JediMaster

How many 25Ts actually saw service? I seem to recall only a dozen or so were even built.

Practical on a new design, but not on a modification of an existing design like the Fulcrum or Flanker. What they really need is a blocker like the Super Hornet has. They couldn't do much with the intakes on that, but they created a plug that had a minimal impact on performance and did almost the same thing.

Yeah, that's right. SF2E screenshots preceded its release by a matter of hours, really. Guess I'll check in there every day this weekend.

Yes, the colorful metaphors skin is on Erik's list of to-do's.

Is pic #3 supposed to actually be #6, after it's been retracted into the bay? I notice the shape isn't there in that pic but is in 2 and 4 after it...

Oh, it's that easy? Cool. I haven't installed this yet, but it's on my to-do list for the long weekend. I've finally started installing some mods to my SF2 directory, but none to SF2V or SF2E. I'll just make an SF2V copy called SF2VPlus then and put all this in there! Also means that if beta 3 or the final release isn't happy overwriting this version, I'm not trashing my stock SF2V install to install it.

I really wanted RoF to prove me wrong. An Il-2 class WWI sim would've been great. It's not always fun when you're right.

Every sperm is sacred Every sperm is great If a sperm is wasted God gets quite irate

Apparently any other response than "oh, we're all duped, the Russians are so much better" is unwelcomed? Again, why do people keep playing these silly F-22 vs Su-30 games? Combat doesn't occur in a vacuum. How many US fighters have been shot down by enemy fighters in the last 20 years? Just 1? That Hornet in Desert Storm I think? How many US fighters have been shot down? Many. Too many. How? SAMs and AAA. RCS is about survivability against radar threats. If the guy doesn't know you're there, he can't hurt you. If he knows you're there but not exactly where, he can't hit you. If he knows where you are, he has to get closer to hit you. Forget fighters, the threat is the SAMs and AAA. We lost far more planes to SAMs and AAA in Vietnam than fighters, too. The picture of the way data links work is inaccurate. Stealth deflects radar signals away from the transmitter. Planes in a formation will fly line abreast, so if the signal is deflected 45 degrees or more off axis there won't be any planes in the network to receive the signal! You'd have to arrange the planes in a semicircle with the focus on the stealth plane which indicates you already know where it is...how likely is that?

At 22 he's likely too young to be really scared.

There's also that whole "how many hours can you get in the air with a dozen planes in a month" issue of MiGs vs F-16s. Fulcrums do not have a high reliability rate. After all, Germany dumped theirs PDQ but kept the older Tornados.

His logbooks don't mention a P-51A or an A-36, so it didn't occur to me he'd be in one.

Another issue is that so-called "noise jamming" where ECM just floods the bands with noise is outdated. It can be burned-thru fairly easily with enough power/range. That's why "deception jamming" is where ECM is at, but no flight sim models this because I suppose "details are classified." It's a simple enough concept though...if you can't prevent the enemy from seeing you, just make him see you somewhere other than where you really are! Missiles fly out to where they think your plane is, but when they get there you're miles away. Even HOJ won't be useful in that instance. Yet we're stuck with 60's era jamming techniques only.

This could be the game that makes me get a joystick like the Saitek Aviator for my 360.

That photo looks more like a P-51B/C with the oil cooler under the fuselage behind his legs there. The canopy looks strange, though.

Easy spotting guide: 124 - 4 engines, single fin for tail 225 - 6 engines, twin tail ala B-24

Even the gators can't afford our overvalued property costs...

I was going to say "there's no such thing as a Celeron 2 Duo!"

Just don't ask me to do LASIK with it!

Wow, the 50th anniversary seems like just yesterday. I'm getting old.

I have a subscription, but apparently it's a very small company and the guy running it ran into some hard times (divorce among other things) that have seriously delayed his schedule. I forget when I got my last one, but it's been awhile. I'm still waiting to see what happens with it.

Out of curiosity, what percentage of pilots fail? Is it like 50% on the first try, 25% never pass kind of thing?

Like it would be possible to forget them!

You mean you saw the An-225. There's only one, it's the Highlander of cargo planes. The 124 is slightly bigger than a C-5, the 225 is quite a bit bigger than the 124 as far as wingspan and MTO.

Oh, NOW we see the violence inherent in the system! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being suppressed!