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One diagnostic step you can take to determine if it's the Vampire model itself, is to set the various model nodes on the Vampire from their present declaration of "ShowfromCockpit=TRUE", to FALSE.

Sounds as if you're not using the right .cat file, or the proper path to one.

Actually, building codes in NJ are very stringent, and have been so been since the 1960s. Must of the older beach homes (pre-1960s construction) were built as summer homes , originally intended as inexpensive vacation cottages for working-class families. The fact that several "Mac-Mansions" got washed away, speaks volumes as to the height and strength of the surge. I may have some hereto unseen footage of the storm-surge sweeping through the streets of a coastal town at the height of the storm. According to the person who made the video, the first 4 feet of the surge was more in line with a tide movement, but the last 6-7 feet of it came in like a tsunami wave. Here's a link about another person's ordeal: http://www.dailyreco...ext|NJOPINION02

Well, we got hit by another Nor'easter last night, 50 mph winds, sub-freezing temps, and 13 inches of snow in my town. It took my power out, yet again. I awoke to a dark, cold apartment this morning, and waited until daylight to begin digging out (I generally leave for work at 0530). Needless to say, all the local roads were an obstacle course of downed tree limbs and power lines. This was a heavy, wet snow,,,,check out the power lines in the video: DerSchnee.wmv Here's set of before and after aerial images of the New Jersey coast, superimposed over one another. Move your mouse from right to left to view the damage caused by Sandy: http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/hurricane-sandy-before-after-photos/

New WIP, AI-only, the Yak-44 "Mainline"

The Walmart fiasco was basically this: TW delivered a beta version of SF:P1 to Walmart for evaluation purposes, and Walmart decided to not to wait for the finished product, and distributed it as a finished product . It was patchable only enough to make it playable, but it was not the same as the Strategy First version, which was patched all the way to the '08 level.

Yes, that would be cool.

The "Cobra" was meant to be an alternative to the F-104 for export sales.

It should be more like "I am your great-grandfather!" P-530, son of F-5, father of P-600 (AKA YF-17), grandfather of the F-18. http://wiki.scramble.../Northrop_P-530 More on the LWF program: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0236.shtml

With a scale model James May at the controls?

Access the Iceland terrain, aircraft, missions, etc, from EXP2, then.

A montage of post-Sandy images, this is the nearby town of Manasquan, NJ (about 10 miles SE of me). http://www.manasquan-nj.com/Sandy-1012/index.html

There's one by the Tomcat74 and the Mirage Factory that needs to be finished.

Hello and Thank You all for your concern. Power was finally restored to my complex early Friday morning, and my internet/voice/CATV service, just a few hours ago. Cell service here is still sporadic, depending on one's carrier. In my immediate area, for example, my carrier only allows one to place emergency calls (911, etc). However, a mere 15 minutes drive to the west, and I get full 4G LTE service. For me, this storm was nothing more than a major inconvenience. It chased me out of my home for a few days, as my power and heat were both cut off (and Jedi Master, I have gas heat, but it still depends on electricity for ignition and metering). From Wednesday until Friday evening, I actually lived at my place of employment. We had access to food, shower facilities, some internet access (albeit site-restricted) and television. By comparison, it was a catastrophe for some, and deadly for a few. At least three of my friends lost their homes, cars and boats. Luckily, none lost their lives, or any family members, to Sandy's wrath. Their stories were mostly sad, except for one stoic fellow, whom I'll refer to as "Ahab". Ahab's residence was on the barrier Island community of Mantoloking. Below is an aerial view of the area, in the aftermath of the storm. The inlet at the foot of the bridge did not exist before the storm. It was carved out by the storm surge, which literally bulldozed a path through homes and a state highway, allowing the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay to meet where NJ Highway 35 once was. Ahab's home was just south of the bridge. In his word's "I heeded advice from an old-timer, who had survived Hurricane Donna (in 1960). He told me that in the event of a major hurricane, it was best to leave all the doors and windows on the ground floor wide open, and let the storm surge pass through your home. If you leave them closed, or barricade them, the surge will most likely knock your home right off its foundations, and carry it away. So I did what he said, and my house is still standing, although I have over a foot of sand in places on my ground floor." Ahab had carried all his valuables and some of his furniture up to the second floor before the storm, so they were mostly undamaged. He also stated that during the height of the storm, the surge reached up to the ceiling of his ground floor, and was lapping at the upsatirs landing. Further north, we have been hearing stories of the surge having reached a measured height of 13 feet above the high tide mark, of dead fish being found a half-mile inland, and of rail cars having been wrenched off their tracks, and carried onto the NJ Turnpike.

