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x8:: Religions never "do" anything because they don't exist. In the physical world, there are only men and women -- or souls -- and for those who believe; above, God, and below, Satan.

JRL:: I *think*I read, it was great at high altitude. Hunter, not so much. Javelin owned it up high.

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If you poke around airplane sites, you sometimes find rare accounts by souls on the ground -- souls not involved in any way with these ops, but who still knew what they were at the time -- who watched these things happen, way, way up there. The key was the contrails, can seeum far away, kinda like sky writing...lol never thought of that before.

FM needs updating. uh....yeah I did the FM but its very basic since at the time -- SF1 -- I sorta "gave up" on FM detail because the game's AI would epic fail with a good realistic seeming FM. If things have changed for you guys in SF2, then you will NEED an FM2 lol.

Why spend that kind of dough on a stick? When I got into simming several years back with Oleg's The-FB, I found a few Saitek Cyborg Graphite joyticks at The WalMarts for 15 to 20 "dollars" each. I got one and it was so freaking amazing I got two more for backup. I'm still using the first one. Here's one or two reasons why... (0) The Cyborg Graphite is a true World War Two combat flight sim stick; rugged and simple with few buttons. Built like a LaGG. (1) Largest common inexpensive gaming joystick made. (2) Giant Titan sized base. Very heavy. Stable on the table. (3) The largest stick top throw distance of any common joystick made, bar none -- 6 inches throw -- compare with all others in the computer hardware retail stores if you need confirmation. I don't know about the expensive 300+ FRN super gamer joysticks since I never tried them....CompUSA never put them out on touch display, assuming they even carried these ubersticks. (4) Largest hat switch of any joystick made today -- compare with others. However, the diagonals don't work well for me, so I use it as a 4-way and not 8-way hat switch. (5) Largest throttle of any joystick made, and smooth working. (6) Only three stick top buttons, but they are HUGE and offer great feedback click and feel. (7) NO BASE BUTTONS -- Just how I like it. I prefer the keyboard as a model for WW2 pilot/cockpit interface until somebody makes a flight sim keyboard that physically models a cockpit panel to replace the computer keyboard while simming. (8) As a USB joystick, plug into running computer and fly. No software comes with the stick, at least in my purchase. (9) Extremely rugged with huge handgrip, large trigger, and strong feel. ALL of the more expensive joysticks felt like a limp handshake/wet fish. I'm still banging away at the original stick I purchased several years ago. The only maintenence required is dusting every year or so. I have not yet opened a backup joystick I purchased. (10) Affordable at roundabout 20 dollars. Best, if you like playing airplanes that had bad pilot-unfriendly switchology, then use any standard QWERTY keyboard to simulate the cockpit panel's switches instead of the buck rogers Space Shuttle joysticks with a thousand tiny little buttons. wow

I searched the Amazon for "soviet partisan movement" and there are several books, including one by Glantz. The Howel book has a few used listings, apparently later printings. The original print has an odd hard+soft cover -- hardback but flexible. The maps are fantastic at least in the old book. ~> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=soviet+partisan+movement&x=0&y=0

lol true For some insight, lookup The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941 - 1945 by Edgar Howell, Department Of The Army (US), 1956 Part of the story is a tale of terrorist massacre against Soviet villages....commited by the Communists. The partisans, killing villagers often at random, wished to show the villagers that the Germans could not protect the villages in the German held rear areas, thus making villages fear cooperating with the Germans worse than the fear of cooperating with the Communists. I gather that terrosim like this has the aim of proving to the population that, in this case, India can't control its own "areas" so to speak. Its a very different situation of course and so this kind of action won't succeed long term. This kind of terrorism did work in situations like the Eastern Front.

Sorry. I guess crashes like this are actually very rare, but in the moment, you get hot ideas. Politicos like to exploit that feature. Anyways filming every carrier taking off or landing may not be practical. Any ideas?

