Torpedo Air Cargo

Nope, no metal left in the body The twisted irony is that since I grabbed a gun and shot back and therefore the arm was away from the body the shrapnel sliced through the arm and that was that. Had the arm been closer to the body I'd have taken a body hit. Anyways, we completed the first medical supply convoy on the last weekend in May. First time ever I ever drove a truck for three days flat - quite an exhausting experience.

If that was a canon, all you could shoot would be vermin, considering where it's pointed at. I agree, it looks like tug driver with severe spatial awareness issues.

Costs aren't deducted once a month, but on the day you started. So if you start your comapny on the 2nd of May, every second day of the month the rent for your first base will be deducted. If you leased your first additional plane at the - let's say - 8th of May, every 8th day of the month the leasing rate will be deducted. Lots of cash disappering sounds as if a leasing rate or a loan interest was deducted. AH has a lot of bugs, but disappearing cash isn't one of them, so you might just have missed that a big-ish lease rate was collected.

I'm back in ze Fatherland. Took some shrapnell in the right arm, when we were gunned down by two helicoper gunships of the Assad troops near Dara'a, but the main objective was reached. We established contacts to activists in Turkey, Iraq and Syria and are currently organizing a supply convoy with medical supplies and anti-.gas measures (masks and decontamination supplies). I'll be back down in Syria in two weeks time - this time behind the wheel of a supply truck.

Visum for Jordan came in today. I'll be off tomorrow. Unfortunately Americaland can't be arsed to end the genocide in Syria - probably to few oil to warrant the effort. Unlike Obama I won't sit on my fat arse watching Assad slaughter his own people. Time to fight the bastard. See ya, folks.

Most Russian commercial pilots are former airforce pilots. They sure know how to wrestle an intransigent aeroplane.

Yes, the Ac had been in storage since 2005 and was supposed to be ferried to the Samara factory (the one that built the last ever TU-154M in 2007) for an extensive overhaul. Capitan Rodionov earned himself a reputation in Russia with this that can be compared to Cpt. Sullenberger's in Americaland. You can see him trying the first approach at around 4:50, which doesn't work out and he has to 'fly' another circle during which (at 06:08) he actually does a 360 in the the air!!! Say what you want about Russian aviation, but Rodionov has cojones made of tritanium

Nope it was quite real. Was all over Russian news in spring 2011. How he straightened the thing, I don't know as it happened behind the trees. My guess is he didn't and after slamming her on the tarmac straightened her our using the front wheel steering. If the landing would've been tacked on from a different flight, we would've heard the thrust reversers.

I think Alan's right. There's only one beast with such an impressive battery of jet engines. It's the Ekranoplan, better known as "The Caspian Seas Monster" in the West.

As a fan of russian Aviation this chilled me to the bone. A Tupolev Tu-154 on a ferry flight to Samara goes bonkers, when the ABCU (automatic control unit) goes nuts and the pilots have to try wrestle back control with nothing but differential throttle Enable subtitles is you don't speak russian. Some heavy duty Russian swearing in this and the most unstabilized approach you'll ever see

For those interested in this beast - there is a brilliant FS2004 model of it by Dmitri Samborski It was also adapted to FSX IIRC, An absolutely brilliant plane. Just make sure you have something like 10.000ft runway

It is indeed the cockpit a TU-114, so it's over to you, Sir. You did however get the history wrong. The Tu-95 was the base of the 114, not a derivate. It's creation was a typical case of 'Mine's bigger than your's'. When landing for the Geneva conference in 1954, good ol' Nikita saw that the American president had already arrived in his shiny new Lockheed Constellation, while he sat in a rather modest Illyushin IL-14, He didn't like it. So, back in mother Russia, he gave a directive that ordered the Tupolev design bureau to built a passenger plane based on the Tu-95 bomber. The re

nope, not an AN-12 either. Little hint. One of these once utterly embarrassed good ol' Nikita Khrushchev.

nope, not an IL-76.

Since AH's weather downloading is broken, it always starts the flights in CAVU conditions, which is extremely infuriating when flying in Germanyland. Since predominant winds come in from the atlantic, many German airports only have ILS's for 2x runways. and approaches to easterly runways are often long-winded and convoluted, but somehow FS2004 insists on east-approaches in wind-less conditions for most airports, which is why I configure real-world wheather as soon as FS9 has loaded, so I won't have to hand fly every bloody approach. I don't mind hand flying, in fact I like it, but trying to c

Not a bad start, considering it has more seats in the front row than a movie theatre and a glass nose, but it could be several ol' Russian bangers

Yay, I got something right Ok, here's one that should be fairly easy

Rutland Reindeer G-AFOH from "no Highway" Would've been harder if you hadn't left the pic with the reg in it

Yes, AH tries to connect the Interwebs on startup and its timeout handling is atrocious. If you have delays on startup, disable your internet connection before starting AH. Once it is started, you can re-connect the interwebs,

if he sells off more that 15 bases, his rep will go negative

Could that be G-FANS, the experimental BN-2 Islander ?

I believe the word you're searching for is Anorak

Damn rob beat me to it by a minute

If it's such an ugly beast and not designed by Shorts, it can only be one of those whacky German prototypes of the Nazi era. Could that be a Blohm & Voss 144?

Looks like something designed by the Short Brothers. Could that be the bastard love child of a SC7 Skyvan and a SD3-30 shed?