daddyairplanes

some nose arts (much more to come)

off to the Keys this weekend very important training going on and answer a question the locals have been dying to know

eh, let the guy learn. at least there is an established family of Vipers to compare with while he's trying to play around with his current one. good way to get new modders into the mix but yes Arrow, there's a whole family of Vipers in the download section, including ADFs (the only ones that carried Sparrows regularly before AMRAAMs became a regular thing)

there were a couple that went dds route many years back, Transall being the main one i can remember this is the second conversation today in regards to bmp vs jpg i've walked into btw...

Lobos against the goddamevilcommbuilding or "oh no, you did not shoot that green shit at me"

Whats wrong with a classic silver bullet? and some of us are perfectly content with 2000 lbs worth of light show. just depends on what you make go boom

you sir, are one of the reasons i now pay close attention to weapon station settings in the data ini

almost through with what was the worlds 6th largest airforce in 1989...... you wouldnt believe how hard that ANG bicentennial badge was to find. Googles great, except when it aint

Sunset for the Stingers

i wonder if something is off in the ini's or file names something as simple as smoke_1 vs smoke1. i know you said you checked, but many of us miss stuff that simple looking at the same damn thing until someone points it out

76th TFS 75th TFS (with the checker you remember) and to round out 74th TFS you are right about the base though. they kept similar schemes through the A-10 years. 76th deactivated until a couple years back, the 74th stayed same until they traded Vipers back for Hogs, and the 75th has only gained a "75th" title in the checkers, otherwise staying the same through the years

winner! (makes note to change checkers to green and cuss out lack of color photos of 112th birds)

10000 pts to whoever can ID the unit (will do serials tomorrow)

more from the nose art gallery....

fighters make movies, spyplanes make headlines, but bombers make history

make sure to support teh local team....

check out this group on FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/196048232552494 he's been reworking everything YAP to work better in SF2, and is releasing as freeware

Iowa airpower

flyin old school IFR I Follow Roads

ok not as aircrew, but as a cook that wound up pulling duty as supply/ motor clerk/ guard shift leader on most of my deployments for the most part its just doing your job day in day out. pretty boring although the environment allows for some unusual things that you wouldnt see at home. its like Groundhogs Day the movie and the off the wall stuff become your time markers of the deployment pretty much the only time your massively, noticeably afraid is the first few times your under attack (rockets and mortars). after that you have some worry in the back of your mind, but you do what you got to and wait it out. if you are in a position to shoot back the you do. but if you're not, then you just deal with it in your own way (my favorite was taking bets on how many cigarettes a "rocket attack" would last until the all clear. right after professing my love for the recorded female voice that announced said attack. Kandahar 09) while way more common than in the US or western Europe, the attacks are pretty few and far between in some places. Others, well, you get used to these things (Balad Airbase, 04 aka Mortaritaville) howlywood and most games pack more action into a couple of hours than the average soldier/sailor/airman sees in an entire year. ironically, they tend to play those games and movies to kill time when off duty there (who else here can say they checked in after an indirect fire attack with a firefight from Blackhawk Down blasting in the background?)

i know TK made some tgas for Colorado. frankly mine look better he didnt make any for Michigan tho....

do the jingle! do the jingle! (trumpets start playing..)

michigan CAS...

GIMP is free, and there are templates for the F-15C/Ds as well as (i believe) the stock F-15As everyone started somewhere. let this be your beginning