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1) in the wishful thinkin department how about the berlin airlift went hot? F-80s, russian props(still doin research) and F-47's with C-54 and B-29's supporting. course i'm also paranoid cause i'm startin research into such a scenario and most of the first gen planes i've converted so far i find out some one else is also doing and probably much better. 2) i had the thought that maybe TK posted how he did to see what we would want espescially seeing all the posts. haven't been on here as long as most of you guys so i don't know but i've seen that sorta thing alot in my life.

Air Time Publishing (the folks that put out Intl Airpower Review ) also have some books out including Century Series Jets and F-4 Phantom Spirit in the Skies. they are mostly taken from IAPR articles and very informative. they are a bit pricey 50 dollars when i got them but worth the money. i have the two i listed here in the stan with me

works fine for me on first download. thats amazing cause internet service here is so spotty sometimes that i have to make three attempts to d/l a file. however on the bolos it says its done and then won't unzip. 7-zip gives a mssg saying it failed becaused some file or another is incomplete. i have set it up to where the download window does not close automatically and check that the file size that downloaded is the same as what is listed on site. @ dave it kicks butt and i usually don't like the heavies. thanks for the work!

is any one working on campaigns besides column5 with NF4+? seeing as i got six more months to kill im starting research on a poss SF2E korean era or berlin airlift mod. due to learnin curve and slow internet here(takes me about an hour to download a plane NF4+ will have to be mailed on thimbdrive) wouldnt be out til super bowl nect year. but interest in campaigns seems to have slackened off so was wondering if this is my cool little project or if others are interested.

for all the debates on not killing the Raptor ongoing now the F-23A would have been better adaptable for other missions than air superiorty. it had longer range, was a bit faster and though it would have carried the same a2a load bieng all in the center instead of split like the Raptor it could have handled even larger JDAM better. the Raptor was more manueverable, and actually fired weapons during DEM/EVAL while Northrup and MCAir only simulated. Not like i've had 18 some years to get over it though. btw i have back home a Northup video with van halen "dreams" but with operational USMC hornets flying immediatly followed by a 3 min of the YF-23 in action to a soundtrack. the YF sequence was a Northrup pitch for NATF. only prob is its on VHS! has any one seen this on DVD/online? if not i'll get it converted next year and post.

@jomni one of two reasons WOE isn't retired of my system is multiplayer with my soldiers here in afghan. the other is awaiting NF4+

having both on my laptop at the moment i would say SF2E looks a lot sharper than WOE. i am able to play both on my vista 32 system but gen1 looks more like watching a tv show from the 70s early 80s and gen2 is like watching 24 in HD. and thats with a system thats a little too low end for the HDR mods! as for the modding i have no clue what to do making brand new aircraft or campaigns. with gen 1 that puts me SOL but by following the directions in the knowledge base and scanning the threads for useful info i've transformed about 6 aircraft and skins from gen1 to gen2 over the last month. if you can tell by my post i'm not the most technical guy here but SF2E looks and behaves better on my system and there for the most part seems to be more possibilties with it.

Cool Galaxy. now if we could just ini edit my face on one of the paratroopers, load me on one, fly it outta the afghanistan terrain.....lol

btw be nice these are my first screenshots ever. if the laughing isnt too hard may get the nerve to contribute to the main screenshot thread.

thank you wise and merciful hgbn. it indeed would have helped if the bmp in the F-4D_78 folder said F-4D_78 and not F-4D. and i thought i had to do with lod files. just proves a favorite saying of mine. don't assume. assumption is the mother of all f... ups. thanks alot hgbn

itried looking at another aircraft with a LOD (the EF-111) and vista would only atempt to allow photo viewer to open it. and then it said it was unable to. in any event i have no LOD for the 184th skin only bmp's but a quick scan of the F-4G from TMF looks like they dont have it either. what am i missing to get the grey back on this spook? or is it an older file and i've just created a cloud camo scheme

ok. i tried to take bone184's Hill 1 scheme for the F-4D Kansas ANG and apply it to the F-4D_78. made what i believe to be the appropriate ini edits. this is what i have gotten. i remember from an issue i had with Mavericks not showing up that maybe i needed to look at the LOD files. when i went into the folder though i discovered that there were only bitmaps in the 184th folder. downloaded it again to make sure i had everything. now i've been looking around the KB and threads and saw that for cockpits missing things you can take a lod reader and break it down to bitmaps. so if i understand things right a few questions 1. can i take a lod reader and make a lod file out of bitmaps? 2. if so where can i get an lod reader? tried looking up thru yahoo and microsoft and got drivers updaters instead. lil switch and Gates there. 3. if i am an idiot and this is not a good plan how can i fix this?crap shoot the ini files after the alert thank u and moreto follow

back at bragg i was the guy who could unlock it with a coat hanger. 20 seconds best record. and they say im a crook for some reason.......

the planes from WOV are from the vietnam era before HUDs and other aids. the avionics should relect that. i'm waiting to get my copy of SF2V in a few more months but the early F-100s F-4's and F-105's don't look nearly as high speed through the gunsight as a F-15, F-16 or Super Hornet. it seems to me a reflection of the tech of the times.

@kurfurst you might wanna look in your ini files and see if they are pointing to the correct place to find the lod files. had to do that a month ago to get my mavericks to show up. know roughly how to do it but i think snapper or fubar could put it into words better. if you dont get a response when i am off for the night i'll go through it in my mavvericks again so i can actually elaborate on the process

sorry fubar it was posted. been a screwy day and my internets up and down so i haven't read whole thing ea time like usual. it had seemed like everyone was focusing on me and it wasn't my original thread.

hey guys could you help kurfurst? he started the thread. i thought i might get some knowledge as well and had a similar(but not the exact same) issue. kurfurst sorry if it seems i hijacked your thread.

appreciate the tip snapper. EF-4C was the second plane i tried converting and was still figuring out quite a bit. have thought since to take SF2 stock F-4C and files from EF-4C. like the look of everything in gen2 better but alas no multiplayer.

i remember the show showing sketches of that one. that had a couple that weren't that big but big enough to carry ballistic missles in tubes similar to the road mobile ones(ss-20?). russians didn't make em pretty or with fine engineering. but they made em big and durable.

well mig 25 is the only aircraft to score a kill on a American flown fighter aircraft since the end of vietnam. im waiting to see what comes out in NF4+ before i change up 1st gen migs too much. will still prob add more afterward but i dont like duplication of effort.

i'm interested in the answer myself. went to change over the EF-4C from coulumn 5's site followed the directons in th KB and got the same results in SF2E. did not load it in my WOE though and deleted it of comp since im still learnin stuff trial and error. at time thought it was procedure i had done though it was amusing to watch a flight of sparrows ecm and shrikes in formation.

"Sorry to hear of your family probs and your 6 months left in country. I've got 8 days, then I'm outta here. Freedom bird to BWI. " well the family stuff is somewhat under control now. she's taking this one harder than kosovo or iraq. as for the 6 months i'm reminded of some air force docs i hung out with in iraq. especially towards the end of their 4th month they kept telling me " gee al you should cross into the blue"

looks and sounds like one of their eurkranoplanes specially designed to use wing in(over?) ground effect to carry heavier load. had program on it on military channel few years ago plus got a magazine article one it. on a waaaay more serious note it is rumored to have achieved a few kills against the VVS. when the fighter pilots got a visual on it they kept laughing so hard at it they flew into the ground

ok. six more months (knock on wood). but had fam emergency in june so no more r+r to look forward to.

i appreciate it. i have my install patched Oct08 and have copy of patch on thumbdrive.