Happy HWH Anniversary! Started as a flame free zone by SNAFU to talk about the good points of Rowan's release of Battle of Britain rather than the bugs and issues, the thread became a home for pilots and strategists, modders and eventually the BDG (Development Group). Quite deservedly BoB was given a new lease of life with the BoBII release. Throughout the many years stories and accounts have accumulated and Roger has diligently been acting as archivist and author of many of these, alluding to the musty dark cellar at the end of the many steps serving as the storage for the many tomes.
I'm still following the general news but not closely as that would certainly be potentially detrimental to my mental health.
I'm working on my books-to-read list and currently half-way through the third of Boris Chertok's "Of Rockets and Men". There are four volumes of this Soviet academician's memoirs, each volume weighs in at approximately a thousand pages and while a lot of it is naming colleagues and co-workers and accounting for the organisational bureaucracy I'm still fascinated by the insight into the trial and error approach of the scientists back then. No test benches or quality assurance on terra firma, oh no, just shoot the rocket into orbit and see what happens. This explains neatly the question I remember having at the time about all those enigmatic Kosmos satellites they sent into orbit (and some of them came down a bit unexpectedly): Many were simply failed missions to the Moon, Mars, and Venus, and botched launches in general.
We're having an elongated spring this year it seems. In recent years winter and cold was swept away by sudden summer but this year we've had an extended period of 10-19 C (50 - 66 F), mainly sunny and it seems that forecasts expect this situation to remain with us for some while yet.
Fittop; thank you for keeping in touch with Roger and for conveying that moving message from our pal. We all miss him too.
