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Dambusters Battle of Britain Yea both wonderful films. Another *might* be The Blue Max but I don't recall much of it. Saw it many SF moons back. lessee ... Midway I thought was really nice. Dave recently mentioned Gathering Of Eagles which I might need to czech out. Never seen it, I don't think. Still the most bizzare has to be a movie based on the KC-135 and nuked up B-52 collision off Spain. weird Weird WEIRD but I was enthralled by it if I remember. Can't find any reference to it. Maybe I dreamed it haha.

I "forgot" as always ....Over the years, game devs and publishers chose to gut the product instead of raise prices. Kinda like food boxes can either (1) remain in the same box but ramp in price, (2) remain the same price but shrink in size, or (3) both hehee. Big thick game manuals were an easy choice to gut, the equivalent of cereal boxes getting smaller. Well that's my take anyways. They get away with it because of the slow bloated PDF file. I suggest trying the free FOXIT PDF reader linked below; much faster. ~> http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/ Since I prefer to focus on one or two games I really like, I'd rather pay 100+ "dollars" for a classical game box. I don't play alot of games.

MiGBuster:: Ever notice computer games have not changed prices since 15 years back. About the same 50 "dollars" for a boxed game at the store. But prices for everything else has gone up several times over. Credit (debt) inflation. huh wah? Price inflation we like to call it, happening over the years. If priced like alot of other things that have gone up, computer games should be maybe 100 or 150 "dollars" now. If they were priced like that, we'd have the big thick game manuals.

Hot Shots...yea that's it. Much well done. HotNess: So many guys told me "I was gonna fly Tomcats in the navy but I messed up my knees." I swear Hi School football was long ago invented by the NAVY to perform the initial weed-out of fighter applicants. Caeser:: Yea, they shoulda used B-36.

WretchFest Maximus. I saw parts of that and turned it off. Now that comedy satire takeoff on TopGun with Sheen I could not stop laughing. Very funny, forgot the name of it though. For a real movie, and a real actor, see Jimmy Stewart in Strategic Air Command. I've read that got a lot more young guys to sign up. And they did it with bombers. And they did it with some great footage of the air warfare environment that The Sims developers are blind to. They actually cannot make movies like that anymore. They can't find actors like that anymore.

Oy Microsoft is evil hehe well sloppy is more like it. Well I had a bit more fun there than I should have. Its more like the Linux OS should focus on HOME computing for average folks. That's what the first PC developers did. I've read that businesses would not allow workers to bring the new fangled PC's to the office, so the people took work home with them and did it 10x faster. These people eventually moved into management and PCs became a business tool. Something like that.

HAHA UnknownPilot good one. What is that old red sand box called anyway? eraser:: Not even that. I went through uni about 2000 using nothing but board and chalk. I REFUSED to use "grafics" and got away with it because I always made better presentations than anybody. Instead of putting people to sleep, I directly engaged them in talking about what I was chalking up on the board, always physically moving and chalking and talking. Helps to know what you are talking about too. Some do but most don't because they don't care. Ever notice.... The more PhD economists, the more the economy sinks into debt bondage. The more Business Degrees, the more business margins shrink. The more "business" computers, the more paper work. Funny thing: If home OS Linux developers were to give up trying to impress the dumb psycho business world (always failing), and do what early PC developers did and focus on making Linux a good current gaming operating system, Linux would wipe out Microsoft and the business world will follow tag along into Linux like it always does. Gaming is the big push behind home computing. Linux devs haven't figured it out yet. Maybe, someday. *** I used to hear of a Pentagon PowerPoint Problem. They had to BAN PowerPoint presentations in the Pentagon so people could get work done. Or so I read anyways. True? False? Just some fun contrarian stuff.

Bad move. Airsick passenger, straps, luggage: I'd perma-ground the loser "flying" the plane.

USAFMTL....iHippie? Say it ain't so. Class Lecture? You bring pen and paper. They made SR-71 with a slide rule. They can't do that anymore. Not directly iRelevant, more PowerPoint related, but interesting... Powerpoint engineering and the downfall of quality ~> http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=5079 Although one would hope the author, or "blogger" today, would fully capatalize the title.

The AI stops dog fighting at the safe alt? Maybe something akin to SafeAltitude=10E+3 (mantissa km directly) can help keep high altitude supersonic heavy interceptors and penetration escorts from getting into stall-speed sea-level dog fights.

Too much of it hangs out the bomb bay, even worse than those Tsar Bombas hung way out of Tu-95s.

