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Exotic Mirages over Ogooué river.

ALVIN!!!!! (found this while doing some major housecleaning here. working on some improvements)

Protecting the Vips in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (I would kill for a TOD editor, so I can add more trees and create small hut villages!!)

Hi-Altitude Hi-Jinks..... Those contrails are F-102's at 47K feet flying top cover

Yeah I know that is always an option, and I appreciate it. I do/did that for some files like skins. But my preference was to keep the things that took much time and effort on a place of myself. I will see how it goes. Just wanted to give a heads up on this as early as possible. About the Internet archive mirror. I added the files that they missed, so everything is mirrored there now. :)

I got it ! I've used the access code... from my first SF2 purchase in 2008 ! Coupi

Donbass...

One slug has a mass of 32.1740 lb (14.59390 kg) based on standard gravity, the international foot, and the avoirdupois pound.[2] At the Earth's surface, an object with a mass of 1 slug exerts a force downward of approximately 32.2 lbf or 143 N.[3][4] Now I get it!

YAP Blackhawks at Nellis..

We can't all fly the sexy fast movers..............

Helwan Ha-2000 'Khopesh' - 76th Squadron, 222nd Tactical Fighter Brigade, Egyptian Air Force, 2002 The abandonment of the Helwan HA-300 single-seat jet fighter in 1969 seemed to have brought an end any hope of Egypt fielding an indigenous combat aircraft but in the aftermath of the short 1977 Libyan-Egyptian War the Egyptian Air Force issued a requirement for a single-seat multi-role fighter to replace the Su-7's and MiG-21's and also supplement the newly introduced MiG-23's. The Camp David Accords of 1978 saw a sudden lurch in Egyptian foreign policy towards the West and away from Egypt's Arab backers including Saudi Arabia who abruptly cancelled it's previous agreement to purchase a batch of 50 Northrop F-5E's and transfer them to Egypt. Whilst the US State Department had agreed to supply Egypt with 35 ex-USAF F-4E Phantom's (under the project name of Peace Pharaoh) Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was anxious not to become totally reliant upon one political block and authorised several project studies for indigenous weapons for the Egyptian Armed Forces including a new main battle tank and a new single-seat multi-role fighter. The German engineers who had assisted the Egyptian General Aero Organisation in the design and production of the Helwan HA-300 had gone back to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) in Ottobrun in 1969 and had continued to work on various project studies including the TKF-90 single-seat delta wing twin-jet fighter aircraft being developed for the Luftwaffe. However, this could be seen as being slightly too big and also too expensive for Egypt's requirements so MBB assembled a new project design team led by Günter Ludwig Bölkow tasked with designing a small multi-role lightweight fighter for the Egyptian Air Force with a planned in-service date of 1990. Bölkow's team produced the innovative ECA90 (Egyptian Combat Aircraft for 1990 a small, single-engined design with a delta-wing having 50 degrees of sweepback at the wing root leading edge but with 63 degrees of sweepback on the outer wing leading edge providing better high-alpha performance characteristics than conventional wing designs. MBB needed to look no further than the excellent Turbo-Union RB199 afterburning turbofan that was ideally sized for the ECA90 and had been running since 1972 under the test Vulcan bomber and had accummulated plenty of flight hours in the Panavia Tornado test programme. By early 1981 the ECA90 design had met with the approval of the Egyptian Air Force and at the insistence of President Anwar Sedat the design was re-designated as the Helwan HA-2000 'Khopesh' with orders placed with the Helwan Aircraft Factory (a division of the Egyptian General Aero Organisation) for 90 aircraft. The assassination of President Anwar Sedat in October 1981 might have created a hiatus in the HA-2000 programme but incoming President Hosni Mubarak was previously a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force (indeed, a former air chief marshal) and was a keen supporter of the HA-2000 programme. Whilst Mubarak's support for the programme was solid he did allow for a slight stretching out of the programme calling for a first flight in March 1987 and a service entry date of April 1992. Mubarak considered that this would give the Helwan Aircraft Factory sufficient time to better marshal it's industrial resources, recruit personnel, create infrastructure and understand which advanced technologies could be developed locally and which advanced technologies would need to be imported. Undoubtedly, the MBB team imbedded into Helwan's Factory 36 facility helped smooth out any difficulties and Helwan and MBB worked miracles to meet the prototype first flight deadline but some slippage crept in to the flight test programme to delay the entry into service. The HA-2000 'Khopesh' entered service with the 76th Squadron of the 222nd Tactical Fighter Brigade based at Cairo-West Air Base in May 1993 and eventually equipped six tactical fighter brigades and also the 'Silver Stars' aerobatic team who performed a flypast at the funeral service of former President Hosni Mubarak in late February 2020. 3D Model: Ale Ducat Skin Credit: Torno (Banidos Team) Decals.ini attached Decals.ini

So, something like that ? It's a quick proof of concept using the stock A-10A (78) and uses 3 StationIDs (the single rail 2IR trick doesn't work the way I remembered). Files are minimally commented, search them for ";/!\" to find comments about changed or added parts. Keep in mind that due to the engine's limitation, you will lose player selectable weapon stations. If only GroupLimit worked with StationGroupIDs beyond 6. Objects.zip

Different flavour 'Varks at Nellis..