Check www. NJ. Com for the local take on the storms aftermath

Southern Monmouth County here, between Wall, Colts Neck, and Howell. They now predict that the eye will come ashore between Ocean City and Atlantic City. We had a 76 mph gust at the local airport, and I've lost power twice, so far. Here's the data from a Buoy 25 nautical miles south of Fire Island Inlet. NY: Winds: NE (50°) at 48.6 knots gusting to 64.1 knots Significant Wave Height: 26.6 ft Dominant Wave Period: 15 sec Mean Wave Direction: ENE (69°) Atmospheric Pressure: 28.49 in and falling rapidly Air Temperature: 62.1 F Dew Point: 62.1 F Water Temperature: 59.5 F

This link should work for those of you out of the area: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yXMU2qwCVag

Viper, the NY MTA has a few pieces of equipment that date back almost a hundred years. They just keep refurbishing it, as nothing comperable (read that as reliable) is manufactured today.

Jedi, Have you ever experienced a Nor'easter? We're lucky in that this did not occur late enough in the year to get frozen percipitation. One that hit five years ago (in late February) coated all stationary objects with several inches of ice, and knocked out the power in my complex for the better part of a week. It also packed 60 mph gusts. The eye-wall of Sandy is expected to come ashore less than twenty miles south of me. The last estimate was for sustained catagory one winds on the coast, and 80-mph gusts inland (I live 7 miles inland, and 90 feet above sea level). Our real worry here is flooding. We live near a resevoir that's feed by literally dozens of creeks. That resevoir was built by damming the Manasquan River, which flows into the Atlantic. As the storm surge hits, the lower Manasquan will of course overflow, as the storm is expected to hit at high tide. They have already evacuated people from the barrier islands south of Manasquan Inlet. Anyhow, the normal protocol for the resevoir overflowing its banks, is to release water into the Manasquan River. Well, how can you release water into an already overflowing river? So, guess what? All those creeks that feed the resevoir overflow their banks, which is what occurred with Tropical Storm Irene last year. You do remember the images I posted from that minor event, right?

At any rate, as Bill Cosby once said; "In those kind of situations, I find that there is one absolute, one constant, and I don't need to mention it here. But I will give you a hint: First you say it, then you do it."

I don't know if this has been posted here before, but I can guarantee you one thing....someone had to check their underwear after this incident...

Yes, Create some Israeli frigates and torpedo boats, and you'll then see them. Jonathan! Jonathan! Sorry, couldn't resist.... I saw the original "Rollerball" (with James Caan is the lead role), for only the second time in like 37 years this past weekend : ) Anway, I just encountered an E-2, and E-3, and an A-50 in a system-generated single mission.

Single mission, and it was generated by the system, not placed by me.

Interesting, because I have an SF2NA mission in which an E-3 Sentry shows up as an AWACS.

You need to add "NavalMap=TRUE" in the terrain.ini, and you need to edit the aircraft's data.ini to match the new parameters. Add the following parameters under the indicated sections: [MissionData] AircraftRole=TRANSPORT PrimaryRoles=EARLY_WARNING SecondaryRoles=NAVAL_SEARCH [DetectSystem] RadarType=AEW_SEARCH RadarFamilyName=AEW<-----can be substituted for E-2, E-3, A-50, etc. Don't expect to "see" an aircraft so equipped on your RWR, as ThirdWire has apparently not enabled that in the various avionics dll files (yet).