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Anyone know what happened?

In my experience, you only get one monitor when using FRAPS. With other software (non-sim flying) you can get both monitors in one image. .

One thing I'd meant to query, but never got around to it, was the trend toward filling text areas with links to garbage ads. I expect it in Yahoo news articles, though the links usually take you to some related subject. But suddenly this is turning up everywhere. Now that I actually raise the subject, I notice that it's no longer happening here with OFF. But when it was, words like 'airplane' or 'cartridge' would be links to Univ. of Phoenix, or dating services. No relevance whatever. I've always suspected that the Internet Providers (like Charter) impose this rather than the site owner. Does anyone among us have any more information on this?

I could not disagree more. I'll take all the screenies I can get. That way I know there is progress being made. The worst of waiting is the glacial silence on the part of the Devs. I understand the need to play their cards close, and no one is proof against serious illness and deaths in the family. But I was much heartened when Pol revealed that at some time in the near past there was actually a release date planned. (even if it had to be scrapped). It tells me that the end is in sight. Screenies, periodically posted, tell me that there will be an end, eventually.

In a similar vein, check out "Beneath Hill 60". Here's the Netflix blurb on it: "This drama based on a true story highlights the heroism of Australian engineer Oliver Woodward, who's sent to the Western Front during World War I and becomes part of an audacious plan to detonate an explosive charge under the German front lines." Good film. Not for the claustrophobic.

I agree.

There's a caption to one of the photos (a 'visiting card' of Ernst Udet) that goes: "Fotokarte von Ernst Udet mit Widmung: Glupopo mein Freund, Ernst Udet 21.04.1933" I'm assuming that "mit Widmung" means "with inscription". But what does "Glupopo" mean?

But they probably thought, "Damned glad to be in the new Sopwith Pup! 'Can't believe that people actually tried to fly, and fight with, those primitive Farmans and Bleriots!

What's causing the odd distortion?

Very nice!

The other thing that has a destructive effect on doped canvas is cows. During my brief career as a glider pilot, (flying over lots of farm land) we were constantly admonished to never, ever, land in a field of cows. They find the doped canvas very attractive (cow candy) and they will nibble your airplane naked. Also, if they eat enough of it, it poisons the cow. I must admit I have never seen this in practice, but we took it seriously at the time.

Full contact, Mixed Martial Arts.

Sure is good seeing all the flying replicas. Perhaps, some day in the future, they will be a commonplace. Then we can organize teams and have full-contact MMA events.

I recall growing up during those Cold War years with the feeling that Russia was aching for a chance, any chance, to start a war with the West. At last some one pointed out that there was scarcely a family in all of Russia who had not lost at least one family member in WWII. And a lot of our policies were quite provocative and gave the Kremlin sleepless nights.

http://thelcn.com/2011/07/13/amazing-photo-of-geneseo-air-show-triplane-crash/#.UR6A2iDR2zw.facebook A modern triplane, and the pilot walked away (holding a broken arm.)

Done! And Done again! Hats off to Vasilli Arkhipov. But, ah! The ignomy of being saved from the Russki's...by a Russki. There's got to be some Old Cold War Warriors in Washington gnashing their teeth over that one.) Good articles. Arkhipov later became the Exec.Officer on the K-19 (Widowmaker) and backed his captain. Good man. The photo is Arkhipov during the Cuban Missile Crisis. .

I'd spend more time in museums if there were more displays like this.

Jaysus! I nearly had heart failure! I first thought you said you'd purchased WOOF. Now I'm merely heart-broken. Well, what's another two weeks?

Exactly! The only thing better than the blaze would be a filmed record of it that you could take to school for bragging rights.

Thin strips of plywood.

Thanks Olham. I have, on numerous occasions, meant to post that question because it just seemed so out-of-place that a national insignia would be named for another country/region.

Thanks, Dej. While saving the pic., I discovered another pic. of the same plane, but from a different angle, here making a run on a hot air balloon.

Nice picture! It's great that so many replicas are being built. Now they won't have to butcher any more of the declining number of Tiger Moths. But...on the foreground Alb., isn't that a WWII Balkan Cross?

Given our capacity for Pollyanna Optimism, and self-delusion, they probably felt that it was all tightly engineered, with safety systems, checks and counter-checks, plus trained personnel. "Don't be such a bloody pessimist. Just follow procedure and it's all under control." But nobody's proof against Murphy's Law. The bit that perplexed my parents most was the endless hours we invested, the care in painting the final product only to see it go up in a quick blaze of glory. For us it was never about the plane (though we did love the building, too) it was all about the 'blaze of glory'.

True. We had a lock on the world's known supply of helium, and we weren't about to share with the Nazi government. At the time, it would have been like selling uranium to Saddam Hussein. . And I'll confirm that aircraft dope burns joyously. When I was a pup building stick and paper airplanes, we'd buy Testor's Model Airplane Dope in one ounce bottles (ten cents each). After finishing our planes (really good ones were admired for a day or so) we'd set them on fire and launch them from second-story windows. (our parents never understood this) Tissue paper and thin balsa sticks don't make much of a fire, but add a coating of aircraft dope...