So I purchased this

[[-=BP=-]Slegawsky_VR]

So I purchased this

2 minutes ago, [-=BP=-]Slegawsky_VR said:

So I purchased this

 

[Trooper117]

It's printed all upside down mate... get rid of it!

[[-=BP=-]Slegawsky_VR]

1 minute ago, Trooper117 said:

It's printed all upside down mate... get rid of it!

It’s for inverted 

Because I was inverted 

Hopefully edition  of Normandy collector eduction 

Spoiler

 

 

[Gr3y]

10 hours ago, Trooper117 said:

It's printed all upside down mate... get rid of it!

 

How can you know, maybe he lives in Australia?

[IckyATLAS]

Here is the real story (free and clean of conspiracy theories) ?

 

It's all inverted because it's a highly acclaimed yoga position that all pilots train for in WWII, to prepare and train for combat aerobatics.

They train to study the maps and mission documents completely inverted standing on their head. In this way the brain gets used to negative g's, and the brain and vision system gets used to revert things as if it was upright.

And guess what enemy pilots where used to positive g's and not negative ones, and their vision system was not trained to see things upside down. This gave the allied pilots the edge by pushing enemy pilots into negative g's and inverted flight combined, where they completely passed out their brain exploding by high blood pressure. Then allied pilots had just to check that the enemy plane plunged to the ground without firing a shot. And if axis pilots could withstand the negative g's then the allied pilots had excellent precision shooting in inverted flight as their vision system would act as if it was a normal situation and this gave always an edge. 

In this way they spared a lot of ammunition and got high kill credits.

They had still to be careful not to do this when flying planes with a floating carburetor that would shut when on negative g's. But apart from this technical glitch it worked perfectly well. Sure the Luftwaffe never admitted it as it would be bad propaganda. On the Allied side the same as it is not very high profile or glorious to down this way a plane, so it was all reported as furious air battles. When necessary camera films where properly switched to make it all the more credible.

Studying their mission on their heads, this is what won the fighter air war in Europe.

It did not work on the Pacific theater though, as you know yoga and martial arts come from there so it did not work well there as pilots where on an even ground.

So the technology won over that theater, better planes, protection and the enormous industrial production  etc.. all things you know very well.

 

Hope you liked when history events are set up right...... ooops! or inverted ?

 

 

 

[AndyJWest]

I think we are all missing the obvious here. The OP has something of immense value. Take a look at this postage stamp, to see why:

 

That is the famous Inverted Jenny. Philatelists pay thousands or even millions of dollars for examples of these. Printing errors, especially rarely-seen ones, can make otherwise-common objects highly collectable. What the OP has may not just be rare - for all we know it may be unique. He should secure it in a safe place, and then contact an auction house.

 

With the money he raises from the sale, he'll probably be able to buy us all new graphics cards. ?

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

May I ask where?  Haven't seen a box set anywhere. 

[Na-zdorovie]

mate its worth nothing, but to help you out getting rid of it ill forward my address

[Jaegermeister]

To the OP, if you can prove to the Moderators that it's not counterfeit, I believe you get an inverted gold BOS bar under your forum avatar. 

 

 

 

Unfortunately when you run the game off the CD, I think you still have unlocks on the upgrades you have to grind for.

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

44 minutes ago, Na-zdorovie said:

mate its worth nothing, but to help you out getting rid of it ill forward my address

Well thanks,  but I was just curious.   Salute 

[Na-zdorovie]

hehe got me mixed up me thins

[fergal69]

Raise you with......

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Diggun]

1 minute ago, fergal69 said:

Raise you with......

Coor! That is properly lovely presentation!

[catchthefoxes]

These are such amazing collectibles!!! Would’ve loved to have a version of this woth BoBP or FC!! 

[HappyHaddock]

I'll say snap and match you on owning both hard/physical collectors copies of IL2 Sturmovik and Cliffs of Dover.

 

However the one that stands out for me was a presentation box set of Flying Corps Gold from perhaps 20years ago... that included a full reprint of an original WWI RFC instruction manual as issued to all trainee pilots. That was in addition to a "modern" manual as to how to actually use/fly the video game.

 

I think that was when I first learned about (and encountered in game) the effects of gyroscopic precession and the torque of the Sopwith camels rotary engine.