When are we going to start filming -- in high quality lol that seems beyond us -- all takeoffs and landings, or maybe they do at big airports dunno. Sad to hear. Thanks for the headup.

Jedi:: [paraquote]THE DOORS[/paraquote] lol no fair

Pretty good. (Foxnews):: Alaska Woman Punches Bear in Snout to Save Dog Also of note is the properly written title, caps where needed and no-caps where needed. Refreshing to see.

--- don't install to program files .. install to the root of /C That's interesting. I have only "installed" SF-1 one time and "Browsed" it to my "D" drive partition in a folder named "SF"...made a copy folder on another partition named StrikeFighters 1.0 -- pure virgin 1.0 -- and if I ever needed to re-install, just copied over the copy to my D partition, then Patched up from there. If possible, I always try to avoid putting software in Program Files as I prefer really simple easy nav. For me, its... D:\SF lol

do'h -- ignore that -- get a "small" modern drive. 160GB would do great, either SATA or IDE -- you can still get both now. The larger drive would be somewhat faster especially on waiting for bootup. Keep it simple since XP is kinda old especially without the SP updates unless you want to do that also.

Sky, do you still have your old XP install discs? If so, get a cheap small 20GB hard drive and load up XP and CFS. You can tell BIOS to boot to the old drive when you want to fly bombers. Some use "virtual" operating systems. I know nothing about that. I'm a hard drive swapper, and I prefer mucking around there. I can even boot raw DOS 6.22 on my new Sandy Bridge build lol at least if the hard drive is greater than 500MB I think.

...more likely, they were hurting bad, lonely, and scouting was the ultimate escape. Dunno

Hey Jug. Very interesting it is. The Guynemer article, he runs home asking for dad to find his Boche. ugh...lolz. I suppose WW1 scouting was a fun game for some of those guys.

hehe, that's not youtube its mp4 I got that. Nice video. But, Charles Darwin comes to mind with that gamer. Best comment -- As the lines between flying man and bird merge..bird will always land on its feet... Which is why hang gliding is the best way to fly.

Typically, I slept through it. Was up studying up all night, woke up late morning and 2 towers were already history. Didn't have class that day, and uni closed the next day (I think everybody closed down a day after that). The one thing that nobody else(**) noticed, and that's never happened before at least here in USA for many decades, is the week after 911 Massacre, the sky was totally absent of contrails. Nothing. I may have seen one or two -- military probably. They shut down all airlines and stuff for a week if I recall. (**) NASA used that post-911 week to do some kind of satellite studies on the lack of contrail formation over USA, so somebody else noticed it seems.

That is interesting. I've written "WVR" before, but "inside visual range" seems more...real...in some way, I suppose because I never see WVR written. Like alot of computer gamers, I made up "WVR" for myself, logically following on BVR. One thing the girls teach you, life is illogical.

I know, its impossible, but it does get worse than Terrain Editor() NightWatch, 16 August 2011:: Maybe this is one example of something Eisenhower tried to warn us about, but I don't recall him talking about giant banks or "finance." Need to look up his MiC speech again. The one thing I recall, it was very hard to read. Never listened to it. Maybe I really do need sound on my computer.

I haven't installed Flash yet, so notube here lol. However, I've found the two most effective descriptions of fighter pilots:: #1 Can't punch his way out of a paper bag and... #2 Sickly little girl

All the olde stuff. You know the list. As for recent releaces, there are two. No1 is is Tighten Up ~> http://www.songlyrics.com/the-black-keys/tighten-up-lyrics/ by The Black Keys. Its the classical style jamming that moves here -- a titanic traditional sound. Both this, and the following fave, make great use of whistling in some sections. No2 is Pumped Up Kicks ~> http://www.songlyrics.com/foster-the-people/pumped-up-kicks-lyrics/ by Foster The People. The chorus moves in this one, most beautiful, summer fun, but the lyrics are dark and sinister: a contradiction that rips the mind.

busdriver, thought maybe you'd like to see these....very old contrail screens from the SF~1....