Sir Winston Churchill provided the right words which even today sound correct...

That skin does look good...

Happy Birthday

G'day again... 2 Sorties. First the good news Lt Smithson it turns out took an early bath and got out before his jet peeled into the sea... Sortie One. Strike on a Fort 2 A-4G Mk-82 Snakeyes 2 Aim-9B Centre Tank Take off was nice and smooth but far too early in the morning for my liking... But a few snorts of Oxygen cleared the old noggin... Anyway one in the air we settled on our longest flight yet. No approaching across the beach in and out style we went for the enter from inland move. Anyway the flight was so quiet I nearly fell asleep... We even had a flight of Mirages to cover for us!!! Anyway target area came up went in dropped my 6 Snakeye´s and got outta there my wingie dropped shortly after me and we flattened the place!!! Both jets came home successfully to find that Lt Smithson was propping up the bar in medical rather well. Oh I got my promotion to Sub-Lt. Sortie Two. Intercept 2 A-4G 4 Aim-9H (We got a resupply today with these new toys) We got pulled from another strike sortie and placed on Alert 5 expecting nothing but so far nothing is not happening. After waiting 45 minutes we got the launch order so off we went. Take off and join-up in 3 minutes not bad... I thought anyway. GCI direct and we realised that the Indos are using their Sabres for attack now. Anyway we went buster in other words 520knots at 10000ft after them we caught them and they where cruising along at 1500ft or so and nicely painted against the sea so we rocketed down at them and I fired my first sidewinder at a mile and it looked good but the tracking went on it and it went aimless... The Sabre though had a meeting with a quick burst of 20mm and down he went. My wingie at this point was between a rock and a hard place he was chasing a Sabre with one chasing him and too far for me to get with my guns so I advised him I would fire a sidewinder. I got a perfect track and the rear Sabre lost his rear end and the front Sabre had a few problems with 20mm shattering a wing... thats 3 down wheres the last one... OH FECK coming straight at me firing his guns I returned fire and this time he got lucky and I didnt blew the tail off my Jet and down I went managed to eject before the jet went into a flat spin... and Today I took an early bath. The rescue chopper got to me about an hour later only to find that they had another pilot on board they had picked up the Rear Sabre driver... back to the Ship and he went off to the brig and I went to join Lt Smithson in Medical for the medicinal brandy. Apart from leaving work early today I was okay...

My condolences on your loss...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_4

Someone had to do it...

G´day Bruces and Sheilas Well another 2 sorties... First sortie Airfield Strike to take out the control tower. 2 A-4G load with Mk-82 Snakeyes (1 Jet) Mk-20 Rockeyes (1 Jet) 2 AGM-45 (1 Jet) Rocket Pods Briefed that we would be covered by a Flak Suppression flight and they give me a pair of Shrikes do the upper ups know more than they are saying anyway we are 60 miles off shore for this task so fuel will not be a major issue. Both jets are heavy on ordnance. Take off into the clear blue sky was easy enough headed in over land to attack from a different direction from the flak suppressors. Popped of a mountain ridge and was painted by a Radar so I fired a Shrike and got a hit out of it turned out to be a Bar-lock radar. Ordered my wingman to take out the ZSU-57 protecting the tower while I bomb the tower. Wingie takes out the gun with rockets while I place 2 Snakeyes into the building and join the demolition club with some style... we then both go to town on the Airbase as the Flak suppressors turn up and start subduing the guns I fire my last shrike at a ZSU-23 dont want to tangle with a shilka if I can help it. After rocketing, bombing and a strafing we both head for home undamaged... The base was burning fiercly even what looked like a Museum setup of 3 P-51´s... Successful sortie all round. Oh looks like I am now a Member of the British Empire... bloody pommies Sortie 2 for the day... Lt Smithson was shot down ... 4 A-4G 2 Sidewinders each Ordered to intercept a flight of bombers turns out the bombers where 8 T-33´s I managed to bag one with a Sidewinder when 8 Sabres come down out of the Sun no warning but their first pass was a bad one and turns out they lost their leader as one of the Sabres pancaked into the sea at about 700 knots or so!!! Anyway after that it was shoot at anything our advantage was that the T-33 wanted to try and kill us as well !!! Now its getting dangerousmy wingie cleared my tail with a good Sidewinder shot taking a Sabre out of the fight. I latch on and get a quick burst off and hit a T-33 knocking him out of the sky as the fight drags over land and the local Army chaps get in on the act which made it interesting as they fired 2 Bloodhound missiles and each one bagged a T-33!!! The fight went back out to see where I fired my remaining sidewinder which decided it didnt want to explode so it went for a trip elsewhere... My wingie then nailed another Sabre with guns... While I was dealing with another Sabre which dutifully died... It was about this time 3 Sabres had ganged up on Smithson and shot him down... I went after one Sabre got him dead to rights pulled the trigger and all I heard was the dead mans click... I was out of ammo and missiles we forced the Sabres and T-33´s after us over the army base again to give them some more target practice... but they declined and turned for home... So we did the same minus one Lt Smithson ...

The Earth is Flat!!! Depends on how many B-52´s are trying to take off at once...

Thats been on the books for a few years and as they are mounted in a sub it means that no-one is sure if they are off their shores or not...

Okay quick one for you after a rather drawn out debacle with Intel chip sets going back 12 years 7 months 5 days... yeah it was messy... I have always used AMD and ATI video cards as I have found them to be great quality and to be honest a better chipset... I will be replacing my games rig in about 4 months time Chrsitmas present to ME!!! and plan to put in one of the new AMD Xenon chips. I have had no problems playing OFF granted I play with most settings on 4 and one on 5 as per the advice in a sticky and it has always flown marvellous... apart from said pilot is having a bad ground to air interface... or is weighed down by too much kraut lead, you know that stuff is heavy man... Anyway my next rig is AMD and ATI and I will not worry at all about it... Thats my advice also remember that its single clock speed that OFF requires...

I have all mine seperate but thats because of the way I purchased them. But when I build my next PC I will still be going down the seperate install route simply because it makes it easier to mod...