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The F-104's Vmax was also limited due to thermal issues, it could attain a Mach number high enough to melt its windscreen (which if I recall correctly, occurred between Mach 2.25 and 2.5). I am sure a similar issue existed with the F-4.

When I first saw the title of this thread, I was thinking "What is he talking about, Ron O'Neal died at least 10-12 years ago". LOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_O'Neal

Tobacco powered cars.....Perhaps we should forward this concept to Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. They could each build one, and compete against one another in a trans-continental race.

I work at a site that recently implemented a tobacco-free policy. No smoking of any sort is allowed on the facility, and no tobacco of any sort is allowed on the premises. On the first day after Christmas break, they held a question and answer session regarding the new policy and its potential impact (mostly penalties) for those who do not obey it. I was going through the notes on the Q and A, and encountered one question, which went unanswered; "What if I arrive at work driving a tobacco-powered car?"

Wow. Thanks for sharing this.

That's an issue with a value in your environmentsystem.ini file. Try renaming its extension, from "ini" to "bak", and let the system load the default one, as a trouble-shooting step. It could be in either the horizon height or horizon color entries.

Just for comparison, this is what Manasquan inlet looked like during a nor'easter in October of 2015, some 77 years later

I have a lot of respect for the USCG. They will go out in some truly hellacious conditions to rescue you, no questions asked. I recall an incident many years ago, where an MLB crew out of USCG Station Sandy Hook went out in response to a distress call, at night, and right into the teeth of a winter nor'easter. The crew of the MLB suffered a few casualties (broken bones, etc), for what turned out to be a hoax call, perpetrated by some kids sitting in the safety of their parent's driveway! Of course, since then, laws have been set in place to discourage asshats from doing that: https://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg534/SARfactsInfo/SARisNOjoke.asp

For those of fans the action film, "The Finest Hours", you know what a surf-boat is, and what its capabilities are. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept, a surf boat is a small rescue craft that is designed to effect rescues in heavy, breaking waves, conditions that one often finds around inlets that are subject to fast ebbing tides that run against opposing seas. This creates heavy surf, and makes those inlets all but impassable under those conditions. Here's a clip from "The Finest Hours": This is real footage of that same class of surf boat, taken at the local inlet, in September of 1938:

Interesting film from the early 1930s with period carrier ops.

Yes, an idiot, indeed http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/747135/donald-trump-president-elect-f35-fighter-jet-tweet Donald Trump in big win: F-35 fighter jets cost driven DOWN after President-elect's anger THE chief executive of Lockheed Martin Corp told President-elect Donald Trump on Friday that she was committed to driving down the cost of the company's F-35 fighter jet, a day after Trump took aim at the cost of the F-35 in a Twitter post. CEO Marillyn Hewson said she spoke with Mr Trump on Friday afternoon and assured him that she had heard his message "loud and clear" about reducing the cost of the F-35.Mr Trump, in a tweet posted late on Thursday, suggested that an older aircraft made by rival aerospace company Boeing Co could offer a cheaper alternative to the F-35. "Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!" Mr Trump said. Ms Hewson, in a statement posted on Twitter, said she had had "a very good conversation" with Trump on Friday. "I gave him my personal commitment to drive the cost down aggressively," she said in the statement. Lockheed shares closed down 1.3 per cent on Friday, nearing their lowest levels since the November 8 election.

Time to wish my friends here at CA a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, and a Happy 2017!

The MiG-15 had the ASP-3N gyroscopic reflector gunsight, as did the early MiG-17A models. "Ranging" on it was pilot controlled, sort of like adjusting for bullet drop on a rifle's telescopic sight, in this case, the pilot adjusted the reticle to the target's wingspan. Radar-ranging lead computing sights did not appear on MiGs until the later '17A and '17F models. Here's a wiki article on Gyroscopic gunsights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_gunsight

And a Merry Christmas to you and yours, Russ!

1080P is 1080P, whether one achieves it using a 22" PC monitor, or a 72" television display. The only issue one might encounter, would be due to ideal viewing distances. Since a given resolution results in the same number of pixels being displayed, regardless of screen size, a smaller display will tend to have a sharper image when viewed from a typical "desk top" view distance of just under 24", as the pixels on its screen will be smaller. A 46" display, on the other hand, will appear just as sharp, but only when viewed from a greater distance (ideal viewing distance for that size display is 6.4 feet/1.96 meters). Hope this helped.

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No issues with Google Chrome.

That reminds me of another joke... Fidel decides to visit an asylum, to show that he is truly a man of the people. While touring the facility, he encounters an obviously insane man building a rather magnificent castle, out of manure. Fidel stops and asks the man what he is doing, and the man responds, "Why, I am building progressivism!" Fidel considers this, and plays along, by launching into a twenty minute speech on how the nation must come together as one and move forward towards socialism, and utimately, to communisim. The man appears to agree with him, and yells to a colleague "Jose! Bring me ten more wheel barrels of shit! We're now going to build communisim!"

Yes! Why do we even need to buy SF2 to run this? It should be setup to run on its own! Hell, while we're on the subject, why make it so we even need to own a PC to play it in the first place! More free stuff, man!

A real fixer upper!

Hey my friend, people here have spent serious time on creating mods, and when I mean time, I mean as in years. So relax and take the time to thank our modding community for their toils, for the gifts that they have given us, and namely, thank them for the time they took. Valuable time that they could have spent with friends and family, etc. Threads like this get closed, fast, and posters who continually whine about such things, tend to suddenly disappear. Understand?

Well, taking into account that the AM37's fuel tanks, when full, would most likely hold more fuel by weight, than a Cessna 172 weighs (dry weight, as the Cessna holds about 55 gallons of fuel itself). Then, on a 37-foot pleasure boat, one must assume an additional 50 US gallons or so of freshwater capacity, at 417 lbs. My last boat, a 31-footer, held 225 US gallons of fuel in its main tank, and I added an additional 75 gallon auxiliary tank to augment my range. The 54-footer that I captained, by comparison, held 1500 gallons (of diesel), though that vessel also displaced 40 US tons.

How difficult is it to make an FSX model Tacpack compatible, and will such a model's AI engage you? Those are the questions you need to ask. If you read through some of the threads on other websites, you'll see that there's quite a list of upcoming models that are Tacpack compatible, plus revisions to make some existing models compliant, and also, Tacpack has an SDK out, which may allow modders to "arm" models.

Hell, with a 50+ knot top speed (56 mph), you could launch a freaking Cessna from that thing! Those 520 HP 8.3 liter V8's (523 cubic inches) are manufactured in-house by Mercruiser, and though the design is loosely based on the Chevrolet Mark IV big block, they share nothing with any production engine.

Baffmeister, the Skyray (like all true deltas) did not stall in the conventional sense. When deltas exceed a certain alpha at speed, they bleed off airspeed rapidly, an effect that pilots refer to as "mushing". If one is already flying at too low an airspeed, the aircraft will pitch up and appear to fly straight and level at a ridiculously low air speed, while it is actually losing altitude. In fact, it's quite possible to fly at full throttle at such an attitude, losing airspeed and altitude with little or no external references. What I would do is eliminate the stall values on that FM, and play with the alpha/drag tables in order to achieve this.