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They are outdated and fairly unreliable. You would be better off with an SSD.

In the past, TK has stated that the series does not support SLI or Crossfire. Try going to single card mode in your graphics control panel, and see if that fixes it.

Sound should have absolutely nothing to do with that. Did you update your graphics card drivers? Is your DirectX updated?

The AI always uses a "hybrid" normal flight mode, some aspects of which are similar to the player's easy mode,. I've seen AI birds perform maneuvers and exceed limits beyond what the player can do in that same aircraft.

Great work Blackbird! And Wilches, I don't give a flying f#ck how long it takes one to produce a model, especially if it means choosing between quality, which takes time, or mediocrity, which is all too common.

Try all that in conjunction with Eric's F-18s. If you are able to maintain a nice, playable frame rate, then all is well. Of course, don't tell the IRS......

A properly configured FM would be best flown in hard mode. The issue is, that this had become a moving target, due to how TK decided that stalls (and stall recovery) should be handled, in later patches. In short, FMs penned up since the last patch release are generally OK. Earlier ones often exhibit weird behavior at the point of stall, and also, post-stall.

Well, has anyone made an IRS mod yet?

The "reply" served as my Windows error.wav for many years.

He forgot to demand "Your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle".

Novalogic's F-16MRF & MiG-29 both date back to 1998. Had a lot of fun with those, on my old Celeron 300A@450 / Voodoo Banshee system. I believe that Novalogic's F-22 came out in 2000, and it's main advantage was that it ran under both Glide and DirectX (MiG-29 and F-16 were Glide only). There are some decent Glide wrappers available that will allow one to run the two earlier titles with 3D acceleration. Unfortunately, I think that both games are limited to either 800x600 or 1024x768 resolution. Anyway, the scripted missions were just OK, multiplayer through "Nova World" was smooth, albeit boring, as these were really games and not sims by any stretch of imagination. I still have all 3 games sitting on a shelf.

130 years ago today, Lady Liberty arrived in New York Harbor: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/statue-of-liberty-arrives-in-new-york-harbor

I'm sure most of you will get a kick out of this: http://www.doyletics.com/tidbits/militaryadvice.pdf My favorite is "Coffee tastes better if the latrines are dug downstream from an encampment."

The early A's did not have slats. They were added starting with block A-5. The E-models had slats unless they were later converted to 6-3 wings (so I stand corrected on that one), The F-86Fs started with slats, then went to the 6-3 wing, and then were later modified with slats yet again (post-war F-40s). The F-86E started with the J-47-GE-13, and ended their run with the J-47-GE-27 (planned for E-10s and up). To further confuse the matter, the first 93 F-86Fs were re-designated F-86E-15s due to production shortages of the GE-27. So there were F-86E-10s running around with GE-27s, while the first batch of "Fs" left the factory with GE-13s.

Those figures you posted are also not accurate. Let's compare them to actual figures from an F-86F-1, taken in 1959 during a flight test. NOTE: this is with the J-47-GE-27, which we all agree has greater thrust:

Check the date of that chart. It pre-dates the in-service dates of slatted E-models (the Block-10s and the Block-15s).

Interesting. What does it look like when the sun is directly overhead?

Then do your homework. Because of the unique tailpipe fitted to all Sabres, the J-47-GE-13 is rated at 6,000 lbs thrust in that airframe.

Not if it's an E-15 or later, which covers most of the E-models that served during the Korean war. All of the E's that left the factory with leading edge slats were at least block-15s.

It depends on the block number. F-86E-15's used the J47-GE-13 & GE-17B mills, while earlier E-variants and most A-models (A-5s) used the J47-GE-7. To further confuse the issue, many E-models were field-modded with GE-25s , and eventually, most later models Es were eventually retrofitted with the full "F" package, 6-3 wings, J47-GE-27s, and all.

RIP

Wow, that's eerie watching that sequence, and hearing nothing but the wheels against the deck. I wonder if the shuttle's brought to a stop by reversing polarity at the end of the cat-stroke, or if they're still using a water-brake?

Roadkill TV sets the bar:

Touche!

Don't forget the MiG-21 pits by Paladrian.