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excellent book. had it for many years. theres also force of eagles where the survivors go in to rescue the POW's from rats ass, with a strike eagle providing cover.

@ wrench i have been workin on a personal project since afghanistan in 09 to do ALL post vietnam USAF units by using decals to represent the squadrons, tailcodes and fin stripe. by what i have researched while red yellow and blue or green are the common colors they are not the only ones used. a squadron in Hahn 50TFW had a white stripe, the AFRES squadron at Wright Patterson had orange and black chekerboard capped by a black stripe! as to the RHAW bump r/l some painted it some left the tip black, some did their stripe below the RHAW bump! there tended to be a lotta variation. @wrench and Piecemeal.... keep this in mind when working with Phantoms, a book on modeling the F-4 i have states that there was alot of inconsistencies in painting, marking and how the birds corroded and weathered. this helps the modeler(or modder) in covering any slight inaccuracies. back @ wrench in my long running project i have been trying to add squadron/wing patches to the intakes but it always blanks the fuselage out. however something that occurs to me is i have had the skin bmp's at 512x512 for a long time now. might it help to boost it to 1024? i even have national insignia painted on skin now reather than decal.

watchu talkin about? we're gonna be around 70 tommorow in NC:grin: at wrench------ don't eat the yellow snow cones

like i said nice to see America and Britian aint the only ones screwin up. Super Bugs and King Vipers (ala what UAE and India are getting) should be substituted for F-35 and next generation ARMs used for SEAD/DEAD. for air to air i like Super Bug with 12 AIM-9X or Amraam or combo thereof each vs F-35 with .... with.. what its carry? oh yeah it'll see the whole freakin battlefield. o/t next generation Harms has me thinking, B-52H + CALCM with cluster warheads and AGM-88 seeker = big a$$ Weasel!

damn i thought you were talkin this Harvey

welcome back sparkomatic to all coming back after an absence, does this mean your getting the band back together?

huh, woulda thought they would go with Super bugs as they are similar to what they have now and just as capable for most missions F-35 is tasked for as well as MORE capable than Lightning 2 in the air to air interception mission esp at home. nice to see boneheaded defence officials aren't only limited to the US and UK but common amongst all the NATO nations!

central europe spinners. you know fulda gap, czech poland the biggest land battle that never was. prob comes from bein stationed there round the turn of the century. now if tk or anyone else releases a terrain that goes from scotland to at least sicily, Bears (and many other birds) are back in. but for now i dont use much that wouldn't fly conventional strikes over the continent. course theres also always SF Tomcat to consider too! oh and as i said they are a b!t(h to shoot down:rofl:

as i fly mainly over europe i don't use Bears, cause the y wouldn't be in that air environment, they have lotsa countermeasures that throw off my Sparrow, 9 Lima's and even Slammers, yet have gunners who can seemingly shoot the d!(% off a fly at .8 miles! and they are a b!t(# to shoot down:grin:

looks cool, though do you really think the navy would admit the mistake in no gun? at least the air force could say they were correcting a naval screwup.

whats the middle shot's skin? looks like ADC gray almost although only the 57th FIS flew that if i recall, not to mention a lack of unit decals.

no Wrench. you need to take a screen shot from this (imho) for hangar and loading last great aviation flick to use real planes in the filming. also cited as reason why not to use real planes when the main cast was onboard for one of the Forts crashing in England during filming. looking forward to this classic bird Veltro. you know you gotta include the Belle as a skin!

nice first shot i thought was inside a hangar though:good: (saw the models not the edge of the photo!)

i got EXP1 some time after release but before EXP2 and that was my first mission with Spits, green and all. bugged my eyes out to see. @Dave and anyone else interested i got that book i was talking about some time back when folks were talkin bout the 56 campaign. gonna try to talk the wife into lettin me use the scanner to upload some photos from it. should be a mecca for anyone wanting skins for T-33, F-84(G or F) F-86 and F-47! say speakin of F-47D anyone working on a new bubbletop Jug? sorry might wanta tell the title, Before Centuries, USAFE Fighters 1948-1959.

as a Phanatic, i say welcome to the dark side, we have cookies:lol: seriously though the amusing thing is the gun and many other additions to the E were to make for a better dogfighter. it then was used most the rest of its years in the USAF as a strike bird, esp after the ARN101 conversions. at Dave and HrntFxr, so whose piss made it furthest into the wind?

nice Hueys Dave. cue Paint It Black.....

its been there since EXP1 i believe. downloaded ncdicki's RAF Northwest and RDAF Spits and on first fighter sweep mission found myself engaging Soviet Spitfires! and this was back around october or so.

you know on a similar note a few year back we were putting up a brand new tent. usually they state 2 man 3 man etc lift. however this new tent stated that it was a 6 person mixed gender lift! had me laughing the rest of that field problem

three bulging discs in my back have cut down my exercise amount even before i went off oactive duty. i found on deployment that how much you eat and when can contribute alot at least to wieght management if not loss. big meal for breakfast, esp with fruit if you can. have a snack for lunch then a light dinner. dont be afraid to have your sweets, just dont go overboard on them. and finally walk whenever you can... take stairs instead of elevators, take the far parking space etc. and also as deployment can be quite boring at times i agree with Piecemeal about smokes keeping yer wieght down. not the healthiest solution but it is my cancerous dietary supplement!

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.' John Gillespie Magee, Jr./Ronald Reagan sums it up perfectly i think

pretty pissed if it was used to carry weapons? where does he think the money to support most technological growth comes from? sadly it's man's desire to more efficiently kill one another that spurs technology the furthest(trains, land based aircraft, nuclear power, and frozen concentrated orange juice for example)

did you keep your email confirming you purchase? if so then you can use the code sent in the email to download the game as many times as you like. if you do not still have that email then it is like losing a reciept for your purchase....not much you can do.

http://www.estesrockets.com/rockets what he said

Dave http://www.walmart.com/ip/My-Little-Pony-Remote-Control-Plane-Rainbow-Dash-Figure-with-Bonus-Pack/14697216 there you go.

happy birthday:drinks: