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The animation you have placed on Flight 19 is static to me, despite me clicking to activate it. Moriori (talk) 01:31, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

When I checked both the image file page here and the image itself on the commons it worked. It was designed for use as a thumb nailed animation so it pauses a few seconds at the beginning, middle and end (so a person reading the article wouldn't be distracted by constant motion, if the software isn't fixed soon I was planning on nixing the pauses). How long did you wait? Anynobody(?) 01:39, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

I have 2.4 ghz intel core with 2gb ram, and I am afraid after several tests of your animation it does not work satisfactorily for me. When it eventually does start, it progresses extremely slowly, often stops for long periods (at different points in the cycle), and on the last occasion I tried it never completed the cycle. Just sitting their, unmoving. At one stage it froze so that I couldn't revert back to the article page to quit the browser. This animation needs to be removed IMMHO. Moriori (talk) 23:23, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm confused, did you actually read my response? It pauses and is slow in rotating on purpose, constant fast spinning seems to irritate most people. The problems you describe, it progresses extremely slowly, often stops for long periods (at different points in the cycle), and on the last occasion I tried it never completed the cycle. sound like a slow internet connection - My computer is slower than yours (2.33), CPU and RAM are actually irrelevant to how fast a gif loads from the internet. Anynobody(?) 01:25, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I did read your response. I know what you were saying, but the effect you wanted and what I am seeing are two different things. It doesn't take 33 secs to complete the animation cycle, it takes much much longer, and it occasionally freezes so that I cannot return to the article and have to quite the browser. I have not experienced this problem with other animations on the net. Have just tested my internet line speed which is 952 KB/ps. No, not the fastest in the world, but not the slowest either. There would be zillions of people with slower broadband, so we shouldn't be displaying an animation that is useless to them. Why an animation anyway? What's wrong with a general photo? The article is about an event, not how an aircraft looks from all angles. Moriori (talk) 02:57, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I didn't say your connection was too slow, I said it sounds like there was/is some kind of problem with it when the animation stops loading or freezes. There is also a problem with Wikimedia, the animation is now a new version I've uploaded - when I view it in Animation shop or Quicktime it's just over 9 seconds long. Wikimedia says it's that long but takes longer than 9 seconds to play it. (Seriously download the gif and watch it in Quicktime if you don't believe me, the fact that the animation goes longer than it's run time is not a problem I can do anything about.)

Why an animation, I don't mean to sound sarcastic but it conveys more than a photo when depicting an aircraft. Why not a photo? There are no good, free photos out there (at least that I've seen). Anynobody(?) 04:40, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

The fact is the article has an animation which does not work properly for everybody. How you see it in Animation or Quicktime is totally irrelevant. You say "the fact that the animation goes longer than it's run time is not a problem I can do anything about." I can, and that is why I am replacing it in the article with one of those "good free photos" which you claim are not out there. Moriori (talk) 08:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

I am replacing it in the article with one of those "good free photos" which you claim are not out there. I was talking about free photos of the flight 19 aircraft, not avengers in general duh! The photo you chose was of two circa 1942-43 TBFs in early 2 tone camouflage, which is fine for the avenger article but was not the specific avengers at NAS Ft. Lauderdale in December 1945 which the article discusses. Anynobody(?) 01:17, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Excuse me. You have not replaced it with a photo of Flight 19 at all. You have replaced it with an "artist's" drawing. Wonder what gave him the idea that FT-36 was piloted by a midget. Perhaps this would give him an idea of scale.Moriori (talk) 01:57, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Lets keep this on the article's talk page.... Anynobody(?) 02:07, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Sure, I'll transfer what isn't already there. Moriori (talk) 02:38, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

You're very welcome :) Thank you ;) Anynobody(?) 19:38, 17 May 2010 (UTC)