JediMaster

It's 4.08m, and it should be on Ubi's site... I believe that's where I got it.

Considering how slow it flies it's not like you'll be sitting back there plinking away. One pass from the front or the side and it's down!

You could use a Slammer in auto-aquisition mode. It would be much shorter range that way, but it would obviate the need for a radar. Also wouldn't have to worry about the exhaust burning up the plane. Just eject the missile and THEN ignite vs the heaters rail launch.

Well, that was my ultimate goal...

Yeah, first year is the hardest no doubt. My 10th is this summer, and will have been together 13 yrs at that point. However, we minimized our stress by doing things in stages, instead of all-at-once. That helped. First 5 years lived close to both our parents still. Then her parents moved up here and we wound up following only 6 months later after visiting them and seeing how much nicer (and cheaper to live!) it was.

Really, I don't know how he survived online with that attitude! Howie survived? No, Howie didn't make it!!

I love it! I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, and spam!

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all year! Try the fish, it's delicious!

I'm personally waiting for the release of Wings Over Israel, although it will reflect the borders of the 70s of course.

Also, thermo aside an engine works by using oxygen in the air to combust the jet fuel. Jet exhaust is thus oxygen-poor, and being recirculated into the engine means less oxygen to burn the fuel so thrust drops, possibly enough to cause an engine flameout.

Well, going back in time 40 years to proven history is a bit different than traveling into a world that never really existed. BTW, The Final Countdown is a great flick, I got it on DVD a couple of years ago when it was rereleased!

I tried an FFB joystick about 10 years ago, but I never went with it. I've used HOTAS since I got my FLCS and TQS in 1994 and never looked back. Now I have a Cougar, but using the same RCS as I had back then. HOTAS forever!

The funny thing is the Hornet is a direct evolution of the F-5. It was done in stages switching to twin tails, increasing the engine size, moving wings from low to mid-mounted, adding LERXs, increasing nose size for a normal radar, altering stab shape, etc, but if you've ever seen the paper designs that preceded the YF-17 the lineage is plain as day. I'd like to see a pic of the YF-17 next to an F/A-18E!

Both Prey and Quake 4 were released under similar hype, and neither did very well. I think Prey did "ok."

Lock On is the closest to thing to EF2K in that dept I think. It's realistic to a point, but not the whole-hog that say Falcon 4 went with.

So...she got that turned on by that??

That's because a straight tailpipe requires far fewer polygons and far less work than one with a decreasing radius.

Yes, the weapons editor has a merge function. Ok, I totally blanked and forgot about the previous MF Wep Pack!

Considering Saruman was the only one who knew about gunpowder, I think the concept of jet fuel and aluminum alloys is a little beyond that tech.

Those who do not learn from history are bound to spend untold hours in 3dMax recreating it!

If an enemy plane gets close enough to an AWACS that it's in AIM-9 range, you have already so lost...

I've been posting since 1991 with regularity, albeit some years more than others. Having 2000 here in 3 years and 28000 on SimHQ in 8 plus posting on places like Delphi, Prodigy, and CompuServe, I think my number must be 50k or more.

I remember when there was talk of cancelling the F-22 it was brought up time and again that it would directly impact the costs of the F-35 program because F-22 development, paid for in that program, would be "gimmes" to the F-35 program and help keep it cheaper. Cancelling the f-22 meant the F-35 would have to pay for those developments. Now instead the main problem the F-35 faces now is...cost. There's really no doubt they'll get the F-35 series working well and combat effective. The question is how much will the unit cost be and will the various countries that have pledged to buy X number be ABLE to buy that many? If they don't, the unit cost will increase more, leading to even fewer bought, which will increase the cost more, and the circle continues...

Wait, I thought that right gear pod was always black on the A-10A?

My favorite was the crap in Iron Eagle 2. "The Soviet MiG-29 is larger and heavier than your F-16..." and in come these old F-4s LOL!