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Wrong. All US airlines were affected by the order, especially long range airlines like UAL, Delta...and mine. In fact, we stopped flying in that area back in Feb. Also, most SAM threats against airline ops have been from MANPADS striking during climb out...and even then, the amount of actual airliners downed per MANPAD fired has been low due to various factors, not the least of which is the podded engine pylon design of most modern airliners. An SA-6/17 derived SAM is a different class of weapon. One only has to look at the Iran Air 665 incident to see how dangerous flying an airliner in contested airspace, in tense international situations, with long range weapons, and very little reaction time can be a tragedy in the making. A sad day for all the families affected by this. FC

Migbuster, you got it my friend. It's a Nexus 5 phone streaming to a Chromecast. Google just rolled out a public beta of the Chromecast app that 'casts whatever is on the screen of your phone directly to the TV...you no longer need an app that has Chromecast support built in. So of course I had to see how well it works with a 3D app. The answer...pretty darn good. You can see in the photo that there is a very slight bit of lag (note the position of the radar sweep on the screen vs on the phone) but it was undetectable in real world play. This got me thinking of just how powerful our phones are getting. Think about it...the phone was producing 1080p 3d imaging at least at 24 fps, and dumping all that through the WiFi at the same time. The TV screen was almost at the same res (not sure why there was cutoff...my downstairs TV showed the full image at 1080p) plus all the sound. All this on hardware not dedicated to gaming. Certain consoles are able to do something similar...the Wii U with its controller and the PS4 with the PS Vita. Even Steam now has that functionality...you can play on a low end computer games it couldn't normally play because the actual heavy lifting is being done by your gaming strength computer that is streaming to the low end computer. It makes me wonder if the future of console gaming will have 'controllers' that are actually the entire console. That they will stream to a simple, small device that plugs into a port on your TV. Or simply stream to any device that it would support through various protocols. Basically, the Ouya concept, except as a controller with more power. Or a PS Vita type device that can stream to anything...no PSx needed because it would BE the PSx. FC

Daddyairplanes...no worries. I was using this example to show a particular advancement in technology. FC

(facepalm) You guys are killing me here.... Does anyone notice what the controller I'm using is? FC

That would be Strike Fighters Android.... Fc

Well, sorta... FC

MS Flight Sim coming back? http://www.computerandvideogames.com/470863/next-microsoft-flight-sim-targets-2015-arrival/

Argh....the last 10 percent always seems like 90 percent of the effort. Anyway, it's released, includes a proper MOP model (shrinking the MOAB wasn't good enough). You should find it to be a satisfactory performer as both an AI and player flown aircraft. FC

View File B-2A Spirit (Version 0.90) B-2A (Beta) by FastCargo. ********************** Version 0.90 *********************** SF2 Version for Jul 2013 Patch. Original model from tf3dm - 3dregenerator Modifications to import into TW sims by FastCargo Textures and most decals by FastCargo Cockpit, ModPilot, and Aces II seat from B-1B Redux Package by Dels, et al Included weapons from The Ordinance Shop II by 331KillerBee and FastCargo Hanger and Loadout screens credited to the respective individuals Thanks to ST0RM for high res photos allowing me to complete the area around the cockpit Templates for all textures and decals included Any errors are mine... Aircraft include: B-2A - All 21 tail numbers are included in the Block 30 paint scheme (operational). Notes: This release is a beta, and as such, is somewhat incomplete. The cockpit is from the B-1B. A new weapon has been included, the GBU-57 Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP). Big boom...but only one per bay. JASSMs have been slightly modded to have more realistic flight performance. The weapon bay loads have been built to realistically hold the proper number and types of weapons the real B-2A could carry. The FM has been tweaked to allow the player and AI to fly with reasonable accuracy. There are still a few bugs...mainly the AI likes to be nose down during the approach and landing. Also, there can be weapon bay visual errors when the AI is dropping weapons (ie the bay doors may not open). The weapon bay errors are limitations in the code that can't be fixed...it has to do with more than one weapon station using the same bay door animation slot. We are still working to squash the remaining issues...and one day we will have a proper cockpit for this machine. Have fun...report any crippling bugs (except trying to use it in SFP1/WOV/WOE/WOI...you're on your own) in the release thread at CA. FC 07 Jul 14 Submitter FastCargo Submitted 07/08/2014 Category Other

September was almost a year ago. FC

Rock on! FC

Sounds like a frames issue. Remember, the aircraft 'clean' is frame 0, Animation slot 1 is frames 1-10, slot 2 is frames 11-20, etc. Each group (1-10, 11-20, etc) must be totally self contained. What that usually means is frame 0 and frame 1 are EXACTLY the same...do not start any movement of parts until frame X2 (2, 12, 22, etc). FC

A captain who flies for the Collings foundation, and is one of the very few people who has flown the 'factory built' Me262 with the J85 engines, says the Me262 had some very nasty flying characteristics at the low end...insufficient rudder being the big one. It's not hard to figure out why looking at the podded, low slung engine design. The combination of high yaw and pitch moments caused by the loss of an engine would overcome the max rudder authority of the aircraft. During the takeoff roll, you had a 'dead man' area, where if an engine was lost, you did not have enough altitude to be able to throttle back the good engine (in combination with max rudder) to keep the aircraft pointed straight. You'll note this is why modern fighters have closely spaced engines. In addition, you don't want radial (centrifugal) designs in a jet engine for a couple of reasons. One, they tend to be more inefficient, because energy is being used bending the airflow outward and back inward. Two, they tended to use large, heavy compressor disks...which made them more resistant to throttle changes because of simple inertia. FC

Maybe not quite this way... While I was looking through YouTube for a Harrier video to play for my son, I came across something called 'The Alraigo Incident'. I had never heard about this before...but thought it was interesting enough to post on here. Full story here: The Alraigo Incident And video from the news reports at the time: FC

Heard you needed a mop...or is that a MOP... Took my old MOAB model and shrank it. Thanks to ST0RM for some high res photos that allowed me to complete the area around the cockpit. The B-2A is basically done. The last thing is tweaking the aerodynamics, loadouts, and making a readme. FC

Damn. FC

And yet there is no independent verification... Take that for what its worth. FC

We have that one: Installed it in my son's room...but I cut off the gear and gear doors so it would look like it was flying. We used to have this one: It was very hard to find since they long since stopped making it. By the time we did find it, we had already installed the Corsair one and so sold it to some good friends of ours. FC

That's exactly normal.

Let me think about that...ummm, no. FC

Okay, glenn, stop. Stop spamming all the threads about the laser designator. I want you to learn how real F-16s drop LGBs using pods. Go and research that online, and that should clue you in on how to load your F-16. FC

Decals for all the B-2 tail numbers done. Texturing done except for a few placards on nose gear door and around cockpit windows...waiting for either a picture of a B-2 model decal sheet or excellent pictures around cockpit and nose gear areas...have to be able to read them... Data.ini tweaks to go. FC

Not much left to do now...mainly decals and fine tuning the data.ini file. It will use Dels' excellent B-1B cockpit. FC

I finally just figured this out...you are attempting to use LGBs on a F-16A Block 10. That aircraft if I remember correctly can't carry PGMs...the chin hardpoints for self lasing weren't even added until the Block 15 versions. FC