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Heads up people!

This is a most popular thread and long may it continue - quite how I am not sure! We must be getting near to negative equity in terms of 'unused' cockpits. And it is quite a trial to go back to so many posts to see what's what.

I will soon close this thread - so I would suggest that the collating done by somebody previously is updated in the next week or so. Then last one to ID a cockpit will be the new thread starter. When I give the go.;)

As for this thread you can always read it or check it as you wish after it slips away.

Shame about the thread closing. I haven't posted much, bit I'm amazed at the skill of you guys, the ability to identify some obsure aircraft from not a lot of evidence, I'm impressed.

As for the photo, how about a Buccaneer?

C23

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Originally Posted by PPRuNe Pop

Heads up people!
This is a most popular thread and long may it continue - quite how I am not sure! We must be getting near to negative equity in terms of 'unused' cockpits. And it is quite a trial to go back to so many posts to see what's what.
I will soon close this thread - so I would suggest that the collating done by somebody previously is updated in the next week or so. Then last one to ID a cockpit will be the new thread starter. When I give the go.;)
As for this thread you can always read it or check it as you wish after it slips away.

I am very concerned in your approach. I am sure most followers of this thread will agree in that 99% fully understood that the last ID of a cockpit will be the new thread starter unless that person elects for someone else to submit a challenge. Cringe and myself monitor the progress and cringe has published a list only recently of cockpits previously published.
I do not understand why you intend to close this thread. I have an up to date list in Excel of cockpits published to date and if you allow this can be made available in the public domain it can be updated by myself daily.
My question is how often will you be available to to give the go ahead to publish the next challenge? To date this thread has some 94,640+ viewers I think that speaks for itself.

To date there have been 376 challenges of which there has only been 11 duplicates.
Mel

Cricket23

Thanks for your support. Sorry not a Buccaneer.

Mel

Can't quite make out the number of throttles, but on the basis it has 2, how about a Sea Vixen?

Not sure I understand the moderators desire to close down this thread either. It is probably the most enjoyable part of PPRUNE!

Oh, and by the way, as I'm unable to post, in the unlikely event I've got it, have another post on me!

BSD
Sorry, not the DH Sea Vixen. I too cannot understand the moderator's point 94,685 viewers and 2,954 replies must make it the most popular thread in the section.

Thread Housekeeping

MReyn24050, BSD, All,

What we are doing is merely housekeeping. Yes, this thread will be "closed" which is not to say the topic will be discontinued. It will be restarted as "cockpits 2" or some such.

The issue is that when these threads get too large they drag the performance of the site down and waste bandwidth and so are going to be, to coin a phrase, ppruned. The old thread is mothballed and a new vibrant one opened.

To reiterate, what will change is the length or size of the thread and it's name, that's all. The original thread will be available to view in the archives via the "search" function.

Cheers,
Evileyes

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Originally Posted by Evileyes

MReyn24050, BSD, All,
What we are doing is merely housekeeping. Yes, this thread will be "closed" which is not to say the topic will be discontinued. It will be restarted as "cockpits 2" or some such.
The issue is that when these threads get too large they drag the performance of the site down and waste bandwidth and so are, to coin a phrase, ppruned. The old thread is mothballed and a new vibrant one opened.
To reiterate, what will change is the length or size of the thread and it's name, that's all. The original thread will be available to view in the archives via the "search" fu nction.
Cheers,
Evileyes

I can understand the reason but how do we maintain continuity? What I mean is how do we start a new thread but maintain a record of those cockpits that have gone before. Will it be possible for thread followers to have access to a list of previous challenges?

Absolutely MReyn24050. Whoever has the up to date list can simply post it when we open the new thread. We will probably grab the last page or 2 of the original thread to start the new one which should help preserve continuity as well. We can then continue as before.

Again, the original thread isn't going into a black hole. It will still be searchable for reference but will not be active, taking up bandwidth every time someone wants to view the last page of an extremely long thread. The software opens the whole thing even if you only care about that last page. Ppruning it prevents that and keeps things moving.

All is well

Evileyes
Many thanks for your response . I am sure followers of this thread will understand the reasoning behind the requirement to restart the thread. I am also sure you and your fellow moderators are aware this is a very popular thread and long may it continue to be so.
Mel