[danielprates]

1 hour ago, fergal69 said:

 

 

It is too bad it is all creased like that. It would look excellent framed and hanged on a wall.

 

I had a wonderful map of the submarine grids map, that came with "aces of the deep", which I regret to this day that I didn't frame, since it eventually decayed.

[fergal69]

19 minutes ago, danielprates said:

It is too bad it is all creased like that. It would look excellent framed and hanged on a wall.

 

I had a wonderful map of the submarine grids map, that came with "aces of the deep", which I regret to this day that I didn't frame, since it eventually decayed.

 

It's printed on fabric, so a cool iron would get rid of the creases 

[BlitzPig_EL]

Ha! I have an unopened Cliffs of Dover box set sitting on the shelf at home. Still in the plastic wrap.

 

Worship me.

 

?

[Gambit21]

11 minutes ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Ha! I have an unopened Cliffs of Dover box set sitting on the shelf at home. Still in the plastic wrap.

 

?

 

At release and for years afterward ‘in the plastic wrap’ is where it belonged.

[LukeFF]

Somewhere in my closet I still have the foldout map of the Western Front that came with the Rise of Flight Iron Cross Edition, which on the other side has a nice display of all the medals from career mode. I also have as well the maps that came with Red Baron and Aces of the Deep. Some cool stuff, for sure. ??

[Chief_Mouser]

Can't remember which version of Rise of Flight I purchased except that it was the US edition - released over there way before Europe got a look in.  I was well chuffed to get hold of it 'early'; except for getting a great wodge of Import Duty on it. ☹️ Cost me a bloody fortune, and all because I was too impatient to wait a few weeks. ?

[Cpt_Cool]

I have ROF hard copy 2009 vinntage. Every once in a while I think it would be fun to install that version again from the disk before so many additions and updates.

[[-=BP=-]Slegawsky_VR]

I was inverted and conspired towards bad things. 
On the serious side im looking to see a collector edition of Normandy. 

[Irishratticus72]

Jurassic. 

Pretty steep at the time. 

[ST_Catchov]

Nostalgia. Them was the days.   Booklets and stuff. And sex was a lot better.

[Irishratticus72]

19 minutes ago, ST_Catchov said:

Nostalgia. Them was the days.   Booklets and stuff. And sex was a lot better.

Wouldn't know, they were usually unconscious. Or I was, somebody usually was. It was just how we rolled back then.

Edited June 19, 2021 by Irishratticus72

[1./JG42Nephris]

Didnt notice there are still boxed Version out there of BoX ... in 2021

...and even inverted ones.

 

 

However the unboxing of a new game from its DVD box was epic in those days!

[[-=BP=-]Slegawsky_VR]

Again a boxed up version with all the cool graphics would excite the nostalgic and fresh ones. Anyhow, looking forward to see what the devs would come up. 

 

[Irishratticus72]

[Irishratticus72]

On 6/18/2021 at 4:30 PM, HappyHaddock said:

I'll say snap and match you on owning both hard/physical collectors copies of IL2 Sturmovik and Cliffs of Dover.

 

However the one that stands out for me was a presentation box set of Flying Corps Gold from perhaps 20years ago... that included a full reprint of an original WWI RFC instruction manual as issued to all trainee pilots. That was in addition to a "modern" manual as to how to actually use/fly the video game.

 

I think that was when I first learned about (and encountered in game) the effects of gyroscopic precession and the torque of the Sopwith camels rotary engine.

 

30fps possible! 

We were spoiled........ 

[AndyJWest]

I've still got the game, and the CPC 464. ?

 

[Irishratticus72]

1 minute ago, AndyJWest said:

I've still got the game, and the CPC 464. ?

 

That's it, forum won for the day. 

[HappyHaddock]

55 minutes ago, Irishratticus72 said:

That's it, forum won for the day. 

 

If I were to dig around in my parent's attic I could still find  our old sinclair zx80 from 1980 ... alas I can't provide photographic evidence of still owning that from a glorious era before games had any graphics and were simply text based... 1k RAM seemed such a lot back then. I think the BBC micro computer from 1981-82 was the first we owned that had games with video graphics - such as they were back then.

 

though I do also remember the advances made by Amstrad by the mid 80's.