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You may have already seen this, but if not, visit this link and take a look at this "Warranty Card" originally made by Boeing employees, hehe. This is an updated one from the original I think. Its a hoot. Make sure you check out the pull-down menus. BOEING WARRANTY CARD

Ok, here's #3, for the Destroyer. I used the 256 colors for it instead of the 16bit so its not got as good resolution, however the file size is only a third of the first two. So tell me what you think, more res and bigger file size, around 2MB. Or less res and size. Hope ya like it...:)

LOL! You snipes! :P :D This thread sure is gettin the reads, over 580! Big news eh? I guess since we are all fessing up, Im not really a pilot, nor am I a pc. Im darn sure NOT pc either, too old. However, I gave meself the moniker cause I like computer flight sims. Now if I could just get off the ground... :\ And in case anyones wondering, I DID serve in the Marines and Navy AND the Ca. Natl Guard! (Im also, scitzophrenic...) :D

I found this place on the web today and BOY! does it seem to have some nice stuff. Thier focus seems to be on model ships but I could be wrong. They have the nicest ship portraits Ive seen however. Ill be getting one of the David Ray DD-971 and the Indy CV-62. Hmmm, cant get the link thingy to work. Oh well, here's the link, just copy and paste in the browsers address bar... http://www.totalnavy.com/index.html

Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin??!!?? You ARE an old fart! :P :D :D I work at a middle school as a custodian. With my grey hair, all the kids keep calling me the "Old Man", LOL! I doubt Ill ever like Rap though, still cant find the "music" part of it. ;)

I've been reinstalling SFP and noticed some of the new planes I added in, and a few old originals, didnt have hanger screens. A few dont have loadout images either. So I decided to fill the breach so to speak. Since Im no 3D artist working on planes, thought this might be a small contribution to the community. These two screens shown here are about 80% done so they are only a jpg preview of bmp images to see if anyone likes them. Whether you do or not is no big deal cause I do and Im still gonna use 'em in my game. :P But if there is the slightest interest, Ill be glad to zip 'em and upload them, maybe here at Biohaz if MJ's agreeable. The other planes needed are B-57, AN-12 Cub-A, B-66C, F2H4 Banshee, MiG-15 BIS, and the O-1E Birddog. [bR] I must say I think they look pretty business like and neat in the hangar screen ingame. Im jazzed... B) NOTE: OK, these two are done now. I added the girl on one and the map on the other. Placing each picture just right so as to fit the SFP hanger screen and not crowd or partially cover each other is a bit of a chore. I also find I have to touch them up a bit, add shadows or borders, then lettering the way I want it. The background has to be a dark color so the briefing will show up. Then that little hanger screen label in the upper right is a pest too trying to use it and not have it throw off the "look" of the screen. Ive been at it now over two days with only a break for church, exercise, and sleep for 14 hours. All I can say is it's fun. Do me a favor however...if I say I want to model aircraft in 3D, someone please come over and jap slap the crap outta me, ok?;)

Thats great AD! I always thought that the fitter was a pretty cool looking aircraft. It will definately go well in SFP. I for one will appreciate it immensely. Being an old cold warrior, Im lovin this sim era and am adding every Soviet bloc plane I can get ahold of.

Thanks for the link pal. I looked in the downloads section and never saw the B52 till today. Sheesh, I must be blind... <_< I found out the SU is still being worked on. I had thought somehow it was already done, my fubar.

Yes, single mission mode.

Guys, love this plane. It flies well, looks good, and last nite I shot down 7(!) enemy migs. Am I good or what? :) I did notice one little problem. My initial mission with the plane was supposed to be a strike mission against an airfield. The weps listed included fuel tanks, rocket pods, and the guns I think it was. When I tried to select them in the loadout screen to add onto the plane, I couldnt, it said there were zero weps available. Well, I went ahead and started the battle anyway, and there the weps were! On the plane! Even though I couldnt select them back in the loadout screen. Is there a file or something I didnt put in the right place? Minor bug fellas, GREAT airplane! Well Done and BZ!

MJ, how do I size my pictures in a thread or post? Ive tried the HTML tags to no avail.

I cant seem to find the downloads for them. Im sorry, Im a "wanker", lol. :P

Thanks Buff, that was another plane I needed to add in my reinstall of the game. :)

I was reinstalling SFP1 and wanted to update or add some planes and I cant find them. Can someone please give me a link? B-52 F-5 Harrier SU-17 That Italian thingy... :P The links for Biohaz are not working for the B52 or F-5, Thanks... :D

Hi fellas, Ive noticed at a number of sites that the links for SFP1 related websites are old and out-dated. If I may so suggest, Please post your new website address here in this thread, have it updated with MadJeff for Biohaz, and lastly, you might take a little time to visit some of the main websites and update your link with them. I discovered this when I wanted to reinstal SFP1 and add the latest planes like the B52, A10, etc. and most of my links in my favorites folder were useless. I then visited a few sites that were still good, and their links were old too. Ive also looked at the errata thread. Here are a few links... -MarcFighters -Gramps -Migeg -Boopidoo Aerospace I understand that Major-Lee is unable to update his website and give us a new link until after the 17th of Dec. Just thought I would post this so everyone can easily update links on websites' links pages and in their favorites folder.

