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Although it should come as no shock but is nontheless sad news, the family of Louis Zamperini announced his death on Thursday after a long struggle with pneumonia. At 97 and given his life experience, Zamperini had a good long run indeed. Many World War II veterans of his era passed years, if not decades ago. If you’ve not read of Zamperini’s story in Laura Hillenbrand’s superb Unbroken, this is a good time to crack the book and learn about Zamperini’s remarkable life. I read it a couple of years ago and made a note to comment on it here, but never got to it. But now’s the time. Zamperini’s

Good luck all! Bearcat Departure: Sam.

Cropped shot of two Mustangs taking off.

To all our American members and guests we wish you Happy Independence Day!

I have always admired the precision of navy flyers and the orchestrated chess moves on aicraft carrier ops this is pretty cool, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nKtEZZT48

Some speculation here, Darren & co' are treading a very fine line, trading off many, many hours of scenery development for the UK hoping for a return to keep their business prosperous & capable of producing yet more wonderful scenery. I've spent close to 5 years creating freeware UK scenery (since I retired) & recently had some of it classed as good as ES scenery which is flattering, but in truth, ES scenery is in another league which I look at with awe. As far as FSX goes, especially here in the UK, we need developers who push the boundaries and are supported by the si

To all those in the US of A, have a great independence day! Lets not forget who they are celebrating independence from, so less of the little brother, more like the aged and decrepit parent. That means we still need looking after, there is no such thing as a retirement home for nations........ Oh wait, that will be the EU!

I aim to please...

Tossing a Twin Otter into the menagerie.

A Duck

Evening Eagle

A filthy morning at Lossiemouth.....

The site is down, but a splash screen says it's hosted by iranserver. Probably a good place to pick up a free copy of the Stuxnet virus as well as getting screwed out of $89, or whatever they are charging for the bogus A380 Whale. No need to worry about Stuxnet doing any damage to your computer unless you're using Seimens industrial controllers to operate your UF6 enrichment centrifuge cascades. If so, you deserve whatever you get. I once made a special version of my airport diagram for Tehran with a big red cross-hairs on it but decided against publishing it. I think those who might have