JediMaster

I say RCR, but that's because I heard Gibbs doesn't like Bud as a sponsor. So if Jr goes over, Bud is left out in the lurch, and I don't see Jr doing that. Bud has been very good to him and to dump them would be bad for his career. I'd heard RCR might be out because it might merge with DEI, but I think that's a silly rumor. No way DEI and RCR merge. They have 6 teams total now, I can't see them dumping 2 to fit the max limit. So...if Gibbs wasn't concerned Bud didn't fit his Christian values, I'd say Jr would go there. The Jr-Bud thing means he won't, though. Ginn is too small time yet. A new team using Hendrick motors was stated by Jr to be "last resort." Everything points to RCR, possibly even Jr driving the #3 Bud for RCR.

Good to know! Of course, you expect to get what you pay for.

From what I understand, the problem with the missile launch detectors is a high rate of false alarms. They don't miss the real ones almost ever, it's announcing ones that aren't there that's the problem. I remember one "sim" in the 90s gave you an IR missile detector, maybe one of the Jetfighter ones. They said "it doesn't exist now, but this takes place in the future, maybe by then!" That doesn't change the physics of the fact that you can't detect an IR missile lock anymore than you can tell if someone on a rooftop 10 stories up is looking at you with a telescope unless you happen to look their way yourself. It's 100% passive.

Most planes have the oleos contract a bit during retraction. Remember those old F-4 and A-4 nose gears? It was very obvious with them. Few planes leave the gear length constant while stowed. I don't know if you can do that or not. As for what the gear looks like, send someone to Udvar-Hazy at Dulles and get them to take wheel well pics!

Of course, it's obvious the AA-9 wasn't "all that" or they'd have kept using it. There were early pictures of Flankers intercepted carrying an AA-9 or two over the Baltic by Viggens in the 80s, but as soon as the Alamos came out they disappeared. I'm sure it's also of limited use vs fighters and is more an anti-bomber/anti-cruise missile type AAM. Didn't they also make a anti-AWACS variant meant to home in on the AWACS' emissions?

Yes, but in real life you never have 2 A-10s tasked with taking out 15 MBTs protected by a dozen ADA units and such with no support.

Yeah, I'm playing SC:DA on my PC now, and the graphics bugs are majorly annoying.

I know VRS was modeled in EECH, but I don't know where else it is.

Depends on what you define as "IR warning". You can't detect an IR seeker because by default it is passive. You can't detect someone looking at you based on your own emissions. What CAN be detected are missile launches, using IR, ultraviolet, or some combination of the 2 frequencies. No matter if the missile is IR, RH, or command guided, as long as the missile can be seen during the boost phase from the craft, it can detect them. Obviously anything launched BVR wouldn't be detected, but as those are all RH, you don't need to worry. You CAN have laser warning receivers, as many people do on their cars already. As for which have which type of detectors, most jets do not, actually.

You will post down after me, Jor-El! Both you...and one day...your heirs!!

More info here: http://www.twitchguru.com/2007/05/30/inside_star_wars/ Looks like this is kind of final: Ok, the PS2, DS, and PSP, but not the PC?!? I don't understand that.

I've heard some rumblings about it, mostly about "potential" and not about what's there NOW. Implies some more time needs to be put in before release, but that's not to say it won't happen. Generally speaking, though, demos aren't too far off the final release.

I can't think of a sim that doesn't support them. Some need them more than others, of course. Helo sims and WWI/WWII sims it's pretty much mandatory, but you can get away without them in jet sims.

Yes, but that's separately. If you want to carry more than 8 Mavs (either 8 Ks or 6Ks and 2Ds) you need to mess with the files out of the game. Actually, it sounds like he needs to choose "new" from the drop down list so he can make his own loadout. Some loadouts are "locked" and don't allow alterations to the individual pylons, but choose new and you get to make your own.

I honestly don't know. I've never tried to use a mouse-type controller to fly it. I know you can choose keyboard or joystick, I've used both of those (although kb was for a brief moment only).

Unfortunately, she came back from the dead the next day. You can kill her, she just won't STAY dead.

Russia can't afford quantity anymore either. That's why they've been modernizing their 20+ year old planes instead of building new ones for the last decade.

Actually, although the F-4's in Op Bolo used the QRC 160s, they weren't standard fit at that time. The planes were specially wired and had controls put into the cockpits for them. That was to make the NVAF think they were F-105s, which did carry them, and not F-4s, which did not. As a side benefit, some SA-2s were launched at the F-4s in Op Bolo, but all missed thanks to the QRC's.

Omar Sharif!

I see this baby every day, and it flies a couple of times a week too. The engine sound is so retro. They're unarmed now, though.

Of course, what plane did the F-51 replace first? The F-80!

Unfortunately the SiS Xabre was never meant as a gaming chip, and now you've seen why.

X-45 and X-47. Hmmm. Too bad about wpnssgt. A real shame. As for F-16F, that designation is now officially assigned to the 2-seat Blk 60s.

Did I ever mention I'm the only person on these boards that gets to still see this plane fly on a regular basis? There's 3 of them based here at Patrick AFB for the Dept of State. I think one is green and the other 2 are gray. At one time there was a gloss blue with red flash one, but it was repainted.

Cliff Clavin ready to refuel the Firefox...