Oleg: Very nice update - just stunning - thanks :)
Have an excellent holiday.

Sun over the Isle of Wight - thats home for me. :cool:

Any chance of a screenie of Stukas over Ventor downs radar station on the island in the next update ;) :rolleyes:

Airfield colour
 

I hope they keep the grass strips looking like grass, not like dried out harvested wheat on a wheat field that used to be grass.

I like how the fighters on the airfield are rendered in the distance.

I know that it's been mentioned a beefy computer will be required to run high settings - I'm wondering though, would a really fast GPU or CPU be preferred? (Hopefully ATI cards in SLI will be supported?)

Well ...an extremely impressive update. I can't help but ask if the simulation can model 60-100km range. With a more complex gravitational model orbitersim could be in for competition... Oleg: Will the moon be landable ;)

It could also be that you're still further north. Light is different depending on latitude. A lot of games developed in California look far to bright and colour saturated for my Canadian eyes, whereas games which have semi-realistic snow covered landscape automatically get played two-three times as much (more immersive).

I'm not sure that the air in 1940s England was any less polluted than it is today. Remember that there was far greater and more widespread use of coal at the time (trains, ships, residential and commercial heating, factories) than there is today.

Wasn't it in the 1950s that people died in London due to heating-coal smog lasting days?

I'm not saying it wasn't less polluted than today, I'm just suggesting that we shouldn't assume that it was just because we're talking about 60 years ago.

G.Wellum describes in detail the smog that he could see over London when flying over the city in his book. At least, I believe it was London, but it was no-doubt a city he was describing. ;)

"...a lot less air pollution back then."

I'm sure that's not correct.
The first half of the twentieth century was all coal-fired - industry, transport, domestic - everything came from the burning of massive amounts of coal. Electricity was generated by coal burning power-stations, and 'house' gas was a by-product of coke production. (no, not that type of coke! :) ) Just the daily burning of coal in houses in , say, London created an incredible amount of air pollution. In certain atmospheric conditions London was subjected to heavy 'smog' (literally, smoke and fog) which caused a large number of deaths every year, leading eventually to the Clean Air Act which outlawed the use of coal in London. That came two decades after 1940 however, and the pollution of the time was increased by the need to produce more power, use more trains, and run more factories when war broke out.
The atmosphere over Britain was thick with the carbon particles that coal-burning churns out.

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Quite right C_G, the Clean Air Act and the a change from using solid fuels to gas in 1970s means the air at lower levels in especially urban Britain is much cleaner than it was in the 1940s. Much of this black air would coat everything. Back in the , 70s, and 80s many old and historic buildings were cleaned. I still remember York Minster and the railway station there with their coating of industrial grime. Both were cleaned up in the 70s and 80s and have gone from brown and black to their natural stone colour. The Old Dart must of looked very grubby back when.

Great shots overal but i have to agree with Philip.ed. The trees could look better. As i understand the trees are not made in house, that may be the reason it takes longer to adjust.

The flight at 40 km - you nailed it Oleg & Co - absolutely jaw dropping. Can't wait to fly a U-2 up there. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cZLfK4Zjk