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Agreed. We need more data. Target Motion Analysis data from the tracking party, and ESM data from the spooks. Maybe they can tell us what language they were jabber-jawing with on the sub-space network.

I don't believe it. That doesn't even look like the Enterprise. It's clearly a Klingon D-7 battle cruiser. Wonder what they're doing here...

You might be thinking of the FS9 model. Tom threatened to do an FM it as it was hot in his opinion but he never got around to doing it.

We flew on to WABB. Nice flight, but the landing got a bit hectic...

I forgot to "load film in the camera", so only got the one screenshot on the lake that we parked on for the night.

In my case, I installed a program that used files with the same extension (.air), and that program "took over" the file association without asking. Something like this may have happened. Milton's suggestion should fix it. In the case of Win7, you right-click, select "Open-with", then "Choose default program..."

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/17/sonar-image-appears-to-be-amelia-earhart-plane-expert-says/?intcmp=features Sonar pic doesn't really show much if you ask me. It could still be debris from a nearby ship wreck.

Right click on the update and select hide update

I agree...

Yep. Amazing. On the other hand, I still think his team mate Kane is one of the coolest characters in the field. And by cool I don't mean "yo! dude!", but calm under pressure. See how he reached into his flaming car to activate the fire extinguisher after getting out? We usually just see the drivers run away from their flaming rides, which is perfectly understandable!

Flew over the mountains to WAJJ. Dang Goose was panting for breath going over the top.

I'm not sure, from the VC on short final it was looking like the approach angle was a little low, but should touchdown about the rear deck elevator. The landing wasn't looking perfect, but good enough that I didn't "take the wave off" & go around. Hit the deck and pieces started flying. It dropped down on the belly and slid up to where it's at in the pic (the bow was starting to look awful close as I was sliding towards it). I've been having issues with the Seafire and the MAAM CVL anyway. Touch down between the rear elevator and the stern and it automatically crashes. So, I've been landing a little long onto the second group of wires forward of the elevator. But I took off from there this morning and flew on to Hong Kong where I landed on the USS Lexington in the harbor with no problems.

We flew up river to Kiunga or something like that. Nice flight over the jungle and just glad I didn't have to make an emergency landing. I hear some of the people living there like to have you for dinner. Anyway, we're getting ready to cross some tall hills so I was checking the emergency supplies in the back and found a couple of crates that could come in handy...

Re the original question: In FS9's sound folder there was a GPWS folder inside of which was a wav file for each of the altitude call outs. The files were called "10.wav", 100.wav", "200.wav", etc. These were the standard wav files for the "dude" calling out altitudes during approach. The "DON'T SINK" and "PULL UP" wav files were in there as well. I found a sexy female voice version of all those files on AVSIM or someplace and replaced them. I've been looking through my backed up FSX files (my FS computer is "T.U.") but I can't find where they're located in FSX. They may be specific to the aircraft's sound folder. Seems to me you should be able to replace them the same way.

Well, took the Goose on it's first leg and let's just say that it's not all the guy I bought it from made it out to be. The engines sound like sick washing machines and seem to run either at idle or wide open. Anyway, we made it to PNG and I've got to break out the tool kit and see what I can do with it. Maybe I should have spent less time kicking the tires and more time for a test flight.

No need to apologize. Like you said, some of us hadn't seen it before and would have missed it altogether.

Having a water issue. It's changing looks every few seconds from looking okay to looking horrid going back and forth. And I got tired of kicking the tires on this Goose....

From the account that I read the numbers on the data tag traced back repairs that were done by Lockheed to Amelia's Electra after the Hawaii crash.

There's some Australians who have just as solid a claim to having found Amelia's Electra crashed in the New Guinea jungle and at least they had some info on a data tag to back them up. But who knows? I sure don't

I tried the 50s and 60s cars. Only missed 2 on the 50s (darn Mercurys) and it was pretty ugly on the 60s cars. Also did the engine ID and only missed one of those.

The real reason for losing pressurization

Yep, great film. The USAAF flew more than just the PR Spitfire. The 31st Fighter Group also flew Spitfire fighters in the Med and Italy.

We flew up to Lizard Island (YLZI). I've been trying different water textures and the water in the screenshot is now gone as I didn't like the look while on the surface. I believe the technical term for it is "yucky"

Well, they've been wanting something to take care of the fire ants.

The only ship that I was on that any armor to speak of was the USS Lexington CVT-16. And it's an Essex class CV. I was surprised at a how thin the metal is on a Whibdey Island class LSD. I'm thinking that with the right ammo, you could shoot through it with a 30-06. And they kept us within artillery range of the Bosnian coast for a few months.

We've done it to old decommisioned supercarriers. But we went all the way and sunk the ship. Still cool to see. With today's weaponry, the next major war at sea isn't going to be anything like WW II.

Nice flight to Cairns. Thought I'd get a few shots from inside this time.

This isn't going anywhere. If you want to discuss it further, I recommend talking it to the Quarter Moon Saloon. There's folks there that would love to discuss the finer points of the issue. http://quartermoonsaloon.com/forum/forum.php

Congratulations to all who participated. :guinness:

Holy crap SSI01! That story gives me goose bumps. That's amazing. For another "Must Read" on this battle, try Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, by John B. Lundstrom. Basically, Lundstrom thinks Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher has gotten a "bum wrap" from history, and in this book he makes his case, and makes it well. There is much (much) discussion on Midway, and it's very interesting indeed.

I'd let the Japanese have the bases, tell them they're on their own and move it all to Guam.

We headed on up to MacKay in a sunset flight for me anyway.

I got an email today from Sun n Fun here is a small excerpt. Everyone is going to be forking it over.

Looks like the tail number is G-SUHX. Maybe you could run a search on that registration?