Rambler 1-1

well, let's just say it wasn't exactly built by the Skunkworks. Maybe the nose wheel upset the delicate lines of the nose.

well, it doesn't look too bad from that angle, especially with that paint job. here's another plane that got wacked with the oogly stick. nose job, anyone?

I just finished building a P-38 that I spent WAY too much time on trying to make it look old. Now I'm half done an A-10, and next I gotta do a P-51. I only really work on models in the winter, though.

WHOA! HE'S GOT AS MUCH FIREPOWER AS THE ENTIRE CANADIAN NAVY! All we have is a kid in a canoe with a .22 cal rifle! Maybe they're going to take over the Falklands. Or the UAE.

this says it all. also, I KNEW IT WAS DUKE NUKEM ALL ALONG! NOW WHO'S THE CRAZY ONE?!?!?!?!?

Avro Arrows for the Blue Angels? Now THAT would be noisy! (especially with the Iroquois engine)! Tree huggers beware!!!!!! It would break the NAVY's heart. Also, the Canadian aerobatics team would get a LITTLE more respect. "HEY USA! I'LL BET OUR SNOWBIRDS CAN OUT-THUNDER YOUR THUNDERBIRDS! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!" ps- where can I find an Avro Arrow for SFP1?

Sgt. Peppers tought his band to play! no... wait.... that was 20 years.

well well well, if it isn't the grinning bird eater itself. I knew it'd show up. btw, Fates, It counts, but only if you can feel the magic. That's one seriously pudgy tinkerbelle.

All i know is that we change the designations on some (most) of our aircraft, I think because our prime minister likes to think we're totally independent from the US and UK. Or maybe he has a bizarre fetish for three digit numbers. We keep the DHC thing here for our de havillands (which we are very proud of), and sometimes we just put "C" in front of the aircraft's original name. We're just trying to be a little independent after our last independent fighter program, the Avro Arrow, got shot down (heh-heh).

Don't give San Francisco to Canada! We'll just take the bozo who wanted to save some skunk's hearing. I'm sure he'd be happy with our nice, quiet Snowbirds. UNTILL WE GET OUR CT-155s! :fans: (those are Canadian BaE Hawks if you're wondering)

Helicopters count, but that's not ugly. THIS is ugly. It's called the Mil-18. I think Mil is short for Miloslav or something. It's russian, and in typical russian style, it works great at it's job and doesn't do much else. LOOK! It can actually fly!

well, here's some pics. you decide which one is buggy a hell. here's the GR.1 Here's the ECR and here's the F.3 I'd like to see a Torn' intercepter. I hear they're pretty good (or were).

yeah, yeah, I knew about the hardpoint thing. I was reffering to looks and performance more than tactical capability. And if you really want to get technical, the A-7 doesn't have the variable angle wing. bloody technicalities.

A faster A-7 would just be a bomber F-8! actually, that's not bad. A bomber with a bite! MiGs beware!

somebody's been busy.... Methinks we should have a youtube thread.

mmmm.... pancacke..... look at this thing. It's kinda like a Curtiss comando+Ford trimotor+beluga whale. It's tough to believe it flew! looks tail-heavy to me.

another tip I found it's much more accurate if you use airbrakes on the way down, but if you jink to avoid flak. I did take a little damage, but not enough to effect my plane's performance. Don't try it on ships, it's bloody tough to judge where the water is, even with the altimeter. btw, I made all my tests with F-100s. It may be different in other AC.

oh yeah? check this thing out. It makes your airtruk look like an F-14!

whoa-ho! I think we should start an "ugliet airplane" thread to prove that there are planes WAY uglier than cessnas.

I was really bummed out when I discovered that Shin's F-8 was replaced by the F-5. Nothing against it, but it's kinda... I dunno... boring. I think the F-8 looks WAY nicer.

Didn't the A-7 actually have a better power:weight ratio than the F-8? I never understood why people called the A-7 ugly. I allways thought it was elegant in it's simplicity, and I liked the solid, clean lines. If I was gonna fly an attack airplane off a carrier, I think the A-7 would be one of my first choices.

wait... I'll have MiG du jour. or maybe the special. Two '23s for one sparrow! WHAT GOOFS!

I need more targets! I've been finding that MiG-21s aren't the challange they used to be anymore, especially against my F-14. For a bigger challange, I downloaded the MiG-23 package and installed it. However, I flew five or six missions and the new MiGs still didn't show up. I'm sure I was flying in their era. Is there something I did wrong?

Baseball? Baseball is kinda like a long range strike mission- hours of boring split only by sudden seconds of sheer terror and exileration. That doesn't mean I don't like baseball. The best thing about october is the pumpkins. They just explode if you hit them just right. WAY more exiting than shooting my 22 at beer cans or styra-foam targets.

Ok, after another couple missions the new MiGs started to show up, so my original problem is solved. I was also thinking of downloading a MiG-29. If I get an SU-27, I'd much rather fly it than shoot at it. It's WAY too nice a piece of engineering to (try to) blow out of the sky. the Uber-opponents sounds tempting, but I'd like have better wingmen instead. Also, I've done my own bit of suicide missions, between an intercept of 16 TU-22s plus their 8 MiG-21F-13 escorts with me and my wingie in F-8Es, and a CAS mission in an A-10 against a bunch of tanks with unexpected AAA support (and I have the "more effective flak" upgrade). btw, I have Strike Fighters Project 1.