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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Cecil ‘Boz’ Parsons, who flew missions at Dunkirk and over Berlin
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Cecil ‘Boz’ Parsons, who flew missions at Dunkirk and over Berlin
He was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the DFC for inserting special forces on clandestine missions in the Pacific https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/obituaries/2024/03/05/TELEMMGLPICT000365548306_17096615717830_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqYzhq7_tQX6eyWEL8aBhfMuR02onCnLnCOzyrYJZwEpU.jpeg?imwidt...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Shamrock Spitfire: Film spotlights Irish flying ace
- Replies: 1
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The Shamrock Spitfire review – Irish flying ace takes stage in nostalgic wartime weepie
The story of 1940s fighter pilot Brendan Finucane, AKA ‘Spitfire Paddy’, is told with panache, even if it lays it on a bit thick. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a6e485c90d61bdb77342c89ab03ebd0624329e18/0_182_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=1900&dpr=1&s=none he unabashed wartime weepie is a l...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 188
Re: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
Thanks for the clean up job Ray!
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
- Replies: 4
- Views: 88
Re: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
Fixed it. Seems to be related to my slight reshaping of the wing.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
- Replies: 4
- Views: 88
Re: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
I'll get straight to that
Probably a few more to come as I work back through the various theatres.
Probably a few more to come as I work back through the various theatres.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
- Replies: 4
- Views: 88
One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
Was the Fokker Tri-motor airliner. The 737 of its time for that then small class of people that could actually afford air travel. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/DonThomasPosters13_%2819291814749%29.jpg Also used by explorers and record breakers, and a few found their way to Pola...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 188
Re: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
I've sent you the WN.21. Grateful for any improvements.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 188
Re: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
Many thanks. I'll drop the file in shortly. Some more screens: http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0364.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0368.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0369.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0371.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0372.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0373.j...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:24 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
- Replies: 6
- Views: 188
Little Wars and Obscure Planes
One of the things that is so interesting in fleshing out the Italy/Balkans/Ukraine map is the unknown little skirmishes and and the forgotton planes that flew in them. When Adolf Hitler ripped up the Versailles Treaty and started redrawing the international boundaries in central Europe he opened a w...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Battle of Britain campaign issue
- Replies: 9
- Views: 159
Re: Battle of Britain campaign issue
Hello! Not a question I can answer personally, as I don't run many campaign games these days. I'm concentrated on single missions. Maybe Jel might have a view. I recall he did some work on campaigns a little while back. Suggest you install 1.6 and give it a go. There is an updated BoB campaign among...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:05 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Exhibition remembers wartime B17 crash
- Replies: 0
- Views: 64
Exhibition remembers wartime B17 crash
Stanwick Lakes exhibition opens to mark military aircraft crash https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11973/production/_132715027_b17rememberanceceremony-postingthecolours-usairforcehonorguard.jpg.webp The 80th anniversary of a fatal military aircraft collision has been marked with a temporary...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:36 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Moggy's Log February 2024
- Replies: 2
- Views: 148
Re: Moggy's Log February 2024
The odd thing is, sometimes it doesn't work if you give the FM dual nationality. Does work if it's one or the other. The workaround I have adopted is to have a pair of FMs, one British, one American, and use the one that works in a particular setup.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:54 am
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Screenshots from 22 years ago Jan-Feb 2002
- Replies: 0
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Screenshots from 22 years ago Jan-Feb 2002
Twenty two years ago, in January and February 2002, we were working a number of interesting EAW things. First of all there was the very first illustration of how a high res plane might be built from the paste-on files used by the complex four engine bomber models: http://mogggy.org/pictures/efg.jpg ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Chris Cartledge, Fleet Air Arm pilot who bombed Tirpitz
- Replies: 5
- Views: 159
Re: Chris Cartledge, Fleet Air Arm pilot who bombed Tirpitz
Oh, that's interesting. I wonder if some sort of flaps augmentation might have sorted the Seafire problem, lower speed landings.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: The Erk's Mess
- Topic: Fall Grun 1938. What if?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 84
Fall Grun 1938. What if?
September 1938. Munich Conference has failed. Czech Air Force supported by Soviet Expeditionary Force defend Bratislava against Luftwaffe attack: http://mogggy.org/EAW/EAW41.jpg http://mogggy.org/EAW/EAW42.jpg http://mogggy.org/EAW/EAW43.jpg http://mogggy.org/EAW/EAW44.jpg View the mission: http://m...