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Just heard Hotlead announce on his stream that he got engaged.
Big congrats to you both! What a wonderful journey you have ahead.
Really happy for you
 

Just heard Hotlead announce on his stream that he got engaged.
Big congrats to you both! What a wonderful journey you have ahead.
Really happy for you
 

Aww, thank you guys! 😊 We’ll be getting married this coming June. I’m definitely blessed to have found her and can’t wait to start our life together! 😃

Gratulations!!
My wedding day is in June too => great time, long days & warm evenings to celebrate that great day every year again...  and almost 1 year preperation time is also pretty easily needed, so good that you have enough time to organize everything!
Looking forward to the wedding pics next year 😉  

Congrats Hotlead, nice seeing some good news for a change ! I've just celebrated 32 years and although it took me awhile to find the right one, I think it worked out pretty good.
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Just heard Hotlead announce on his stream that he got engaged.
Big congrats to you both! What a wonderful journey you have ahead.
Really happy for you
 

Just heard Hotlead announce on his stream that he got engaged.
Big congrats to you both! What a wonderful journey you have ahead.
Really happy for you
 

Just heard Hotlead announce on his stream that he got engaged.
Big congrats to you both! What a wonderful journey you have ahead.
Really happy for you
 

Just heard Hotlead announce on his stream that he got engaged.
Big congrats to you both! What a wonderful journey you have ahead.
Really happy for you
 

Just heard Hotlead announce on his stream that he got engaged.
Big congrats to you both! What a wonderful journey you have ahead.
Really happy for you
 

Just heard Hotlead announce on his stream that he got engaged.
Big congrats to you both! What a wonderful journey you have ahead.
Really happy for you
 

Well done Hotlead! End of one journey, start of a whole new one :)

I'm happy to be the first to congratulate our own Hotlead on completing all of the requirements for his college degree.  This being an extremely unusual year, he will more than likely be deprived of the standard graduation ceremony that normally would take place at any American university.  Regardless of this, he has his family who are undoubtedly and deservedly very proud of him.  I want to add my own congratulations for a person who I am sure will be able to overcome any challenges ahead.
S! and Well Done, Hotlead!!  👍 

Haha, sans snow I assume! Though we actually don't mind a bit of cloud n weather.
Anyway, sounds good. Got Spads right? And Alt Vis OFF right?
Edit: might be worth running some other maps earlier for the early starters and late Euro guys, then aim 'not Metz' for prime time? 
 

Still mods off  for now  till the new fields get fully tested.
 
If we can not get rid of the soggy ground, most tournaments will probably go mods on.

Voted.
I can't see any point in having 'soggy' ground everywhere. Actually thought it was a bug tbh.

JG1,
 
Geyserville was the first place evacuated about 06:00 AM last Thursday since the winds were driving the fire down the ridge across from our house (see attached).  Wednesday night around 09:30 PM the lights flashed and the internet dropped off line.  That was a PG&E power line going down near the geothermal station on Pine Flat (see attached).  We had an evacuation warning as we were going to bed and a mandatory evacuation early Thursday.  There are about a mile or so of vineyards—which don’t burn well—and the Russian River between Geyserville and that ridge.  However, with the wind gusts they always worry that fires can start quickly a couple of miles away from the main fire due to blowing embers.  Plus the road network is fairly limited in our area and they want the people out so the roads are clear for fire equipment.  We went to stay with Tricia’s cousin in Healdsburg Thursday and Friday.  Healdsburg was evacuated Saturday morning at 10:00 AM followed by Windsor and then parts of Santa Rosa.  We went down to Menlo Park and Patrick got us a room at the Residence Inn that takes pets.  We sat it out there from Saturday until Thursday morning.  Tom Petty’s song “The Waiting is the Hardest Part” covers that period. 
 
Geyserville was not under much threat after the first 48 hours since the fire had burned what it could on the ridge and moved on.  Plus the vineyard and river defenses.  However, Healdsburg and Windsor are mostly on the east side of the river and the winds were driving it that way.  They set fire lines on a couple of outlying roads and successfully kept the fire away from them.  The Pine Flat picture attached is looking east from the crest (popular local bike ride since Pine Flat and Alp D’ Huez are quite similar--attached).  Picture was taken about two weeks ago near the crest during a ride.  The fire burned a lot of stuff out east.  Fortunately, there aren’t any structures, people, roads or anything out there so they just let it go until it gets near something important.  Napa was under warning, however, looks like it is betting beaten down fast.  As we drove home, saw mucho fire equipment headed south for the fires down there.
 
Stressful week, however, California has established pretty solid procedures from the experience of recent fires.  Get the people out and the equipment in.  Believe we had about 6000 people fighting the fire at peak.   Still, constant evacuations with three cats and two dogs aren’t fun.  Next door neighbors had to move three times; Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, Petaluma.  They’ve lived here 27 years and this was the first time they’ve evacuated so that’s encouraging.  Hopefully one gigorgous fire per lifetime.
 
Vikner

S!
 
Sounds good. Will try and set up rotation so that the Morning patrol starts around 9:15 pm EST.

Haha! That one voluntary already. In FC the laser Vickers and new wing DM make balloon guns a poor option. 
Even in RoF most of 103rd gave them up a while ago. Though there is one holdout!

Salute Guys,
This week will bring us to the JG1 server. Is that ok?
Not sure how mission dev is going, i assume Butzzell has been busy with FiF, but i saw one mission on JG1 FC called Morning Patrol, that looked really good.
Anyway our requests are simple - AV off, Arras map, Spads available.
See you up there!
 
 
 

FC FC and did I say more FC on Thursday's of course. Made me even show up... 😁

Hey Guys,
Was thinking we could do with a bit of coordination on Servers for Thursday Fly-ins to help align promotion and guide pilots where to go.
The move to Flying Circus seems to be working out well and there's definitely a higher degree of interest in FC now. For this week we were quite keen to try out the J5 map, and then possibly alternate weekly between the JG1 and J5 servers.
Of course we're not sure of the plans for JG1 server, especially while FiF is on, so this is just a suggestion. There may also be new servers coming soon, Syndicate for example, so trying these out with larger squads and staying flexible on server choice for a while might be an idea before settling on any fixed rotation.
Then there's the subject of RoF. Is there any interest in going back for some pre-1918 maps there or do we leave that for Cuban's Sunday nights and occasional events?
Salute!
 
 

Pictures I was able to take of the B-17 that went down when it came through the local airport.













 

I'm noticing that there is a bit more information out there now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress_crash#Accident
This is all sourced, so I think that it's accurate.  We probably won't know the real cause for a long while.