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FWIW - only picture I've ever seen of an A-1 with a CBU-24 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_F_ZyVOpu07M/SgYR79vn-vI/AAAAAAAABDU/9w3inzQrZEM/s1600-h/Skyraider_A-1H-J_1969_-_00000033_-_USAF.jpg

YOU ARE THE MAN!!! pg 90-91 just made my day. I'll need to print that whole thing out and read it at some point.

Where's the SPAD from? For all it's short comings, FSX (with addons) is by far the best looking flight simulator out there (at the moment).

I've found all kinds of great information and pictures of USAF skyraiders during Vietnam. Their loadouts varied greatly and they carried in incredible array of different munitions. During CAS/Sandy missions they'd carry gunpods, AN-M47 WP bombs, rocket pods, and CBU-25 dispensers amongst other things (napalm too, I guess). Skyraiders.org is a great place to find stuff (especially the combat journal), but it's all USAF. Did USN A-1's carry all the same stuff when flying CAS? I haven't seen images of any USN A-1's loaded out the way the USAF ones were. At the most, the USN A-1's seem to carry a few rocket pods and maybe a couple of Snakeyes. Did they ever carry the AN-M47's or CBU-25's? Napalm, maybe? Also, I haven't seen images or read anything about A-1's from either service ever using CBU-24's. Does anyone know if they ever did? Thanks! PS - I well aware of the toilet bomb!!! Not the info I'm looking for!

This file has been updated to correct some typos in the campaign descriptions. In case anyone downloaded the file in the last couple of days (since the original 10/11 update a few days ago), I found one other typo that prevented the F-8C's from showing up in the '59 campaign. If you have a merged install, and if you downloaded the update from a few days ago you can either re-download, or go into campaign1_data.ini and make this change: [AirUnit047] <---------------------- change to 47 (was 46) AircraftType=F-8C Squadron=VF32 ForceID=1 Nation=USN DefaultTexture=USNGrey1 CarrierBased=True BaseArea=Whiskey Station CarrierNumber=63 RandomChance=100 MissionRate=0.9 MaxAircraft=16 StartAircraft=16 MaxPilots=16 StartPilots=16 Experience=100 Morale=100 Supply=50 MissionChance[sWEEP]=90 MissionChance[CAP]=90 MissionChance[iNTERCEPT]=60 MissionChance[ESCORT]=90 MissionChance=20 MissionChance[CAS]=0 MissionChance[sEAD]=0 MissionChance[ARMED_RECON]=0 MissionChance[ANTI_SHIP]=0 MissionChance[RECON]=0 UpgradeType=FIXED Upgrade[01].Year=1961 Upgrade[01].Type=F-8D

OK. You got me there. The common good don't need coconuts and palm trees though

Again, sorry for going way off topic. But here are some interesting numbers: I can't claim that the source isn't totally unbiased: http://www.dontbullymybreed.org/ My wife and I almost adopted a pit bull as our first dog. I did a lot of research trying to understand what to do and learned a lot. We ended up getting a retriever mix instead (which ironically has some dog agression issues that we are trying to work through).

More people are probably killed by drunk drivers every year than pitbulls. If that is the case, until owners can figure out how to handle their cars, we should probably ban cars for the common good. I'm sure we'd see a dramatic drop in the number of drunk driving deaths and related injuries. The same arguement can probably be made for guns, knives, nails, hammers, rope, string, TV's, toasters, ovens, stoves, bycycles, pillows, and teddy bears. Successfully banning any one of these items would probably result in a dramatic drop in deaths related to their use/misuse.

That's exactly why banning just pitbulls doesn't make sense. Like Dave said, any dog can be made into a "combat dog" (WTF is a "combat dog", BTW? Does it wear boots and know how to use a gun?). Pitbulls are (or are thought to be) dangerous because idiots raise them to be that way. It is true that they are (or may be) more agressive than other dog spiecies, but again, it's mostly an owner issue. Any dog speicies be agressive if raised to be that way. (Not to drift off topic. I agree there's no reason for any private party to own Lions, Tigers, and Bears...)

Ranked in order of most happy with to not as happy with: Flight of the Intruder Memphis Belle Dark Blue World (although more of a drama than an aviation movie) Final Countdown Top Gun

I believe the stock campaigns for SF2V have a line that's something like "RulesOfEngagement=True" or something like that. How it works (or if it works) I'm not sure. And obviously, it would only affect AI in that specific campaign.

Totally was not going to get this game, as I have no time for it. But the trailers and your thoughts on it are making me start to change my mind.

It was an amazing game! I Watched it!

Thanks! Just what I was looking for!

Steelflanker, these are great! I tried number 2 on the desert terrain with jsf aggies tiles, and also.on israel.with stary's tiles. Looks great! I tried number 7 with Stary's latest germanyCE, and didn't notice as nuch of a change, but it still looked good! However. I tried number 7 with stary's green hell 3, and got an odd shimmering effect. Any ideas why that might be?

I've searched all over the place and for the life of me can't find any udpated waternormal.bmp's for SF2. Does the Hi-Res one in the SF1 D/L section work in SF2? I thought I saw some uploaded in a thread the other day (from Wrench?), but I can't find the thread now!