Maintenance work on "The Pond"

[RyDraiggoch]

CBFiles is currently offline for complex maintenance and is likely to be down for the weekend. Apologies for any inconvience. Normal service to be resumed as soon as possible.


Thank you for that Don

Rob English (TheHappyOtter) has been working on some major changes for the "Pond" for sometime, this combined with the stupidity factor today has forced him to take it off line for the weekend while upgrades, clean up and a name change is accomplished. Those of us in the Admin there apologise for any inconvience , and if you wish to access Dave Moly's Auster V or any of the other other new items I will be glad to send them on -- Again the "hack" did NOT affect the library or any of the files in it....they are all fine, but it seemed a good time to take care of everything at once. Hopefully some of the other niggling problems will be cured at the same time.

Tom if you could - would you be so kind as to sticky this so your forums wont get cluttered up with questions about our site.

Again -- everything will be back as normal on Monday.

Thank you

Leif Harding
www.classicbritishfiles.com Admin team

[Duckie]

Thanks for the update, Lief. Sorry about the "hack." Look forward to the "re-opening".

Steve

[Wild Bill Kelso]

-- Again the "hack" did NOT affect the library or any of the files in it....they are all fine...

Glad to hear this!
I'll keep my fingers crossed for the admin team for all the recovery work to be successful.

Cheers,
Markus.

[SgtT]

Sorry to hear about the hack Lief. Hope you all are able to get things back online soon. You all have a wonderful site that I have enjoyed visiting.

All the best,

T.

[Matt Wynn]

Leif, is this a simple way of telling us loft members over there to stop Annoying Keith and Moly? :icon_lol:

look forwards to it being back... now is there any chance you can mail me over the Chilton, accidentally deleted the bugger from my FS.... and yes i did check my recycle bin :icon_lol:

[molyned]

Annoy me ? nah! all in good fun - I relish good arguments learned discussions:). I'm far too long in the tooth, being retired. I finally learnt to chill out after my by-pass op.
Cheers
Dave M(oly)

[RyDraiggoch]

Which one Matt?

[Matt Wynn]

the latest one Leif, planning o fly her all the way to my testing field in Greece for a respray :D

[molyned]

Is it this one Matt - from this sendspace link ?
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fr5oza
'cos that's the only one I've d/l'ed - the other has a Ford engine, I think
HTH Cheers
Dave M(oly)

[RyDraiggoch]

Matt
if you need FSV (The Train Powered DW1a) I will shoot it to you

Thanks Dave for filling in

Rob English is working keeping the Midlands safe from Villians today but he has promised to have the site back up and running by early monday (GMT)

Here is G-AFSV the DW1a file with the added bonus of Peter Watkins red and black racing version already included.


http://www.sendspace.com/file/pc7c3s
Leif

[Matt Wynn]

Thanks Dave, going to get her all prepped for the morning and depart the second the sun rises... if i'm lucky i'll get to southern Germany by tomorrow night :icon_lol:

[nigel richards]

:applause:testing field in Greece? Phew, that sounds close to home Smoothie!
Thats where I do my own testing...on the Aegean if its amphibious... oops, that reminds me...
thought this thread; "maintenance work on "the pond" was about an updated version of the new seaplane model, the Martin Mars by Jens B Kristensen that maybe I'd missed!:mixedsmi:

anyway, bet you lads are waiting for the Martin Mars too, and just pretending you're not!

If any of you gents see Jens, just tell him...

:applause:We wants our MARS!:salute:

[Matt Wynn]

Nigel, i was born on Kos, lived in Larisa, just outside the airbase for a few years as a kid. go back to Greece as often as i can afford, my testing field is on Rhodes... once i get it fully refurbished i'll remember to throw it over to you... :salute: just waiting for the dawn now so i can set off...

oh and while i remember Leif... going to go get some photos of that darned Jackaroo today, get the ball in motion if possible there....

[OleBoy]

Matt, get LOTS of good pictures ;)

[Matt Wynn]

will do my best to unless i get sidetracked...

Basically for those that don't know... THIS is a Jackaroo....

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/4/6/2/1208264.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5047090927_b72eed1f0a.jpg


basically a Tiger Moth modification, 4 seater... only real change being the bulge to accomodate the extra person

[OleBoy]

will do my best to unless i get sidetracked...

She ain't that pretty anymore huh..hmmm. Sounds to me as if you really don't want to see one if gettin side tracked comes so easily :173go1:

[Rich]

Hi All Classic British Files has resurfaced at the Pond but is renamed to http://www.britsim.com/
And is a big improvement I think

Rich

[Tom Clayton]

Thanks! I copied your reply to a new stickied thread so that I can unstick this one.

[nigel richards]

Nigel, i was born on Kos, lived in Larisa, just outside the airbase for a few years as a kid. go back to Greece as often as i can afford, my testing field is on Rhodes... once i get it fully refurbished i'll remember to throw it over to you... :salute: just waiting for the dawn now so i can set off...

oh and while i remember Leif... going to go get some photos of that darned Jackaroo today, get the ball in motion if possible there....

