Gunrunner

I think we should remind the Turks and Muslims (or hell, even Italians and Greeks) that Crimea was once theirs, BEFORE it ever became Russian and for longer than it ever was Russian, maybe they would feel the right to "liberate" it as well... So please, when you try to justify Russia's move in Ukraine, don't invoke History, we all know it's bullshit. If once having been in possession of a country is enough to justify taking over it again and again, what should France do, or Germany, or Spain, or Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Egypt, Italy... Europe is a continent of Empires, most major European nations have owned at least a fourth of it at some point in it's history.

Dast, sure, draw the same map for Russia and make sure to remember that Ukraine, Georgia etc... are not Russia and we can talk like reasonable people or else it's the usual "Imperialism is when it's done by someone else".

And here kids, is how you make friend with the natives.

No, but yes there are rails on the flat surface behind the canopy emergency instructions, ala Crusader/Corsair II (it's a Vought design after all), it's a rework of this plane.

Funny, since last week end I had a similar idea for an AMI plane (and because I came to despise the F-104) and started working on a F-118E variant (a what-if plane from Cocas based on Vought submission to the LWF), my Alternate Universe story is that Vought having lost the LWF decided to associate with Hawker and Aeritalia anyway to try to win the European competition (and fulfill Britain's need for a replacement for the oldest Lightnings, the type never really satisfying the RAF, as well as replace Italy's F-104 in both the air and strike roles, later making the AMX never happen). However since I also have some degree of Real-Life and am getting distracted by many things (including TSR2 and Arrow variants), it's nowhere near ready (especially since I've decided to rework most of the panel/rivet lines and am still unsatisfied with the exhaust nozzle) but it's a damn sexy plane.

How that's so cute, thinking of Homeland Security and giving them the opportunity to have their own "combat" jets.

Splendid, thanks a bunch.

Is there any chance you'd share your templates for the Arrow and the TRS2 ? I have quite a few liveries in mind and I could do with a template, and yes, I could start from scratch, but if it goes as my other efforts, I'd be finished in 2020 and it would still be inferior to your work.

Sorry to raise that thread from the dead, but any news on the update for previous owners ? How do I get it ?

Am I the only one having a problem with The Catalina Affair ? By the 3rd or 4th mission my squadron gets relocated and the sides are switched entirely, the Soviet are in Sweden and vice-versa...

I'd rather say it's like that... I can't remember if six o clock messages still work with no one else around. Imminent threat to you, from God (as they happen, in single place planes, with no other friendly around, in the air or the ground). Information to you or someone in your flight, from someone in your flight, red crown or the control tower. Information about a friendly flight, from a friendly flight, red crown or the control tower.

Damn, I read California Jews, I thought it was about the nefarious conspiracy to rob Russia of it's legitimate claim over Crimea...

So that's what Jaws was doing in his free time when not trying to kill James Bond ?

What I feel we've lost is not in features, it's respect for each other... I feel it's TK who, for financial reasons, started ignoring the community, but the community's response was, frankly, disproportionnate, reinforcing TK's impression that to make ends meet, he had to ignore us and belittle, if not us, at least our concerns with where he was going and how he was doing it. With that respect and trust broken, TK had only one reliable benchmark to see if his actions were working... sales, and unfortunately it seems it didn't work out, and we've all lost.

Yep, so what ? Sure, he's no hero, he is a confused idiot who thought that entering service without a proper understanding of what it entailed would help him put his life in order and when that failed let himself be manipulated by an egomaniac, it doesn't change the fact he did what he thought was right, for "pure" motives and faces the consequences somewhat gracefully. Maybe if US society did not bully people with Manning's problem (yes, yes, I'm aware, it's still better than in most of Europe where we simply seem to ignore the issue entirely), they wouldn't feel the need to change or find/prove themselves by enrolling and ending up in a position to be manipulated by egomaniac douchebags with an agenda...

I guess it's because we're a shy lot... or very few of us feel having the competence/time/motivation required to effectively do the job and thus don't set themselves up to fail CA... that would be my guess.

What is a mystery to me is that anyone still deals with the little c***... He may have been fairly important, if not instrumental, in the very early days of SF modding (even though he was already a p****), but he has long since stopped being anything else than a source of strife and insanity among the community, it would be in everyone's best interest to shun the little v***** and let him die alone in his so precious toybox (and here I gain a warning and ensure the thread's swift lockup). Don't get me wrong, I totally understand his need for control and respect that out of other modders, but Capun also has very poor standards, quality control and is globally a complete a****** if you do not lick his b****, he may have even more ego problems than yours truly, which is mind-boggling. Disclaimer : Evidently, I don't like Capun, but I have an excuse, I never liked him, even before all the craziness.

Good job Erik, thanks for your dedication. I saw my Thunderflashes were missing, I took the liberty of reuploading them and adding the missing screenschots, I hope it won't interfere with the work on the last few hundred files.

Trouble is, "the people" do not want inaction, they want their government to do something about these crisis, at the same time "the people" doesn't want to see its sons and daughters slain in a far away war for benefits to themselves unclear and often perceived as neo-colonialists and even if they don't object (because they have no son or daughter), they do object to the cost of that war. Therefore there is only one solution satisfying the will of "the people" for action at little cost, and that giving/selling weapons to the side currently painted/perceived as the good guys, which in turn helps the profits of weapon dealers/makers... politicians don't give a fuck about the long term consequences, they won't be in office anymore when it will blow up in our collective faces, and "the people" has a very short memory and is adept at shifting blame and being unaccountable for what it forces/allows politicians to do. Abolish the People I say !

That's looking quite good...

I think another point that made it lose it was that the distributed radar scheme (its nose section was too small for a radar of the power/range chosen, so the LERX were supposed to house secondary antennas to compensate, the wing pods apparently were supposed to house rearward facing antenna as well) was deemed a technological uncertainty and when added to compromised RCS except in select quadrants, it sealed the fate of GD's proposal.

I used to, but I had to cull some non essential files for lack of available spares and apparently some of my oldest TW archives didn't make the cut (or at least they're not indexed any more).

Damn, thanks, I don't even think I have that old a version left in storage. -_-

One thing cocas, could you try to make a version with a more rounded nose ? The current one is nice as a day point defense interceptor or day attack aircraft, but it can't believably host any AA radar until very late.

Anyone remember from which patch level cloud altitude and max object viewing distance started to be hard coded ? I'm curious to see if mixing DLL from different patch levels might work.