JediMaster

Here's how you calculate it: Number of hours to make plane x hourly rate he pays himself = total cost. So if it takes say 200 hrs to make a plane and he rates $50/hr, you get $10k! Or maybe 400 hrs at $25/hr, although that means 10 full work week or 2.5 months to do an SF2 plane, which seems a bit much to me.

Uh...two is my limit, though. Both maximum and minimum!

Never once destroyed an entire city by accident.

With all the useless "mandatory" crap in public schools, you would think some basic firearm safety should be taught. Trying to shield children from their existence is stupid. Perhaps in elementary school it can be a classroom-only lesson, like looking both ways before you cross the street (because they don't take the kids out to the street to practice that, either). In middle school, a field trip to a gun range where they can see a demo of how to handle and what damage a gun can do. Then in high school repeat the trip and actually have them hold a real unloaded gun. No firing necessary if parents are squeamish, but if they desire it the child can fire a round from a .22 rifle or something to really understand. Of course, this will fall afoul of the same reasoning the "teaching kids about safe sex is telling them to have sex" people use and people will claim we're teaching children to be killers.

If you can find the door left open, go ahead.

I was in an AMC Gremlin when lightning hit the antenna. Fried the radio and blew out the rear tire when it grounded. Shredded it, actually. While driving on an overpass. That was scary.

Just a landing would've ruined the greens for yards around, that's just the mockup.

I wonder if the pilot got GLOC in the 21. Of course, those Libyan jets hardly have a high quality of maintenance, so something could've broken. The Mi-8 looks like classic VRS combined with fatal damage to the tailboom on initial impact. If he'd bottomed out the collective on impact it would've stayed down, but alas...

No, that was my point. Given the disposition and numbers of the F-102 and M-4, the odds of an intercept involving both of them was somewhere just north of getting to have sex with your favorite celebrity.

LOL, yeah "oh, that wasn't a real site, we built a fake one to provoke an attack so we could watch it! Yeah! I built it with my wife, Morgan Fairchild, whom I've seen naked, that's the ticket!" The US did the same thing at Pearl Harbor. We wanted to witness the tactics of the IJN first hand, so we sacrificed thousands of armed forces personnel and ships and planes to get to SEE IT first hand. Once we knew what they were capable of, THEN we declared war on them (after they fell for the "sneak attack us" ruse!) and kicked their asses in a brief 4 year war that only saw the death of thousands more and the loss of countless more ships and planes. Anyway, it's widely believed this was enabled by a cyber attack against the networked SAM system, nothing as pedestrian as simple jamming. The Syrians didn't respond because they didn't know they were there. You don't need stealth if you can hack their air defense picture, only jets in the air would've seen them and without prior warning they wouldn't have any up at that time. The fact that this story just tosses it in as an afterthought kind of validates that.

You know why that is? [Heston] Japanese sex dolls are made from people!! [/Heston]

I never read the book, but I watched the first season. It seems interesting so far, but next season will have to be a major change.

It was the clearance of the standard F100 engine for export everywhere that killed it. If you could get a regular F-16A w/F100, why would you want the 79 variant? Answer: you wouldn't, no one did, and the program died from neglect. The project was only started because of countries like Taiwan that wanted the F-16 but were initially barred from receiving the F100 engine. That also killed the F-20. The F-20 was a good competitor to the 16/79, but couldn't beat the F100 version on the world stage.

That would be good to hear as long as they find him in time. To survive the crash and ejection only to die of exposure in a tree canopy is hardly a better situation.

I saw the comment that in learning situations they usually load them with only 3 rounds so it can't go spraying all over the place. Seems like the instructor made several fatal mistakes (too many rounds, standing in the wrong place) that have baffled many professional instructors as rookie mistakes.

She looks slightly off for a Latina.

Can you imagine though if the F-16/79 program had continued??

LOMAC has a very different map than DCS World. Yes, it's the same theater, but the map moved around, so the old missions might as well be in Korea or Brazil. Someone could remake them, from scratch, on the new map and I think some might have been if you go to the DCS site and check their mission downloads, but they can't be converted.

I'm more of a Sofia Vergara kind of guy.

From what I hear of the radar, you'll be at a serious disadvantage. While you struggle to get a lock at close range the F-15C will lock you up and fire several 120s then turn and take care of someone else. F-15C radar: turn it on, switch range/modes if needed, lock up, fire--elapsed time like 5 seconds. MiG-21 radar: in 5 seconds you'll still be turning it on...

Unless negative offered vastly improved cooling (which I would really wonder about), I'd go with positive to keep the dust out any day. Especially as the dust will build up and decrease the efficiency of the cooling anyway.

It's not dead, it's pining for the mods! SF2 prefers kipping on its back. If TK hadn't nailed the files down, SF2 would've muscled open your hard drive and VOOM!

I think the odds of a F-102 intercepting an M-4 were about the same as seeing an article posted about the F-35 not having any "overpriced failure" comments. Notice there were no follow on bombers afterwards and Tupolev became the sole producer.

Doc Brown has integrated the flux capacitor successfully, I see.

SF3? How about Exp 3? SF3 is at least 2 Presidential elections away if not more...