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Other times... other flying machine !

On approach

First trap after a long time, after a strike mission against Iran

Over Ecuador, and hard to spot from above.......... 5 miles out Over the target Time 2 go

if he doesnt make the $25000, would he settle for a StrikeFighters:Civil?

Old SFP1 good guy... flying interception mission from SF2 game !

After a long hiatus, going back to the Range to get back into the flow of things.

A subtle way to ask for an Adriatic map for SF2 ?

Patience, my friend; good things require time: https://combatace.com/forums/topic/92360-scusate-il-ritardo-ovvero-terreno-wip/

Hope not before SF3 is released 🤪

SF2 failed because the market didn't want it. The market that bought SFP1 knew where to go to get it and outright refused to buy it. SFP1 got a bad reputation from the start. Most people believed a "lite" sim meant low fidelity arcade. Many people who tried SFP1 simply didn't like it with too many complaints for me to list here. SF2 needed to offer something radically newer/better to get a large number paying SFP1 customers to buy it again and to attract people who had already dismissed SFP1/WoX. There wasn't much competition at the time, as the combat flight simulator market pretty much collapsed around that time. But the competition that was there, IL-2:Sturmovik and LOMAC/Flaming Cliffs, was making more people happy with their features/graphics/gameplay, so they were selling much better and are still putting out new versions to this very day. Ironically, I think the most successful of the air combat sims from that time frame and maybe even to this day were all the free mods/upgrades to Falcon 4.0, but only after Microprose went broke producing such a complex expensive game for what had become a very small niche.

17 September 1944, Operation Market Garden gets underway...

...you are watching an animal rescue video on YouTube and perk up at what the camera caught in the opening seconds of the video.

Eccomi, sono uno dei pochi italiani interessati a SF2, come dici tu ;-) Ottimo lavoro, attendo la release ufficiale. Chissà se a seguire arriverà anche una campagna sull'Operazione Allied Force del 1999... Speriamo! Ciao

With battle honours from the Raid on the Albanian State Washing Machine Company.

j/k my custom built 6gb 980 Ti does more than enough for games I use it for... ___________________________________________________________________________ Sarkari Result Pnr Status 192.168.l.l

Ok mate! I want more of this! Mandatory pic, intruders over mainland China.

A trap ;-) But I can forgive .. helping homeless dogs or cats is worth of it ;-)

I am looking at getting these items. Just need to decide on a motherboard. AMD RYZEN 7 3700X 8-Core 3.6 GHz (4.4 GHz Max Boost) G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB Video Card

As the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia worsens, Djibouti becomes one of the main gateway hubs for international aid into the region. Transport aircraft of all shapes and sizes enter the pattern to bring in much needed supplies..... It's exhausting work for the flight crews, but even the tragic crash of an Italian G-222 who's pilot reacted just a little too slow to a vicious downdraft doesn't stop the activity at the airport for long... Local airline services continue too.. Aid is transferred to a variety of tactical transports for the onward journey into Ethiopia A virtually unmarked Boeing 707 cargo bird is next in on finals It's paperwork says it's a charity charter flight bringing in medical aid from Bahrain, but if so why does it taxi over to an isolated area of the military part of the airport on landing before proceeding to the civilian area to offload it's cargo? And who were the guys hurrying from the briefly halted 707 to a waiting USMC CH-53E that received immediate permission to take off and set course for the Ethiopian border? To be continued....

If TK put out the Strike Fighters 2 Complete package, with Windows 10 support, on Steam and GOG for $15 or $20, I would be very, very surprised if sales and the revenue they brought in didn't exceed the game's lifetime numbers up until now in fairly short order. Personally I'd be willing to pay as much as $40, but I don't think that's a realistic price for a ten year old game, regardless of how many expansions it has - sales would plummet and it would make far less money than if it was sold for less. $100 is right out. Money would continue to trickle in for years, during Steam sales there would be a sharp increase in sales, and TK would find it much easier to fund his future projects. Hell, he might even get those $2 million he needs for SF3 - especially if some of the mainstream PC games media gave his $15 SF2 Complete Steam release the attention it would deserve. Rock, Paper, Shotgun most certainly would. But that's just my opinion. I will never understand why the game isn't already out on Steam. Wings over Europe is already there, and maybe TK found its sales on the platform disappointing. But I have to believe that SF2 Complete would do much, much better. I just don't see what he would have to lose, and there would be so much to gain.

It is not really a matter of time. TK could extend it two more weeks, and neither the number of donors nor the amount donated would double. TK cast his lure based on ripples in the pond. But it was nothing but minnows nibbling on the bread.

I think the crowdfunding route should have gone on longer, to accommodate the players that want to pay but can't at the moment. Star Citizen is a good example of crowdfunding, where they play the long game as far as funding goes (and those who have kept up with it, know it's working out pretty good) and through concept sales they get the money through its member base (which off the top of my head was around two million players). But the point is that there isn't enough hype to attract the crowd that TK is looking for. It's just marketing the game through the mobile games and then returning back to the PC platform to find out that there are players willing to pay for a new patch so it will be free, but it's going to take some time to get the hype back after he chose to go mobile, which turned me off quite a bit. Nice idea having different planes (though of course some were done by the mod community) but no cockpit, no interest. Just my .02

Anomaly on mars discovered by Russian sattelite...

Gear Up

I think that low speed fight in SF2 is very dangerous, especially when you are outnumbered : It seems AI is very good at coordinating attacks from several direction, and I was often shot down by an unseen attacker : "A Mirage in your six is better than no Mirage at all"

I agree with jeanba. I still think there is some room to improve the low speed performance of the TW MiG-21 but in general you want to keep the speed up. Better, and I think more realistic low speed behavior would improve the defensive capabilities as well as improve the potential for firing solutions during lower speed turns but only in certain situations. I've been trying a few things with the Bis FM to better match the low speed behavior as described in the flight manual but it involves too much conjecture at this point. I'm still taking a look at the charts from the CheckSix site but I need more data to test against before releasing anything. From the flight manual, it seems the MiG-21 can easily get into the higher alpha zone while the TW MiG-21 FM tends to get "stuck" at about 28deg AOA. There seems to be a number of reasons for that. TW modeled quite a bit of nose down pitch moment in the stall region and the lift distribution is almost 70% on the outer/aft wing panel which makes it more difficult to get the nose up at low speeds. It will take some research and a lot of testing to see what might be improved regarding the low speed/higher alpha performance.

I've decided - McDonnell A2H/A-6 Bakunawa. McDonnell is there for the British connection. That leads to a mythical name. The Bakunawa is a serpent-like dragon from Filipino mythology believed to cause eclipses, earthquakes, rains, and wind. Good alliteration with Buccaneer, and appropriate given the Buccaneer's nuclear role.

It's still a Flying Banana

They make deadly look so good.....

Supply drops A real heavy arrives in Saudi...

By the nick of time, let me get my photos in....

here is the new BombIlluminationEffect that i made , if somebody like to improve it by my guest - Effects.7z here is the new M60B_Lepus , this one has new lod new skin and new Weapondata - M60B_Lepus.7z

Centurion works on very detailed MiG-25, I have -23BN in slooow development @Svetlin, might be my typo, as stated in readme I tested this in P and due to files database corruption couldn't d/l other variants myself