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The depleted uranium rounds it fires from its Avenger cannon (like the P-39 above, it was built around this weapon) are the size of milk bottles. It's a plane designed to blow up tanks using its gun. Amazing. I was thrilled to use it in the ground attack missions in Ace Combat 6 on the Xbox...

Enjoy reading about Nigerian scammers getting scammed back here: 419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet!

I've been using it since about 1986! When I was very little, friends and I would take turns pretending we were the pilot and the others were the passengers, with one of the very old versions Flight Simulator (where only Chicago and the Cessna 182 were available). I remember the younger of the...

I wasn't sure whether this belonged here or in Our World, Our Culture so I played it safe and put it here. Why You Shouldn't Share Those Emotional 'Deaf Person Hears for the First Time' Videos - The Wire I think the article is good, but some of the ignorant comments are sickening.

I spend the quieter times at work on Wikipedia reading about planes, especially the lesser known ones. Everyone knows the P-51, but what about the P-39 which was basically built around its huge, Cadillac (really) manufactured cannon? You can see the cannon emerging from the middle of the...

It says she 'hand signed' "I love you". But it seems she spelled it S... T... F... U :giggle:

They have to come eventually. Better the pressure is released with three little ones than one big huge one! There was one here a year ago, I felt it and wasn't sure what it was, it felt like sitting in a car stopped at the side of the road when a tractor trailer goes past and the car rocks in...

Today I went to catch the streetcar. I was waiting for quite a long time and when a bus on another route pulled up and stopped, a lady who was waiting started complaining through the door at the driver that they were the third bus that had gone past on that route but no streetcars yet, what is...

My favourite plane: I started flying one around the world in Flight Simulator 2002.

I didn't think any trains were involved in that. It's the Dawlish Sea Wall, incidentally, and it's happened before. A superb diary of the repair work is here: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/timetables-and-travel/storm-damage/dawlish/

I once drove from Cardiff to St Albans (UK), 155 miles, in under two hours. It was a bright, sunny Christmas Eve and I found what they sometimes call a 'highway hero', someone doing the pace you want. I just followed them about 300 yards behind the entire way and arrived while my surprised...

The way I see it, when you're driving a train you're trusting that everyone else has done their job properly too. That every ground frame (manual switch) has been put back in the right position, every automatic switch is in good repair, every fishplate and tie and weld is as it should be...

I bet their support department regularly deals with old school users re-discovering the service, I was on the brink of emailing them. Until today, though, there was no email address associated with my UIN so I don't know how else they could prove you were you?

I emailed my third oldest friend and asked if he knew - he didn't. Then while wondering where else I could check I suddenly had a brainwave, remembered my number and sure enough it worked and let me log in and also associate an email address with it so now it's mine forever! Then I fired up my...

As an ex-railway worker, I don't see anything wrong there.

I remember I got it because at the time I didn't use IRC, I used Westwood Chat, which was a combined chat client and matchmaking software provided by Westwood Studies for people who played C&C Red Alert, C&C 95 and Monopoly. All the regulars on there started getting ICQ numbers to stay in touch...

GO Transit here in Ontario is finally electrifying their network. This site has a lot of very detailed and interesting information about the pros and cons of various types of motive power for trains: GO Electrification Study - Fact Sheet If you click on the 'Get Informed' link at the top...

There's nothing inherently unsafe about fly by wire systems, they've got tons of redundancies and backups built in. Hydraulics or cables are just as likely to break.

ICQ was freaking awesome back in 1996, nobody had ever seen anything like it before. The 'uh oh!' message sound became legendary, as did the way the petals of the flower flashed when it was trying to connect. MSN stomped it into the ground, unfortunately. I'm now inspired to try and get my...

I lived for 8 years within 500 yards of a very busy line (with diesel trains), and currently live right next to a subway station that also services streetcars. Honestly, hybrid buses when they accelerate are several times noisier than a streetcar going past. What's more, you get used to...