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Folks,

Dux:

Thanks for the photo. She's a lovely multi-bladed lass all decked out in her fashionable invasion stripes. I would love to see one in the sky just once and hear her engine roar overhead.

Speaking of something passing over, a tornado passed right over our house last evening. It gave us quite an adrenalin rush I can tell you. We could not see the actual funnel from our perspective but someone 2 miles north of us took a snap that showed it clearly. That photo was on page one of the local paper this morning.

The twister never touched down and no damage was done. At one point whilst wisely heading for the relative safety of the house I looked right up the skirts of the thing as it was passing over. I could see the dark and light rotating clouds. that sir was a bit too close for comfort.

As I raced for the house, I couldn't help thinking how I had brought into question the sanity of all those storm chasers I've seen testing fate on TV. Such storms are indeed exciting for nature's great power unleashed in such a storm is overwhelming to the senses. It might have touched down at any minute yet I found myself stopping, transfixed watching it swirl away.

After the storm for some reason I found combat in BoB2 a bit less exciting than usual. I flew a quick mission against a cloud of Me110s determined to have their wicked way with Kenly. This would never do. JRT and friends came out of the sun to the rescue.

Call me picky if you must but I often prefer the 110 as an opponent rather than the 109. This might be because it is a larger target or it may be because they do not seem to be able to hit me with anything but smoke from their burning engines. I bagged 2.