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No it's pretty much every other year, the last one was out in November '06. I think they were doing a similar rate around the 'Spy Who Loved Me' phase.

Shame, really enjoyed his work.

It's a nice kit isn't it, picked up the 1/48 scale one but haven't started on it yet, probably would have made modelling the SF version easier if I had it sooner! I think pretty much any engine other than the one they ended up using would have been an improvement! Even after they fixed it flaming out on the cat, it didn't like lots of throttle movements which would tend to break the constant speed unit. For an airliner the engine would have been fine but for a combat aircraft it was less than perfect! Thanks for all the kind comments.

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It's available now, get her here!

Is it possible to have missile racks/launch rails fall off once the associated weapon has been fired? I vaguely remember reading about it years ago but I haven't been able to find anything about it after searching here and downloading a few models that might have used it.

If it's a third party aircraft it's caused by a part of the mesh not being closed. It'll probably crop up in a few of the add on aircraft built pre the new shadow system as it wouldn't have shown up.

Yeah... actually in the approach configuration it's fairly easy to handle. The only problem is the nose tends to obscure the carrier/hemisphere, you can either try a curved approach or turn the cockpit off (NUMPAD .)!

Yes, yes I have. And it wasn't even ironically. The person below me was dumped by their imaginary girlfriend.

What a race! I need some new nails...

Sorry, should have mentioned that's Hinch's excellent HMS Eagle model he kindly let me beta. I'm now going to have a drink to celebrate Lewis Hamilton winning the F1 World Championship in the last 300yards of the Brazilian GP!

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False, despite the Banana Bar almost convincing me. The person below me has a secret crush on Meg Griffin from Family Guy.

Ah yes getting my greys mixed up!

Ok, plan is to make it available some time tomorrow stand fast any unexpected changes that need making. I've changed:- Loadouts now make more sense and include 60lb rockets by default Lower rockets position so they don't overlap the upper ones Launch rail for the upper rockets Taxis post patch rather than the AI going round in circles External tanks, they won't drop but I don't think anyone ever actually did drop them Exhaust smoke Lower detail second level lod to improve performance in a big formation 831 and 813 NAS colour schemes added, I may do 827 the other front line unit as well, but I hate making decals so I might not! Some more cockpit warning lights working correctly

Suez action. The Wyvern should be available some time tomorrow assuming I don't find anything else to fix.

Spinners, awesome shot!

If you're using an add on weapons pack, get the latest weapon editor and recompile the weapondata.dat file. Check the knowledge base for full details.

There's going to be an A2G kill real soon...

Very nice paint. One minor point, during the actual conflict the jets didn't have any squadron markings, basically anything that wasn't medium sea grey got painted over*. Post conflict they reappeared in the more subdued format. *Some jets were repainted in Barley Grey which was lighter, in both cases it was pretty much done with a brush so it'd be interesting to see how muh performance was lost due to the paint finish.

Of course the FIA aren't biased against Hamilton...

I've done a couple of Anti-Ship missions in WoI post patch and they worked fine. However I didn't get the mission complete message until I'd sunk something so that may be the problem.

Hmm, I'm using 2.9.5, build 7472. I remember having issues recording FSX when I upgraded, it would only do full screen not maximised on one screen* whereas before it had been fine. Might see if I can revert. *It seemed to interlace my two displays so every other frame would be my desktop. Edited to add: Just upgraded to FRAPS 2.9.6 and it all works fine.