Thanks for the notes, gobo and bowser. I'm enjoying it too, even though I became fish food in Mission 6.

Interesting note:

I was talking to a retired gentleman the other day and turns out he was involved in restoring a B-17. One of the interesting things was that there are about 600 miles of wire in one of these things! And almost everything is electrical or electrical assisted.

The thing I was wanting to point out though is that he stated that if the landing gear wouldn't deploy they had a big problem. It seems that if they landed on the ball turret, the plane would break in half! So they would jettison the ball before landing. It was pretty easy to do I guess, just a matter of taking a hammer to these two bolts that held it on.

Just thought this might be interesting with the number of belly landings we have had to date.

Jahaa! Sehr gut! I even got in on a bit of the action!

My heart goes out to the friends and family of the crew of Zod.

Remember the movie The Twilight Zone? I think the first segment in the movie involved a B-17 and a ball turret.

Doh!

Probably a good thing 'cause if you happened to throw one down I imagine Jim might take it personal and a Mod-War would ensue.:)

From the looks of things that may be a good idea. Perhaps when you get back the dice will have cooled down a bit, er ah, I mean the Veteran German fighters will be of duty.

If she is paying for dinner, she may expect you to put out later.

I admit, I was awesome on this mission. Before we took off someone mentioned that it was Rain Man's birthday and in honor of his recent death, I pulled a Brett Favre and kicked some major Nazi butt.

So here's to you Mr. simulation-to-keep-internet-geeks-occupied-creator. :toast:

A Brett Favre huh? Does that mean that next week you will choke so bad that the whole plane goes down because of you?:D

Well, I guess at least this time I wasn't killed by a little flak.

Morphius
death magnet

Oh great that ought to be good for 5000 posts, did you see what a simple broken ankle did to his posting.:p

Oh that is just horrible RainMan. I can't believe you got rid of a whole crew again, just to get rid of me!! :p

And when I imagined having Red pinned up against something, I didn't imagine that it would end that way. Maybe not walking, but not a mess on the dutch landscape.

Some are threatened by good looking women. :)