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I gave up all Hope a long time ago. I'm a much happier person now

? like this

Oregon ANG will be the first operational F-15EX squadron...

Royal Thai Sabres Scramble as Vietnamese MiG-21 dash to strafe Nakhon Phanom Red Crown said they were 20 miles out, went right 90 deg right after take off, almost stalled They jettison tanks and bombs to outrun us. Not sure they need to. One of them didn't outrun a Sidewinder, and the other one had to go back home with a rudder shot off by a .50, but that was as good as it was gonna get

I'm agreeing with Wrench, as if TK wanted that to happen he would have made it happen. I don't fly as much as I used to admittedly but I'm not hoping for much, just the Win10 patch and that's it, whatever it brings.

F-16D Brakeet

Good thinking @dtmdragon. Sure hope you can also do the 123rd FS as they'll be the next squadron in line. Here is their tailflash: I'm sure you'll come up with some better serial #s and maybe names! Lots of real-life F-15 images up on my Flickr at https://flic.kr/s/aHsm155jiN - including loads of 123rd FS F-15Cs! Required screenie of a F-15E dropping a full cluster bomb load:

Every day, I hope my wingman is going to actually give me cover when I ask for it

Every day I open the forum in the hope that someone has achieved some way of being able to designate targets with the ground radar, and also be able to designate the targets that I want by moving the cursors for a Maverick. With that I am satisfied for the moment

This video is not from Razbam, I edited the title of your post.

Game of Hope.

Every day i hope i finish a campaign without the game regretting to inform me i died and caused a nuclear war because i was stupid.

It is very hard to compare WWI and WWII, first because during WWI, the majority of air activity was about reconnaissance and Artillery Spotting (ie conduct mission / prevent the nemy ...), much less about bombing (even at the end of the war). Also, performances comparisons did not depend on aircraft role but also on generation (which means during wwI 6 months). Add to this that doctrine was at its infancy and was going in all directions : that is what makes comparisons difficult, but fascinating too

every day I hope I will stop editing files and finally start playing for the dog's sake..

every day i hope that TRANSPORT becomes unlocked as a player flyable mission

The RXI had 2 purposes : 1- Long range reconnaissance 2- Long range escort And approximatly the same number of missions were performed in both roles. Indeed, with the Caudron R4 and the Letord Family (let alone the Salmson Moineau), the French developed a concept for escorting recon planes (Farman F40 / Caudron G4 ...) with heavy "fighters". With the Letord (1917), the planes became "dual role" as they could carry the necessary material for long range reconnaissance (and artillery spotting too), as it was found that for close escort, having two planes of the same type was better. The purpose of those planes was not exaclty air superiority in the sens that it did not maneuver agressivly, they had to be a "wall" between the ennemy fighters and the planes they were protecting. Contrary to some saying, the plane was heavily employed and losses were significant. They often resorted on the help of Spad 13 for those missions : very often, the escorting R11 "bought time" for the Spad to arrive.

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,66201.msg724562.html#new https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,66171.0.html

Now I wonder if it will last long. Some joined just to despise it. If that's the attitude, I have no idea why they joined in the first place. You always have Twitter and Facebook to contact TW and spit on TK. Also, a little note: I am sure TK removed hosting of old patches and the old forum site due to server costs, because these things don't come for free and I highly doubt he's rich. He's an indie developer producing niche (thus not so profitable) products, but saw even less profits due to illegal distribution of his games. In all of this, Discord is a free service (with some limitations) he can leverage. Bottom line is, we do have reasons to criticize TK and how PC development ended abruptly. On the other end, the jerk attitude I've seen surely won't change things for the better. TK promised a Win10 patch with a failed crowdfunding, claiming that through loans he would cover costs for development all by himself. Then the pandemic happened, and recently all of Texas became a snowball. Despite this, I also remember he gave away free copies of SF2 to those who supported the crowdfunding, something which was an unexpected surprise to all. Here at CombatACE I have made countless posts where I criticized TK and some of his design choices (and relative bugs) in Strike Fighters 2. But there's a limit to everything, I think. For once he's done something good for himself and the series, it's a small step but in the right direction; apparently someone wants to shoot him down, flying too much in the virtual world while forgetting there's a real one full of issues. Feel free to enjoy the (unpolished as well) DCS products and/or those games from famous publishers, filled with cancer DRM and MTX. My rant is over.

A couple of Vietnam Veterans defending the Iberian Peninsula

I concur - in some cases their collaboration is fairly evident. Writing of another offering from the same source, I've been working on the Caudron R.XI and bringing that into one of my FE2 installs in its original role as an escort fighter. Original skin is shown in upper right with some other WIP variants also shown:

Definitely. I already have a Discord account and I just entered the server. This was unexpected, in a very good way. Discord is powerful for indie developers. Project Wingman, an arcade flight combat game, uses Discord to maintain fans updated about further developments etc. You can find lots of other examples as well. I feel a little guilty, for years I (and many others) complained about TK not listening to his true fanbase. This might change things for the better. Good move from him, I totally support this endeavor.

decals be done ... now the hard part --- and the texture work!! (lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvve them panel lines!!!)

Just had to pause, because for a moment this looked like pretty good framing. Looking left from an F-106, over Haiphong, at the MiG-17s my wingman and i had just shot down with AIM-4Fs durign a sweep, while B-57s hit the docks. I wish i paused it just a couple of frames earlier when the bombs were going off in the background.

well the Europeans are done. now on to las norte americanos/les nord-américains...

Desert eagles.