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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: poopster on February 11, 2003, 10:48:15 PM
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I'm not sure how you all think of it when the night is done..
Whether you just do it another day, or if when it's "right" take it to take it to bed and run it through your head..
For some, it may be the maybe doing well among your peers. To others it might be that one mission accomplished. For others, the fight, the laughs..
We're all different in what our take on the game is and what it adds..
Very different for each.
It's interesting to look at the arguments and ranting amongst the community who all share that one common thread...
The Game..
The Game is different for everyone.
But it is the one thing we all share.
I'm sorta like a little kid, I see the game, and I see this..
Every night it sits there and waits..
If you would have told me 10 years ago that it would be here waiting for me every night...
heh..
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that was inspired!
have you burned your TV yet?
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Stole that pic, Poop. Just sayin'. ;)
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Nice poopster.
Hangtime: what's a "TV" mate??
palef
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True Arlo, good pic, cleaned it up quite a bit..
Very poor original result, excellent photographic concept.
It was "there"
Thanks for pointing that out :)
I'm sorry.
I couldn't help myself.
Please forgive me.
Hi-rez available ;)
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LOL ... sorry! No! I was saying I just stole it. Couldn't hep meself. Beautiful. My new desktop. Thanks. :D
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Arlo Hi-rez http://nopoop.cs.net/ :)
Hang you know we haven't watched TV in years..
Well, I DO watch it when I go to bed. Just minutes before I start drooling..
But I have been known to do that fully erect..scratch that, fully awake.
On second thought, yea that too..
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Thank you, sir! :D
edit: Holy bejeebus! Now I can't hardly freekin' choose! LOL
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New wallpaper, thanks poopster!
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Nopoop, you rule. Took the yak attack pic for my desktop. Nice collection.
(http://nopoop.cs.net/view/gp.cfm?photoid=52848&type=2)
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I try to catch the news, other than that the TV stays off until I get so tirerd that I contantlly drop from the skies from lack of attention. ;)
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Beautiful collection.
Impossible to choose just one :)
Cheers,
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Is the F4U not the most gorgeous aircraft ever to have existed? I mean, really...
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Well said, WarBirds for 6 yeares and now total addiction to AH.
TV??......Ahhh I think it's something the wife does. Not even too sure where its at :)
Great Pictures Poopster
Dracon
339th Fighter Group
Aces High
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Dude, that poem brought a tear to my eye!
BTW, that RNZAF Corsair?
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No it's not a RNZAF corsair. But isn't it beautiful? I love the F4U. The Corsair is my all time favourite fighter aircraft. The big blue meanie. I don't fly it much in AH because it kills me more than the enemy does. No wonder it was called the 'Ensign Eliminator'. It eliminated me a few times. But as soon as my experience level grows I'm going to hire out an F4U-4 and clear the skies of my enemies!:mad:
Poopster managed to hit the nail on the head. It's a game but like all games played by men, half the fun is arguing about it and all the monday morning quarterbacking that goes on.
What I like about it is the opportunity to regurgitate all that useless knowledge I built up over the years reading all those fighter pilot's biographies. I'm a frustrated fighter pilot, born in the wrong country, no fighter aircraft here since they retired the Spitfire IX or the Seafire III. So it give me the opportunity to adopt that classic fighter pilots pose of reliving the fight with my hands and telling classic 'There I was, compeltely surrounded but........' type tales.
I love the thrill of the big missions surrounded in the sky by all those evocative aircraft and the tension of the one on one duel.
Sometimes when flying the real thing though. I find myself tempted to roll in behind some hapless Cessna, hit the PTT switch and make silly machine gun sounds over the airwaves.
Ah maybe one day I'll grow up?
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cpxxx,
A friend of mine (who coincidentally flys AH also) and I are both pilots. Occasionally, we'll up a couple of Cessna Aerobats and dogfight a little bit over the Everglades swamp here in Florida. We just bring a camera (we call it the "gun cam") and snap a quick shot of eachother's six when we get a nice close in "kill shot". I'm sure the people on Unicom are wondering why they occasionally hear "Splash One" over the radio... hehehe
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P.S.
I'll have to dig up a kill shot picture and scan it for the post... It's amusing to say the least... Maybe one day I'll grow up too. LOL
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Off topic but : Isnt the F4 Phantom the most beautiful plane. Why they have to retire it. At least the Luftwaffe it putting that bird to good use.
