Major Lee

@Arthur07 That's your machine settings, SF series is just not that resource intensive. You've got frame rate locked to refresh rate, or a monitor with a low refresh rate, or refresh rate is set at 60HZ, or some such setting. I'd start with your monitor settings...

Welcome to CombatAce!

I chose the Arctic 36 air cooler based on this video review from TechNotice.

How you know if you're a cool monster or not, is if you have your own theme song....

https://www.techpowerup.com/350844/nvidia-board-partners-receive-rtx-50-super-but-gddr7-pricing-holds-the-release-back Looks like the RTX 50 series Super may become a reality at some point, hopefully soon. A 5070 Super 18gb would be a step in the right direction for my machine.

Turning a Bull into Swiss cheese...

Thunderbolt vs Bull I won...

@Flanker562 Bro, you really get around! But is the ai summary accurate? Inquiring minds want to know....

https://www.airforce.gov.au/about-us/history/our-journey/establishment-raaf-base-darwin This site mentions dates, runway numbers, and runways being "sealed", meaning paved, presumably with tar and gravel ("chip seal" in the US).

I love these old WWII training videos!

The latest in stealth technology...

This is just really awesome work! I really do like the looks of the long nosed 190s, such a classic aircraft.

As I recall, SF1 had an issue drawing mountains over the top of cloud cover. The mountain would appear on terrain mapping radar, but would not be drawn, and thus invisible, above a cloud layer. Made for some interesting flying on my old Himalaya map. I don't know if SF2 resolved that issue or not. TK and I talked about the issue, something about the way that DirectX worked with terrain that is hidden, but I don't recall all the details of that conversation...

Terrain isn't all bad; you have to land some time. The important part is the rate of closure...

Six Bulls heading for my airfield. I was closing from their port forward quarter; you just lead 'em a little bit and they light right up...

@Jimbib Yeah, I it was something like that. Yes, would be interesting to see how he set that up for the USAF.

TK also did a version of SF for the US Air Force thar they use in recruiting events.

I got turned into a newt once, but I got better. Anyway, I'm off to face the perils of Castle Anthrax; I think I'll be staying a bit longer this time...

Yeah, DSIX is commercial industrial grade software to predict the flight characteristics and parameters of a 3D model, and used to develop actual aircraft components. Birhle used the 3rdWire environment as a visual update for their system. TK based the SF environment on what is called a "standard atmosphere". And for those who don't know, TK's baccalaureate degree was in programming, his master's degree was aerospace engineering. By the way, he also did a version of SF for the US Air Force that they used at various recruiting events. He is a very bright and interesting person in conversation. I don't know what he's doing these days, but I would wager he is quite busy with real world programming.

Thirdwire didn't release it, Birhle Applied Research did. TK did the environment, and Birhle did the flight modeling. TK told me the big thing for this sim was the addition of dynamic wind, so the glider could fly, having no engine for propulsion. Birhle does specialty flight simulation analysis for major corporations. I think it might be considered abandonware at this point. Their First Flight dedicated website is defunct. I did get a beta download of FFWE just before retail launch, and I noted a glaring historical error; the flag at Fort Meyers had 50 stars on it, so I sent them the correct 46 star version, and they included that in the sim. I did buy a retail disc as a collectors item. Birhle used my Himalaya terrain, and one other small map, I don't recall which, in their D-Six commercial software. If you look at their D-Six website, you can clearly see the signature SF airfield. FFWE was designed for Win98/2000/XP, but does run on my new Win11 machine, without too many issues. https://bihrle.com/dsix/

Has anyone thought about making the Enterprise from the original Star Trek for an F104 intercept mission?

Yeah, here's a couple of pictures of @Wrench testing the Wright Flyer B model at Fort Meyers, VA, round about September 1908....

Roast Beef...

Up around 45,000' making contrails...

I think this kind of thing is very worthwhile, and very worthy of public and private support. The RAF has a squadron called the "Battle of Britain Memorial Flight". Our own military would do well to emulate this effort. History should be preserved for future generations. https://www.raf.mod.uk/display-teams/battle-of-britain-memorial-flight/