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Would it be a big step to get a Z-20 from this model too?

If a second Civil War isn't popular, the terrain would also be good for Cold War Gone Hot scenarios: - A Red Dawn-style Soviet invasion, with Cuban and other Central/South American support, pushing up from the south and east - A Red Dawn remake with North Korean (!) or Chinese invasion forces pushing from the west - A 'what-if' NATO splintered after the election of left wing governments in member countries, including Canada, and the Soviets are carrying out joint exercises in Canada and push south - Intercept missions against Soviet nuclear-armed bombers flying from off-map bases in Russia and coming down through Canada to attack the US Also, some anti-terrorist/drug runner/bootlegger missions along the border will be interesting to play on this map in various time periods

Great screenies, and I love the Viking too, but it's got 4 seats hasn't it, not 2? Mandatory two-seater screenshot:

CVW-14 aboard USS Ronald Reagan...

Tweaking some parking slots on the CVA-59 model with USS Saratoga, somewhere in the Persian Gulf..

At the risk of hijacking the thread, and apologies in advance Kevin, but this would make a great idea for an 80's style all-action TV series called 'Top Aces!' Each week our Top Aces heroes are deployed to a different country, ostensibly to help with training or advisory to the host nation, act as aggressors in an exercise, or some other excuse. In reality, of course, they're there to carry out a super secret covert op for the US. Missions could be set in real world locations, or fictional countries (bonus points for identiying where the countries are from): A strike on a nuclear facility in the Middle Eastern Empire of Paran ;) A raid to capture a drugs baron in the Central American country, Val Verde Bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri, flying from Drambuie on the Barbary Coast Stopping a coup in the Central African kingdom of Zamunda Extracting an Agency asset from Agrabah, east of the Euphrates Helping to stem an invasion of the Central European nation of Florin by neighbouring Guilder Taking out a terrorist camp in the African republic of Zangaro With a main cast of impossibly good looking US and international (well someone has to fly the Alphas and Mirages) male and female actors as the former military Top Aces pilots, each with their own characters and back story of why they're ex-military to be explored in future episodes. Plus a trope-fest of a supporting cast: The crusty retired general who commands them (is Dale Dye available?) The suitably geeky WSO who's a whizz at electronics and, with the sexy female scientist on loan from DARPA, usually comes up with the weekly tech solution to get the mission over the line The mysterious 'Agency' contact who hands out the mission each week, with an attractive aide/pilot/driver/bodyguard. Or maybe as a nod to the classics like Mission: Impossible and Charlie's Angels we don't get to see the Agency contact as the missions are always briefed on a Zoom call where the contact's camera is always off, with the catchphrase: 'I'm sharing my screen now, can everyone see it OK?' The pilot of the C-130 for logistical support, is a trucker, like Snowman from Smokey and the Bandit I'm sure you can come up with others... The real Top Aces has a huge variety of aircraft, including their Blue Air fleet Top Aces - Wikipedia, so there will be great opportunitites to showcase the different planes and helicopters iin action. Of course there will be the usual trope of re-using the flight footage from the pilot show, and if push comes to shove, because of the Israeli camo on the Top Aces F-16s, we can also use footage from Iron Eagle, like everyone else making an aviation movie in the 1980s & 90s has! Think of the spin-offs - book and comics series, flight sim games, a kids animated show - and in 30 years, it can be remade as a big budget movie that will either spawn a new franchise or sink without a trace at the box office. Glad I got that off my chest. Normal service is resumed.

Same air Wing, different era...

Tomcats...

i think you're confusing the original YAP with YAP-RW. The original YAP is for WOV and is still payware from YANKEE AIR PIRATE YAP-RW is for the SF2 series and still free from YAP-RW – Yankee Air Pirate – Revamp Works (yap-revamp-works.com)

In the modern world of deepfakes and AI generated speech, would it be possible to leverage some of the tech out there to create additional speechpacks for SF2? I'm thinking packs for various international accents of English, as well as other languages. Are there any programs out there that you could feed the stock speech text (is there a file with that somewhere?) into and then get the required speech files in the language, gender etc. that you wanted? Cheap programs would be good. Free would be better. Any thoughts?