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Static thrust is just one variable. Engine altitude tables, engine efficiency tables, drag tables, and whatever your loadout is at the at time, all play a role in how an aircraft model accelerates.

Passing over the old USCG air station at Floyd Bennett field, Brooklyn, en route to NY harbor.

Dude, that sucks. You'll be in my thoughts and prayers,

Outbound traffic in Ambrose channel, just east of Sandy Hook, NJ

Has anybody given any thought to creating a VM on their Windows 7/8/10 box, and then try installing Windows 98 onto that VM, to run older games?

Is that King Kong that I see off to my left?

I have treated my system to a few more upgrades over the course of the last week. First, I added a CyberPower 1500 watt UPS to protect my investment from the numerous brownouts and power surges that we experience here during bad weather. Then, I decided that it was time to upgrade my graphics card and the OS drive: Of course, just for grins, I bench marked both against their predecessors. In the case of the mechanical HDD, I used the non-OS saves drive, a 1 TB, 7200 RPM WD "blue" drive, that was identical to the one that held the OS. As you can see, it performed exceptionally well for a mechanical drive (benchmark performed with CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2, all settings at software defaults) : Now let's compare that score to the Crucial MX300 525 MB SSD. Again, the test was performed with default settings in CrystalDiskMark: What benchmarks cannot do, is show one how fast and smooth the system becomes once you've made the switch to an SSD. My system now goes from initial OS load to a usable desktop in just under 9 seconds. Next, let's compare graphics cards, using FutureMark's Firestrike benchmark. First up, the tried and true GTX 750ti that served me well for the last two years: And hers's the GTX 1070's score:

Astronomers have announced that they have discovered an earth-sized planet orbiting the sun's nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri (which in turn is itself a "third" member of the Alpha Centauri binary star system). Anyway, at 4.24 light years distance, it'll take a while before Virgin Galactic begins regularly scheduled service there http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-find-earth-like-planet-circling-suns-nearest-neighbour/ar-BBw03po?OCID=ansmsnnews11

A what-if scenario in Atlantic Fleet. HMS Lion vs the H-39-class BB, Hutten. Who will prevail?

It is download only through Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/420440

For $9.99 US, it is an absolute bargain.

Well, I purchased the Asus MX279 at Best Buy. They were able to price-match Amazon. I've had it for about a week now, and I am satisfied with its image and build quality.It also has two HDMI inputs, so it allows me to run both my laptop and deskstop simultaneously (trying to view spreadsheets on a 14" laptop display is a sure-fire recipe for eye strain).

According to TK, none of the Thirdwire titles support SLI. As a side note, I was recently watching a video review on the latest (1000 series) Nvidia cards, and the reviewer opined that this may be the last generation of cards that supports SLI.

Welcome back, Russ.

And remember Boyz n Girlz, aiming for the turrets, and applying a bit of TLAR judiciously to the elevation settings, should result in your opponent ending up with "Limp Gun Syndrome"

The game is player-centric, in that the player usually beats the AI. For example, I sank Scharnhorst using the Queen Elizabeth several times, and suffered zero damage during the encounter! Yet, when the roles were reversed, I usually sank the QE using the Scharnhorst. It'd be cool if the developers offered an upgraded version of the game, with additional ships. Such as the South Dakota-class BBs*, the older US BBs (such as the USS Texas and Neveda) that took part in convoy escort and shore bombardments, and of course, HMS Vanguard. Vanguard had better protection and fire control than the KG Vs (and since the Lion-class BBs were essentially stretched KG Vs, we must include them in this discussion). If only Vanguard had been completed in 1943 as originally planned... *As a side note, even the then brand-new USS Iowa was staged to Argentia, Newfoundland at one point during the war, to counter against the Tirpitz breaking out into the Atlantic shipping lanes.

The 1060 reportedly bests the 980 in a few titles: Unfortunately, my 7-year old LG Flatron-22 (1680 x 1050) is dying. I'm looking at this piece of kit to replace it: (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B17C5KO/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER0). The fact that it's "only" 1080P does not bother me at all.

The default is for the installer to merge all titles. All the terrains aircraft, and ground objects will then be available from within SF2, You can install all your mods into that one title's mod folder, and you'll be able to access everything from there. Load times depend on the terrain, objects (number, complexity, etc.), that you select. The only issue is that your gfx card is a bit weak for the most recent models and terrain sets. Also, how is the external drive being accessed? Is it through USB 2, USB 3, or external SATA? I would opt for at least the last two.

Temps while playing Atlantic Fleet. Granted, not a title which really stresses hardware, but a good indicator as to how effective the Hyper 212 Evo is at cooling. Not bad for a $30 piece of kit (plus the cost of an extra fan).

Well, it's been two years since I built this system, and I felt that it was time for a mid-cycle refresh. The Pentium G3258 has served me well, though it was starting to hit its ceiling when I started encoding video. I decided it was more cost effective to replace the processor. Rather than spending $500-600 on on a new mainboard, DDR 4 RAM, and a Skylake CPU, I went with an I-7 4790K. An i7-6700 Skylake-based system might have given me perhaps a 7% improvement over the Haswell-based 4790K, in benchmarks, but we all know how that goes... Next month, if my finances allow, I may splurge on a GTX 1060.

A classic Monty Python skit...

Yes it has. The Mirage Factory MiG-29, F-15, and MiG-21 were all created in Blender by Flying Toaster, and exported into Max by Olie.

We ran a test to prove that everything in the SF world was of proper relative size a few years ago, by placing a ship on open water, centering its return blip on an aircraft's radar, and then flying that aircraft towards it at a carefully controlled speed and timing the event with a stop-watch. It took pretty much the exact time that it should have, given a 600-knot closure rate, so speeds in this series pretty much reflect those in the real-world. What's off in the SF world are the terrain maps, which are roughly at 60% scale.

If one of our 3D specialists decides to create one, then good for you. Otherwise, you can always bone up on creating such things on your own (even using freeware apps such as blender), and then have someone with the proper version of 3ds Max import, animate, and export them to *.lod format for you, if they're willing.

The easiest solution, is to disable the Intel integrated graphics in your system's BIOS, thereby forcing all applications to use your discrete GPU.