Dave

payaso Did it work for you at all?

Thank you ma'am. That was it. And I know what you mean, you just know.

But TAC in 1965/66 was not teaching conventional roles they taught nuclear delivery. They were the best at that, most had no clue on conventional delivery. TAC is the 60's was geared for a nuclear shootout, that was the only way they could get a piece of the budget that SAC was taking up.

My question wasn't because you were a female why you liked the Spad. Others jumped in not understanding. I mean what drew you to like it. My favorite is the F-8 Crusader, the first time I saw it in person I was hooked. It was sitting at the flight line at Hanscom AFB back in 1985. After that I have been in love with it ever since.

I came off a target, with the F-22 doing some BDA, as I turned hard right the guns from a Tungaska got me. They were trying to take pot shots at me with their SA-19's in optical mode but that doesn't work well when you are jinking.

Great works guys. This one have been anticipated for awhile. Bravo!

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You need to do this trick, your integrated chip set isn't cutting it.... So try this. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=12148

I see zerocinco lurking and since he has ventured into the payware stuff what do you think the feasibility of this is? From a financial perspective. My problem is that I don't know enough about to make and educated response.

You know what I have been trying to a description to that and I think you just nailed it on the head. You are right about the F-22 incident, that pilot had 20 hours in the F-22 and the SH pilot has like 1000 hours in the C and 300 in the SH. But at Red Flag Alaska, the F-22 went 151 and 0 against SH, Eagles and Vipers. But then there is the Viper pilot who got a kill on an F-22 at the Nellis Red Flag. They used a new tactic. Got the 22's with their pants down, however the bad part for the Viper pilots was, that tactic worked on once. Just once, haven't gotten closed to a kill since.

Very correct, 50% of them are splattered all over Thud Ridge. Talking to Col Broughton a few years ago at a convention he said he was surprised the Thuds that came home with the damage some of them took. He said it was an all or none thing. Some came home and it was like how did that come home, then some had very little damage to the casual eye but were total write offs.

Well that incident, the pilot was caught with his pants down. But you can't dispute the fear factor. When they flew, the NVPAF stayed on the ground. The only fighter to come close to that was the F-8. There are cases that when F-8's in the air, Mig pilots, ejected, rather than fight them. In the A2G role, yes I don't think it was the best choice. But even Andy Bush said that it did better than people give it credit for. But pulling it from Vietnam was the right choice just to it high accident rate. If there is ever a statement to hold true, it was the man more than the machine.

That is a fair assessment. However I am moving the Thud to A-. My reason is that is did its role perfect, it could carry the loads and haul ass back. What held it back was the pilots inability in the beginning to deliver iron bombs. Some never dropped one until they saw combat in SEA. All were trained to deliver a nuclear payload and get the hell out of dodge. The F-106 gets an A. There are a few Eagle pilots that found out the hard way that getting into a knife fight ONE O SIX was a bad move. Despite its delta wing, it was a very maneuverable aircraft. It was THE interceptor until it was retired. Its William Tell record is a testament to that. In fact there are units that fly the F-15 now and think they were cheated when they switched to F-15's.

I agree, I just don't think people would do it on faith alone. I do like the idea though.

No those are Canadian planes and are not lumped in with the US Century series.

EXT Have you checked the skins section?

LOL

I am deeply disturbed, I should ban you allen....

I doubt that it was that many search engine bots.

Nicky How did you become interested in the Spad?

Not sure, but 1500 in 4 days is pretty good.

We tried to make it a little easier to find things. Some just didnt have enough to make it thier own catagory so some got lumped together. But it is still easier to find things.

Cold War Skins were reorganized. WWII Aircraft and Skins reorganzied with new catagories added. Helo skins reorganzied, new sections added. Objects mods reorganzied with new sections added. Fictional skins catagory added in Modern Aircraft Skins Section. Thank you to Sag and Hrntfixr for the help.

But if the original maker didn't make enough decals for the 3rd party skins then you will always run into that problem.