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It's about time that L-M got off their butts and finally started delivering them! Nothing like being several years overdue and several billion over budget.

OOOHHHRRRAAAHHH!!! Dave! Congrats on retirement! Pulled pork and brewski's all around. Thank you ever so much for your service to OUR country! Now you can officially talk about:"Back when I was in the Air Force."

Vietnam Era: 4 fighters ready to go(5 minute launch time) when flight ops were not going on. You need to remember:the Task Group has guided missile cruisers and destroyers with long range and strike radars to see everything out for several hundred miles. There also was an Attack class sub shadowing the task force all the time.

Ever notice what dogs and cats eat when they're in the wild. I don't think you would see them heading for the salad bar. MEAT!!!

It's about time the TRASH MEDIA and it's owner get the light shined on them. Notice,they run for cover like roaches. Maybe some of the Media here will get the hint. One of my pet peeves:Trash Media

For almost anything Vietnam related,check out this link. It has great info,specially Air related(Units,dates,ops,etc.) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pilsch/Vietnam.html

I'm with Shrikehawk: Remember the Judgement Day preacher. That was supposed to be on May 21,2011. I think we are still here. To be politically correct:Is that religiously obsessed or religiously challenged?

Happy Birthday United States Army!!!! "Army Strong" says it all. :yes:

It has been magnified or it's photo shopped. I believe AIM-7 is proximity fuzed. It goes off away from aircraft with shotgun type of effect(ball bearings or rods). Maybe an ordy can tell us.

They're saying an onboard fire right after take off. The pilot tried to return to airport,but fire got too big too fast. You get all that fuel and aluminum burning and it's hard to put out. It's a shame a beautiful old warbird has to crash. Fortunately all passengers and crew were OK. Salvage what you can and build another one if possible.

BUFFs travel in packs. The combination ECM from all of them gives them pretty good protection. Your F-4's don't have much if any ECM ,so you are vulnerable. In 1972(Linebacker I and II) they even had us(VMCJ/EA-6's) fly escort for them,jamming all the way in and out.

Badger: Check out this link. Get the CatPack extractor and packer and you can get all the nations.ini files you need. I unpacked all the .cat files just to see what was in them. You can delete the unpacked folders or files that you don't want or need. If you have installed the May2011 patch there is a new cat extractor in the download section. http://combatace.com/topic/44027-extracting-files-from-sf2-series-cat-files-by-migbuster/

I got this in an E-mail from a friend that works at Grumman. It is WAY COOL!!! And this is only what they are telling us ... This is an electronic shield around an aircraft that alerts and protects... Right out of star wars. Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (EO DAS) for the F-35 Check out Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (EO DAS) for the F-35. A must see - absolutely amazing. Click on link below: http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/solutions/f35targeting/assets/eodasvideo.html It also shows more cool stuff for the F-35.

I love the way that they fire their missiles(up and over the shoulder) and just keep on going.

I'm with you Typhoid. There is no room for OOPs in that type of flying. If the "Boss" doesn't have the gates nailed,the whole team is in trouble. Hats Off to the team commander for taking the appropriate steps after. Safety is their number one concern and Commander Voss did the right thing.

The pilots an IDIOT!!!!! If he is military he should have wings pulled and be spending a few months in the brig prior to his bad conduct discharge. When you endanger spectators lives,it is not a show. It is a criminal act of negligence. That could easily have been a 500 kt 12000 lb napalm bomb.

I had to edit the Nations.ini and the Morocco_nations,NAfrica_nations and Tunisia_nations ini's,but I got it working. Thanks for all your help. If you have access to Capun's site,they are also editing files and folders for 2nd Gen Series.

Yes I used included nations.ini. It comes up with aircraft on runway and says Mission complete RTB. or if you fly CAP you fly whole mission with no enemy bouncing you.

I'm doing a conversion for SF2 May2011. I'm running XP SP3 on older machine. The only real problem I'm having is I can't get the game engine to put enemy aircraft in single mission sweep or combat air patrol. If I fly enemy aircraft(Luftwaffe,Vichy France or WW2 Italy) I get all kinds of US,RAF,USN and Royal Navy aircraft against me. I prefer the random generated missions instead of making them myself. Any ideas?

You're looking at 'Spads being loaded on The Midway.(early Vietnam) They were probably still getting rid of the old WW2/Korea ordinance. The bombs almost look like the old 1000 and 500 pounders. LDGP's were new about that time. Firehawk could set us straight on that issue.

Mossies had 4 20mm Hispano's. Some also had 4 .303 Brownings plus the 20's. The top RAF nightfighter pilots got to fly the 'Widow' near wars end. They all preferred the 'Mossie'. One of the Pilots said "The best thing about the Mossie was the speed. If you got into a pinch,you just added power to those Merlins and out ran anything that 'Jerry had." Check this link: http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_mosquito_night_fighter.html

:lol: GREAT STUFF,Dave!!!!!

God does have a sense of humor. If you don't think so,tell him everything that you plan to do tomorrow and then see what happens. The 22nd or 23rd would be cool,just to show the guy who is really in charge.

Who was the boom operator? Anyone we know?

Someone should tell Mr. Pedatzur to spend a couple of months in the missile 'kill zone'. Then ask him if it cost effective. I'm sure his 'expert' opinion would change. Anyway:It sounds like a winning anti-missile system to me.