Fubar512

A short, though regretfully silent,video of the MiG-17F flight model in action. It also showcases the tracer effects. You may want to zoom it to full screen. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...si&img=4090

Here's a few images from WoV, with Brain32's tiles, and a few shader effects I've been mucking around with. In the bottom image, notice the "textured" appearance that the terrain.fx shader lends to that particular tile. Almost like scrub-grass....

The 21 series was completed some time ago. The 19 still needs work . Anyway, I'm at a crossroads here.... I can release a fairly hard core flight model for the '17F, one that can be a challenge to fly in hard mode (Mach-induced instability leading to Dutch rolls, etc.). Or, I can release a "simplified" one that is about 90% accurate, but doesn't get too nasty as you approach its limits. The latter is ready, the former may push the release back a week or so while I fine tune it.

You mean, something like this? http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...si&img=4066

Fine here....

I'm in the process of updating the MIG-17F's flight model, to one that more accurately follows the published data from the "Have Drill" evaluation performed by USAF, in 1969. The new model will not only mimic loss of roll authority due to wing-warping above 460 KIAS, but will also suffer from 'Mach tuck" beyond 475 KIAS, a prelude to a total loss of pitch authority above 502 KIAS. The '17 did not have hydraulically boosted elevators, so it was all but humanly impossible to pull out of a dive in one by yanking back on the stick above that speed, even though the real aircraft often sported a retractable stick extender, just for that contingency. Should have it up soon, along with a copy of the Have-Drill speed/altitude/sustained G graph, for reference. I'm also playing with the tracer effects, which in my opinion, look a bit arcadish at present. I replaced the default WoV VPAF dark-red tracer with a brighter colored version, added an improved tracer-smoke effect (they should look more like smoke rings than a continuous streak of smoke), and re-sized all the tracers to more realistic values.

You format a post like that, and then you have the temerity to ask why I believe that you're acting rude? Are you that clueless?

Not fair? Let me be the first to clue you in on something.... A forum is NOT a democracy...it is a dictatorship. Now, I'd like to think of ours as being a benign dictatorship , but, either way , the fact remains. We make and enforce the rules here. Remember, you're the one signing on to OUR forum, and acting rude. We're simply responding.

Traveling at Mach 3+ in the rarefied atmosphere above 80,000 feet, the SR-71's titanium clad nose would often glow from friction, and sometimes even distort to the point of wash boarding. The F-15's Vmax of Mach 2.4-2.5@39,000 feet is due to the canopy melting beyond that speed. Assuming one had enough thrust to travel at those speeds at lower altitudes, what do you think would happen, say, at sea level? Or even much below 30,000 feet? The world speed record for low altitude flight (officially verified) is 988 mph/859 knots/Mach 1.3@125 feet, set by the F-104 "Red Baron", which was modified specifically for that purpose. That record has stood for 30 years.

Both Shrikes were fired from over 3 nm, and they both hit their targets (SAM radars). That's why the RWR went "silent" just as I dropped rockeyes on the AAA battery around the Haiphong POL site, which was the strike package's main target...even though I inadventantly took out the tanks myself..lol

The MiG-23 series should be active well into the 1990s. Which of the SF-titles are you running? Also, if you want a challenge, install the Su-27 and dial up the year to anything after 1991-92, so they have R-73s and R-77s.

Wow....I saw my first Bond film, "Live and Let Die", back in the summer of 1973, with my older brother. He was surprised to see the same actors reprising their "M" and Moneypenny roles, but I recall that he was somehow disappointed with Moore's portrayal of Bond. I guess Lois Maxwell was in her mid-40's back then, having played the role of Miss Moneypenny for over 10 years before that film. And, she was still at it 12 years later, ending her run in that series alongside Roger Moore in "A View to a Kill" (1985). Godspeed, Miss Moneypenny.

I just cannot stop playing WoV after installing Brain32's photo realistic terrain tiles. They add to the immersion in a big way, although I have found myself getting shot down quite often, simply because I was busy admiring the scenery

The Forger wasn't supersonic. It was in fact, slower than most Harriers, and could not even safely operate in VTOL mode with an external loadout. The Freestyle, by contrast, met its design goals, though at a hideously expensive price point (probably due to it's advanced fly-by-wire TVC system), so it wasn't placed in service.

Awwwww.....you've missed the point!!! You see, a MAC tool truck could use it's own tools to help it transform. Don't you realize that?

Paul, did you mean "MACK" truck, or, "MAC" truck, as in "MAC" tools. It would make a difference, ya know......

As Arnie said in T2, "No Problemo!" Video Showing Rudder Workie, No Crashie