Lexx_Luthor
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Do fighters really need afterburners to take-off?
Lexx_Luthor replied to raptorman's topic in The Pub
If they need to get airborne heavily loaded, on a "real life" operational runway that is short or not paved, or needing to get into local action *fast* like here... There were some later missions flown, especially in Mayday emergencies when the 102's were the fastest response available in the South (2 1/2 minutes over the fence, far faster than the F-4). Or for air show, or impress congress, members. b52:: One of the Few, with Original Knees after hi~school football. Best method of weeding out candidate Tomcat pilots ever devised. I had so many friends tell me "I was going to join the NAVY and fly tomcats but I messed up my knees in football." -
Any current or former F-4 pilots here?
Lexx_Luthor replied to mytai01's topic in Military and General Aviation
Right -4b didn't catch that. So you had to stay in the back seat until fuel ran out. gotcha!! -
c5:: Yea I know, but there is something wrong with these two. Naming a kid after Hitler is only going to kill that kid's freedom in society. Also, the contradiction here with these two is insane:: Hitler v1.0 ran a massive police state government that kidnapped most German children into old men controlled Youth Sports Camps that put Penn State locker rooms to shame, so one could say these two were asking for state intervention by naming their kid after a police statist. These two are NOT about freedom. Viper:: They will play nice or Curtiss LeMay Sladen will beat the snot out of them.
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Any current or former F-4 pilots here?
Lexx_Luthor replied to mytai01's topic in Military and General Aviation
ezlead, fixed it for you... Those J-79's would set you right in the back seat. There. So the guy in back with his controls had to cut afterburner, and reduce throttle, all with you in his lap, so you could climb back up front? -
Modifiing AI Behavior
Lexx_Luthor replied to Echarlie's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Well lettuce know what you find. I've spent a few years working over the SF, but spent very little at all in the AI data -- yet --I will have to eventually. One thing I discovered recently that will be insanely useful for my strategic game, is that in mission editor like KMD you set selected waypoint's COMMANDs to a few really bizarre commands (maybe NONE...TAXI...TAKEOFF...I forgot now) that turn the AI into dumb blind plodding along at the specified speed/altitude/heading, but with no reactive behavior. This is great for setting up staggered escorts where some escort flights drop tanks and engage interceptors, leaving "dumb" escort flights to continue with drop tanks like nothing happened, until they reach a waypoint with a normal command, and they start reacting like militant hardcore escorts as expected. Thus, its possible to setup escort scenarios where the escorts don't all drop tanks and engage the same few interceptors at the same time, so the strike or bombers are not abandoned. -
Eur Bans Claims That Water can prevent Dehydration...
Lexx_Luthor replied to Slartibartfast's topic in The Pub
hgbn:: But Cucumbers are regulated on bend ratio. That could be an attempt to regulate genetic frankenfood Mods. Have to look that one up. -
Modifiing AI Behavior
Lexx_Luthor replied to Echarlie's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Depends on which dash-1 version you got. SF-1 2006 and below, you use the AI data blocks in the AIRCRAFTOBJECT file that is extracted to the Object folder. This file covers all aircraft put in the game. SF-1 2008 and above, you can use the above general file for all planes, but you can also use many of the same blocks in each aircraft data file for specific aircraft differences. A free sample: oddlly enough perhaps, the [RocketAttackAI] block defines how the AI use anti~radiation missiles against SAMs. In SF 2006 and earlier, there was only one way to do this -- for example one ARM releace altitude for all planes --- and that is defined in AircraftObject file. In SF-1 2008 (and SF-2 I assume) you can define this AI behavior in each aircraft data file by using the same blocks as found in general AircraftObject file, but use them in each aircraft.data.ini and each can be different from other aircraft. -
But did they get any free beer out of it? That's why I don't read most of these news places. 19 out of how many targeted fell for the hoax? You don't learn anything, like eating card board, it fills you up, but you starve for lack. Granted, however, on the other hand, they may have a reason not to reveal the success ratio.