Because they don't know what a jet sounds like. They don't see it. Final correction, sorry:::: The all time greatest natural sound is a jet passing overhead at the usual 35,000 feet, or having passed over, as it takes a while for the sound to get down to ground. By the time nature's jet noise gets to ground having passed through thickening air, the varying atmosphere produces a surreal, even eerie, slow warbling; a desolate haunting sound. Not loud at all, and goes best with a deep blue sky with lots of finely detailed cirrus and juicy beefy persistent contrails that grow to smear the whole sky by sunset. Love it.

With the "!", I first read that as Ideal gas hehe, like in physics. Was Bagdad Bob right? I never poke fun at those guys, because they can't top my fave quote which is "Subprime Is Contained" by our own "Central Bank" Chairman back in 2007.

The 1971 gold default? The key point is false growth -- what we had since 1971 is a debt bubble. Economic growth should not leave future generations in debt. More important, I just used bpao's method to vanish the outboard engines on TK's An-12 and got an An-8, well close. This is a Good Day. ... its sweet.. [AircraftData] : : Component[010]=OuterEngineLeft Component[011]=OuterEngineRight [OuterEngineLeft] ParentComponentName=Fuselage ModelNodeName=Outer_Engine_L_ok DestroyedNodeName=Outer_Engine_L DetachWhenDestroyed=TRUE HasAeroCoefficients=FALSE [OuterEngineRight] ParentComponentName=Fuselage ModelNodeName=Outer_Engine_R_ok DestroyedNodeName=Outer_Engine_R DetachWhenDestroyed=TRUE HasAeroCoefficients=FALSE : :

Yes and the borrowing into debt also started out slowly before Reagan. No mere U.S. President is to blame here.

I think eraser has a point about fake economic growth which can thought of as a fast growing weed as opposed to a slowly growing tree that lives for hundreds of years. Reagan's economic "boom" came about with increased borrowing -- debt, the dismantling of U.S. manufacturing and shipping it to Mexico, China, etc.... which was part of the process in their financing our debt paper, our economic and military "boom" and helped keep dollar hyperinflation from showing up in domestic consumer prices. That debt has to be paid eventually, in one way or the other, none good. Real economic growth does not setup a debt for future generations. I did like Reagan, alot, but Bush Sr. and his "new world order" baloney seemed somehow closer to the men behind the curtain. I've heard Reagan never wanted anything to do with Bush. Not sure.

Accidentally hit my *thump* thread key again. I have sticky keys. If a Terrain And Tile team, or campaign modding team wants a polar map, I'll adjust and fill in the blue gaps. Remember: No tile left behind.

Nobody has a map big enough to turn around in. But we can fix that....

Mollasses Honey slow Slow SLOW I know its hard to admit, given what we have left, everything faster having been Sandied, Kruscheved, or Mcnamara'd like the two seat Thunderbird. Granted, slow can pack a beastly big punch.

Found this today. I have not been to an air show since maybe the last F-106 flew them, now I see why. This is how they used to do it? Watch closely the F-100 flypast about 1:35. Near everybody's wearing sunglasses, because all the shiny metal flying around reflecting the Nevada sun. ~>

UKP:: mmMMUWAAAHAHAHAaa I laughed hard at that one. Didn't spit on my keyboard this time but I do alot. But it's a Cold War relic IBM Model M so its okay. Kartveli probably made IBM's keyboards too.

B-52 can go over the Mach? Man I learn alot here. Fellas, how to make use of this Mach 2+ hi level speed, when escorting a near Mach 1 bomber? I have some ideas -- everybody knows I came to teh SF hoping to see F-105s clearing a penetration corridor into Siberia for B-52s. I gotta say, this B-1R would be my kind of fighter. I am impressed. Never thought I'd say that about a post-modern all digital wonder jet. Well...Aussom!

Okay, we'll see. One issue I see in your game...they are escorting a B-52 which is very slow. That's kinda a mis match, or is it? Any thoughts?

Woa, now this is interesting. So they are recognizing that USAF mostly operates at mid to high altitudes, and haven't had a gun kill since....? I always said, if you want to own the ground, you have to own the high ground. Okay my first *quick* look, never heard of this before... Now I have to say I like this. Although I'd prefer upgrading those old SR-71s with modernized Phoenix, but this is a start. Ceaser has a point: 50 miles with what, AMRAAM...? Bring the Phoenix back home to the Air Force where it was born. Very interesting indeed...!!

Red Adair ~> http://www.redadair.com/ Always a cool story.