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I'm not that daft - I wasn't fooled for a minute by all those curls; spotted ya first time! (Seriously, good to hear from you, Pete :wavey:)

LOL!!!

Do that, Matt - Yeovilton used to be my regular aviation haunt - I love that place. Years ago, your visit was almost certainly rewarded with the Sea Fury, Firefly or Swordfish on a check flight or all three departing for an airshow. The museum was sensational - that's where I fell in love with the big American radial CATS! Big, staunch, beautifully engineered, carrierworthy babies towering over the FA birds. When I was at secondary school in Torquay during the early '70's, we'd get a Camberra flyover every Thursday as regular as clockwork (undersurfaces yellow/black diagonal stripes). A REALLY extra treat would be the appearance of a Sea Vixen - man what a lorry of a crate!

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Hi Andy, thanks for the HU :wavey: I think I must have downloaded the WIP version; Looking in to it!

Wouldn't be this one by any chance, Pete ol' matey! Anyone game for a spot of "Find The Pete"?...:jump: Nice Photos. Ian. Thanks for sharing. You wouldn't be thinking of working some of your magic on Yeovilton by any lucky chance, would you Ian?

Willy, I reckon you need a Sea Fury while the Seafire gets patched up. :kilroy:

I have this aircraft in FSX and the reverse thrust works fine for me. The throttles in the virtual cockpit are not clickable, but through the 2D popup throttle window and with a button mapped to thrust reverse I can activate the reverse thrust.

A number of personnel will not be happy with you as they will now have to replace all the damaged wood on the deck.

Shades of Dale Earnhardt. :frown:

I'm not surprised to see beer kegs mounted onto pylons or a drop tank used to carry beer. In the logs of VF-17 there is at least one instance in which they returned to the combat area from R&R carrying beer. The pilots pooled their money and bought 148 cases of beer, marked the cases "electronic parts" to keep anyone from stealing the beer, then had the beer shipped with them from Sidney to Espiritu Santo. At Espiritu, they loaded the cases into the ammo bays in the wings of their Corsairs. They flew their beer from Espiritu Santo up to Bougainville with 32 Corsairs, each carrying a mixed load of beer and 50 cal ammo. They flew the final leg of the flight, 45 minutes, at 20,000 feet to chill the beer. When the pilots landed, the ground crew came up to each Corsair to help the pilot out and each pilot greeted the crew with a can opener and instructions to quickly open the ammo bays and hand out some cold beer.

Perhaps they will take measures to improve driver safety. It took the death of Dale Earnhardt to make head restraint devices mandatory in NASCAR. NASCAR now fields some of the safest race cars the world has ever seen.

Nice going Matt, for the grooviest freeware P-51, too! :applause:

Sad news.

I've spent more happy hours at Yeovilton than at any other UK airbase. Are you thinking of working some of your special magic here? :jump:

I've spent more happy hours at Yeovilton than at any other UK airport. (Sea Fury chasing!) Are you planning to work some of your special magic for Yeovilton? :jump:

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And you have the Tawny Crazy Ant invading as well. http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/us/crazy-ants

That was great! :icon_lol::applause:

Really nice progress, Nick.:applause: Bravo!

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Wow! What an awesome view!

Lol. Not that I know of... maybe you're confusing me with Thanassi Vengos :running:... Angeliki Nikolouli?...:sheep: or Georgios Papamdreou :icon_eek: No need for the request, Nick - we're all Greek at heart here. :salute: And the prefered beverage: OUZAKI! "Αίεν Υψικρατείν "

:icon_eek: Bet he's an undercover agent for TROIKA... :running: Γρήγορα, σωθείται...κρυφθείται 'ολοι... (quick, save yourselves, hide...)

I hear ya buddy,:jump: imagine you and I flying a big fat drone with buddy cords; hey; You do rudder/elevator, leave me the ailerons/throttle. I can just hear our good ladies, too: "honey...:icon_eek: what's that you're carrying into the den in that great big box there...have you been wasting money at the model store, AGAIN???":a1089: "Box?...ummm...oh dat!...Naaa, Bud's been having a clear out, again...can you believe he was gonna trash all this...might come in useful someday..." :engel016: Folk will be combing a five mile radius for months picking up bits o' balsa. And we can get into a few cans of coldies and blame the nugget that switched on the same frequency.

Awesome link! I well remember the days of the Apollo program, cried when it ended. I so wanted to be an astronaut and go to the moon.

It's called a lightning bug, that's what we've always called them. I don't see "serdy" on the list. Way back when I worked in a Winn Dixie grocery store, I had a customer ask me "where ya keep tha serdy's?" Me: "What?" Customer: "Serdy's, where ya keep 'em?" Me: "I'm sorry, what is a 'serdy'?"

I think these are the primary reasons drone "pilots" wear flight suits. In all honesty, I think they could wear pajamas and be just as effective while controlling drones. And yes, real flight suits are made from Nomex and are very expensive. Drone operators wearing Nomex suits is a waste of funds.

:icon_lol: I'm just happy when my buddies are happy ...:guinness::guinness: nice one RD! Wouldn't mind the drone jockey's job, too...even I'd wear a flying suit for that...:wavey: maybe some snazzie Ray Bans - heck...shave off me moustache - voila; spittin' image of Tom Cruise...or was it Hanks...!!! She's got that feelin...(Hey Matt...holla if you can sing!) "Gentlemen, welcome to Topgun!"

Zippa-dee-do-da!...:salute: clever idea - thanks!

:icon_eek:.... hmmmm..... :running:...honey! quick, gimmee the oil can... :jump:

Great contribution Ted! Always generously surprising us all with gems such as this. Many thanks.:wavey:

Yes, he did, but it currently uses the virtual cockpit of the stock, MS DC-3. This is expected to change after he finishes with the Super DC-3, which will feature a new virtual cockpit.

Seeing as how B1900D's rolled off the assembly line with steam gauges and usually no GPS, I expect Carenado's will have the same.

Many of us have been asking developers for a FSX native B1900, I guess Carenado is answering that call.

Very much appreciated, BB. :salute: No rush though, take your time - stacks of things to get done.