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Speaking of Flak Suppression.... 2 A-4E Ltjg Andrews Ens Flagg Flak Suppression Ha Gia Well pulled the short straw today Flak suppression duties with Ens Flagg. Cluster bombs for the first time and my least favourite weapons 2.75 inch rockets or as I prefer shoot and hope as those things go everywhere... Take off nice and early 08:47 into the rising sun of the old girl The O Boat into the early morning sun clouds from 4000ft all the way up to 16000ft not good weather for killing guns I can tell you. Either see them too late or they get your silhouette as your coming down through the clouds. Anyway coasted in at 17000ft and headed north on a roundabout route to get round Hanoi not a fun place to spend any time over. After being airborne for about 45 minutes descended to 3500ft to see whats what and for once my navigation was perfect 5 miles short of the POL yards we where to hit damn was I feeling good. Went screaming in and lined up the largest flash I could see KS-30 and fired the rockets and they went where I wanted them to go surprised I was... KS-30 gone my wingman was working over a set of M1939 so went to give him a hand but he smashed it up pretty good before I got there I rolled over to see what was still down there and found the source of all the ECM problems a Firecan but as I was only at short range I fired my guns in a hope of hitting it and took it out but took a few rounds of 14.5mm from a DSHK (well thats what the crew chief told me) in exchange which my wingman duly flattened the area around where the rounds came from with 4 CBU's went real quiet round there after that. Pulled up to around 3500ft and started reworking the area killing a few more guns with rockets and cluster bombs. Once we had both gone winchester it was hometime I had done my work for Uncle Sam and it was my time now so climbed up to 18000ft and headed out wingie in close. Flak followed us all the way up and we where pinged by just about every radar in North Vietnam but no SAM's thank god must have fired them all at the Air Force... Feet wet master arm off well there was nothing left to fire anyway... And its back to the boat landed shakily got a 2 wire not good but hey any landing you walk away from is a good one... Well my battered Scooter doesnt know when to quit she just keeps on going... bulletholes or no bulletholes.. Well after 2 days off flying I was dragged out of a sound sleep and good dreams and I am to be presented with the Silver Star for shooting up guns...

No I am running the 08 Patch... I wasn't complaing as sometimes its peaceful to look over how the AI flies without it trying to kill you... Also good for formation flying and practicing gun kills...

Says it all....

One word for that one GENIUS!!! Thanks for the perspective on that one Mr Wel's that made me laugh out loud... :rofl:

Well in my case I choose the jet first if its Vietnam era its most likely a Scooter as there is something special about that little jet it aint sexy but it can do the lot if required... Love the Sundowner emblems I must admit they look fantastic on an F-8 or a Tomcat (two for the price of one tails)... If its Nato IV I prefer the Jaguar it carries enough to get it into trouble but not out of trouble thats where it gets interesting... I think its the attack thing going on you can drop bombs and if push comes to shove you can fight with the Fancy nancy boys. Always fun to take out a fighter with a strike jet... Also I like the recce challenge no guns no missilescoming away with a perfect mission is much more fun dont ask must be my sadistic streak showing...

Okay just done a recce Mission in WOV with the Gold pack with an RF-8A and cruised over the docks minding my own business as you do... oh and watching for the telegraph poles and I met 2 of the nicest Mig-21's you could ever hope to meet... I wound up following them... whilst SAM's are popping of everywhere I think evertime I popped up over 1000ft 2 would come up to play so back down I went... Anyhew back to these 2 wonderful Migs I turned there pair into a threesome and sat there alongside them when the flak was starting to get interesting I opened up the burner and ran out in front of them for some fun... see if they would take the bait but no they sat there cruising along nice and fine at around 450 500knots 4 missiles apiece... normally I wouldn't have thought anything of it so I reset and went to do the same mission with an F-8J guns only... this time those 2 lovely migs weren't so lovely they got down right agressive... this led to a gunfight and one of them crashing into the deck at 600knots plus and the other one then bugged out... Seemed strange to me as if they knew I couldn't shoot them but as soon as you have guns thats it kill em... Saying that though those Mig-17's will chase anything for a kill had to use full power (no burner) in a RA-5 when they came a visiting there's little ole me again stooging around taking pictures and the 17's come out to play all 8 of em...dump tanks open throttle and leave em standing in the dust... okay smoke... but hey what can you do ???

Well I gave up on the work thing today and stayed home (okay so I booked 2 days leave saves me a 4 hour treck there and back) and spent the day looking out at the snow and playing OFF and my flying today was sublime... Eindeckers where falling everywhere oh okay 3 of them in 4 sorties but one was an ace cant remember his name but he put up a damned fierce fight I can tell you... great fun... watch my flying tomorrow go clean out the window and my pilot dies due to stupidity... but I still wont be going out of the house...

Surprised no-ones put in By Dawns Early Light Flight of the Intruder... And for a laugh Peter Sellars in Doctor Strangelove or how I learned to love the Atomic Bomb... Ooop's the last one was already put in but its a great movie it needs to be voted in multiple times

Yup I get them as well... cant explain it one day flying like a dream next day couldn't even take off without smearing my poor pilots across runways...

