JediMaster

I'd like to see someone model that plane you see in that old film clip, with like 10 wings that starts to move and all collapse?

Do you mean Iron Hand missions?

F-20 was the renamed F-5G. The F-21 was a small batch of Israeli Kfirs on loan for DACT out at Nellis. Planes such as the F-11 did in fact exist, but no one really knew them by that name. They were by and large 50's planes such as the F11F or F5U that were given new designations with the 1962 reorganization that occurred when McNamara got pissed off that the USAF came in talking about their new F-110 and he later found out it was the SAME plane as the USN's F4H! Here's a quick list: F-10 -> F3D Skynight F-11 -> F11F Tiger F-12 -> Actually the YF-12, it was an interceptor based on the A-12 used by the CIA, the early production variant of the SR-71 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12 F-13 -> pilots are a superstitious lot. Who'd fly an F-13? As for the YF-17, it was a very different animal from the F/A-18A that came from it. There's at least one picture out there of the 2 parked next to each other. The 17 was as noticeably smaller than the Hornet than the Hornet is when next to a Super Hornet. I'd love to see a Super Hornet next to the 17. As you can see here: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0145a.shtml http://airpower.callihan.cc/images/xyplane...2WMF-YF17-6.jpg the YF-17 differed quite a bit from the Hornet we know now. Interesting thing about the 2nd pic, from the Western Museum of Flight in Hawthorne, CA, is it's sitting next to one of the 2 YF-23 prototypes.

Never played MiG Alley? I admit I didn't, but many did and loved its dynamic campaign. I wish someone would take that code and give it the BoB2/F4AF/EE2 redux treatment. Also, there was a Korean War mod for CFS3. It was pretty good. Not perfect, but good.

I read The Sixth Battle. Most of it was good, although I thought the B-1Bs launching volleys of Slammers a bit far-fetched.

Anyone see The Abyss??

I replaced my KDS 19" CRT with this Viewsonic because the picture had deteriorated after 5 years. The blacks were gray, the colors were pale...

I never had SD:WOE, but that doesn't look like Il-2 to me.

Fighter Ops is in the works, too, but it's quite a ways off still. No one is positive if it will be out this year or not. LOMAC had a far smaller budget than those classic Jane's games, and it shows. There are things that just had to be skipped.

Anytime you use a weapon system in combat, whether it be a plane, a tank, or a gun, you risk the enemy getting it.

That's because in the old days the engineers built them to work, not to fly. All that mattered to them was that all the necessary controls were there and functioned properly. If you pulled your spleen every time you had to reset the breakers, that wasn't their problem.

Lock On is a great sim. Plenty of great missions out there for it.

I don't believe the WWI Flying Ace exists for FE yet.

I did it several times in DI's Tornado sim...15 years ago now!! I can't believe it was that long ago!

Besides, what other sims CAN you fly these newer planes in anyway? It seems most sims focus on the 80s/90s planes. Sure there WERE a bunch of F-22 sims in days past, but none released recently. There was only one JSF sim made, and that was the X-35 anyway. It's not like I'm asking for much, I just want a sim that will let me fly and fight in every plane from the Maurane Bullet to the one that will put the F-35 out of business.

Right, like the pilot.

Ooh, I'd love to see the Bone in WoX!

Actually, WoV doesn't get changed. The WoE installer will pull the terrain and planes from WoV into it and make a merged WoE. The WoV stays as it is. However, if you're interested in Vietnam then the Euro terrain means nothing. I forget which planes WoE came with out of the box, but generally I think all the Vietnam-applicable ones were already in WoV.

If by "interesting" you mean "exposed them to a ton of ADA and SAMs that resulted in unfortunate losses"...

I don't remember any ladders in the demo, but in the full version an icon appears on screen when you can use it, and clicking the mouse wheel makes you mount the ladder. While you can still fall off the top when trying to get on one to go down, I find it actually easier NOT to fall to my death than standard FPS games where you "look" that way and hope you get it right.

I've got a 19" 4:3 monitor from ViewSonic and it's great, but I'd hesitate to get a monitor that wasn't WS now. Most newer games do/will support it, but if you play many older ones you may have some troubles, so it does depend on your intended use.

LOL, that's also why I barely fly F4 anymore. I've had the thing in various iteration from stock to RP to FF to F4:AF for 8 years and I never became really proficient at it. It could be too much like work, so I only fly it occasionally. TK's sims require no time investment to just jump in and go, only the modding does and that's totally voluntary. It adds to the enjoyment, but it's not necessary. Except perhaps for FE, where you could argue the tiny number of flyables OOTB begs for mods.

The terrain reminds me of F4, actually.

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