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That really tempts me to get that one as well. So far, I mostly spend time with the Mirage 2000 that I find both relatively accessible and a fun aircraft to fly, although the situational awareness beyond arms lenght is relatively limited. But slinging long range missiles at each other I find less rewarding than sneaking in up close. (When that works out.)

Great finds @Ludo! So they got their own and a tad more elaborated version of a Shilling restrictor without having to find out beforehand. One might add that this contraption does not permit prolonged inverted flight, as the chamber in the carb will be empty rather quickly. But it should compensate for some maneuvering. Then again, even fuel injected engines in the Bf-109 didn't permit inverted flight as such, as while inverted the oil would not be recovered again by the pump and the engine, while being fed happily with fuel, will blow due to insufficient lubrication. Prolonged negative g maneuvers were not on anyones mind obviously. It is actually funny that the Brits tried to make a negative g tolerant carb after the disaterous consequences of mounting regular float type carb to a fighter aircraft engine became obvious even to them, and miserably failed at it. And this at a time where it was more than obvious that fuel injection is in many way drastically superior. They had to find out that a Merlin engine that just had makeshift standard injectors drilled in the cylinder heads would already make equal power to the regular carburated version. It is just sad that Beatrice Shilling had developed a working fuel injector system even back in the late 20's (IIRC) for the RAE, but fuel injection was not His Majesty's way to feed an engine. And since then, one of Britains greatest engineers is just remembered for nothing but a little disc with a hole in it.

This reminds me of the movie „Love and Monsters“, where one reviwer just stated „Great mocumentary depicting every day life in Australia.“

Simply amazing…

They are also no P-39 but P-400. 😁

I know that, but if Tetris is a great game, then slotting a 190 in a Kaidai VI under time pressue might be something. 😆

Fantastic update!

Then it should be simulated how to stow it in a sub and drive it to Japan.

Just one inch thickness, but only the engine made a dent it seems.

You can always use the net to catch things. However, for some years now, reading about series/movies is often much more gratifying than watching it. If suddenly Hollywood produced movies that people acutally wanted to see, legions of youtubers would be out of work. With this one, I am still not sure whether to make the effort or not. It‘s probably not something that my better half would care to watch with me, even though she, in rather surprising manner, liked Band of Brothers. She‘s definitely open to good craftsmanship in making movies (and the episode „Bastogne“ is somewhat of a medical drama which she totally digs; nobody is free of sin).

I wouldn‘t say that starting with a clean slate is simply a downside. If you start without a baggage of legacy dependencies, you can make great progress. Today, it is very well understood how to code a simulation. There is a good reason Jörg dumped the old and FSX based MSFS2020 engine (that is truly wrung out by now) to start (relatively) new and make a new game engine for MSFS2024. Same as it makes sense for the GB series to start over with a new game. Contrary to popular belief, complexity is not manageable. Starting new means dealing with relatively little complexity. Tuning a 20 year old codebase means dealing with a lot of complexity. Of course it takes longer „to see something nice“ when starting new. But progress along the way will be faster. Just don‘t hand project management to Chris Roberts.

It would need a suitable match: Ideally, we could have the whole shebang: This would include the Oscar (to get stomped on) plus the items for upgrade kit for the monster: and and and The required move to get from your Oscar-stomping Godzilla to Tokyo-stomping Godzilla would be: Take your own and add until (This of course takes several rounds, like many; unless you have many players on your side that help you with your move) Then combine with and It is of note that if you are so inept at your play that you would actually miss the orange target, that does't matter. It is all about the principle. One round later, Level 1 Oscar-stomping Godzilla will be upgraded to Level 2 and become Tokyo-stomping Godzilla. The counter move then is: Combine and and and no more stomping. Until next time. This can be a great game!

Now that looks great! You mean the ash-grey-greenish-light-brown tint that comes across as white in b&w photos? We definitely need a trench war thread about object colors. I'll start the feud here: I can do Japanese as well chief, especially all the way to the bank! 😆 It is from here, with a translation, for our convenience. But of course, there are even more findings. That Tamiya would be so uninspired as going for "light-grey" is almost offensive. Every military producer knows that his items are nothing but a challenge to future modellers. There has to be some sort of sadistic nuance in coloration. But as mentioned, there are people who tackle those more important things in life. Talking Japanese aircraft colors, I can't leave out this, of course: Just sayin'. 😁 I just love discussions about orphan colors. It's like a discussion about cooking when only focussing on the final result and never bothering about the actual recipe.

Nice buffeting. A good aircraft...

At that price point, there is just no way you could spend as much as you'd enjoy it.

What is $1500 anyway? ❤️

If we get weather and the airfield conditions in a meaningful way, then all the qualities that make it a good and dependable aircraft will make it shine. It's just that those qualities don't help it being a great fighter.

The lovechild of a battleship and a yacht: These cruisers are fine ships indeed. Given current trends in ship design, it seems I‘m not the only one with reservations about greenwater over the bow. Regradless of how much margin in buoyancy the ship might have.

Interesting. I am just comparing to the Scharnhorst. That one had a rather similar bow to the Arizona initially: But that bow was replaced by the "Atlantic Bow" in 1939 to give some more margin for swell: A notable change: not only the height, but also the rake.

I do remember the times where I threw my tower case PC, my 17 inch monitor, accessories and some rolls of coax cables in my car to gather up with friends and spend a weekend having a LAN party. I see online play return among friends or at least poeple who know and trust themselves. It's the "public" servers that will succumb and become a cesspool. Rather unfortunately so. But they can be problematic anyway for various reasons.

See here: I wonder how long it takes for someone adjusting said picture analysis for spotting in combat sims...

The DC-6 and the Comanche in MSFS and the Twatwagen2000 in DCS.

She has an inredibly low bow. In heavy swell, she must have been a submarine. I understand the idea of having no rake on the bow to keep the boat level in swell, but even on a cruise ship I‘ve experienced swell (and weather) that went almost up to the corresponding height of the top of A turret… I would assume they have good pumps installed. The Germans had some nose surgery on some their battleships to make them sea worthy as commerce raiders.

I thought that too. I wish those cgi guys had at least watched some dcs videos to get a slight sense of movement and trajectory.