Yes indeed it does.
Running Windows 7 Ultimate here, installed fairly straightforwardly.
The main thing to do is not install from autorun, but explore the disc and run ‘a.exe’. You may or may not need to run it in XP compatibility mode.

If you run into any problems drop me a PM and i’ll try to help!

I’ve played all incarnations of IL-2 since the demo in 2000/1(?). Though more recently my passion has been re-ignighted with the fantasitc MODS that AA develop. I highly recommend U.I. 1.2, for more info visit here http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/

Hmm, think I might jump in a Spitfire Mk.XIV… :D:D

Many thanks, sounds good to me. It will be a Christmas present so if I need to get back to you it will be after the festivities!:):)

But was there ever a ‘golden era’ when this sort of crime didn’t happen?

I’m not condoning it but the theft of a dozen poppy-appeal collection-boxes is surely going to be way down on anybody’s priority list; as a comparison 200,000 cars were reported stolen in the UK in 2005.

And if they are caught how can they be punished (birching aside)? The courts have already been instructed not to bother prosecuting much more serious offences on grounds of costs.

[B][I]The prisons are full and this forum is well-known for its ‘life should mean life’ stance so where does that leave us?

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Impotent. But surely that need not preclude comment on the fact that the situation exists. The fact that “we can get away with it as no one cares or the police haven’t got the time” seems to me symptomatic of what is wrong about the UK these days. Few people have any sense of individual or shared responsibility for their actions.. We are all beholden to the state to manage every aspect of our lives, so that people now grow up without the “old, traditional values”.

If everyone shared the same opinions, there wouldn’t be a debate.

Can’t argue with that.

In cold mathematical/statistical terms I see and totally agree your point.
[B][I]The underlying time bomb is that such crimes are a barometer of “Feck it, they won’t even put me inside” attitude which is rife.
It’s probably 3 generations deep now, there is no hope for the growing Pikey Chav scumbag class. They learn it from Parents who were schooled by their parents – no moral standing or respect whatsoever. In the scheme of things, such crimes are important because they disturb the feelings of decent people in as much as having ones wallet lifted.

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Nicely put, Old Shape. Exactly my feelings, but clearly not shared by some in this debate.

I honesty don’t know what to make of her. I’ve read her book (written soon after the war) and one written a few years ago about her. She was a NAZI and proud of it. No wonder no one has made a film about her. I like to consider that the only thing worst than a bad Nazi was a good Nazi. She knew about the holocaust, though only at the very end of the war (late 1945?).

Would you recommend the books or are they just propoganda for the cause?

As an extension to this can I ask if anyone knows of airfields or airfield relics from either conflict in Pas de Calais?

I agree, but where are the films in which British forces succeed?

Name me a single film made since ‘The Battle of Britain’ (film) that portrays a major British military operation that went well.

Judging by some of the suggestions made so far, the Augsburg Raid, the Channel Dash, sinking of the Repulse and Prince of Wales, Fairey Battle squadrons slaughtered in France, people would prefer to see failure, undoubtedly heroic, but failure all the same.

I regret to say I think you are right, Creaking Door. Although there have been a handful of suggestions but those and it seems the majority of ideas posters have had seem to have been made already.

Is that our challenge to come up with a story in which the Brits overcome and which has not been filmed for the big or small screen?