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Very interesting vid on a controlled detonation of a 1000 kg WW2 bomb in Exeter (GB): Drone footage shows WW2-era bomb being detonated in Exeter, England - YouTube ...allthough I definitely don't would like to be in any of the buildings around seen in the video, I find it nevertheless interesting that based pure on optical impression none of the buildings that stand even in the 1st row next to the explosion show any signifikant damage. So for me this confirms the arguments out of several other threads on that topic, that a 1000 kg bomb does not have a very big impact as it would sound based on the weight, so that 2x500 or 4x250kg instead are much more usefull against a group of buildings. It seems that the damage model of IL2 with this respect is not too bad...

Will be online at any WW2 server in probably 1 - 1.5 hour (~2000 UTC) if anyone likes to join

Hi Guys, planning to fly at J5 Flugpark tonight again, should be ready for take off between 2000 and 2100 UTC S! Etzel

Again some great missions at finnish virtual loose deuce together with @Greif, @=GenMarkof007=, @loopy, @Wittmann and @Vonrd. Also @Dudley was active in parallel but driving a tank 1st impression are from attacking a station, where Gen flew the 110 and all others took FW-190, most with the A6 modification with 3x250kg (what is nice and accurate load out btw). We were pretty seccussfull and on our way home we even shot down 2 U-2s after Dudley reported them (but I no recording of that action) 2nd group of pics is of the last mission, where Vonrd and me flew Ju-52 in a paradrop mission, while Greif, GenMarkof and Loopy escorted us in 109s Succsessfull landing after package delivery

Some impressions from a mission where @=GenMarkof007=, @loopy, @Vonrd, @Greif, @Heinrich and me attacked a depot at the nw finnish virtual loose deuce server; Gen in a B110, Greif in 190, Loopy in 109 and the rest of us in Ju88s. Heinrichs 1st pass: Vonrd: Etz Unfortunatly enemy fighters jumped in and got Heinrich Much action around: Bomb Carpet: Finally also Greif dropped successfully: Finally the fight against the enemies was not recorded because of the 500 MB limit of the in-game recordings, unfortunatly I was the only one making it back to base. But overall the performance was not too bad, we did more than 30% of damage on the whole complex Thanks a lot for the fun guys

Congrats Pilots, great Job!

Welcome Bandersmatch, nice to see another European Pilot joining. If you enjoyed Il2 1946 you should consider to get the titles of the actual Il2 series as well (including also Flying Circus as WW1 module). There are frequently sales for the series, the main game Battle of Stalingrad was available at price far below 20$ in the last sale... Salute Etzel

For @Greif and @=GenMarkof007=, as PMs allow no direct Pic uploads I use that thread for the promised pic of the Train where it's obviuos that they were already destroyed:

Hi guys, short question: As my plans for buying a new PC system becoming more concrete now I want to raise a question again, that was for sure discussed here & at several other places, nevertheless I'd like to know the actual opinion-landscape of my JG1 mates here (esp. those who fly the IL2 BoX series): AMD Radeon or NVIDIA for GPU => What are your preferences and why?

waahh... sh*t happens... hope that insurance will not discuss too much and we can fly together again as soon as possible!

On Saturday after FiF @=GenMarkof007=, @loopy, @Greif and me did fly some missions in Tempests at Finnish Virtual again, inlcuding a ground attack on enemy depot: 2 Germans came in but in with great team action Loopy and Gen killed one of them, the other one hit the road... After that attack we did some defensive patroling and overall on that map we downed 7 enemy planes while loosing none of our pilots... unfortunatly I did not record any of those actions. Highlight was the last sortie where Loopy and Gen where RTB with empty guns while my Tempest was damaged by the backseat gunner of a 110 and suddenly a 109 appeared on my 6... I managed to evade his bullets while Greif in some heroic action (as beeing out of ammo too as he just recogniced in that situation!) scared that guy by chasing his 6 very closely. Finally this 109 couldn't keep my turn and suddenly found himself in the devense position against 2 Tempests so he ran away while Greif and me were able to make it back home... Stats looked pretty nice when we decided to called it a day....

Salute all! As FiF creates the desire for flying nice WWI birds again I am looking forward to fly at J5 Flugpark today. Planning to go online between 2000 and 2100 UTC. No preference for any side! Maybe some others are in the same mood

Some Impressions from a Mission we flew at Combat Box yesterday, where I flew Ju88 again and @Heinrich and @Vogel provided escort: Dive bombing with the 6 x 250 kg: Results of this pass seen out of Heinrichs and Vogels perspective... In the 2nd pass I dropped all the 50kgs pretty late, so only half of them went down in target zone.... => need much more practice in that Flight back home was cancled by a Spitfire... But finally also that Pilot had to walk back home by foot If anyone is interested in more details: The Tacview recording of the complete attack dogfight.2021-01-26_21-45-10_00.acmi

After TAW we switched to combat box where we flew allied side (same group of pilots like we had before: @Greif@Vonrd @Heinrich @loopy and me)... after defensive patrol with Spits we took P-38s to attack defense position. As combat box has Tacview recordings enabled I drop my file of the fight here: dogfight.2021-01-23_23-35-11_00.acmi For me tac view does not load any ground objects so its not helpfull to see our performance on the ground attack, but it contains the fight against a 109 that joined us And it shows that also a FW-190 was there but it did not join the party for what reason so ever....

