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Topic: BBC News - Lancaster down at dawn
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semmern
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posted 04-06- 10:06 AM
   
This is the BBC news. A Lancaster was shot down after a successful Pathfinder mission over enemy territory yesterday. The bomber ran into an enemy night-fighter and tangled with it for several hours, the gunners in the Lancaster inflicting heavy damage to the German aircraft, but not before the enemy had crippled two of the Lancaster's engines. It managed to stay airborne until dawn, when there was enough light for the pilot to find a suitable field in which to make an emergency landing. All seven crew members are safe, and will most probably be picked up from France tomorrow. Here is a photograph taken by an RAF night fighter on an intruder mission, which ran into the bomber and saw it safely down:
 Whaddya think of that pic?? I'm experimenting with different sky colours, but it's difficult to get them just right. ------------------
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
Sunwards I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds
and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there. I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
my eager craft through footless halls of air. [This message has been edited by semmern (edited 04-06-2001).] [This message has been edited by semmern (edited 04-06-2001).] [This message has been edited by semmern (edited 04-06-2001).] IP: Logged |
Werner Molders
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posted 04-06- 10:30 AM
...free provider strikes again. The usual tricks to see the picture didn't work, either (going to the site first to pick up the cookie, then trying the image link)Werner ------------------
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semmern
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posted 04-06- 10:38 AM
Ruddy shit. It's Geocities, you know. I'll figure something out.IP: Logged |
Razer
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posted 04-06- 12:27 PM
That image in your sig looks like a pic from IL-2 but with Spits.  IP: Logged |
semmern
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posted 04-06- 12:30 PM
Now, THERE it is! I like that pic quite much. The sky looks cool, and I might start amking some missions with dawn/dusk skies [Note: The f%$£@& picture won't show, but if you press Ctrl+N (open new browser window), it shows. At least for me. Doh!] IP: Logged |
Condor
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posted 04-06- 12:31 PM
If you can't see the pic,
just past this address line in your address box or even easier, just click on the line itself. It should work as a link to the pic.
http://www.geocities.com/semmern/Bomber_down.jpg ------------------
Condor out [This message has been edited by Condor (edited 04-06-2001).] [This message has been edited by Condor (edited 04-06-2001).] IP: Logged |
semmern
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posted 04-06- 12:31 PM
Yeah. I dig the pic in my sig!
Do you see the Lanc pic now??[This message has been edited by semmern (edited 04-06-2001).] IP: Logged |
semmern
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posted 04-06- 12:36 PM
I don't get this. *F-word* Geocities! Click the link in Condor's post, and get the standard Geocities "page n/a-" shit!
Never mind this post, it all turned out totally messy.IP: Logged |
semmern
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posted 04-06- 02:49 PM
Anyway, you all got to read a thrilling story  .IP: Logged |
Raider
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posted 04-06- 04:45 PM
I posted it on my site. You guys just have to see it.
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Razer
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posted 04-06- 05:28 PM
how do you change the sky color? I want to get a more ricker blue in the skies?IP: Logged |
semmern
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posted 04-07- 04:13 AM
The Fog and ClearColour are the same, RGB values are 107 43 3.IP: Logged |
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