Yeah. The "posterboy" of piston airplane engines...
Must be quite impressive to be in the vicinity during a race of two or more of them...
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Sheesh. It would be nice to do some on-foot stuff on the light side of a planet for once...
EDIT And that was odd: I opted for a medium CZ but the bounty and payout was for a low.
EDIT And that was odd: I opted for a medium CZ but the bounty and payout was for a low.
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It's nowhere near as bad as the Vulture though. That thing is just awful.
Gotta love all those Spitfire videos. This one is a favourite of mine. 
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brd44OS0Ueo
Certainly is.
My father was stationed at the RAF base that was and still is the home of the Battle of Britain flight in the late 70s, so I got to hear a Lancaster plus a pair of spitfires (maybe one of them might have been a Hurrican) go overhead quite often
It never gets old...
I had forgotten about the Goshawk. Turns out there was also the pressurised MkVI sixty odd built with Merlins.
Every year at Piedmont Airport (a small airport about 30 miles from here) they have a vintage aircraft air show.
A few years back I'm sitting here watching the news and the ground starts to shake. I could hear a roar so I went out on the back deck to see what was coming.
It was two Lancaster bombers, flying at about 1200 feet, escorted by two Mustangs and two Spitfires. I could feel my chest shaking as they went by. It was awesome.
Here's a first for me: A water world with mineable rings:
OK. I'm on a roll. The very next system, an ELW (my 5th overall and 2nd in two days) with mineable rings:
I don't think I've ever been first discoverer for a ring ELW ever. Nice find.
I know someone who clocked up their 50th ringed ELW recently, but they seem to have made ELW hunting their full time job for years.
That would drive me nuts I think.
Confusing results for today's combat efforts. Two medium ship based conflict zones as I didn't have time for a high intensity, and a ground conflict zone. What is confusing is my combat rank went up 2% through dangerous and my mercenary rank stood still at 14% through defenceless. Maybe a quirk of updates coming through to Inara
Payout for the ground conflict zone was in the region of 400K credits.
The fun part was I got interdicted coming away from the ground conflict zone in my Viper MKIV. by a Challenger. Sporting a rapid fire medium multi cannon with indendiary rounds and another corrosive plus the two small dumb fire missile launchers with overload munitions the Challenger went boom with only 4% of 296MJ shields lost on the Viper MKIV. You know, the slow not very agile one. OK so it's engineered grade 5 dirty drives plus drag, but the Challenger never got to bring it's guns to bear as this Viper is plenty small, fast and agile enough to run rings around it. Granted the Challenger was only 'competant'.
I though it would be a closer fight than that.
It seems Inara or likely the data source it pulls from lags behind reality a bit. This is understandable from a technical point of view My mercenary rank jumped to 60% in defenceless today and I have not done another ground CZ since yesterday.
I've noticed that a great deal of the time, Elite Dangerous itself doesn't update until you log out and back in again. Until that happens (ED updates your panel in game), it's never put into the API so it will never update.
I joined the person concerned on an ELW hunt expedition last year near the centre of the galaxy. I lasted about 4 hours before taking a third visit to Sag A* and flying back to Colonia.
The pros at this reduce it to game mechanics which ruins the immersion for me.
In light of U14 and the (futile?) hope we get on-foot 'goid fights, my new Windows wallpaper, celebrating alien enemies:
(It's disturbing on a 4K 32" monitor )
(It's disturbing on a 4K 32" monitor
)Oh, if anyone comes across a medium CZ that's in daylight, could they let me know?
It's in day light and I don't think it is low because it's takes me half hour to win, and I don't think it's high because I can win. I have not figured out how to tell what type it is. It's Today will be the last day.Oh, if anyone comes across a medium CZ that's in daylight, could they let me know?
Just do me a favour and fight for the democrats side otherwise you are undoing my "work" https://inara.cz/elite/station/313119/
If you pick up the CZ from the Frotline Solutions bod, they will show the "level"
Just to break up the non-stop war mongering, I've switched to a little stint of exploration. Just outside the bubble, nothing special, just meandering.
Anyway, I came across something that you interpid explorers may well have already seen - but they're new to me: rogue signal sources.
When you FSS then, they show up fine, but you can't target them or find them on the nav panel. Also, the FSS starts to get a bit funky and garbled:
Looks like I'll be paying a revisit to the system come Novermber end
Anyway, I came across something that you interpid explorers may well have already seen - but they're new to me: rogue signal sources.
When you FSS then, they show up fine, but you can't target them or find them on the nav panel. Also, the FSS starts to get a bit funky and garbled:
Looks like I'll be paying a revisit to the system come Novermber end
That's the Stargoids heading our way. AFAIK, there are eight of them.Just to break up the non-stop war mongering, I've switched to a little stint of exploration. Just outside the bubble, nothing special, just meandering.
Anyway, I came across something that you interpid explorers may well have already seen - but they're new to me: rogue signal sources.
When you FSS then, they show up fine, but you can't target them or find them on the nav panel. Also, the FSS starts to get a bit funky and garbled:
Looks like I'll be paying a revisit to the system come Novermber end