JediMaster

Buffalo Springfield's lone lasting hit!

Also known as "that song from the Born on the 4th of July" trailer from over 20 years ago.

As for whether this is supposed to be single or twin-engined, I'm guessing what we saw in the video is correct and the .lua name is inaccurate because someone didn't do their homework before sticking it in. You don't totally screw up your 3D model with the wrong number of engines if it's supposed to be DCS! A simple labeling mistake I can buy.

The Blackjack has that odd inner wing fence thing when the wings sweep back. Any issues getting the model to do that?

So...are these new models then??

I don't think there's anything wrong with people wanting to be bilingual or multilingual. I do see a problem with people who think they should not have to learn the language of the country they're in because they can pretty much find people wherever they go that will speak their language to them. On top of that, they use it as a crutch or an excuse to break rules, behave crassly, or just do WTF they feel like because "I don't understand you" (even when there's a great chance they do).

A perfect example was in college I knew a girl who worked part time at a department store. Macy's or Sak's or one of those. It was in Ft Lauderdale or thereabouts, I forget where, she commuted to school from another county. She was working the counter when these 2 middle-aged women came up to her and asked her where something or other was in Spanish. She replied in English "I don't speak Spanish." The women turned to each other and angrily remarked, in Spanish, that it was unbelievable they'd have someone working there that didn't speak Spanish. She then responded, in English, "I said I don't speak Spanish, not that I don't understand it." They turned to her shocked, proving they understood her just fine as well. They just decided they didn't want to speak English and they expected all the stores they shopped at to allow that.

The English translation is a bit off (which considering how well that guy is speaking English, you'd think he'd have paraphrased some of those broken sentences to sound more correct), but other than that the T-10 footage and comparisons to the final Su-27 seem unique to me. I've not seen them elsewhere before.

That's because they're using the manufacturer designation. Not exactly sure why, but whatever. A rose by any other name...

"Based on the stretched fuselage Bell 205, the Bell 212 was originally developed for the Canadian Forces as the CUH-1N and later redesignated as the CH-135. The Canadian Forces took delivery of 50 starting in May, 1971. At the same time the United States military services ordered 294 Bell 212s under the designation UH-1N."

UH-1D/H slick as a gunship?

 

As far as I know we never used them, but perhaps the Aussies did.

 

Would be nice to see a B/C/E/M, especially with a FROG/HOG package...hummm "red teams"

 

I wonder if there is chance for a OH-6A?

It's not a D, it's an UH-1N. At least, that's what the internal usage of "AB 212" in the .lua files indicates.

Problem with that is that's a twin-engine version, and the video shows a single engine...confused...

I can understand not wanting to learn a foreign language. Growing up we had to take Spanish or French and it was seen as a big nuisance.

I can NOT understand children BORN and RAISED in a country either showing no interest in learning that language or speaking it with a horribly thick accent! Imagine a child born and raised in Madrid who speaks Spanish like a BBC announcer!

No joke, there are Spanish speakers in Miami that were BORN there that speak English far worse than most people I've met in Mexico! They also seem to have this bizarre "I don't really want to be in this country, so I will try and pretend I'm not" attitude towards those of us who were born here and speak English. I don't understand it.

My favorite SAAB. The Gripen is ok, the Draken not so much, those that came before can be most kindly described as "functional".

No, by then we'll just use budgets to take down the enemy. After all, it's a big war now, it will still be then!

I told everyone in the other thread, post #5!

Guess that proves people don't actually READ my posts...

Really? Really???

Look back at post 5 in this VERY thread.

I already told you all it was an AB 212!!!!!

More than Black Shark 1 got its entire life!

Wow, get an auto-updater and the patches come small and fast now!

...plus a "b" patch for it.

Hansa Brandenburg W12 released with it, Roland CII up for preorder.

Not sure when the Channel map is due out...

Oh, and if you're wondering, yes this happened a couple of weeks ago, and many know already...but for those of you who did NOT...

I'm so glad for the autoupdater FINALLY.

Funny that TK got one before ED!!

What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on in this thread?

Except this is useless for where it counts...SAMs. Sure, you could GCI direct an interceptor to the area to look for it, but you couldn't launch a SAM.

There's a big difference between search and track, and while this technique can defeat stealth in the search area, it's far too coarse for tracking. So you'd know a plane was there, but anything you'd fire at it would miss by a mile (or more).

LOL, I just read about that in the latest issue of Air & Space.

The "Rutland Reindeer" from No Highway in the Sky, 1951, with uber pilot actor Jimmy Stewart.

I believe that was 1C and Luthier's comments about CloD you smell...

Interesting. I'm going into the view.lua to turn off the rolling cockpit (which was only ok for the Ka-50 for me, I find it unbearable if bank angle exceeds 70 degrees or so) and I notice something new.

I already uninstalled 1.2.0, so I can only compare to FC2 which is still present.

To whit, FC2's view.lua:

PlaneIndexByType =

{

[MiG_29] = PlaneIndex.iMiG_29,

[su_27] = PlaneIndex.iSu_27,

[su_33] = PlaneIndex.iSu_33,

[F_15] = PlaneIndex.iF_15,

[su_25] = PlaneIndex.iSu_25,

[A_10] = PlaneIndex.iA_10,

[MIG_29K] = PlaneIndex.iMiG_29K,

[su_39] = PlaneIndex.iSu_39,

[MiG_29G] = PlaneIndex.iMiG_29,

[MiG_29C] = PlaneIndex.iMiG_29,

[su_25T] = PlaneIndex.iSu_39,

[KA_50] = PlaneIndex.iKA_50,

I assume 29K was left over from Flanker 2.5.

DCS 1.2.1's:

PlaneIndexByType = -- indices in snap views table

{

[su_27] = 1,

[su_33] = 2,

[su_25] = 3,

[su_25T] = 4,

[su_39] = 4,

[MiG_29] = 5,

[MiG_29G] = 5,

[MiG_29C] = 5,

[MIG_29K] = 6,

[A_10A] = 7,

[F_15] = 8,

[KA_50] = 9,

[A_10C] = 11,

[P_51D] = 12,

[AB_212] = 9,

Su-39 is just a variation of the 25T, so it's like MiG-29/29C there.

Flyable AB212? The second helo in DCS?

It's a big slow download. 5GB for DCSW + 350MB/each for BS2 and A-10C + 35 (oddly small) for CA beta 2. I don't have P-51.

I usually do the "shoot in front of them and let them fly into your bullets" thing. Wastes a bit of ammo, but it's more effective.

Yes, other than the F1 being a flyable I've not heard what else Expansion 3 is to feature. We know it's for SF2E (like Exp 2), but will it have new AI planes? SF2NA had several that he might throw in there (for non-owners of SF2NA), but that wouldn't do much for those of us who have it.

Have things gotten to the point where "Expansion 3" will be no more than a DLC of a brand new plane + campaign for it/inclusion in older campaigns?

When in Vegas you walk inside the hotels. Oh, and the train.

I got to see the Star Trek Experience a couple of times before they shut it down at least.

And as far as A, that WOULD require a publisher and TK has shown as much interest in that as he has in running for President.

Simply put, he wants more sales from what he's doing now, but he's not willing to do too much differently to generate those sales. The mobile idea is as "out of the box" as his thinking has gotten in years.