Eilat...we're talking a town on the coast of Israel here, right? I'd love to see Israel again one of these days. See all the places I missed the first time, which is every place but the bars in Haifa and Tel Aviv...this was back in me bad old days...

You poor, poor fella...Would you like me to play the little violin or the big one? :P Hey! Ya missed a spot on that brass... :P

Pearl Harbor Remembered Pearl Harbor Day, December 7 December seventh of every year shall be known and designated as "Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day". It shall be a day on which to commemorate the sacrifice of more than two thousand citizens of the United States who were killed and more than one thousand citizens who were wounded when the Imperial Japanese Navy and Air Force attacked units of the armed forces of the United States stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This caused the United States to enter into World War II. The teachers and students shall observe this day with appropriate exercises. All citizens should devote some portion of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day to solemn contemplation of the selfless sacrifice made by those who gave their lives for their country in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The flag of the United States shall fly at half-staff each December seventh in honor of the individuals who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 is the day President Franklin Roosevelt refered to when he said "the Day That Shall Live In Infamy". <S>To the veterans of that terrible day...

Being a former US Marine and Navy, trained as Assualt boat coxswain in my early navy career, I can understand how these things happen, hehe. Beach recon is indeed vital. Thats one reason why the US formed the UDT teams back in WW2. But you know, those Royal Marines laughing at the Royal Army, I'd bet, know just how easy it is for things to go awry, even with good recon...the US Marines do, lol. :D

I wondered if someone would come up with something like this. I KNEW I shoulda done it first, hehe. I like the black shoe coffee mug. ;) I also liked the quote in the sidebar... "Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile...can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, 'I served in the United States Navy'." JFK ...amen to that brother... :)

Yes, or maybe BF1942 with more, and slightly better, cinematics and intensity. Gotta love the intense firefights, hehe. Ive been having a LOT of fun playin this. I wish we could drive vehicles though. Maybe in a later addon or mod.

Personally, the Brits as well as anyone has the right to disagree with us. Accenting to dissent is one of the things that makes us Americans. However, we can only hope their disagreement is based on logic and common sense or just a differance of opinion. If evil things are left to unchecked, they only grow worse. The British people hopefully learned that thanks to Neville Chamberlain. The pain they suffered from an unchecked Hitler was all too obvious. While little to nothing has been found of Saddam's WMD, we all remember how he used chemicals and gas on the Iranians, Kurds, and even his own people back in the '80's. It was well documented by many sources. If they cant be found now may be explained as a clever propaganda attempt by him. Think about it. What better way to gain a political propaganda victory than to allow your enemy, who has claimed you have WMD, fail to find them and make himself look like a fool. Its a big country and these things are probably easy to hide somewhere. Our technology isnt capable of looking everywhere. This only weakens Saddams' enemy's argument for invasion and helps to turn your people against him, I mean, who likes to be invaded for no reason? Just a thought and possibility...but coupled with his obvious megalomania and terror rule of his own people, I find it difficult to bewail his fall from power. He was just another heavy handed, evil dictator who needed to be ousted for whatever reason.

I found it Fates! Jeeze Im an idiot! <_< I didnt notice the extra "save" tab when I tried to save the game during gameplay. I was looking everywhere but there I guess. When I clicked that, I was able to name the game and save it. Now I dont get that message anymore. If there is a way to look stupid, Ill usually find it... A friend in the Military Gamers group gave me a link also to a website that has a map editor and some modding tools I think included. The site is called CallofDuty.org. Its a start eh? :)

Fates, I went thru the manual with a fine tooth comb and was not able to find how to save a game, (other than F5 Quicksave), and give it a name of my choosing. I tried to do just that in the load/save game menu and nothing I try seems to allow me to change the name of my scenario. If I then instead attempt to start a new campaign, the game tells me that I will lose the saved campign I have, probably like you said, because of its default name, which I cant change. Id appreciate any suggestions you might have, Im stumped here. Its not like Im a newbie in computer gaming, but I cant seem to figure this out. Maybe Im thinking too linear or something. As for the mission builder, Im starting to rebel at paying more than $40 for a game. $50 is just too much. Ive spent too much on games now, some of which were flops and therefore a waste of money. (Hidden and Dangerous comes to mind. Im starting to wait more and more for the games' price to go down as it ages and look more and more in the bargain bin. (I didnt buy this game by the way, it was given to me by a freind). When a software company charges me that much for a game, I want my money's worth. A mission editor is not a huge leap I think. Most games have some sort of editor right out of the box. They obviously used one to make the scenarios. Why not just release it with the game with the standard proviso, that I've seen so many times, that its not supported? Everyone will agree that it vastly improves the replayability of the game. Hopefully, this company like some others in the past, will release the editor later on. I would prefer that more than a community made editor unless it could be shown the community editor was in some way better. If you do see an editor, let us all know, Ill do likewise. Hope I dont sound too much like Im whining, just offering my heart felt opinion as a long time consumer... ;)

MJ, Try posting your problem on the Naval Warfare Project forum on Yahoo-Groups. The guys at NWS are really good at figuring out problems and they know the code inside out. I think most of them run XP also so maybe they can give you a good answer. That scenario is tough. I usually start out with "auto-engage" on in properties. But with your sensers off at first, when you turn them on and see all the crap flying at you, it can give you a heart attack...