JediMaster

The funny thing is we carry the much larger STS orbiter on the back of a much smaller 747. I think the 225 was overkill for the Buran. A modified 124 should have been able to do it.

Having 4 planes is more than 2x better than just 2. At least it gives some choice.

I never had that problem way back when I got AEP. Did you install FB into the default directory, or did you change it?

My guardian angel has a first name. It's O S C A R. My guardian angel has a 2nd name. It's M A Y E R.

I forgot who once said "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story"...

Quick, someone pull up a thread criticizing Clinton about that Lewinsky thing...

Interesting that it's on wheels. Other than the SA-8, I seem to recall most mobile units are on tracks.

It's a good practice that all TW sim vets have been doing for years now. Especially as TK's patches tend to wipe out certain things breaking installed mods, it's best to patch the "clean" version and then copy the mods back in.

I wish everyone would stop playing MMOs so the devs would stop making them and go back to making REAL games.

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Since he was Belgian, you could've named him Smurf!

I don't know, I kind of doubt that...based on the Rafale's track record so far!

Not going to argue about that!

CFS3 is a DX7 title, not 8, and the water reflects that. It's the old style "moving textures to simulate water" type. It's an old engine that was updated for the latest versions of MSFS but the CFS series was cancelled so it never got them. As a result, CFS3 has always lagged behind Il-2, LOMAC, and others in the graphical department. Even the TK sims at release were superior, although the terrain detail is much better in the bigger-budgeted CFS3 as far as cities and things and units moving around on the ground go. It definitely feels dated in many ways when you play it, but if you can see past it there is fun to be had. There are also more WWII planes you can fly there that you can't anywhere else. There are a lot of older WWII birds for the TK sims, but most are out of sync with current patches. Il-2 has a lot of flyable planes, but there are many that are either nonflyable (at least before the modding started) or nonexistent. CFS3 let you DL them from avhistory or other sites and fly and fight in them all day.

Generally speaking, your parents will want you to do whatever helps you live up to your potential, whatever it may be. As long as it isn't "supervillain looking to rule the world" or something.

That guy probably also has the "side view" mirror adjusted so he can see cars behind him instead of to the side like they're supposed to be. If I'm sitting in my car behind you, and I can see your face in the side view mirror, congratulations! You're an idiot.

You think that's bad? The worst is seeing a girl in some mag like Playboy and seeing she was born the year you graduated high school!!

Forcing an overshoot is a time-honored technique that has been used in every major conflict with air engagements. A Cobra, however, loses even more airspeed. It's a bit like a benchmark like 3DMark for the PC. It won't tell you how well it will do in a particular situation, it just indicates the plane has a lot of agility that could be used in other more tactically effective ways.

I don't know if they have more now, but I'm pretty sure they had a few more in the past. Over a dozen I thought. However, some may have been retired for various reasons and at least some have suffered attrition over the years. Yeah, I remember the Darter variants, I thought there was another there, too. Rafael is definitely an Israeli company, though.

Not for less, no. The fastest Core 2 Quads are well over $300, the slowest i7 is like $260 and yet is still faster. However, as I said the i7 mobo's cost you more (as does DDR3) so the cost is more or less the same. L2/3 cache is internal CPU stuff that you probably can skip worrying about. General rule of thumb is the Intel chips perform similarly at equal price points for the Core 2 line, but the core i7s run faster at an equal price even though they run at a slower clock. So the $260 core i7 is faster than the $260 core 2 quad chip, but the increased cost of DDR3 and mobo means the overall system for the i7 costs more. If you go with the slowest core i7 now, you'd be able to just buy a faster CPU in the future and keep the same mobo and RAM. If you go with a core 2 CPU now, most of the mobos use DDR2 (although as you pointed out you can get DDR3 ones) and you'd still have to buy a new mobo later to switch to the i7s. The Core 2 line is still in production, but we won't be seeing any faster CPUs there, development is focused on the core i7 (and soon the slower i5 and i3) lines.

I paid more than that for CFS3 when it came out. By itself it is a bit on the lame side, although the campaign is excellent. Firepower really did amp it up. Then you have the mods for it like the 1% planes, Med Air War, and OFF Phase 1+2 which are all free. OFF Phase 3 of course is another pay addon like Firepower. If you're not planning on spending over that $10 on it, though, the free mods can still really help fix it up to what it should have been plus give you more.

On the one hand, if a dream seems achievable it seems silly to "settle" for 2nd best. On the other hand, you don't want to screw up a good thing for just the promise of something better, like dumping the girl you're dating in hopes of getting a date with a "better" girl. So it all boils down to how much do you think you'll want to be a commando next year? My sister was really bad about wanting different things in her life (everything was "this is it" every 6 months) until she was almost 30, so...

I thought the Derby was the South African missile? Am I confusing that with something else? I still can't believe the RN retired their Sea Harriers when they did. Those planes were still very capable for years to come.

I got some pics of the 2 NASA WB-57s a few years back, don't know where I put them though...

FYI the B-2's "flyaway" price was $500m at the end of its production run, and the F-22 is now quoted just under $150m. That's one of the reasons continued production of the F-22 was argued for as the early F-35s will cost over $150m each in the early years until production gets going.