So another illustrated short report of a mission we had yesterday on TAW: @Vonrd and me in Ju-88s on a long range bombing mission to enemy depot, @Heinrich, @loopy, @Greif in fighters to escort us and help to distract and surpress ground fire. Due to heave cloud cover and strong windy situation we decided to make it a dive bomb run. We flew straight from As airfield just on top of upper cloud layer and arrived there according to plan: First trouble we had than was that we missed the point of pushing down because of the cloud cover, so we overflew and had to turn back towards the target during the dive. Then the drop of my wing mounted bombs was horrible, while Vonrd made placed his first group much better: Therefore my 50kg package was placed pretty well on my designated target area: So the attck itself went not too bad (according to mission events the Depot in Charleroi was damaged to 48%, allthough I cannot say how much of that was done by), we paid the highes price for this: Heavy ground fire and at least 3 enemy fighters first killed our complete escort, then they went for Vonrd and finally, just when I was about to reach the clouds again and thought I might have a chance to make it at least to friendly territory they killed me.... Lessons learned: - Ground fire at enemy depots is a night mare. On TAW only go for the Depot if there is a chance for High Level Bombing AND you are able to form a larger package to distract AAA over the target! - Best case have some escorts with you that fly above and can take care for enemy fighters attacking the bombers... - Possible alternative for such a situation: Form a large group of ground attackers, dive in from 2-3 K at maximum possble speed all together, drop all bombs at once (Again all together) and run to friendly lines as quick as anyhow possible...

I plan to stay online after the FiF Dry run tonight for some flying on any IL2 server... Considering some time for debrief-discussions after FiF I think 2130 UTC is a realistic starting time....

Yes, that makes more sense.... but of course still suprisingly few episodes with him...

Really??? Only 13 episodes of the complete DS9 series??? Cannot believe this...

Had some other great action tonight with @Greif @loopy @Heinrich @Erhardt and @=GenMarkof007=: We just skip the mission Greif and me flew on TAW... So first action was at Combat Box where we attacked Port of Antwerp, where Erhardt and me flew the 110s and others gave escort: ....package delivered: Our fighter escort had fun meanwhile doing aerobats with some enemy fighters over the city After that we flew on FinnishVirtual and did ground attacks on 2 enemy depots, Greif & Heinrich providing fighter escort, other in 110s At the end we did devense patrols in mixed group of 109s & 190s and had quite some action over our own depot.... including working on an IL2 that swallowed several hits from Heinrich, Greif and myself but kept flying foward... it was unbelievable... Finally all great action has come to an end... Was really great fun flyin with you guys

DS9 especially from the point the Dominion joined the story is my absolute favourite! "In the pale moonlight" is probably the best star trek episode ever made

Hi Guys, will be flying tonight, targeting 2000 UTC for beeing online (maybe even a bid ealier). Would like to fly TAW Axis side, if server population allows ... Btw. 1: There was a map rotation, so every pilot has a fresh plane set! Btw 2: Don't forget to inform Britchot via this thread if you have newly registered so that he can add you to our squad

FYI: Going online for flying on TAW now, Heinrich will join and maybe later Hess will be with us too. Maybe some one else wanna join the party?

Thanks for the update and take care, Hoping that symptoms keep mild and that you recover quickly!

Some Impressions of a bombing run with P-38s by @=GenMarkof007=, @loopy, @TedsOnMeds and me on Finnish Virtual Server from today. Overall it went fine, allthough we unfortunatly lost Loopy on our way home, because we were feeling to save and some fighter simply surprised us from behind and shot Loopy down. Later on Gen got that guy, but if we would have taken more care on our formation we might have avoided that loss... Gen was leading , Ted #2, Loopy #4, both on Gens 4 Postion and me #3 on his 8 Turning in for the attack Dropping the bomb as #2 in the attack Some of our bombs went long, but overall we damaged the depot by ~30% Killing a Gun Gen and Ted in Formation Landing Stats at the after the mission

Well, I have to say that at least my older one (4.5 Y) is very typical girl-stuff orientated, everything is about princesses and their princes... and in doubt put pink glitter on everything On the other side she still enjoyed the flights with me, and she esp. likes when we I do some dives with her (to be clear: some very gentle ones). And I also let her try flying a little bid on the PC from time to time, e.g. some round with an Albatros in RoF (without any shooting of course, just take off, fly over a village and land again!!) so I think (or I hope) the interest for all the typical girl stuff shall not stand in opposition to feed the interest in aviation... I have the feeling that the little one seems to be in general more interested in technical stuff, but in reality she's much too young to say anything about this for now.... So finally: Yes, I also have to admit that it seems as there is really something like a gender-specific preference for gender-typical stuff inherited in many kids but esp. in our times that shall not prevent us from letting them know and show very clearly that there are all options open for all of them...