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An actual event for an Angolan scenario from a South African writer: When South Africa invaded Angola, the USA and the Soviets almost got in too deep: (1975-1976): http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-day-in-africa-when-cold-war-almost.html

I love the "drive by shooting!" I wonder if the native Americans shot like this? I haven't seen any references except for them vaguely shooting from a moving horse which would have required a lot of skill.

Hahaha, You won't want mine -SIAI Marchetti SF.260 (on the way sometime). It can only go 236 knots!

I have been trying to find a way to have a very strong positive pitch sensitivity for 5 gs almost instantaneous pitch movement and a very limited max negative pitch movement of only -1.5 gs for the SF.260. Does anyone know how to do this. So far, any changes I have made end up applying equally to positive and negative pitch inputs. I can't seem to get separate maximum pitch amounts when pulling versus pushing on the stick. Thanks, Richard (Pitts2a)

Merry Christmas to all!

"After a mission, your soul is not refreshed and you exit the game with a feeling of emptiness coming from both your kills or failures, or a death certificate or a medal, and the emptiness of the Stats and Debrief screen, plus a score that means very little." The only air combat sim that I personally thought ever addressed this was Dynamix's RED Baron. The developer, Damon Slye, is now working on a new flight sim according to a magazine interview that I read last week.

Keep going. Your maps are beautiful!

The bird almost scored a goal!

Nice! It's wild seeing the pics on my large screen.

Great Job, Thanks! Now WHERE did you get the idea for this campaign :)

Fantastic! What an effort!

I am getting to work again on a "South African terrain" (Angola and Nambia [sW Africa]). I've been working on it for four years off and on. The vast terrain variety and vast kilometers/miles needed for an Angolan terrain from orange desert, to white sand, to pink bush terrain to white bush terrain to orange bush terrain, to green river land to dense forest to mountain terrain has been a bugaboo for many modelers (including myself) I believe. There just does not seem to be any easy way to model all this massive variety even half-way well. However, I am going at it again and it feels much better this time around-my third attempt. My Photoshop/Gimp skills have much improved. So, that's what I have to offer in the future. Richard

One article I read yesterday about this had the Chinese warning about a possible future collision! Ram Jaeger!

Nice Description for this fine series! What altitude or altitudes did you fly against the P-51?

ERASED! I've been gone too long.

The MIG-23's combat record is also an indication of how effective it was. Unfortunately, it will likely never be known. The record is sharply disputed depending on whether you were from from the Soviet Bloc or the American Bloc. Reports exist of it gaining complete air superiority against the South African's Mirage F1s over Angola.(F1 fighter pilot Dick Lord).. Soviet Bloc people claim that although it got slaughtered against Israeli F-15s and F-16s in the Becca Valley, that it still got a few kills against the superior F-16's and F-15s. However, no confirming wreckage was ever presented. When the MiG-23s were working,many had a working IRST (infrared search and tracking system) that would let the MiG-23s engage without using radar to give themselves away. Apparently, a standard Eastern Bloc joke went something like "the cheapest way to get a MiG-23 was to buy a plot of land and wait for one to crash on it." At the very least, the MiG-23 was an effective fighter against the South Africans around 1986. An interesting comparison is with the MiG-25 which almost certainly shot down a US F-18 and disrupted some American air operations during the Iraqi Wars.. The MiG-23 could not claim this and so you could definitely make a case that the MiG-23 was not effective for the time it was operational.

Just me, but I find many Warsaw pact fighters have better radar and all aspect missiles (read MIG-23 and MIG-25). I have only rear aspect missiles. If I approach them at 50 feet AGL(above ground level) and beam their radars (Turn 90 degrees to them and their missiles so losing their lock) when (if) they even lock on me, I can get close and use my small size and good climb to get on their tails. It is also quite fun to plan a pincer movement with four F-5s. Put two high up approaching the MIGs from far on my side and I and my wing man stay at 50 feet AGL. When my poor wingmen act as decoys, I can stay undetected and completely get on the MIGs tails undetected while they are messing with my other flight. Also I can use close to the same tactic and dive to the ground while applying afterburner and lose my wing men and flight and approach at 50 feet undetected while the rest of my flight stays higher and distracts the MIGs. It is also called a hi-lo tactic. If you are at a higher altitude and get detected by MIGs, you can also dive straight down and beam them that way and then hide in ground clutter at 50 ft AGL and ambush them that way. (EDIT- added more description on beaming)

Wow, nice find! I noticed what ginormous stick movements the pilot was making...Talk about a" pilot's airplane!"

Have you tried extracting and putting all the F-100 files (especially the .lod files) into the new Super Mystere folder? Sometimes for me, this will solve all problems. There's so much legal stuff, that I hesitate to do this for a download for the public. But you, of course, can. Richard

Wow, this photo shows a wicked Akureyl Airport close to what one of the SFP2 NA screenshots shows. It must be an extremely pleasant field for jets to land at -Snicker, Snicker, Snicker. http://www.isavia.is/english/airports/other-airports

The map is also black for me and even when I zoom in, it sometimes turns black again and I have to keep playing with the zoom back and forth.