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No MTV-type ADHD visuals or annoying and repetitive "dubstep" music here.

 

US NAVY and Grumman's "Sea Legs" film short.

 

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That video can be found on a great compilation of  Grumman videos on Amazon. Look for "F-14 Tomcat And Navy Fighter Weapons School "Top Gun," at NAS Miramar" (2008)" . The AIMVAL/ACEVAL video that's included on the disc was recently used in an updated video , "Bogeys and Bandits", that we produces over a year ago at Northrop Grumman and can be found on You Tube. " No Points for Second Place" is  classic and the Miramar Air Combat Maneuvering piece alone  is worth the price.

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Love this. Best part is seeing the Enterprise in a configuration similar to Vietnam CVAN-65 with the square tower with billboard radar and cone on top at 3:14.

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is agreat sadness to me t see somany F-14 in SF2 NA and many USN aircraft carrier still miss.

I desire to see a new detailed class Forrestal , new Kitti Hawk, USS Kessedy and USS America.

And would be nice for F-4 Phantom to have USS Midway , USS Coral Sea and USS F.D. Roosevelt.

I think that in this way SF2 NA will be very completed.

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And would be nice for F-4 Phantom to have USS Midway , USS Coral Sea 

 

 

YAP

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YAP is not enought ...... SF2 NA have most possibilities to be improved

 

With a few of .ini editing you can do it

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Can you explain ? what you mean ?

 

Changing the DATA.ini of the YAP units with the NA Standard. PauloPanz has done it for example with the enterprise

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I've too the Enterprise by YAP , good carrier yes(whit paolopanz modification),  but I talk abuot class Forrestal, Ranger Independence and Saratoga.

There's nothing for these carrier units.

And noone have make the USS America and USS Kennedy.

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I've too the Enterprise by YAP , good carrier yes(whit paolopanz modification),  but I talk abuot class Forrestal, Ranger Independence and Saratoga.

There's nothing for these carrier units.

And noone have make the USS America and USS Kennedy.

 

The America class is avaible for SF2 NA , in fact, it is one of the stock carrier type alonsgide the Nimitz class. So I don't understand your point. About the Forrestal, the A-team has a very old model representing them.  Try them.

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Onestly I've class forrestal units for WoV .... but i Think strongly that for SF2 NA there's need of model most detailed .

I have many blue prints and PDF manual .

If there's some modder who can make I can help whit my material .....

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Saw a glimpse of a '70's/ '80's VF-102 phantom II from the USS Independence (my old ship) in the video. Very cool stuff.

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Phantom's Phorever! My dad was a saxophone player in the band on the USS America in the mid to late '60s. What a job as an enlisted? Play music and drink with the officers. He loved the RA-5 Vigilante the best. I believe he did a Med cruise and got out before the America went to Vietnam. I need to get more details from him.

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