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Eur Bans Claims That Water can prevent Dehydration...
Lexx_Luthor replied to Slartibartfast's topic in The Pub
Florian:: Wow. I heard about the bent bananna thing. Weird. Okay, advertisers border on criminality, but I'll admit, governments are the definition of criminality, fraud, lying, theft, etc... Back in Ye Olde Testament, somewhere I gotta open that thing again, God warned the Isrealites what would happen to them if they got a "king" that they were begging for. -
Eur Bans Claims That Water can prevent Dehydration...
Lexx_Luthor replied to Slartibartfast's topic in The Pub
We need to see the written regs first, and not go by some .uk rag. There may be a method to the apparent madness. Advertisers are very deceptive, to me, criminally so, but I'll admit I'd rather have no regulations on advertisement, and let the souls use common sense to protect themselves from fraud... yea I know GOOD LUCK but I live in a fantasy world about that -- I've had so many co~workers say, "I'm getting the orange juice for the vitamin C...where I ask...does the label include vitamin C?....they look and say "no" and its very time consuming, indeed almost a waste of time, trying to explain that if vitamin C is not advertised, ITS NOT THERE. Common sense. Does the Euro law outlaw the word "may" or "can" as I've seen reported in the non~Euro press, or does it try to prevent the use of the word "will." I can see the Euro point if advertisers are making false claims. Anyways, in my fantasy world of magic, unicorns, and pixel dust, and Delta Darts, everybody already knows to drink lots of water, and why. Unfortunately, its not the real world. -
JediMaster:: Yea good thinking there. Its worse in the finance world, because when the banks control the governemnt and private purse, they are at the top, even over the "defense" (sic) establishment especially since it is hoplesslly addicted and dependent on ever increasing borrowing and debt. The *real* economists are simply businesses and households and men and women on the street doing their day to day thing -- that is what a (free) economy is after all, or should be. Ever notice that the more official "economist" university degrees given out, the more the private and public debt builds up -- the more official "business" degrees are minted, the more businesses go into debt and fold. Here's today's interesting take from the Nightwatch.... For the night of 16 November 2011:: Nightwatch has previouslly stated that the goal here is not to save the European ecomomies, but to save the banks. Again, the "pro" or "official" ecomomists are frauds. The real ecomomists are every day souls on the street, although we can be, and have been, tempted into self-destruction and delusion by the frauds.
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Popular AVIATION movies you've watched and liked!
Lexx_Luthor replied to pandaman's topic in The Pub
Interesting. Harley Dahler:: -
You know its true when its officially denied.
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Interesting ... the new PMs or presidents of Greece AND Italy are bankers. Denninger has a funny short piece on this... Are Banksters Trying To Steal GOVERNMENTS? Over here across the mid-Atlantic Coffee Tea Boundary, its beyond comedy our US Treasury heads and Federal Reserve boards and economists tend to be previous Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, or Citigroup executives. Herman Cain also worked in the Federal Reserve, so that writes him off for those who know what's going down.
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Amazing soldier evac by Chinook!
Lexx_Luthor replied to tflash's topic in Military and General Aviation
Youtube comment:: I can see that point. Well if possible re~enact somewhere it with better camera. Nice find. -
Yep, same here. Its just funny in its moronism, or moronicism? -- (I just made that up) -- Love it. I guess because I try to be so sincere, serious, and even severe in my own internets poastings. And I love spelling mods as you can see.
