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I know I'm going to touch off some people here, but so be it. When it comes to Soviet aircraft, I would really like to read, in English, real accounts, from real ex-Soviet pilots, about what it was like to fly their cold war aircraft. What could these planes do? What couldn't they do? Good, old, fighter pilot tales, tall ones included, I've heard enough tall tales from Americans over the course of my sixty-five years. I'm tired of reading the same old stories, which often quote each other as sources, and when they're contradicted by ex-Soviets, the ex-Soviets must be lying about their own stuff. I've lived long enough to know that Napoleon was right: History is a set of lies; agreed upon. I've heard from the Western pack of liars all my life. Now, I want to hear from the other pack of liars, so I can re-write the agreement, simply for my own amusement. Anyone know of any good books in English? Sorry, I can read Russian.

Thank you both. I knew if I asked here I'd get ideas. That's the type of stuff I'm looking for, MigBuster. Good solid interviews with these pilots from the other side. I've read accounts from Western sport pilots who own some of the aircraft, and I guess that's what started my quest. Often what they've said about them didn't match what had been said by past histories. For example, the Mig-15 bis. My reading has been confined a great deal to WW2 and prior. It's time for my old brain to catch up with the jet age, before I pack it in. Always find bits of time for more reading. I have to find Sergei Kramarenko's book, a great place to start. Oh, a million years ago, I read a statistic that 80% of German war effort went to the Eastern Front, up until the time Hitler transferred most of it to the west for the Bulge offensive. Has anyone else heard that?

Thank you, JosefK. I'll check it out. I'm interested in any accounts I can read from any of the nations that flew these aircraft. They're all just fighter jocks, after all. I hope more and more of their accounts will be translated, for poor single tongue speakers like myself. Czechs, Poles, East Germans, Egyptians, anyone who's flown them in a military setting. If anyone has leads to translated accounts, even just magazine articles, I'd love to hear of the connection.

I know. I'm trying to find out if Russian accounts have been translated. I'm hoping some have.

Glad you got it fixed. I can appreciate the lack of space problems.

If you own the installation file, then I don't see why you would have to. Simply open the installation file you purchased and let it do its work. If you let it put the game where it wants to, it will work fine.

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I encountered the airfield issue once in SF2, don't know if it applies to SF1, haven't used that in years, but the problem was a misplaced airfield when I looked at that airfield in Mue's terrain editor. For some reason the runway's position was some distance away from the airfield's location in the terrain's target ini. I encountered the wrong take off direction once in a mod that I downloaded to use in SF1 many years ago and that turned out to be a wrong cat file called out in the Terrain's ini. The sim wanted the Desert cat, and I didn't have that yet, so I had changed it the GermanyCE cat, which I did own, but that put all the airfields in the wrong orientation. I could only correct it by springing for SF1 itself, to get the Desert cat.

Wasn't it Mobil? Obligatory screenshot:

Not working, except for old patch downloads. Can't connect to anything else dealing with pc.

I know I can't make a beer can in blender, but for the sake of those who can, can we elevate Mue to Modder God status, or something? Thank you, Mue.

When you create a mission in the Single Mission menu, are you choosing the terrain you want to fly in from the drop down menu? The game will default to whatever map matches the cat file associated with your newly installed terrain. You would have to choose the Peninsula Iberica terrain from the drop down menu one time for the game to default to it, if I remember correctly (I'm old).

I may be misunderstanding your question, but I don't think you can use Mue's editor to place an airfield in an open space on a terrain and get it to work. I've never used Thirdwire's terrain editor to flatten airfield terrain, but I'm pretty certain that's the only way you can build a new airfield without all kinds of problems. Mue's editor is the tool to use if you want to place objects at an existing airfield, or move things around, but it can't successfully create an airfield space, only Thirdwire's terrain editor can do that. I apologize if I misunderstood your question. I have to head to work now, but I'll try to post more about Mue's editor and how to use it, if I get the chance later.

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Finally found one of my back up flash drives. Fun with Korean War decals:

I love Stary's Mig 15 cockpit, but one thing always bugged me about it, even though I personally think it's one of the most beautiful Strike Fighters cockpits ever made: the mirror. From the Russian accounts I've read through Yefim Gordon's books and others, the MIg 15 didn't get the periscope mirror until after the Korean War ended. Thanks to Mue's LOD viewer, I've been able to do what you see in the screenshots. I know old timers here probably already know how, but for new people here just copy this into your Mig-15_cockpit.ini. At the end of the numbered instrument list add: Instrument[xxx]=MoveMirror01 and change the xxx to whatever number is next in the series, then, at the end of the cockpit.ini add: [MoveMirror01] Type=AIRSPEED_INDICATOR NodeName=mirror_mounting MovementType=POSITION_Z Set[01].Position=-100 Set[01].Value=0.0 Set[02].Position=-99 Set[02].Value=1.0 This will remove the mirror completely. Of course, you should only do this in a strict Korean War mod, and only if your mod ends in 1953. If your mod goes later than that, you'll need to create a specific Mig-15 bis Late, and change the cockpit.ini only in the early versions. My thanks to Stary for this gorgeous cockpit, and to Mue for his incredible talent at making the tools to make things happen in this sim, even for a challenged idiot like me.

I hear you on that one, Stratos. It's why I love this community. So much cool stuff to learn from everyone here, history, as well as tools to mod my favorite sim.

Sorry I didn't see this sooner, Stratos. Real life sucks. I'm looking up all my sources, but the first one I found is the Aerofax Mig 15 book which states on p.22 that the first experimental installation of a T-23 rear view periscope wasn't until June of 1952. Both the T-23 and T-25, according to the book, were unsatisfactory. It wasn't until the T-27 installed on the Mig 17 that the Soviets had a working one. I'm looking for specific citations from the Soviet pilot accounts that I've read who mention not having one until after the Korean War. I'll post them as soon as I find the books, which were kind of buried in boxes during a recent move. Sorry.

Barrage balloons if SF2 WW2 that you could actually collide with?

The Buff looks nice in this skin. Nice job, Spinners.

I'll definitely watch it.

The important thing is to stay safe and return. Good luck with whatever your job might be. I'm sure CA will be chugging along when you return. See you then.