Hauksbee

Let us hope so, for then there's hope for me.

Wow! That's a housefull of cats.

Not to be too hard on dogs, it must be admitted that no dog owner would ever have to face this problem...

So...who needs a dog?

With such a fine lash-up, it's no wonder you collected this fine fistful of medals!

I try to explain about the mice problem, but Fafhrd remains convinced that computers only freeze up because there's no one to keep the keyboard warm.

On one of my rare visits to to my profile page, I noticed that we have a 'reputation' rating. How does that work? How do we get rated?

You'd think that you'd crossed into "The Twilight Zone"... http://news.yahoo.com/giant-tsunami-shape-clouds-roll-across-alabama-sky-192102289.html

It's makes one wonder what Uncle Al's numbers were just before the end.

...and deservedly so.

We've been trying to explain that to the rest of the world for quite a while now. Welcome aboard!

I thank you; my brain cells thank you...it was looking pretty bed there.

On the DC-3 we got nothing. (of course, we were only going from Pittsburgh to Boston.)

Could it have been anymore obvious! Sorry lads, it's just Creeping Olde-Phartism, and the brain cells are the first to go.

I agree. This is looking great. I did notice, however, that the "Time of Day" to fly seems unchanged. ( Dawn/Morning/Afternoon/Dusk/Night) I was hoping for a clock that gave more choices. I live in Quick Combat, and I've found that if I fly at Dawn, the sun is usually not over the horizon yet, and at Dusk it's already set. Morning and Afternoon are pretty much the same looking, so my choices are just two: Daylight or Night. Still, that late-Victorian era look is very cool. Maybe P5 will have some full-bore Steampunk to play with.

Which was the Agatha Christie novel that took place on the Orient Express in which everybody had a hand in the murder?

Born in 1938, I had my first ride in an airplane at age 2 on a DC-3.

Just finished watching an odd French WWI flying film called "Angel's Wings". (Netflix) On the whole: pretty good. Good photography, and it certainly avoids the most egregious cliche's about flying on the Western Front. It centers on the the son of a wealthy factory owner who has successfully fought tuberculosis, but his lungs are too scarred up and the army won't take him. So he learns to fly (some really nice French countryside and Bleriots) and the service welcomes him in. After a rocky start at the squadron, he finds his groove and racks up an impressive score. His mates get jealous. Then they begin to see him as a Jonah. So much good luck has to be paid for with bad luck. Which is to say, paid with their lives. (no spoilers here) The aerial encounters are brief and do not feature any fancy dogfighting. There are some oddities. The French are shown flying some version of Morane-Saulnier parasols. First, two-seaters like the attached pic. (gunner in the rear) and later, single seaters. Our hero even successfully shoots down a Dr.1 (twice!) which means these squadrons are flying Moranes well into late 1917. There's an attempt to bring in a Nieuport (I think) but only one, and it has Tiger Moth written all over it. Towards the end there were two 'somethings' that might have been stand-ins for SPADs, but, in any event, didn't come close. The German planes look really good, but I'm not up on two-seaters (and they're nearly all 2-seaters) but think Aviatik/Rumpler/Albatros and you won't go too far wrong. It is also odd that the squadron never seems to fight as a unit. Our hero is a lone wolf hunter. I'd thought that had pretty much gone by the boards in 1917. I tried to find a Wikipedia article (or something else close) about this film, but no go.

Just went through the 30+ pages of plane photos. Didn't see any of the German two-seaters. I wonder where they came from?

How about "OFFed"

And there we have it!! Thanks Capt. Winters.

Can we eat the reindeer?

Naval Two-Seaters in P4? I'm starting to salivate. Visions of Hansa-Brandenbergs sparkle before my eyes. And I've yet to see a better name for P4 than "Fire In The Sky".

What is 'Pay to Win'?

Welcome p3r, welcome to the treacherous skies over France.