Major Lee

Very nice! What is poly count and do you have regressive LODs?

I believe you have your dates wrong, unless you mean the 50's AD... (no 19-...) John Darby wrote about the concept of the "rapture" in the early 1800's... He was influenced by Emmannuel Lacunza, who wrote about it in a book in 1790... They were preceded by Morgan Edwards and his book in 1744 that described the pre-tribulation rapture... Of course, he was pre-empted on this topic by the likes of Increase Mather and Peter Jureiu in the later 1600's... But then, their roots had been concealed by the Augustinian concept of allegorism in 431AD until the 1600s... However, the early (first and second century) church believed, according to the writings (texts of sermons) of Clement, Ignatius, Barnabas and others, and the texts of papers like "Didache", the concept was clearly very well known. These writings date back to 50AD to 150AD... All these writings are based, of course on a variety of scripture that clearly describes Christ and HIS departure and imminent return. Jesus promised that after he left, he would return to take the faithful home... JOHN 14:2-3 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. Jesus left, in view of the disciples... ACTS 1: 9-11 while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” What will happen is explained by Paul.. I Corinthians 15:51-52 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. And again, the actual return explained in more detail... I Thessalonians 4:15-17 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Last time I checked, all of these scriptures were written within a few decades of Christ's Ascension, probably around AD33... Of course, even the prophet Isaiah got in on the rapture and the wrath that will follow, around 900BC... ISA 26:20-21 ​Come, my people, enter your chambers, ​​And shut your doors behind you; ​​Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, ​​Until the indignation is past. ​​For behold, the LORD comes out of His place ​​To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; ​​The earth will also disclose her blood, ​​And will no more cover her slain. So, does Harold Camping's failed prediction invalidate the Bible? I think not, given that the Bible warns that "you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." (Mat 24:44) and that “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only." (Mat 24:36). Clearly, God is not operating on man's timetable; we operate on HIS. This next verse explains that timetable quite plainly... Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment... If you don't live long enough to be taken in the rapture, then you will die. What will be God's judgment of you? I know what mine would be, and it ain't even close... So I have laid claim to the gift that Jesus has given to any who would accept; pardon for sin, an Advocate with God and an inheritance in heaven. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS: So, for the modern scoffers who claim that the word rapture isn't in the Bible... You're right, the English word "rapture" isn't. However, in the Latin Vulgate Bible, the word raptura is (and variants thereof). That Latin word is translated from the Greek word harpazo, meaning a "snatching away". Myself, I prefer the term "Assembly", which is used in reference to the gathering of Christ's church. (edited for formatting)

I guess taxes on your great windfall aren't on the list, or did you drink the winnings already?

Happy Birthday!

WOW! Thanks everyone... It was a great day!

I had a machine doing that... It was a bad memory stick. Tested by taking one out and doing the external view that brought the crash... Replaced and, of course, it was the second one... Also, PSU might be the culprit. Check out the NewEgg PSU Calculator...

Well, nevermind... Found the check box "allow trackbacks" and unchecked it... :) All the trackbacks disappeared

Is there a way to mass delete hundreds of casino trackbacks on my blog? Is there a way to block trackbacks?

Wow, nice shot...

Try the NewEgg power supply caculator... Looks like your a bit short of power... I would try unplugging one HDD and see if it runs ok... Also, once you get it running, BACK UP your stuff before something bad happens...

D-28 and later, also M models, which were taken from the D-28 run for conversion... Dive flaps would generate a 3 to 4 G pull out of a dive at 350 to 400KIAS. (Report of Joint Fighter Conference, NAS Patuxent River, MD, 16OCT1944) As for approaching mach number, tests at Dayton post war yielded results of about mach .805 to .83, in a vertical dive from 35 to 40 thousand feet. (This based on quotes from Herbert Fisher, Lowery Brabham, Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover.) Notice the extended dive flaps...

Didn't the MkXIIs have E type wings? (two 20mms and two .50s....) Skins look great! Nice work :)

Russ's P-47N had operating cowl flaps... Don't forget, real dive flaps are needed for later models...

What are you trying to do, turn me into an SF2 driver or something? If I gotta buy SF2 to get a hi-fi Thunderbolt, it's going to get ugly...

Thanks! Can never have enough stuff to decorate the ground....

I'll also need the min/max extent figures or an in-game LOD to finalize any decals... Teams... maybe...

Send me the skins BMPs. I can pull off the markings and make TGAs and "patch" the bmp. I will need the 3DS Max out file... Not sure who to get for the FM....

How's this coming along? Any plans for other versions? Mk XII and XIV would also be very useful... http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spitfire-XII.html

Merry Christmas to all!

Thanks for this review. Looks like my next controller, should my trusty MSFF2 ever fail...

Very nice!

Well, SF1 is going the way of the dodo... Without concerted support from TK (who has noted that he doesn't want to go the WWII direction), SF2 will never be the modern day version of EAW that many of us Old Dinosaurs yearn to fly... Given all this, there are serious gaps in available aircraft for use in comprehensive WWII campaigns; of the aircraft avaiable for SF1, some are just not quite hi-fi-hi-def machines... Without a dedicated team effort, it isn't going to happen. Best to take Baltikas advice...

Decals are easy. If you need help with them, send your skin templates and I can pull them off into proper decals... Let's get this airborne!

You flying rocket scientist.... That's a purty little chart... What's it for?

I just worked out formulas for Excel... :mega_shok: