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He's using a game controller, I think. Not a joystick. XPadder is for game controllers.

Congratulations to you and your wife to be.

Stephen, you are abso-bloody-lutely AMAZING! What a great addition! Thank you!

I leave one stock aircraft in my modded installs, per Wrench's advice, I think, and it seems to keep the others from coming back. I always make sure it's a non-flyable from outside the date range of my mod, if I can.

Never have left it, but, what keeps me here is the modders. I have so many big mods. Nato fighters, Vietnam expansion, etc. But the one mod that keeps me constantly flying this sim is Korea. With all the mods out there, and the Naval task forces introduced in SF2NA, this sim rocks Korea, bar none. And if you study what the Masters of the Iniverse do here, you can tweak this sim to the point where it almost becomes personal, tailored specifically for you, by you. That's where it truly shines.

When you go into the Options menu of the sim, and click on the Control tab, does it show the sim as recognizing the controller? Also, in Windows Control Panel, does Windows recognize the stick? If not, then you might need to find new drivers for the controller.

Yes, these would be fine additions, which would bring the stock campaigns closer to the varieties of aircraft they should have, according to the data.inis. It's one of the reasons I've always wished for a Halberstadt CL2. Good catch, Capitaine Vengeur. I had forgotten about those. I may be mistaken, but the addition of the Spad 2 seaters would make FE2 one of the only sims to ever have them.

Great work on that 84 canopy, Coupi. My KAW mod is one of my biggest, best, and most enjoyed mods, thanks to the modders here. Hours of enjoyment provided by a great group of people. The only things I'd wish for is a true 86a and a driveable jeep. With Wrench's terrain I can only imagine what I'd find out there on a Sunday drive out of Kimpo. When I'm flying, I'm too busy dodging flak, or chasing Migs, to notice too much of the countryside, which is a damned shame, but there is a war on, you know.

Rest in Peace, Hero.

I use hard mode with enemy skill level set to normal.

Oh, I thought the only reason they removed the slats was because when they opened at high angles of attack they created extra drag. Guess I was wrong. Thanks, Do335. Sorry you had to spend $25 for 15 pages. That is a rip. A $1.66 per page on a pdf is quite steep. For a print copy of something, I could see it, but for a pdf? Come on boys, it didn't even cost you that much for the program to create the pdf. And I know their response would be, "But this information is hard to find, that's what you're paying for." BS I don't think we'll ever know, Streakeagle. Did the Mig pilot even survive the war? Shows how much reading I was not doing during that time period, I thought the F/A-18 was lost to ground assets.

Totally agree, Streakeagle. Loss records are the only way to go, especially in a wacky war like Korea where everyone was trying to hide what was really going on (Maple Special missions, Stalin says we're not really here, etc.). You're right Do335, it is a can of worms.

Thanks, Do335. I'll check that out. The only reason I asked is because the only published figures I could find didn't add up. I found it hard to believe that a 13.5% increase in thrust on an almost identical, but slightly heavier airframe could lead to a 28% increase in sustained (not zoom) climb rate. I'm a little familiar with SEP formulas, so this claimed sustained climb rate didn't make sense, unless there's some aerodynamic information that I was missing, because my knowledge of aerodynamics is limited to reading a couple of College level textbooks. The more I read about this stuff and try to figure it out, the more glad I am that I have Fubar's flight models to put me there, figuratively.

I'm gonna hijack my own thread here, and ask another question, since you guys seem to have good technical information. The only information on climb rate for the F-86F slat wing Sabre that I can find is 9300' per minute. Is this correct? Or are there other figures that I haven't found? Once again, I'm just curious, because all the numbers I can find don't seem to add up when it comes to the increase in climb rate between the E model (7250'/min) and the slatted F.

Personally, I don't give a rat's butt about his personal belief system, or his attitude and personality. I know he's abrasive and self-important. Many people are. I'm just interested in what he has to say about the Mig and the Sabre, and the Korean Air War. So, as I said, if anyone can find any more information about the man, or the books he claims to have written, which are apparently not published yet, I'd appreciate it. I can't find any other web site that mentions him when I do a Google search, so I'd like to find more information on him, if any is out there.

I know his tone is bitter, and he has that I'm better than you attitude, but I'd still be interested in reading the books he talks about writing. Reading about this period, you always have to remember that these stories are like fish stories, they get bigger and better over time. I read Robinson Risner's account of chasing a Mig up a dry riverbed, and it changed over time, especially after TV became involved. I'd simply like to hear his story. Every mythology has a basis in fact, and so much Korean Air War history is mythology, on both sides. You just have to cut through the chaff, to get to the wheat. If this man really is who he says he is, I'd like to read his stuff, given his credentials, and the fact that he was involved in the ATIC. I've read other larger than life accounts from this time period, now I'd like to read his. ps. I think I found one of the things that probably set Col. Clark on his path to write these stories. In the Dorr and Thompson book on Korean War Aces he mentions on one of the web pages, Colonel George Jones, the Colonel who dressed him down, recounts an almost identical story of being chased in a dive by a Mig Honcho, only to have the Mig Honcho spin into the mouth of the Yalu while chasing Jones at low level.

Not a very good pre-flight inspection, since the wings are kind of translucent, and you can see the cat's shadow in the underside of the wing as it walks up.

Thanks, Stephen. Nice addition. Another forgotten piece of WW1 history.

This is a long shot, but I did this once. The new install does not automatically create a Terrains folder within the mod folder. You need to create the folder called Terrains yourself, and put the terrain folders within that. At least one time in the past I accidentally named the folder Terrain (no s) and that caused things not to work. Someone here spotted my typo and as soon as I renamed the folder Terrains, it all worked.

I'm going to second all votes for filling in the gaps in late war (fall 1916 to end of war) aircraft. If the late war gaps are covered, you will have the most complete WW1 dogfighting sim ever designed. And a sim in which players would receive for free a plane set that would cost them hundreds of dollars to acquire in Rise of Flight. After the late war gaps are filled, then the modders can turn their attention to the early war, as long as someone can contrive wing warping flight models that are barely controllable in a crosswind, and engine failures mid-flight, which were the two biggest threats to flyers during the early part of the war. 1915 might be somewhat interesting, because at least machine guns appeared then, but to have rifles and pistols accurately modeled in game, it would have to be next to impossible to hit with them, because, in reality, it was. One, or two, missions flown during the pistol and rifle period might be amusing, but I think that there's still more important gaps to be filled late war. Just my two cents...

Another spot on addition, Stephen. Now, the complete Albatros line is available in FE. Thanks for all your work. I saw you mention a Roland D-II recently. I hope you'll continue work on that. It's another type that I don't recall appearing in WW1 sims. You fill in so many gaps in aircraft coverage. Thank you.

The Gnat is the strangest little jet I have ever seen. They had one at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Schenectady, NY. It might still be there. It was the only jet on site that I remember you could walk over to it and look down into the cockpit. It must have felt like being in a lawn chair with a jet engine strapped to your butt.

I keep reading in various books, and some web pages that the F-86E has 600lbs more thrust than an F-86A, but all the statistical information I can find states that the E model had the 5200lb thrust engine that the A had. Does anyone have any information as to why the 86E would have 600lbs more thrust with the same engine? Is there something about the E's engine that made it different?

My interest in this topic will never end. These are two of my favorite airplanes. For much of my life I have believed that the Mig 15 got a bad rap from the fact that, "History is the propaganda of the victors." We (Americans) only heard our side of this conflict. But, there were always those little whispers in the wind that things were actually quite a bit different. I read early in my readings that some F-86 pilots actually thought the Mig was a better airplane. They were, of course, shouted down by a very large and vitriolic crowd. Finally, the "evil" Russians opened up and I heard old fighter jocks reminiscences about an airplane they loved to fly. The bad, dangerous, spinning monster was transformed into the "Soldier's Airplane." One Eastern Bloc country nicknamed it, "the Swallow," although they might have been referring to African Swallows carrying very large Coconuts. And the UTI trainer was known in another country as "Momma." I can only imagine the horror of those Eastern Bloc children being put to bed by "Momma" in her spiked heels, leather, and carrying her nitey-nite whip. I'm so glad I was born in America, land of truth, justice, and airplanes with appropriate nicknames...