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  1. Back in the very early 60's, Monogram had a box-scale Thunderchief that featured the internal bomb bay from which you could drop a model nuclear device. It also had a working ejector seat, which eventually vanished after a few uses.

    Super Sabres look best in Thunderbird markings!

  2. It's "normal" in the sense that it does, as you mentioned, happen from time to time. Is there any good reason for an empty tanker to remain with a group, none that I can think of. Even if the way home is through perilous airspace, it would make more sense to detail a couple of fighters as an escort than to have it tag along.

    The problem I see most often is when after a refueling is done and you approve the split, your RTB options do not include the carrier you launched from, but airfields hundreds of miles away.

    Tanker ops have always seemed to be on the hinky side, so much so that I try to avoid using them at all.

  3. Subhunting has always been my bane, and watching torpedoes vanish from the screen after finally locating a target can result in impulsive, unspeakable acts against an innocent computer.

    1000 yards doesn't seem to be so much of a fudge as to tip the balance critically. I'd got for it and hope for more "booms" in the end. (Of course, when one of MY subs gets nailed....)

  4. I'm working on upgrading on old scenario. A Red search aircraft has detected a Blue surface group, and visa versa. There are Red submarines in the area of the contact, but watching with the Cheat Key, it seems that they don't seem to make any kind of move to intercept but keep following thier pre-programed courses.

    Is this the proper behavior according to the programming, or is there something wrong with this scenario?

  5. Tony;

    I went to use the Issue Tracker this morning and saw all sorts of other issues. I can't remember when I got an update: I guess I blightly assumed all was well on the bug front until I encountered one.

    Anyhow, I figured figured my subscription had been cancelled somehow, but when I tried to re-up, it said my subscription was still active.

    Can you look into it?

  6. An article in the Washington Post implies that he sent the message on his own initative.

    I remember all the way back to Walter Lord's DAY OF INFAMY (required reading for freshman history in 1967!) that Admiral Pat Bellinger (d. 1962) wrote up the message and had it sent. There was even some question over the wording - was it "NO DRILL" or "NOT DRILL"?

    By the way, Billings MT, is the home town of David Thatcher, the "Ruptured Duck" gunner from "30 Seconds Over Tokyo".

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