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HUD question "Airbrake ON/OFF"
Lexx_Luthor replied to saisran's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
lol I never thought of it until your poast. Never tried it before. Lettuce know how it works. Just tried Scroll lock and it works great. Problem is, if you want to -- say -- have the light come ON when you open the brakes, make sure to turn the light OFF before game. Its a toggle after all. Its another step you have to do. But, caps and scroll~lock I keep OFF normally anyways so its no extra step there. Numpad however is always ON for me...I love my num pad one reason I can't use those little laptop computers. Worse, turning Numpad off turns off the numpad keys and I use them in game so I probably can't use that. Caps and Scroll work are good though. -
Yea I read Bangkok is pretty well protected from flood, but the rest man its a mess. A friend just spent a few months with family in Vietnam, she said it was dry and hot. Odd since Vn and Th are so close. But she said in 93 (I think) they had their floods. So it goes.
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I think alot of this shame was game devs hoping online shooter matches would eliminate the need to program AI. They were wrong, especially in air combat flight TheSims which have always been AI disasters -- although there is so MUCH other worldly (sky-atmospheric) 3 dimensional things to program for but even so...you'd think at least ONE air combat flight TheSim would simulate AI losing vision in the dark.
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Thanx Stary those are some fine pics. Very interesting. Remember this one? My fave online WW1 site that I know of. ~> http://www.greatwar.nl/ Thanks to uncleal (bless his many poasts) for leading us to this site.
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Wrench, did your mushy foam Windows keyboard get the -51 and Canberra order mixed up?
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HUD question "Airbrake ON/OFF"
Lexx_Luthor replied to saisran's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
CAPS Set the Caps key for brake toggle. A little light comes on the keyboard when you turn caps ON and the light goes off when you turn caps OFF. Just tried it in SF~1 2008 with PASKO F~106A and it works great. :yes: Numlock and Scroll~Lock keys might work too for game control switches. Both those keys are also tied to lights on the keyboard. Well okay maybe old fashioned keyboards like my 50lb IBM Model M assualt keyboard with recoil numpad and key silencer...don't know about newer mush Windows keyboards. Any other keys now that are tied to lights? -
Wellcome back!@!@ Did you get wet? What's it like over there the last few weeks?
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Fub that looks interesting. Never watch TV so didn't know about it lol. I always wanted to do one of these ~> http://www.fordification.com/ *1968* specifically and NOTHING else cos that's the greatest vehicle ever made. But, I either do it right or not at all. That's alot of money and TIME I don't have, tearing down and bagging and labeling everything and I don't have a garage. I'd have to setup a tent and some do that but no thanks. The money is tight but over time would be manageble (hahs supposedly). But, maybe one day...but not today. But I've also been told, just get one, even if I don't make it perfect, or even decent, just have FUN with it. Many say they get compliments no matter what. I do the same. When I see a rusty 67-72 truck in the lot, and see the driver, I tell them they got the best looking truck in the lot, cos they do, hands down.
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Major Lee...forgot this is your thread. Predicting floating currencies is the domain of currency traders, because it involves good timing as well. Just go when you can go. There is one rather soft rule to follow: contrarianism, but its a frightening experience to develop in one's soul. If majority sentiment or "everybody knows" favours one currency over another, then you favour the opposite. Its not always a perfect rule because of timing. Sometimes one stock or currency can go far higher or lower and for far longer (or much shorter) than seems sensible. Bad timing has ruined many otherwise "correct" predicting traders. Don't try to time it. If going is important enough, just get up and go when you can spare the dime. One good contrarian timer blog on currencies and other stuff is Mike Shedlock at ~> http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/ I don't trade, but its one small source among many of non~mainstream info on what's going down. --- hgbn:: Don't you love it how the souls can vote, and if the politicians don't like the vote, force another vote, again and again until they get what they want? They tried that trick in UK I think about a euro vote, or somewhere. Iceland too they tried that concerning bailing out the failed Ice banks. I love the concept of some kind of European association (Typhoid's common market perhaps). At one time Europe had a common currency, shucks the whole world shared a common currency for international trade, and in late 19th century they did quite well, perhaps the greatest economy ever seen in the world. I've read that it took the world until the1980s or maybe even the early 2000s (forgot) to regain the economic scale of global trade seen in the late 19thC and pre~WW1.