Hi there Smoothie, you've certainly been around. Talking of Larisa, my place (I have a small farm at the top of Mt Athos penninsular overlooking the tiny island Amouliani) is buzzed two or three times a day by F-4's and F-16's from Larisa AB. It seems my little valley is their favourite playground - the Phantoms usually the "aggressors", F-16's the new kids - the fun only interrupted when the Canadair cl415's get jealous and want the same airspace for touch'n goes down at the beach!
Anyway, always good to hear from other 'Hellenic simmers'.
Ah! Smoothie almost forgot, I'm trying to 'press gang' that talented modeller Jens B Kristensen into giving us all a Martin Mars; be a good sport and say you want one! It would make a rather spectacular tourist attraction at Rhodos too.
Best regards, Nigel:salute:

[Matt Wynn]

Hi there Smoothie, you've certainly been around. Talking of Larisa, my place (I have a small farm at the top of Mt Athos penninsular overlooking the tiny island Amouliani) is buzzed two or three times a day by F-4's and F-16's from Larisa AB. It seems my little valley is their favourite playground - the Phantoms usually the "aggressors", F-16's the new kids - the fun only interrupted when the Canadair cl415's get jealous and want the same airspace for touch'n goes down at the beach!
Anyway, always good to hear from other 'Hellenic simmers'.
Ah! Smoothie almost forgot, I'm trying to 'press gang' that talented modeller Jens B Kristensen into giving us all a Martin Mars; be a good sport and say you want one! It would make a rather spectacular tourist attraction at Rhodos too.
Best regards, Nigel:salute:

yeah thats one of the main 'play-areas' of the Ellhnikh Polemikh Aeroporia... and that mars would be perfect for a seaplane service between say... Rodos and Crete, or Rodos and Athens, put her down and taxi into Piraeus or some such... and call me 'press-ganged' on that one...

Amouliani... nice little island ... so you're overlooking both the island and Agion Oros bay (Used to have a nice farm strip/float port for my personal FS there), thats a nice area!

[nigel richards]

:salute:
yeah thats one of the main 'play-areas' of the Ellhnikh Polemikh Aeroporia... and that mars would be perfect for a seaplane service between say... Rodos and Crete, or Rodos and Athens, put her down and taxi into Piraeus or some such... and call me 'press-ganged' on that one...

Amouliani... nice little island ... so you're overlooking both the island and Agion Oros bay (Used to have a nice farm strip/float port for my personal FS there), thats a nice area!

:salute:Znto Smoothie! Play area 'den les tipota!' During summer months the special guests are Canadair cl215's in pairs, twice a week when doing switchovers with Kavala... or sometimes, as I gather from their leisurely activity for the pure hell of it. Those Pratt & Whitney's never fail in stopping me in my tracks, god bless 'em!
D'ya reckon we could fit Ouranoupolis on the Mars route? Sure be a sight for sore eyes seeing that bird skimming between Amouliani and the mainland on finals. Bet even the Canadair jockeys would appreciate the event.:jump:
I don't suppose by any chance you're on speaking terms with Jens are you?:kilroy:

[Matt Wynn]

Ouranoupolis... thats'd be a fun one to visit with a mars. Wish i was, gotta dig out his e-mail and see what he's up to if he'll tell me :icon_lol: you're making me want to rebuild my floatplane dock in that bay again, i thought i'd escaped it for a nice sheltered bay on Rhodes where it hits 50*C on a breezeless day and direct sunlight... but i may just have to remake my docks and infrastructure... Mars sized, just in case right ;)

[nigel richards]

Ouranoupolis... thats'd be a fun one to visit with a mars. Wish i was, gotta dig out his e-mail and see what he's up to if he'll tell me :icon_lol: you're making me want to rebuild my floatplane dock in that bay again, i thought i'd escaped it for a nice sheltered bay on Rhodes where it hits 50*C on a breezeless day and direct sunlight... but i may just have to remake my docks and infrastructure... Mars sized, just in case right ;)

:salute:Monday-Friday; Rhodes to Ouranoupolis once daily it is then! Wednesday and weekends via Piraeus.
:running:Better get to work on those docks and infrastructure pretty soon Smoothie, got a hunch Jens could be listening. (ya know, 'mystiko ereuna agoras' and that kind of thing) Also, rumour has it that those Dodo's down at Cowes and Gosport have similar ambitions, but we both know that weatherwise it's a no-go; Hellas is the only place for ice-cold Frappe and all things 'anaeria'. This could be the real lure for Jens to initiate the Mars. Perhaps he just had misgivings about where people would actually be flying this magnificent aircraft.
Jens!... Smoothie, Tom Clayton, Milton Shupe, many others (and your's truly) offer you the freedom of the Med. YES! WE WANTS OUR MARS!:icon_lol: