Major Lee

Well, got the new machine assembled last night. Everything went well, until I went to load Windows XP... The error message stated "no hard drive found" .... Further checking reveals HD not being detected... Tried new cable, different SATA port, etc... Looks like the Barracuda was DOA. I will load up with an old IDE drive to test things... Oh well, Newegg will send me another... Everything else seemed to be working correctly.

I recall seeing an article that mentioned that the USAF was going to refit the B-52 with high-bypass engines and fly them until 2040... Any current news on that?

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showt...p;hl=F-16+paint

Well, in a campaign, a destroyed runway can be repaired... That would be a bit more difficult with a sunk carrier... Anyway, AI need to be "told" (programmed) what to do explicitly, otherwise you get unexpected outcomes...

Having carriers be "sinkable" would pose some interesting problems for AI aircraft flying from them... Where do they go if their carrier is sunk? Do they just circle around where they thought it should be and wait to run out of fuel? Do they go look for somewhere else to go? What if YOUR carrier was sunk while you were on a mission? Would you know when it happened? When would you get a radio call, if any? Would you abort your mission to go help? Having no base to which to return opens a whole other course of events....

Well, we have that in common; when I am sick I crawl into a proverbial cave and pull the rocks in behind me... It's better for innocent bystanders that way... I do hope you are feeling better soon. :yes:

I understand the being ill this winter. I took a sickday form work yesterday and my wife took two days earlier this week. No offense meant, LP. My comments were offered in jest. I apologize if you were offended in anyway. and I do think ND was hilarious, just had not seen it in a very long time and did not recall the "lucky:" line. Get well soon. ML

oh Erik, my post was entirely one of jest... and I have seen Napoleon Dynamite and have never laughed so hard. Most impressive is that was "clean" movie...

Is that the modern standard for "cool" for the youth of America these days ? This country is in serious trouble... Those boys need professional help... I see you are 14, YP. Why aren't you in school? I don't want any garbage about a "snow day", either... Read an encyclopedia or something. Please, do not try riding a bike today either... You might want to build a ramp or something; just don't do it. Napoleon Dynamite??? What a dud... Is that some kind of youth oriented movie or something? That boy is NOT a role model... He's what we older guys would call a "dork". bad. bad bad bad...

"Luck" has nothing to do with this... It's called work, and my employer came through with some bonus $$ because of a decent end to 2007...

uhhh, Newegg used UPS... yeah, it was their idea.... :blush2:

Come on UPS! Lets go!! I ordered parts for a new machine today... Gigabyte P35 mobo, E6850 3.0ghz cpu, EVGA 8800GTS.G92 x 512MB video card, 2 GB of Kingston KHX9500D DDR2-1066 memory, SoundBlaster X-Fi Extreme Gamer, Asus 22" VW222U 2ms monitor... and various other parts to complete a new machine, with, of course, the old standby Windows XP Pro... This ought to run SF fairly well...

Military Graphics This is one cool website... Decals and graphics like crazy... Skinners may find things of interest here also!

The P-51 in Korea generated enough issue with engine vulnerability that the USAF actually undertook a feasibility study to fit an alternate powerplant on the Mustang... The engine being examined for installation was the PW R-2800... :yu:

Radial: Extraordinarily rugged and bullet proof (figuratively and literally...) The RW2800 that was installed in the YP-47-M was test run at 3600hp for a total of 250 hours before being released for production at a very detuned rating of 2800hp WEP. Many stories of thunderbolt pilots flying back with catastrophic damage such as blown off cylinders... Give me an air cooled round engine any day...

True, the "M" only saw service with the 56thFG, the "N" equipped at least five fighter groups: 318FG, 413FG, 414FG, 507FG, 508FG. How many units actually flew the 51-H? The "H" didn't even fly until February '45 and only 370 were built before VJ day, making it a truly non-operational USAAF aircraft. Over 1800 P-47Ns were built by VJ day, and the last "Ace in a Day", Oscar Perdomo, flew the "N"... At least both high-performance P47 models actually equipped operational units and saw combat... Little to no service? That certainly describes the P-51H to perfectly...

Barnes & Noble Just search for Report of Joint Fighter Conference # ISBN: 0764304046 # ISBN-13: 9780764304040 # Format: Hardcover, 356pp # Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. # Pub. Date: January 1998

Well, if the book "America's Hundred Thousand" (Francis H. Dean) is to be believed... TOP SPEED P-47M = 470mph P-47N = 460mph P-51D = 440mph Because of the P-47s turbo system, the Thunderbolts speed increased as altitude climbed. The P-51D speed fell off sharply above 25,000ft... ACCELERATION P-38L = 4.13 ft per second P-47M = 4.02 ft per second P-51D = 3.85 ft per second (These data are originally sourced from the "Report of Joint Fighter Conference: NAS Patuxent Riuver, MD, Oct 1944, and reported in the many other sources. These are real data, not wishful thinking or imaginative history...) Personally, I would have taken a P-47. I would have hated to ride the silk elevator because some jugend with a BB gun who got a lucky shot on a radiator hose... As for range, the P-47N was the US WWII champ with the longest legs... 996 gallons would get you a clean 1000 mile range at 25,000ft with a 30 minute reserve and 20 minutes of combat time. The P51D with external tanks only got 700 miles with those conditions... One last thing, if you are a Mustang fan, DO NOT read the comments by Naval LT Halaby on page 241 of the Fighter Conference Report... You'll only get mad and go into revisionist history denial...

Maybe Wings Over New Guinea... wait, that would just be WONG...

Wow... one plane = 5% of the B-2 force...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331558,00.html Time for the F-15 to head for the nearest museums... This is starting to get out of hand...

Can you post or send the video? I'd like to see it... thanks! ML

Try newegg.com or ewiz.com

Well, if I could do more than shovel snow in my spare time... Every other night, every other early morning... we've got 5' piles by the corners of the sidewalk and end of the driveway... At least I am in great shape now!!

The frontline can start and end on one side if you want; it just has to separate one area from another... The frontline is defined by the points listed... You do not have to have all points displayed on the briefing map however... Startshow = the first point on your frontline list that will be shown on the map Endshow = the last point on your frontline map that will be shown on the map... Start and end show have nothing to do with targets. Only defines the friendly and enemy "sides" (or area if you prefer...)