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The best $10 I've spent on a set of games since X-wing vs. Tie Fighter! Sid Meier's Ace Patrol (WWI free to try) $4.99 for all the campaigns after the first free trial. Sid Meier's Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies (WWII Pacific) $4.99 It's similar to the board games but on your phone or tablet.

Big sale, new plane and gunner bug fix coming. http://riseofflight.com/news/10/rofs-6th-anniversary-sale/ The new airplane is the S-16 fighter. Not sure if it's useful for us, but nice to have new content and an early war machine.

http://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/45597-have-we-been-put-back-shelf/?p=635922 This is great news!

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/footage-of-the-dc-flyovers-emergency-landing-1705947436 Thought the video was interesting. It's a TBM Avenger, during the May 8th DC fly-over.

Must have been quite an experience for Ms Lofthouse! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qt65y

S! All J99 has a memorial event planned. It looks very interesting as a single mission on June 27, 20015. Eagle of Lille

Ampersand and I flying the Blackfoot. didn't know he was recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSCmRIzaDo&feature=youtu.be

http://il2sturmovik.com/store/ 50% off May 4th through the 11th on Steam and through the 12th on their website. Can't gripe about that sort of deal, to be honest.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=142734 World 2 is... close? haha. L-39 is in early alpha and has a short video. Some cool screen shots.

Unless you 'can't even'.

Russian Air Force acrobatic team, from circa 1967: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=399_1361324946 Complete with "70s porn" music.

I just finished watching the movie "Riddick." Towards the end, Riddick is escaping the surface of a very hostile planet and something that flashed across the screen for maybe 2 seconds caught my eye. I went back and paused it, and look what I saw:

The Spring Sale is going on over at the DCS website. They've got better deal than their Spring Sale on Steam. I got the MiG-15 at full price during it. It's $30 on the website right now!

S! All Registration is open please read the info carefully and follow all instructions. If you flew last year you are probably already registered and a member of the proper user groups. After registering go to the BA sign in thread on the forum. If you can post, then you are a member. Starting page for registration with registration button at the bottom of the page. register

http://aviationweek.com/blog/we-didn-t-know-what-90-percent-switches-did Thought this was a very interesting article, especially their experiences with the MiG-21 and MiG-23.

http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/wonder-womans-invisible-jet/ What an amazing piece of history! So glad the Museum of Flight in Seattle loaned it out.

For Brit and Trev: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/hollywood-gives-drone-crews-the-american-sniper-treatme-1694560381

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/awesome-short-film-shows-star-wars-from-the-empires-per-1693333214 My hope is that the newly announced Star Wars: Rogue One movie is like this. Basically, the Blue Max or Battle of Britain movie for the franchise.

Thought this was a cool article, especially since it talked about Romanian MiG-21LanceRs versus U.S. F-16CJs. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/usafe-f-16s-train-with-romanias-mig-21-lancers-during-d-1692798167 There is also a mid-article link to a story about the Cope India 2004 air exercise, where modern US fighters went up against Indian MiG-21 Bisons. Here is a direct link: http://in.rbth.com/blogs/2014/02/16/cope_india_how_the_iaf_rewrote_the_rules_of_air_combat_33111.html Enjoy!

http://cool.conservation-us.org/cool/aicnews/traditional-aircraft-repair-and-minimal-intervention-a-balancing-act/ A cool aircraft restoration article, found by Mrs. Klaiber (who's involved in conservation). Enjoy!

I was reminded of this the other day, while thinking about my old VHS collection. Called "Russian Top Gun", it came out in April 1990. When I was in High School, I used to watch it all the time. Not the most riveting or accurate documentary out there. But I guess you have to keep in mind that it was released during the last year of the Cold War, about a year before the Soviet Union collapsed. Enjoy!

.... Has some MiG fixes I think we all care about. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=2345792#post2345792

S! March 11, 20015 , the JG1 TS server will be getting a router upgrade. TS may be down for a while while this is accomplished.

S! All This Wen, March 11 at 9 pm Eastern North American time, we will have an open mission on No.42 server. Many of the people involved in Flanders in Flames have said they would like to see some of the features used in FiF in an open format. Well, we are going to give it a try. The mission is "Beaucamp revisited". (Brideshead was already taken) Features: There is an AAA fence along the front. Machine guns were found to be ineffective. If you fly below 1000 m over enemy trenches you will be shot at by a series of deadly AAA guns. You might survive but odds are not good. This raises the action up off the ground, at least along the front. Balloons…

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=140017 Can I get a Hell Yeah?