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Actually, unknown to me, my wife had already ordered the PSU that I put into the wishlist. Now...just have to install the damn thing

Wow that's a shame! Wishing the best as well.

Yeah, I am hoping this will open a lot of possibilities for servers to do more complex things. I always liked servers where you have limited aircraft and need to think about how you use them as opposed to just furballing.
 

Took a little trip with my son to Canada’s Air and Space Museum. Really fine collection with some extremely rare WWI and II models. 
Biggest news to me was the development of the G-suit occurred in 1941 and was used by the RAF in North Africa in 1942. 

Their collection is truly amazing.  I really have to get there someday!

Apparently scripting will be possible as well!

Saw this on Reddit lmao
Title of post was: What type of missile is this?
Top Comment was: it's for dogfighting...
 

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.

Annnnnnnddd here we are in April already and I finally just brought my sim stuff in from the garage. I have a new setup and I am on tile rather than carpet, so there are some logistical issues that will need to be sorted out first. 
I am hoping to be back around soon, and I think I might popping in on Wednesday evenings just to show face. I definitely miss hanging with you all, and despite the delay in my return I am still excited to do so. Hope everyone is doing well, and looking forward to catching up. 

Annnnnnnddd here we are in April already and I finally just brought my sim stuff in from the garage. I have a new setup and I am on tile rather than carpet, so there are some logistical issues that will need to be sorted out first. 
I am hoping to be back around soon, and I think I might popping in on Wednesday evenings just to show face. I definitely miss hanging with you all, and despite the delay in my return I am still excited to do so. Hope everyone is doing well, and looking forward to catching up. 

MiG-23 pls

MiG-23 pls

Klaiber and I discussed this a bit.  The A-4E mod has been in several DCS videos, such as sales promotions, so it's not a big surprise.  It would be nice if they incorporated it into the module manager so we don't have to download or reprogram inputs every update.  However, I can't imagine they would charge for it, just include it like the T-51D and Su-25T. 
At a minimum, it just shows that ED supports modding and is publicly acknowledging the fine work with the A-4E. 

Hey guys,
The new job has been a huge adjustment, and it's taken a while to settle in. Between that and the holidays I have had a lot going on, and just haven't had the energy to fly a whole lot. I wanted to check-in though because things are finally beginning to settle down, and I hope to get some stick time with you all soon.
Been missing you guys and looking forward to getting caught up! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
Cheers!

Hey guys,
The new job has been a huge adjustment, and it's taken a while to settle in. Between that and the holidays I have had a lot going on, and just haven't had the energy to fly a whole lot. I wanted to check-in though because things are finally beginning to settle down, and I hope to get some stick time with you all soon.
Been missing you guys and looking forward to getting caught up! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
Cheers!

Hey guys,
The new job has been a huge adjustment, and it's taken a while to settle in. Between that and the holidays I have had a lot going on, and just haven't had the energy to fly a whole lot. I wanted to check-in though because things are finally beginning to settle down, and I hope to get some stick time with you all soon.
Been missing you guys and looking forward to getting caught up! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
Cheers!

Hey guys,
The new job has been a huge adjustment, and it's taken a while to settle in. Between that and the holidays I have had a lot going on, and just haven't had the energy to fly a whole lot. I wanted to check-in though because things are finally beginning to settle down, and I hope to get some stick time with you all soon.
Been missing you guys and looking forward to getting caught up! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
Cheers!

Hey guys,
The new job has been a huge adjustment, and it's taken a while to settle in. Between that and the holidays I have had a lot going on, and just haven't had the energy to fly a whole lot. I wanted to check-in though because things are finally beginning to settle down, and I hope to get some stick time with you all soon.
Been missing you guys and looking forward to getting caught up! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
Cheers!

Hey guys,
The new job has been a huge adjustment, and it's taken a while to settle in. Between that and the holidays I have had a lot going on, and just haven't had the energy to fly a whole lot. I wanted to check-in though because things are finally beginning to settle down, and I hope to get some stick time with you all soon.
Been missing you guys and looking forward to getting caught up! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
Cheers!

Hey guys,
The new job has been a huge adjustment, and it's taken a while to settle in. Between that and the holidays I have had a lot going on, and just haven't had the energy to fly a whole lot. I wanted to check-in though because things are finally beginning to settle down, and I hope to get some stick time with you all soon.
Been missing you guys and looking forward to getting caught up! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
Cheers!

Hey guys,
The new job has been a huge adjustment, and it's taken a while to settle in. Between that and the holidays I have had a lot going on, and just haven't had the energy to fly a whole lot. I wanted to check-in though because things are finally beginning to settle down, and I hope to get some stick time with you all soon.
Been missing you guys and looking forward to getting caught up! Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
Cheers!

Way late to this but I finally got around to seeing the movie.  Really liked it and so did my wife.  It had enough of the Original scenes in it to elicit the nostalgia and identify it as clearly "Top Gun" without the mindless sellout nonsense of Star Wars Episode VII.  
The mission reminded me of every installment of Ace Combat games since I started playing them on PS1 back when I was a kid, but themselves pull from the infamous trench run from Star Wars.  As corny as that is I think it was pulled off nicely and those ridiculous missions were always the most fun in AC.  
Totally missed Penny being the Admiral's daughter.  Nice way to bring a love interest back without "Charlie".  
The air to air scenes were meh.  But a lot of the things they didn't get right are things only 2% of the audience would even notice anyhow and didn't really matter.  Was cool to see the old ATFLIR I used to work on used in the movie.  They even used the right button on the throttle.  
Air to air scenes always look terrible because there is no continutiy as to what is going on.  99.5% of the audience wouldn't be able to put it together even if there was, so I understand the lack of effort but I wish there was a little more.  They could have made the scenes even more interesting and less predictable.  
Overall, though, I knew what I was getting into and they delivered exactly that.  Awesome movie and one of few sequels fully deserving of the original movie.  
We watched the original afterwards and my god, between having aged myself well beyond the age he was in that movie and after seeing him now, if Tom Cruise doesn't look like a child!  
Now my wife is calling me Goose and her wingman. 

I would really love to go, but I am not sure if I can make it that weekend. I'll have to follow up, because I am close and definitely would love to attend.

Hawg is bringing his wife and father also from Puerto Rico. We should be able to arrange a tour at the Wilmington facility (about 45 min or less from the museum) which would include getting into a B-767 airplane and simulator. If we are really lucky we might even get to fly the sim a few minutes but it is usually booked pretty solid and if it happened would prob be in between sim sessions or during a break. Just need to get an idea of who would be interested.

Kameraden,
This happened for my birthday. So excited...
The "B" denotes made in Japan. The first pass looks really good, I'm probably going to re-lamp and replace the velum.

S!