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Chicago Midway Airport with buildings, nearly finished. Chicago Gary Airport, only skeleton, buildings will come later.

With regards to the design of the Israeli bomb: "It is widely assumed that the design of early Israeli nuclear weapons was strongly influenced by the second generation of French-made tactical nuclear weapons – especially the AN-52 nuclear bomb (first tested on 28 August 1972), roughly equivalent to such US-made tactical nuclear weapons as the Mark 7, Mark 8, Mark 11 and Mark 12" And with regards to Israel not wanting to show thier hand as a nuclear power, they did exactly that during the 1973 war: "Israeli then introduced what even the historians of the National Security Archives in Washington refer to as ‘an element of nuclear blackmail’..... .....Shalheveth Freier, the ministerial forum decided to ‘arm and target the nuclear arsenal in the event of total collapse’, or at least a ‘nuclear demonstration’, but also to ‘inform Washington of its unprecedented action’ – and then demand initiation of an ‘emergency airlift to supply Israel..... .....Correspondingly, several MD.620s of No. 150 Squadron were pulled out of their shelters and armed with nuclear warheads, while nuclear bombs were loaded on six modified F-4Es at Tel Nov AB, ‘at least to influence Washington’..... .....Whether it was Kissinger’s agreement – or ‘promise’ – to resupply Israeli stocks of aircraft, tanks and ammunition, or something else that eventually prompted the Israelis to de-activate their Jerichos, remains unclear." 1973-the-first-nuclear-war-crucial-air-battles-of-the-october-1973-arab-israeli-war-9781914377389_compress.pdf Also from another research report about the bombs design: "A. Warhead Type and Fissile Material There is a strong consensus among analysts and in declassified intelligence documents that Israel's early nuclear weapons, including those readied during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, were plutonium-based implosion-type fission devices. The fissile plutonium (weapons-grade Pu-239) was produced at the IRR-2 heavy water reactor and chemically separated from irradiated fuel elements at the associated reprocessing facility, both located at the Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona. The extensive French assistance provided to Israel for the Dimona reactor, heavy water supply, and critical plutonium separation technology was indispensable. Early French nuclear weapons, such as the AN-11 and AN-22 gravity bombs developed in the 1960s, were themselves plutonium-based implosion devices. Given the depth, sensitivity, and clandestine nature of this Franco-Israeli nuclear cooperation, it is highly probable that French technical expertise and design philosophies for plutonium implosion weapons were influential, if not directly shared, during the development of Israel's first generation of nuclear devices. This suggests a potential lineage for early Israeli bomb design that may reflect French technological approaches of that era, adapted to Israel's specific requirements and indigenous capabilities, rather than solely drawing parallels to early U.S. devices like the Fat Man." I researched the absolute s#*t out of this before I was satisfied enough to include a nominal Israeli nuclear bomb based on the AN-52 in this pack. I am satisfied that it is more probably than not that this is how the bomb was designed (with French influence/ assistance) and looked (influenced if not based on the AN-52). The existence, warhead type and yield is beyond doubt. As is the placing of nuclear armed aircraft on alert to 'persuade' the American's to help and 'just in case' after the failed Israeli counterattack in the Sinai. This pack is not a 'what if' and is as factual as possible. P.S. I absolutely love Tom Clancy books, games and movies but sorry Tom there's no way the Skyhawk carried Israel's nuclear bombs, it was the Mirage first and then the Phantom 😁

Bear Hunt in the Far North...

i stand corrected. never got that much info on non US weapons only point debated is the Skyhawk, since carrying a Mk7 was practicaly a design point and i think more likely for the nuclear related avionics to get missed in shipping. look at teh stink when the Israelis asked for the same to be included in their F-4Es; why would they think to ask? but if French based, it would make sense to arm the Mirages first

Chicago Midway International Airport (WIP)

Man, this is fantastic!! .. "feels" like a new sim! Well done Sir!

Yes, Idle, Cruise, Mil, Max are normalized values from 0 to 1. No RPM value in real for Jet_Engine (Prop_Engine has other entries with a real value for RPM). AB values are above 1 for Throttle and RPM for engines with afterburner (no AB entries for engines without AB). If your Hotas has "hardpoints" for idle and AB start, you have then 2 additional "throttle" parameters to align your hotas "hardpoints" on the "idle" and "max" engine settings.

you gotta quit teasin folks with those not everyone has toys while waiting on RC to finish the 4096 tiles ---------- " Energy of the gods, adrenalin surge....."

F2J-GN Super Fury on board of german carrier Graf Zeppelin in mid 1960th.

>>> VIEW / CAMERA SYSTEM OVERHAUL <<< The works on AIRCRAFTOBJECT.INI allows me to edit the view / camera to give you more realistic feelings of flying aircraft. Based on the work of Warbirds's Realistic Head Movement base, modified it so the head movement is not as dramatic. Since in the early cold war aircraft to modern, the pilots are tightly melted on the chair, as well have Gs suits. Spent a lot of time testing and tweaking it. AIRCRAFTOBJECT.INIIf you don't have the file, here is the file. To install it, drop the file in Objects folder. Cheers!

Another round of sights from the Front - this time from January of 1918. You could feel the cold mist during the flight with the Sopwith Dolphins. Managed to bag a balloon on that mission - which you can see tempting me on the horizon as we were on patrol. Such a gorgeous game. Often when we are ingress, I'll use the J camera and just admire what's going on in the world around me. Hope you enjoy!

Last update before starting my treatment as I am going to have so many tests in the come two weeks before 12 June. My cancer turned out to be T3 N2 M0. (T3) which means stage 3 in the tonsils. (N2) it has spread to the lymph nodes more than five on both sides of the neck. (M0) indicates it has not spread to distant sites. I am in London and am scheduled to start both chemotherapy and radiation for six weeks, starting June 12. I am looking on the bright side and hopefully, inshallah, things will turn out well after treatment. Sincerely, Mohamad.