Brought Over From the SF1/Wo* Forums ... it's still valid! --------------------------------------------------------- Important Information on File Upload Policies and the Minimum Requirements Thereof: (a small edit, as the post that was originally linked here has mysteriously vanishing into the ether...) At the very minimum, the following is required for an upload here at CombatAce 1) A screenshot of the mod; not a photgraph of the RealLife ™ item, but an in-game shot, so people can see what it looks like. For terrains/terrain mods, a shot of your favorite aircaft flying over the terrain, highlighting terrain features is a good one. 2) A quick, simple description, this is what shows in the Announcement Threads below, describing for WHICH 3W Game series; meaning if for ONLY SF/SFG/WoV/WoE/WoI, or Only SF2 Series, OR is usable in both; what the purpose of the mod (is it a "What If..", or a mod of an original aircraft or mod of another mod, etc) Generally, explain the purpose and intent of the Upload. 3) Inside the uploaded zip, a COMPLETE readme with full instructions on How To Install, if other parts are needed and where to get them; etc. There are several dozens of REALLY good, clear conscise readmes around that one can base theirs off of (I should know - I wrote most of them!) Also, list sources and if using someone else's as a base PLEASE make sure you have permission (as in for TMF Products). If the mod is from someone that has signed the Freeware Accords, PLEASE make sure you list their name, and Thank Them for their Original Work. It's the civilized way, doncha know! Thank you all for you kind attention to details; working together we can only create better mods, and a better 3rd Wire Community! Wrench kevin stein

In the late 80th the soviet submarine force of the North Fleet made a big scale exercise, broke through the SOSUS line, shaked off the NATO submarines and Sub Hunter ships and disappeared in the mid Atlantic. Two weeks later the most soviet submarines were detected close to the US east coast. The incident you descriped could have happen in this timeframe.

Looks great GKABS! We definetly Need more Air Base stuff!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(unit) So probably the easiest way is calculate it in kg*m^2, then convert to slugs ;-) But baffmeister's method is the best. Fast and simple.

To calculate inertia, find a ThirdWire aircraft with a similar configuration and mass, then copy the inertia values. [I know that sounds lame but I tried a simplified approach once and the results were off the charts.] Just an observation but in the Hud De-Bug mode the Inertia values are shown in Slugs-Ft^2 [whatever that is ]

Well, you can usually pick up an Odyssey + for around $300, which is a pretty good headset. I think the Reverb offers the best resolution for the price though..but yeah, it's a commitment of money.

Pueeeerto Riiicoooooo...

It's been a while since my last desert aggressor: SEPECAT Jaguar A2 "DesertJaguar", 11th Squadron "The Rams", 1987 Dhimari Decals by Spinners, Sharkmouth from Sundowners F-105D_66 template

Ab durch die Mitte! Take the midway!

Nuni Orbital Industries Advanced Energy Systems has the pleasure to present two new weapon system prototypes. 1. The tactical laser: Implemented as a gun system with more than 10000m/s muzzle velocity, and continuous fire capacity. (Just need that good old laser sound from AC) Its lightweight design will allow its installation in ground stations and even fighterjets! A major contract has been already signed with Boeing and Airbus to install a prototype adapted to space, another step towards the promised Colonial Fleet! 2. The Asgard Plasma Beam: Equivalent to a 90000kg penetration warhead, fast enough to reach the designated target in a matter of seconds. Our brightest scientists and engineers will continue to work on the projects. Soon our outer colonies will have more news from Earth!

Over the Kuril islands.

Into Action

Egyptian Fishbed-J's

Skins are all done, now ini dance will start

The news reached me today, that Dutch internet provider Ziggo will close down all the webspace on their servers in april. That includes the webspace from provider Quicknet that was taken over by Ziggo years ago. Point being: My site! It is a bit sad because IMHO such webspaces were a good thing for free speech on the net. I will try to find an alternative place to host the same things in the same way. But the original address will definitely become unreachable in about a month. Edit: The pages also remain here, though I don't know which files they mirrored: https://web.archive.org/web/20190720112211if_/http://members.quicknet.nl/lm.broers/index.htm