JediMaster

The Su-34 will replace the Su-24 as a long-range interdiction plane. It will fill the same roles as the F-111 and F-15E. I'm sure its performance compared to a regular Flanker is similar to the Beagle's performance compared to the standard F-15C. The Su-33KUB is a combat-capable trainer (hence the large nose radar the 34 doesn't have) for teaching carrier ops. It's literally a 33 with a 2nd seat but side-by-side instead of front-back. The last plane I can think of that did that was the TF-102, actually.

The A-10 isn't too tough, but the Russian planes require some real time to learn and the F-15 can be a bit frustrating.

That's hard to say. By and large the community went with every addon and merged them for FB+AEP+PF as a single game. Should you only have an earlier version with fewer planes/maps to use, there are a number of problems you could encounter trying to use these downloads. Not just needing an object or map you don't have, but other things have changed over the years as well and a mission could be impossible to complete or such as a result. The safest bet would be to look for the oldest files you can find, from back when FB was alone out there! I think that was 2003? I believe AEP came out in 2004 and Pac Fighters was 2005? My memory is a bit fuzzy...

Where'd you get the ATT from?

I remember flying a B-1B in F4 (modded) and attacking an airfield with 84 82's blasting it to pieces. It was FUN. I was at around 200ft when I dropped them. They were retarded bombs, of course, or I would not have lived.

The Daily Show is perfect at skewering those two-faced politicians.

Sorry, the Su-34/32FN/27IB is not the best looking 2-seat Flanker. That honor goes to the Su-27/33KUB! http://www.lindenhillimports.com/su-27kub.htm http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/Guest/60/

I remember reading that the F-16XL actually seemed to perform better than the conventional version.

It's not always so much how FAR you pull the stick back, it's how FAST. For example, full back in half a second = blackout. Take 1.5 seconds, no blackout.

Oh, so it works if your flight of planes have dissimilar loadouts. I was thinking of the buddy lasing deals where say a GR.4 lases and a Jaguar drops, or something like that. Those are different flights.

Reminds me of that scene in Under Siege when Tommy Lee Jones goes flying backwards when it fires.

Do you mean this one? The FH-1? http://www.boeing.com/history/mdc/phantom1.htm In that case, no, it's never been done. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/sys...f-4-history.htm Or do you mean this one, the F4H-1 nee F-4A? http://usslexington.com/index.php?option=c...&Itemid=106 As fewer than 50 F-4As were built before production switched to the B, it's a minor footnote to the plane's overall history.

Me either. I played a lot of GRAW last fall and winter, once the OGR coop patch came out, but the existing maps got old fast and new maps tended to be very low quality. Then you had ones with retarded respawning enemies (you would see them do it, and sometimes right next to you!) and 25 snipers in one block...they got old even faster. I'll probably get GRAW2, but seeing the way people are talking about GRAW2 on the 360 I'm not sure it will be sufficiently better.

Someone's looking for a job in the 3d modeling world.

Well, the flip side of that is planes in reality took far fewer hits on average to be shot down or at least knocked out of the fight. For every "miracle plane" with 100 holes in it there were numerous others that went down after just a burst or two.

If you have Wings over Europe, which I'm not certain of, I would recommend the "all in one" NATO Fighters 1 and 2 add ons. Lots of stuff with minimal hassle. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a lot of bundling like that because people have gotten all pissy about their stuff being with someone else's or whatever, so often you have to do everything separately yourself. First Eagles is the same type of situation, with little bundling and most stuff separate. I'd say the easiest things to do are usually just adding planes. The 2nd easiest is terrains, followed closely by the Weapons Pack for the SFP1/WoX series which is required if you want to use the weapons on a lot of the add on planes. Without it, you may have a plane with nothing but a gun. Of course, for Il-2 the only addons are commercial or just skins, nothing complicated there--unless you buy multiple addons and then there can be a dance as to which ones get installed when and how in the patching process...

That depends on your definition of "best". Best at what? Most kills? That would mean a WWII-era plane. Best carrier-launched? The S-3B. Best land-based? P-3C Update III. Best helo? One of the Seahawks, the Romeo I think. It all depends on your criteria.

Crazy Glue bonds these trooper's helmets to suspend them in midair!

I'm 99 44/100% certain you can't have offboard designation in these games.

Fishbeds and Foxhounds, Fulcrums and Floggers. Farmers and Foxbats for buzzing those joggers. Fagots are so named for bundles of twigs. These are a few of my favorite MiGs...

Is that the New Jersey back there?

Hmmm. A-6 or A-7, which is uglier?

There's no room in the Bahamas! However, you can imagine the casinos in R6V are in the Bahamas...or anywhere in the world, really.

I took Spanish...gets a LOT more mileage down here.

You did read that AvWeek article that claimed the "unbuilt" 3rd prototype was doing just that for the past 30+ years? The idea that "Dyno-soar" may not have gone the way of its namesakes but actually been used operationally is very intriguing.