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With the announcement of a change of director for the Han Solo movie, how about a new band for the cantina...

Black Buck...

Please feel free to post in the Air to Air Refuelling Screenshots thread I just started! http://combatace.com/topic/90788-air-to-air-refuelling-screenshots/

I know we can't really do air to air refuelling in SF2, so treat this as an opportunity to show off your close formation flying skills with some spectacular screenshots! Any combination of tanker and receiver is allowed. Any era, nation, air force or terrain. Any model source, be it CA, TMF, DAT, YAP or other acronym! Here are some of my efforts: I'm sure you guys can do better...

Skyhawk Sunrise Tanker practice... High Viz And Lov Viz

That works great. Thanks Jarek!

Great mod Dels! Can someone remind me what I need to edit for the refuelling drogues to deploy automatically? I want to set up an ai KC-130F with the drogues deployed.

Screaming Raptor. I like it!

I'm typing this as I walk past the Manchester Arena which I do every day on the way from my car park to the office and back. The roads have mostly reopened and a lot of the cameras and reporters have gone. We have faced terrorist bombers here before and Manchester emerged much stronger and I have no doubt that we will recover from this. It's still raw though and at work yesterday and today we were a bit numb and talked through our reminiscences of the IRA bomb and of course 9/11 as well as the arena experience to try to make sense of why anyone would want to deliberately target this event. Needless to say we couldn't. Also today I had the privilege of speaking to a client who was stood outside the arena waiting for his daughter when the bomb went off. He went inside to find her and said it was the most horrific experience of his life. Thankfully he found his daughter and managed to get her and some school friends outside and away from the site physically unharmed. The school is arranging counselling for them. You never expect it to happen on your home town, but when it does, to coin a phrase, you keep calm and carry on because to do otherwise would let them win, and we need to make sure they never will.

Do you have any modern Soviet jets installed, such as the MiG 29 or Su 27? The versions in the Op Darius pack might be Iranian, so they wouldn't show up in missions over Europe.

SAMs and CIWS also need to be set up for the JFK.

Fly-over...

Exercises continue...

JFK and CVW-1 carrying out exercises, Eastern Med, 1999/2000: VF-102 (F14B) VMFA-251 (FA-18C(N)) VFA-82 (FA-1C(N)) VFA-86 (FA-18C) VAQ-137 (EA-6B) VAW123 (E-2C) VS-32 (S-3B) Air Wing info from the excellent GoNavy site http://www.gonavy.jp/CVW-ABf.html

It's 13th May. Happy Top Gun Day guys!

Agreed, and the YAP Straits of Hormuz plane set includes a Zulu but not a Whisky Cobra.

Have we got an AH-1W other than the DAT model?

Jarek are you going to do a C-130J-30 Shimshon in your Israeli Herk pack as well?

Package received and installed.

Thanks mate!

In the F/A-18 v1.1 download http://combatace.com/files/file/13589-fa-18-series-by-the-hornet-team-beta/ there is a FA-18C_94-USMC with the following five skins in the .ini file: [TextureSet001] Directory=VMFA323 Name=VMFA-323 Death Rattlers (Carrier) Nation=USMC Squadron=VMFA323 Specular=0.150000 Glossiness=0.025000 Reflection=0.000000 [TextureSet002] Directory=VMFA251(AB) Name=VMFA-251 Thunderbolts (Carrier) Nation=USMC Squadron=VMFA251 Specular=0.150000 Glossiness=0.025000 Reflection=0.000000 [TextureSet003] Directory=VMFA-122 Name=VMFA-122 'Crusaders' Nation=USMC Squadron=VMFA122 Specular=0.150000 Glossiness=0.025000 Reflection=0.000000 DecalNumberRandomize=TRUE DecalNumberStart=0 DecalNumberEnd=11 [TextureSet004] Directory=VMFA-232 Name=VMFA-232 'Red Devils' Nation=USMC Squadron=VMF232 Specular=0.150000 Glossiness=0.025000 Reflection=0.000000 DecalNumberRandomize=TRUE DecalNumberStart=0 DecalNumberEnd=11 [TextureSet005] Directory=VMFA-251 Name=VMFA-251 Thunderbolts Nation=USMC Squadron=VMFA251 Specular=0.150000 Glossiness=0.025000 Reflection=0.000000 DecalNumberRandomize=TRUE DecalNumberStart=0 DecalNumberEnd=16 Within the folder for the aircraft are only skin folders for VMFA-122 and VMFA-232. There are no skin folders for the other squadrons. I'm specifically looking for the skin for VMFA251(AB) to join CVW1 on the YAP JFK and other carriers on which that Airwing served. Unfortunately there is no VMFA-251 skin in the whole of the download pack or in this v2.0 pack http://combatace.com/files/file/15259-fa-18-series-update-by-the-hornet-team/ I did find a VMFA-251 skin in the SF1 section in this skin pack http://combatace.com/files/file/1554-usmc-fa-18a-skin-pack/ but it's the regular land based version without the AB tailcode and I would think that this is the [TextureSet005] from the above list. The fact that the additional texturesets for VMFA323 and VMFA251(AB) are in the .ini file would suggest that the skins have been created but never made the final cut into the upload pack. I wonder if any of the Hornet Team have these skins on a HD somewhere and would be willing to upload them? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Have a look at the data.ini for the mod of the YAP CVN-65 Enterprise for the parking spot entries. http://combatace.com/files/file/14786-cvn-65-enterprise/

Some shots of the new YAP JFK... Freshly installed Then I added some parking slots and the first time I ran a mission the game generated The Hornet Team F/A-18Cs from the same squadron as the YAP flyable and static models! More experiments with parking slots - the first 2 Tomcats are clashing with the static Hornet model so I had to remove those slots.

Snake Plissken......I heard you were dead!

USMC helo ops exercises off the coast of Lebanon 1990s.....