JediMaster

SB Pro is certainly top of the line, but at $125 it's also top of the line. It's the F4 of tank sims, except the graphics are also great.

Armed Assault has tanks in it, easy to get into and use. Not nearly as realistic, but also not as hard. A lot cheaper, too.

Little brother to the Hummer, it's the Hummy!

I'd guess there was an accident, but given the U-2's mission the info may not be easy to find. Perhaps check Jane's or AvWeek's sites...

Speaking as a Pole, we wish people would stop mounting their jets on us. First all the terrible jokes when you're young in school, now THIS. :threaten:

I used to go to the movies most weekends when my wife and I first met up through the early years of our marriage. Around 2001 or so we moved to an area where the theater was no longer so close so we became more picky. Then came the DVD explosion and we were able to see them not long after theater release, so we became pickier. Now although they've built a theater very close to us, we still only go for movies we really want to see. I can't recall if I've seen a flick in the theater since Casino Royale in December, honestly.

Well, it seems interesting enough, but I'm still uncertain. There's no doubt they did a world-class job on the visuals, though.

I played the WC and X Wing/TIE Fighter games to death, and I've been waiting for a new one for years. I've got X3 but have barely touched it due to lack of time.

Actually, I can't think of one flight sim where roll is enabled.

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.