JediMaster

The only known instance of a T-6 catching a T-38 in the air?

The wing cmdr was only an O-6?? For a nuke wing? That seems unusual, unless he was an O-7 select.

Communism was a great theory, but it goes contrary to human nature. You only want everyone equal when you're on the bottom. You always look for ways to move up, and if you do the last thing you want is someone who failed to make it up saying you can't have it because everyone doesn't. When PEOPLE change, communism may work. Until then, it can only work as a veneer on another type of system, usually a totalitarian oligarchy.

Most of what you described won't happen because it's not like a twin-engined plane, with each engine powering one prop. They're interconnected and one engine can turn both. Only with loss of an engine AND the interconnect could that happen. I'm sure it could with battle damage, but again no twin-prop helo can stay aloft with only one prop working anyway. While I'm sure in airplane mode it will fly fine, I don't know about hovering especially under max weight conditions. Hopefully they could dump fuel/cargo or at least land safely. Remember, it can't land in airplane mode, only helo mode, although the engines could be tilted forwards for a "rolling" landing. In airplane mode, though, the props would be slamming into the ground before all wheels touched down.

I think the F-15E would've been too pricey for the number of airframes bought back in the 80s when the Hornet won. While Oz is getting the F-35 (at least, that is the current plan) to replace the Hornet, there's no doubt it can't replace an F-111. I think right now there are only 4 choices for that category (discounting the F-22 because it's so costly and no exports have been granted yet): F-15E(A) -- for Australia --probably seen as too old a design for the price? Super Bug -- what they picked Mirage 2000 -- as mentioned, won't happen for political reasons Su-30 -- probably also ruled out on both political and logistical reasons The Typhoon isn't yet multirole enough and likely also costs a bit more. All other new-gen fighters have too little range/payload.

The problem is as always the law is worded inaccurately and it gets used for a purpose other than originally intended. Of course, without the internet we'd still all be using code wheels and manuals for CP on games and music and video would only be that which we or our friends own. I miss the days of that simple CP. I remember one that was my favorite--match the silhouette with its name! As long as you knew your airplane types you didn't need to open the manual.

If this is Brazil's first nuke sub, by defintion it's 1st generation.

It's all about budget and spending wisely.

It's perfectly normal banter, Timmy! Top-hole! Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

I think an expansion should have either A) a lot of new airplanes and campaigns for them or B) a couple of new airplanes and a new terrain plus campaigns. In other words, a new terrain is worth half a dozen planes. That's mainly because we have many modders doing great work on planes, but very few doing terrains and only a small number of those are to the quality of the stock terrain due to the higher difficulty involved creating them. FE Exp 1 was a great addon, mainly because it offered MORE than the stock game came with! It more than doubled the number of flyables and added a terrain superior to the original. WOE is almost an expansion to WOV thanks to the integration. The pricing was the same as FE, too. The only difference is WOE is standalone while FE Exp 1 requires FE. I'd like it if WOI integrates with WoV/WoE and more FE expansion come to add on. That way, you'd only need one stock install of each (discounting the myriad others we have for mods ). Also makes those of us who play MP have an easier time as we could run WOI, choose from the 3 terrains, and then pick any of the planes released in any of the 3 to fly in or against. Anyway, FE Exp 1 is great and I'm on board for WoI.

The problem with the eels is communicating with them properly. When meeting an eel for the first time, you must use the correct banter, to whit: Top-hole! Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

Wow, compared to those the US has some of the most boring paint schemes ever. Only the T-birds can come close to competing. LOL at the 21UB with "wooden" wings! Who came up with that idea?

I think 90% of all "official" aircraft names are cheerfully ignored by the crews and pilots who come up with their own names for them. The F-22 might be an exception as calling it the "Raptor" seems popular for now. I doubt the F-35 will stick with the moniker "Lightning" though, despite the P-38 and UK heritage. It just doesn't seem right. Actually, isn't the MiG-29 the odd case where another country named the plane? The Russians I think adopted "Fulcrum" as their name for it as they never really pick names for them officially, just what the crews hang on it. Like they call the Flanker the "crane" because of how it looks on takeoff (much as the YF-17 was called the Cobra and the F-14 the Turkey).

I remember that shot. 8 AIM-54's on an F-15C.

Well, one way to get them to split up is lock on and fire at the blip you can lock onto. He should break off and let you then get a lock on the other guy who likely continued along without a course change.

Yes, MOH: Airborne does indeed have a demo. It feels like it's the first part of one mission, not an entire one. The ending seems abrupt and wrong, so I'm guessing that's what the deal is. I'll be getting this, but when it comes down in price. No rush.

It plays like Far Cry 2, at least the demo does. The later levels of the game may change things. There are a lot of additions to the basic FC style such as changing your weapon attachments and the suit modes. I have an X1950 Pro and I can't imagine this would play decently on anything below the level of an X800 XT as even on mine it only played "ok". Takes a lot of your CPU and GPU for this. I'm not sure what people were expecting as far as gameplay, but it's still just an FPS.

The campaign is a lot easier than the other coop mode. The AI is night and day in that in campaign mode they behave like they're NOT godlike.

The last non-tactical FPS game I've played with coop was I think Serious Sam 2. Before that it was NOLF2. Not nearly enough of them.

Well, I saw the new BSG game at Best Buy this weekend, but so far I've not heard anything very complimentary about it. Considering its bargain price, I can't say I'm too surprised. All I CAN say is I don't know why they went this route. Between the awesome combat in the show and the depth of the story I think they dropped the ball here. Anyone try it? I understand it's on XBLA as well as PC.

I hate it when the cars are all equipped with force fields.

Well, if you're down to one engine and you only need it to run for another 30 mins to get clear, you hardly care if the process will make the engine a pile of scrap metal in an hour. Better to replace both engines later (the down one and the overused one) than the entire craft, both engines, AND crew later.

Spec ops variants of air vehicles often have far more specialized and complex equipment on board than a standard CH variant would need. If you're penetrating hostile airspace under cover of darkness and evading radar sites to insert/retrieve personnel it's a VERY different mission from just hauling troops and/or supplies around.

I guess there were no plans against the USSR or China then? BTW, isn't a war plan that is not aggressive pretty much doomed to failure? Obviously that guy was never in the military nor a student of it.

On a basic level I think the idea is more about proliferation. In other words, you can do whatever you want with the software you just paid for. However, if anyone else gains access to what you've done, the law is there to stop it. You want to find a way to crack the CP on a product you bought? Go ahead. Tell someone else how or worse yet provide the files to do so, and you're in trouble.