Well turns out Fred's injuries are only light so back on the flight line today... hitting a warehouse near Hanoi... hope the Hilton's closed to me today. 4 Ship A-4e's loaded with various bombs from 500lb's to 1000lb er's Take of was fine weather sunny with light clouds coasted in and no escort anywhere oh well looks like we do this the hard way... found out after we returned our escort was re-tasked to protect a bunch of B-52's which where pounding some trees about 50 miles south of us. Went to 90% throttle as we coasted in at 16000ft at IP wingie and me dropped low-level while 3 and 4 stayed high as they looked for anything that might threaten us on the ground... I went in and dropped my 4 750lber's retarted at 500ft flattening a pair of buildings and my wingie dropped his onto the warehouse flattening that one. 3 & 4 at this point went to harrass a SAM site and completely wiped it out Radar SAM Launchers you name it if it was there before it aint there now I Checked on my way out... Thats when a pair of Mig-17's rolled in and before anyone knew it my number 2 was headed to the Hilton... Me I cleaned the jet off and went in hot pursuit right over Hanoi and a Firecan radar decided to lock me up and I had that rattler on the gear all over followed by the flak everything including the kitchen sink... Ducked and dived while still closing on the Mig that took my wingie got to around half a mile and fired the guns (Who said Phantoms are great) and took his right wing clean off. It was then my turn to be hunted by his wingman very aggressive fight went from 200ft all the way to 15000ft and damn was it busy... I eventually got him out in front of me and the guns have JAMMED perfect sight the works and what do I get a pair of clicks... At this point it was hometime so dived down to 500ft and ran for the sea still with a rattler on the ECM gear... Went feet wet with no hassle's and got a 3 okay wire on landing... Also got promoted !!! Now who had that bright idea???

Hi, Okay have you tried running these in Win 98 mode... In case you don't know how to do this... Install the game then creat a shortcut for the game (if one hasn't been created). Then right mouse click on the shortcut go to compatability there is a mode box for click the Run this program in compatibility mode for then use the drop down listing select Win 98 Apply and then ok... Try the game... Hope this helps.

Nice work with the Pink Machine... so does this mean Herr Olham is now renamed the :-- Pink Baron ??? Could do with a bit of bright yellow on the tail structure though...

Right where's the bullets and bombs... ???

Dont forget the Cigars and the good china... and his Schnapps Supply..

Well as I got up this morning it was bright and clear and the Snow God dropped another load of snow off during the night I have decided to take Thursday and Friday off and sit in front of the fire and look at the weather out the window and play OFF... with hot chocolate to keep me warm...

Oi leave the old Strutter alone... just because yours doesnt have high heels Suspenders and a Bra... hmmmm that lines familiar... Oh yes thats it Lumberjacks...

Stwick him woughly centuwion... Burn him Burn him... As to Some of us being Crazy welllll it does help

Yeah over here in the defeated county Yorkshire... hehehe (I am a born Lancastrian am over here keeping an eye on them and I have them all surrounded). We have pretty much the same deal stuck my foot out of the door and lost it to the ankle this morning but still ventured to work to find a ghost ship... There where more people on the Marie Celeste than at my work... ho hum still called a snow day and came home early... Also on the snow front we will be getting some more tomorrow and even more at the weekend just in time for my week off... GREAT NOT!!! Also where are all the global warming people complaining its too warm right now ??? Most likely Jetting of to Australia to complain its too warm there...

Yeah tis an Old Strutter could be that if its second hand that the cover might be damaged... Just wait and see when it arrives I guess...

Just some advice the rough range of a SA-2 in WOV is around 16 miles so a site taking a shot at you from 20 miles dont really worry too much about it... If you want to mix it with the Migs try out a F-8 Crusader or my usual jet the A-4e 3 Pylons for bombs etc and 2 for sidewinders and you get 2 guns okay its not as sexy as a Supersonic but it is a good little dogfighter I can quite happily take out Mig's in it from the 17 to the 21 and still fly home... But remember its an Attack Jet not a dedicated fighter so no Radar guided missiles no Air to Air Radar best advice is to try everything out and see what suits...

In PC Land all else fails uninstall - reinstall works most times failing that find window open window launch PC out of Window... actually dont do the last that way you have nothing to complain about...

Thanks so far I have read about 3/4's of the book the Snow here is good for slowing the journey to work down and its a very good read I must say... The Award for the Fjords well it passed the time shame it all got wiped out.... And as to the Fiddly bits well if one doesnt fiddle what should one do ???

Okay got to downloads, select Strike Fighters / Wings Over.... If you are on Strike Fighters 1 select Strike Fighters 1 Series Strike Fighters 2 select 2 Go to SF/WO* Add-On Aircraft link Select your Era Click on the plane e.g. F/A-18 Hornet and click on the file name scroll down the page and select Download from either Server 1 or 2... Then unzip using favourite Zipper I prefer WinRar works on everything (Google it) Once you have done that most times its a case of drop into your Planes folder for WOE 1 not sure about SF2. Always Always though read the Readme file that comes with the plane and that should be it.

Freelancer is not a patch on the X Series owned them both... as you cant go empire building and take over the entire universe muhahahaha.... there's nothing like jumping into a system with a whole mess of ships and reducing them back to the stoneage... only issue I have with the X series is you cant land on planets... Also if I remember rightly I have X3 Reunion pre Terran Conflict... I will confirm tomorrow if anyone on the UK Side wants it they can have it...

You know there's always a place in the 20minute club there... or do you have a cunning plan ????