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I agree Viper, on BAD aircraft.
(http://nopoop.cs.net/view/gp.cfm?photoid=77091&type=3)
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Only it's Mother could describe the the F4 Phantom as beautiful. The poor old 'Rhino' had character but pretty it was not. As a Marine pilot once said; Most American aircraft were handsome but the F4 was ugly enough to be British.
Tut tut GrimCO, I could never approve of that sort of thing. That would be like strafing a Mississippi river barge or a low level tail chase down the river or a formation beat up of a small farm strip in the Irish midlands or strafing a farmer on his little tractor ploughing a field. Now that would be very bad, something I would never do. Not recently anyway, most irresppnsible. :rolleyes:
Don't try this at home, kids. Remember in real life the message 'You have been killed' means game over.:eek: (Just in case the FAA or IAA are reading this.)
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Originally posted by Samiam
Is the F4U not the most gorgeous aircraft ever to have existed? I mean, really...
Got to sit in one over the weekend at the New England Air Museum. Almost wet myself !!!
Sat in a P-47, F-4U, F4 Phantom, and an F-100. They are also restoring a B-29 and got a tour of the restoration hanger. What a bird that plane is.
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I haven't played golf once since I signed on for this game. I don't really miss it. Although the next time I go, I'll probably yell Check 6 instead of 4!
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Originally posted by GrimCO
cpxxx,
A friend of mine (who coincidentally flys AH also) and I are both pilots. Occasionally, we'll up a couple of Cessna Aerobats and dogfight a little bit over the Everglades swamp here in Florida. We just bring a camera (we call it the "gun cam") and snap a quick shot of eachother's six when we get a nice close in "kill shot". I'm sure the people on Unicom are wondering why they occasionally hear "Splash One" over the radio... hehehe
OMG. Hope you got a good deck alt set. Isn`t mock dogfighting, like, illegal ? Just asking.
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Illegal? Well, not really... I'd say it's more of a gray area...LOL What would be illegal is executing maneuvers that exceed 60 degrees of bank without wearing a parachute. Of course we don't wear chutes, so therefore we don't exceed 60 degrees of bank... hehehe
BTW, formation flying isn't the slightest bit illegal either. You can even take off that way if you inform the tower you're a flight of two :-)
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LOL cpxxx,
I've found similar no no's like strafing cruise ships and farm workers to be irresponsible nowadays also. Especially after the WTC attacks. The FAA, I believe, would tend to frown heavily on these types of activities nowadays. The thrill is gone :-( LOL
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No devious it's not illegal to fly close to another aircraft when the other pilot is aware of you, otherwise Flying mag couldn't get those great cover shots. Nor is is illegal to engage in aerobatic manoeuvres in close proximity to another aircraft. Otherwise how would those full size air combat simulators using SF260's or T34's operate? Has anyone here had experience of these companies by the way.
As long as you don't do it overhead a major metropolitan area no one will worry about it. It's just your neck and that of your friend.
On the other hand flying closer than 500 feet to anyone or anything on the ground unless landing or taking off. Nothing I or GrimCO have said or implied should allow anyone reading this document to draw the conclusion that we at any time breached the 500 foot rule while in control of a powered aircraft. That right GrimCO? We never lie either.
But let this story be a warning to you. One day the crew of a military aircraft of an undetermined country was out on a training flight. After completing their detail the were RTBing along the coast at nought feet +/- 50 feet. You see the CO happened to be off that day and they knew that any complaint about low flying would be taken by the friend holding the fort back at base.
Presently they spotted on an otherwise empty beach a couple obviously enjoying a picnic. This was too good a chance to miss. They racked the aircraft around dropped to 10 feet off the deck and screamed in head on towards the hapless couple. Head on, you see because you can't read the numbers from head on. It had the desired effect. Gleefully they watched as the couple dived for cover scattering the picnic gear all over the beach. They RTB'd feeling pleased with themselves only to be met by a deputation as they taxyed in.
The CO had called the base, apparently he had been enjoying a lovely picnic on his day off at the beach with his lady wife when..................
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Heheh, quite a few years back my buddy was flying a Turbo Commander corporate for a meat packing company..
I flew second seat so he could get some "hood" time :D
We landed in Reno and the bosses all headed out to go hunting north in a yellow pickup saying "after you get up, come find us"
After lunch we took off and headed north at 6000 feet agl. You can REALLY pick out a yellow pickup at that altitude.
