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These are great videos. Thanks @wheelsup_cavu!

Hi @Coach71, welcome! I think we flew with you in the Tanks In Flames event, back in May 2021. Welcome back! I'll send you an email to the address you registered with. Looking forward to talking with you more soon.

This is epic.

Mark Felton makes so many videos so quickly that I often wonder what his QA looks like. And how big his team is. I do think he has an agenda. But so do we all. The thing that bothered me wasn't that he was incorrect about the Lancaster and the Atomic bombs. Rather, it was that (as far as I know) he never provided evidence for his claims or issued a retraction for incorrect things. Not owning a mistake is worse than making one in the history game.

That's what I mean! Northrop had their own flying wings, dating back to 1940. They didn't need to copy the Horton/Gotha. It's just another example of unsupported things that creep into videos for clicks.

Oh I agree. They blatantly copied stuff. Sometimes above board like with the Lisunov Li-2 (the licensed built Soviet version of the DC-3). And sometimes in not legitimate ways (like with the Tupolev Tu-4). I just think they deserve a bit more credit for pushing the envelope. I've always thought that Wings of the Red Star did a good job with the subject (starting from 3:08):

I just watched this. Okay, small rant - I used to really like Mark Felton's videos, but found that he often says stuff without elaborating or clarifying, which causes verification problems with his videos. The best example can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKB-oqdoduw Either way, regarding this MiG-15, Mark Felton says at 1:50 that the MiG-15 "had its origins in captured Nazi aircraft designs." That throwaway line is doing a lot of heavy lifting. He's referring to either the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 and/or the Messerschmitt P.1101 here. Both were never built. By phrasing things this way, Mark Felton is implying that Mikoyan copied German tech to get the MiG-15, which reinforces the perpetual stereotype that Western Cold War aircraft were better than Soviet aircraft of the same era. Mikoyan-Gurevich always denied they copied German designs, citing Soviet-built antecedents such as the MiG-8 and the I-270. And when they did mention German designs, they clearly reference the Me-262. Honestly, there is the same tenuous connection between the Ta 183/P.1101 and the FJ-2 Fury and the F-86 Sabre (both North American designs) as there is to the MiG-15. North American had access to the exact same German plans and data. But somehow, when people talk about the Fury or Sabre, they never parse things in quite the same way. U.S. companies had "theories confirmed" by German designs, whereas Mikoyan and Sukhoi copied. It's just lazy. PS: Just to show you I'm consistent, I think the whole "the Horton wing inspired the B-2" is BS too.

I hope that we do. It's just complicated with the upcoming SCG campaign. However, it's not impossible. The J5 campaign starts at 1700 UTC (1:00 PM EDT). And each session is three hours in length. So, people could technically fly the J5 event, then jump over to the SCG Event at 2000 UTC (4:00 PM EDT) for the last two hours. That's a lot of sitting, but it's definitely an option for the ironmen among us.

Hi @JayMore, It was great getting the chance to talk with you on Discord! Thanks again for checking our squadron out. I'll send you an email to the address you registered with. Looking forward to talking with you more.

Hi @Spook, welcome. I'll send you an email to the address you registered with. Looking forward to talking with you more soon.

Hi Matt, as Brit mentioned, if you're interested in flying with us, check out our recruitment section. Hope to talk to you more soon.

Hey Shade, glad to hear that you're doing good! Definitely miss flying with you. But obviously, take your time.

That's great news! A dead-is-dead format would be awesome. And that would open up awards and such to JG1 pilots. I think the only problem we'll have is our commitment to the SCG event. It's an every other week thing, though. So that's good.

Never mind. Got it: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3330345/

Looks great! When they post the link, let me know so I can add it to the paint pack.

Congrats @Vonrd!

There should be a Daily button on the main page. This will give us all the same pictures.

I think everyone did much better than I did. What screwed me was the aircraft picture (#2) and the group picture (#4). In both, I was off by too much.

You did much better than I did.

For those among you with a discerning eye. https://www.chronophoto.app/ Can you date a collection of five photographs, with no other information save for what is shown in the picture? Since I do this a lot for my job, I enjoy the challenge and thought you might as well. For today's (31 March 2023) Daily, I got 2517. I really misjudged a couple images. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ummagumma is a great album. And Grantchester Meadows has always been one of my favorties.

Yeah, Toto is great. Hold the Line, Rosanna, Africa, Stop Loving You, and I'll Be Over You are all classics. And of course their work on the 1984 soundtrack to David Lynch's Dune.

It's available for pre-order and is still being worked on. I thought I read it'll be released soon. Though, I can't seem to find that post anymore.

This is really great news!

Got your PM. And saw that you joined Discord. Looking forward to flying with you again!