JediMaster

Sochi was just a bad spot to pick. As was noted on the news last night, it was colder here in Florida than it was in Sochi. To hold the winter Olympics in one of the southern-most locations in your country?

Give the SF2 source code to that same community today and in 2024 I'm sure we'd be astounded as to what "SF2.5" could be. However, that's not going to happen. Even with depressed sales TK is still making SOME money off it all, and there's no reason to dump that. Perhaps if at some future date he sees no sales for any of it for several consecutive months he might consider it, but even then he's worried about people using his work for their own monetary gain. He's still leveraging many of those assets for the mobile products. SF2 was too big for one man, but TK never wanted to believe that. I think he DOES believe that SF3 would be, so it's not going to happen. I get the impression that TK's #1 trait is independence. He doesn't want investors because it's not much different from his old relationships with publishers. He wants to do his own thing and make a living doing it. If it doesn't, he changes what he does (mobile) so he can. He's not going to partner with anyone and at this point I can't see a SF3 unless he does. Ergo...

Yeah, CFS3 was behind Il-2 as far as the graphics go except for how it portrayed natural metal skinned aircraft. The water was the worst part. That said, I often toy with the idea of reloading CFS3...and then I realize how little time I have for simming in general and realize it would sit idle.

You can DL and try DCS World for free. It's on Steam if you have that installed/don't mind installing it, or you can grab the files from their site direct. The Su-25T is free, all the other planes you must pay for but there's a sale on Steam for the next 24 hrs or so if you want to grab one of the other jets.

The only issue right now is using a key for DCS that you did NOT get from Steam on the Steam version of DCS World. I don't know if the databases have been merged yet or not. But any key obtained on Steam or elsewhere is good in the standalone DCS World.

I might have missed the Olympic virtue that contravenes killing stray dogs...

Gloss black doesn't keep anything a secret! That said, the all-black Tomcat was my favorite paint scheme for it.

Not a minor event! Killed Payne Stewart and his fellow passengers.

The Oculus Rift. Because your family thinks that as dumb as you look wearing Track IR trackers on your head, you could look goofier.

While the USAF wants the F-35A to be the next F-16, I have trouble believing they'll ever build enough of them to actually get the same legacy. The F-16, like the F-4 before it, is a plane that started with a very straight forward idea but became a complex, multirole bird doing the jobs no others could. In fact, the F-16 replaced the F-4 in WW, one of the rare roles it did.

It's a test article, costs aren't relevant. A production version would certainly be different in many ways.

The best way to take down Iran and North Korea is to put them into the most aggressive HOAs we have.

The difference with the 35 is the engine is very powerful. Granted the weight is higher, but the engine is more advanced and so powerful that it enables the plane to get out of what would previously be considered a bad E state with ease.

I shall call it...mini B----2! *musical sting*

It's not the operations that scare me, it's the recovery afterwards! I always am fine for those, but the discomfort afterwards is what I dread...

Every film is made for financial gain. It's a business, not a charity.

The only thing that is 100% off limits is the manufacturer's name, even defunct names like Fairchild or North American as they were bought up by others years ago and have taken on the legal burden. You can say F-16, that's a designation. You can say F-16 Vipers or Electric Jets (as those are nicknames). Usage of Fighting Falcon is a gray area depending on what the manufacturer bothered to register. However, rule of thumb is just to leave it off. Notice ED called it DCS: A-10C, not A-10C Thunderbolt II, not Fairchild Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II. The claims that the actual visual representation belongs to them is just bogus.

It's not designed to dogfight or they would've built it differently. It's designed to be able to take out the enemy without having to get in a dogfight. As for bomb truck, it's a lot less expensive than the B-2, and that's all the B-2 is. Same with the B-1B and the B-52.

I don't want to be sporting, I want to have a supremely unfair advantage.

I want to fly a stealth fighter so I don't get shot down by a SAM. I can train to beat a guy in another jet. Beating a SAM with hundreds of miles of range is another matter.

That was to be the Super Hornet replacement, and AFAIK that program is name only, no money has been allocated.

And THAT is why you don't want your burner on when there are IR missiles in the area! Blinding! Most interesting thing I noticed, something I never saw in IR footage before, is the reflectivity. The A380 belly looked like a polished natural metal B-29's belly in IR. Also on several of them there were IR "glints" as they turned, possibly from the sun.

Yes, the B-1's lines belie its size. It's much larger than the 135's that refuel it.

Well, the comment still applies. Whichever plane it is, stopping in 300 ft on a flat stationary runway isn't the same thing as doing it on a moving, possibly pitching and/or wet deck! I think a hook is just the only safe way.

I loved the Tab-causes-hair growth bit.