We came down the highway about 10 feet off the asphalt at 350 knots in a headon pass..
The farmworker bus behind them went off the road into the tumble weeds..
The skiers at Squaw Valley on imigrent on the way home ducked...
Upon landing at Reid Hillview in San Jose my bud asked permission for a high speed pass..
Granted :D
We did it on the deck, pulling up in a zoom to a 120 degree bank and threw out the gear...
When he switched to ground control the comment was "You were cleared for a high speed pass, not an airshow"
Good times, if ya have'nt jumped fences and chased cows at dawn in cool clear stable air it's the ultimate pucker factor..
Ya-ya's in a hot rod :D
Old times, good times..
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Originally posted by Viper17
Off topic but : Isnt the F4 Phantom the most beautiful plane. Why they have to retire it. At least the Luftwaffe it putting that bird to good use.
hehe Viper, you are a phantom lover :))
We have upgrated it also in greece with,
RPG-65, Amraams,hotas, avionics..
Our lovely grunpa have take new guts ;)
Maby you cant turn as f-16 or m-2000,
but with some good tactics and 8 amraams, you still can kick some bellybutton :)
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I protest! The Phantom IS beautiful. Thought so from the first time I saw one. And it doesn't look in the slightest British. To my eyes, it looks as if it came from that country renonwned for making military equipment of great functional beauty, full of that "you really DON'T want to not be my friend" look - Germany.
Ach, the Corsair's OK for a US plane... but so far as fighters go, I still love the good old Bf109 more. :-)
Esme
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Of course I wouldn't lie cpxxx!!! Nothing I've written here implies that I ever flew over a person, building or vehicle at less than 500 feet unless I was taking off or landing... Also, don't forget you are required to maintain 1000 feet of horizontal separation :-)
Another quick story for you all... When I was a kid (yes it was a long time ago...LOL), it seems I lived in the same neighborhood as a woman who was dating a Marine Corps Aviator. In an effort to impress her, he made a low pass over our neighborhood. Judging from the sonic boom that followed, he apparently decided to go the extra mile and break the sound barrier as well. I never heard what happened to him, but I'm assuming he got in a wee bit of trouble. A few hours after the incident there were two men in Marine uniforms walking around taking a tally of all the broken windows which I'm assuming they had to pay for... LOL
I'm going to go out a limb and say I'm pretty certain I was even more impressed than his girlfriend was :-)
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Originally posted by cpxxx
Nor is is illegal to engage in aerobatic manoeuvres in close proximity to another aircraft. Otherwise how would those full size air combat simulators using SF260's or T34's operate? Has anyone here had experience of these companies by the way.
I'll go out on a limb and say that I know for certain that RV6 (one of the absolute best guys in this game...top of the line number one A-plus kinda guy) has been and even has his testimonial published on their website (i wont tell you which one is his mugshot).
I was fortunate enough to be invited to accompany him this coming May (there is a lot riding on this series or duels...an R/C P-51D Mustang, Golf Lessons, and last but not least 'the trophy') and will write up a full report if you're interested. aside from that a little formation flying with my CFI while ferrying airplanes and a few aerobatic flights in an Extra-200, Pitts S2C, and some mock dogfights in an AT-6 against an SNJ are so far the limits to flying upside down. (well almost. I had a cessna 152 aerobat get a little jumpity in the wake of a C-130 Herc...yes its scary[having no control at all!] even at pattern altitude)
By the way i wouldn't call them full scale simulators...theres nothing simulated about them except the infared bullets. You feel the Gs, you get the tunnel vision, and you have to put your nose on their tail to get the kill. Before i go im definately hitting the gym to get my legs and abs up to snuff to withstand the G's. The most Gs ive pulled (for a very short duration during pullup from dive into a torque roll a few seconds later) is a tad over 6. accellerometer said 6.2. Boy i need to get into shape....
Happy landings.
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Good point Golfer, they are not simulators. Something that often needs to be impressed on new flight students particularly the Microsoft generation. That may seem surprising but many seem to think all training is for use when they fly 'real' aircraft not those 'little trainers'.
Another point is the G effects. It's a pity they cannot be properly simulated. Just try as I did to calm down and concentrate on the afternoon ground school. When you went for a spin and a roll and an Immelman and.......... in a Pitts Special at lunchtime.
That is the one thing missing from AH although I don't miss negative G, ooooer:(
Next time I'm in the good old USA. I must try it out.