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If I find an avitar i like how do i add it to my profile? Just cruious. Thanks.

ZK

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Easy.

Click on "My RCU" above, then "Edit Profile". Scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for "Avatar" at the very bottom. The rest should be self-explanatory.

MrJB

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Hoovdriver, scroll to the bottom of edit options.

Found it thx
 

Cool thx guys I found it.

ZK

BAH pic to big ??
 

Ok I have a pic I want as my avatar but it says the pic is too big any ideas on how to make it smaller?

ZK

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oooops! I meant 'edit options'. Anyway, glad you found it.

You might try a photo editor. The Microsoft photo editor that comes in MS office has a resize function. I imagine that Adobe Photoshop, or other packages would do the same.

I'm not sure what the dimensions need to be though.

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My XP has a paint function. Right click on the pic and select edit. Click on where it says image. Click where it says stretch/skew. Select 50% x 50% or whatever it takes to fit the requirement. Then click file and replace the old photo with the new smaller one.

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HoovDriver, I don't see no avatar popping up. :D

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like my Avatar?


http://home.comcast.net/~midnitedew/sphitler.gif

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midnite,
No.
Dennis-

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I love it. If you can't goof on Hitler, then who?

ACHTUNG! "RESPECT MY AUTHORITY"

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Will your avatar explain the nickname? HoovDriver? I keep thinking of a witch riding a vacuum cleaner. :-)

Kerry

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Let me venture a guess...

A LTJG in San Diego... Probably North Island.

Seem to me that those S-3 Vikings sounded like a vaccuum cleaner.

Are you a Viking Pilot Zach?

HAHA great guesses
 

I am in fact a witch on a broom.. nah j/k you will see in due time.

Minnflyer I will try to mess with it for a few mins but I will probably be sending you a pic to fix for me :) thx.

ZK

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Ditto, cartman used to be funny as heck. Don't know why, but they lost it somehow.

Got my new avatar :)
 

Theres my baby :D What a beauty

ZK

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Looks Good!!

Bill

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Very nice
 

Very nice, The Dude abides

ZK

Welcome to my office
 

Come in, sit down, coffee?

ZK

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There was supposed to be a pisture with the last post :stupid:

ZK

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What's that deelie bobber hanging off the left pod?

The basket
 

The basket we give fuel with. We carry an ARS (air refeuling station) or commonly refered to as a buddy store on the left pylon and a drop tank on the right. Nice pic

ZK

P.S. damn im dumb, I posted a new thread trying to respond to this LOL now theres a thread titled "The basket" with a bunch of muble jumble that means nothing as a stand alone message. Any way to remove a post you start?

ZK

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You might try to edit the title and text to "please delete" and one of the mods will maybe remove it.

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Nice pictures HoovDriver, but, I'm no "jetophile" so I'm still in the dark about the name.

Kerry

Call sign: Clueless

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He flies a Navy plane calles an S-3 Viking (the one in the pictures)

They have turbofan engines that sound like a giant Vacuum Cleaner.

Hence the name - Hoover Driver. (Hoover Vacuum Cleaners)

We fly the meatball
 

Navy fliers fly a glideslope system called the fresnel lense or commonly called the meatball it is a glideslope indicator much like PAPI or VASI but it is very very precise as it is what guides you down to the landing area on the carrier, and hopefully the three wire. land with a centered ball on the lense you get the three wire, land just ever so sagging you get the two and if the ball is cresting you hopefully get the four wire but most often you get the hated bolter = you get another try at it :) If I am correct there is only 40 feet between wires. So when flying this type fo approach the throttles are constantly moving, for every correction ie: you suck power off to stop a rising ball or to descend ever so slightly you must correct that correction with at least a two part correction ie: you suck power to stop the rising ball now you must add more power than required to stop the rate of descent, catch the ball before it falls off the lense, then you must reset power to your neytral power setting before all that power you just added causes you to fly the ball off the top of the lense. I hope that makes sense. Anyways while adding power in short bursts in the S-3 it makes a very characteristic Whoop Whoop sound so we call the S-3 Viking the Hoover or Hoov for that reason. Heres a fresnal lense fi you want any more info about it just hollar. Wish I had a better pic but if you look almost all the way up on the left side you can see a row of horizontal lights with the meatball being the brightest, amber light slightly sagging from center. That is the Fresnel lense.

ZK

Carrier landings.... does it get any scarier
 

Cool. Thanks for the info. One thing that surprises me is that you are into RC. I'd think after doing carrier landings everything else related to flying would just be a bore. :-)

What's the primary role of an S3?

Kerry

Mostly a tanker now
 

S-3 is mostly a tanker now for the carrier but it still does some maritime interdiction and even strike recently as it was the jet that fired the maverick at Sadams yacht that was being lazer designated by an F-18 hornet. Were pretty proud of that one :)\\ :D

Oh and we fly Presidents onto the carrier now :D :stupid:

ZK

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No post.......I just wanted to see my avatar LOL

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do you like mine?

Nidnitedew
 

I being a Lufwaffe buff like it, good that you took out the Swatstika though as I think alot of people would not like it very much. It is too bad one of histories gereatest airforces along with the worlds leading aces had anything to do with such a terrible group of people, or a terrible few that made the entire nation of Germany and especially anyone who had anything to do with the German military look like monsters. I would probably change the avatar though as it may still be considered not very tasteful to many, but hey it's a free country and you can do what you like I guess.

ZK

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i think its a neat symbol... why did the nazi's have to have such neat artwork? grrrrr yea i removed the sybmol from the feet...
maybe i could has it holdlding stars & bars...

I agree
 

The Nazis had some great things, art and insignias included. If you could add something custom I think it would make it much more accepted, but then again that is just my humble opinion.

ZK

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do you know where i can find a straight on view of stars & bars like found on the p-51 ?

Nope
 

I don't sorry.

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http://www.rccombat.com/sections/wor...rbar_small.gif

or for more, including some cool German WW2 squadron logos:

http://www.rccombat.com/sections/workshop/workshop.asp
then click on "Detailing" in the left top frame.