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  1. jgf

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    Lol, I've spent an eternity trying to learn to correct rivers along the side of mountains, railroad tracks across runways, coastlines running out in the water, coastal cities half submerged, a dam in the middle of a field.... which is correct, the river or the buildings
  2. Fine with me. Being retired I have no schedule, no timetable, no bedtime, no alarm clock.
  3. A link to the prerequisite files would be appreciated.
  4. Meigs is fine, though only about 300 miles from here. Perhaps a good excuse for an ultralight flight, or even an airship (my F-16 could be there in about half an hour, lol).
  5. Boring ... monotonous .... soporific We removed the wings from my Beech D17 and loaded her into a C-5. Flew at around 35k ft from Perth to Hawaii to Columbus. (No desire to follow my path from Columbus to Perth in reverse.)
  6. Only works if the engineer is also the company head. Otherwise they are looked on by those boardroom bumblers as glorified mechanics. (At the ripe old age of 25 I found myself VP of Engineering for Western Electric. Was quite proud of myself ...and came to loathe that job with a passion. Couldn't have been happier when my contract expired.) This has been true for ages. People have thought of many things where it was years, or even centuries, before the technology existed to implement those thoughts. Steam power was first demonstrated nearly 2000 years ago; it took 1800 years for someone to build a practical steam engine. The first submarine was demonstrated in the 1770s, 150 years later submarines were practical. With the geometric expansion of technology today we are bound to have some developments hitting the market before they are "ready for prime time". I've heard it said you must be the first, the best, or the cheapest, otherwise you're a footnote. On a personal note, some of my income is still from two proprietary patents; the circuits were developed back in the 1920s, I made them work in the 1970s.
  7. Have engineering schools stopped teaching Murphy's Law
  8. The continuing saga of a nitwit and his aircraft. Have made it to the nether regions of Scotland, sightseeing Scapa Flow (switched to a civilian Cierva, modernized with lights and radio; the RAF aircraft only has the front beacon) What the sailors saw Heading north through the islands at a blazing 55kt A good spot for a respite Approach at 30kt BTW G-ACIN was a real aircraft
  9. I would enable UT USA again, then remove a handful of files at a time until the OOM disappears. If it's not an interaction between UT and some other file, or between several UT files, you should be able to isolate the offending file; then either live without that file or, if it is corrupt, get a replacement.
  10. Been known to duck under an occasional bridge myself
  11. The ultimate goal is merely to have fun....
  12. Many were owned by large radio stations or newspapers to quickly get reporters to the scenes of news stories.
  13. Purists would recoil in disgust at the AI in my FS world. Bleriot crosses the channel every week. A Do-X flies from Germany to Rio every week. WWI era fighters and scouts tool around farmstrips in the US and Europe. The Hindenburg makes a world cruise every two weeks. The Jupiter 2 takes off from a "hidden" base in New Mexico, slowly climbs to 40k ft, then takes off at Mach3 for another "hidden" base in Australia. A UFO departs "Area 51" and tours the world, making several stops before landing on a floating "platform" 30K ft above Antarctica. The Sighing Flub ...er, Flying Sub (from Voyage to See What's on the Bottom") flies from Bremerton to San Diego every day. What will I see next? Fireball XL-5? a Klingon battlecruiser? a WWI bomber putting me in a holding pattern while it spends a seeming hour landing at LAX? The schedules of all these are such that I can fly for days and never encounter any of them, so it's always a treat.
  14. That's the one, but the image I found was about half that size.
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