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11-09-2004, 01:49 PM
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#766 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | yeah the graphics are my only concern, but we're getting a completely new machine, XP, 2.6 celeron prosesser, 512MB ram, all the good stuff...............
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11-09-2004, 03:02 PM
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#767 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country:  | Ah if youre getting a new machine things should be OK.
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11-09-2004, 11:29 PM
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#768 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I got CFS1 A few days ago! It's all right, but I'm going to have to buy a joystick. It's too hard trying to wrestle with the keyboard! 
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11-10-2004, 12:33 PM
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#769 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | CFS1? A little slow on the uptake are we?
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11-10-2004, 01:15 PM
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#770 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | I would have to say the ball turret gunner. Atleast on the B-17. They were enclosed in this small ball and no where to hide. On top of that all that if the turrets electrical power failed they would be locked in there and then if the landing gear failed to lower they were really screwed if they were trapped in there. All that is hypothetically speaking but I would not like to have been in that turret. Not to say that other bomber crew members were not brave, they all were very brave aviators but you had to have a lot guts to climb into that ball turrett. Imagine enclosed in that glass turret with a Me-109G racing toward your with its armament blazing.
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11-10-2004, 02:22 PM
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#771 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | MH, when you're in the cockpit view right click with the mouse and select mouse as stick, it's allot easier...................
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11-10-2004, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by DerAdlerIstGelandet I would have to say the ball turret gunner. Atleast on the B-17. They were enclosed in this small ball and no where to hide. On top of that all that if the turrets electrical power failed they would be locked in there and then if the landing gear failed to lower they were really screwed if they were trapped in there. All that is hypothetically speaking but I would not like to have been in that turret. Not to say that other bomber crew members were not brave, they all were very brave aviators but you had to have a lot guts to climb into that ball turrett. Imagine enclosed in that glass turret with a Me-109G racing toward your with its armament blazing. | I agree with you there, although I think that in general the tail position was worse, because it was only really American planes that had the ball turret.
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11-10-2004, 03:34 PM
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#773 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | DerAdlerIstGeladet: Wellcom to our gloeious Hovel  I am glad that you are here. I agree ball was bad, but with the ball it was the flak that was first killer then the figters. As C.C. points the ball was mostly on ASAAF craft. But also the tail was a prime fighter target.
Can you say anything about what you are doing in Iraq? 
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11-11-2004, 11:22 AM
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#774 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Thanks for the welcome. I cant talk about what is going on, atleast not on the internet. You will just have to get that from the news. But I am a UH-60L Blackhawk crewchief based out of Tikrit, Iraq.
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11-12-2004, 02:47 PM
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#775 | | Senior Member
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Country: | thanks. I am not looking to compromise missions just to know a little who I am talking with.
Any other thoughts on Bomber positions? We have had some good talks and some bad ones.
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11-12-2004, 02:55 PM
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#776 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | Its strange that not one person has voted for the Radio Operator. I know its not the obvious choice or the right one, but you would think that in all the many monthd this poll has been around, at least someone would have voted for it.
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11-12-2004, 03:21 PM
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#777 | | Forum Politruk
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Country:  | I guess getting out of a stricken bomber from that position might be tricky, but then it would depend on the bomber - superb machine as the Lancaster was, it was a nightmare to abandon one - 11% survival rate amongst shot-down crews. | |
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11-12-2004, 03:30 PM
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#778 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | Sheesh thats bad...
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11-12-2004, 04:40 PM
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#779 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | and you're comparing that to what CC?? but he's right, she was a bitch to get out of, almost impossible unless you're the tail gunner or bomb aimer.................
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11-12-2004, 05:04 PM
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#780 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | Im not comparing it to anything, but its pretty obvious that was bad.
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