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Nesher:: They gotta do that on purpose, knowing the guys will push themselves harder. Over here, I swear Hi School football was created by THE NAVY to reduce the number of F-14 pilot applicants (everybody wants it). I can't tell you how many dudes told me... I was gonna fly Tomcats in TEH NAVY but I messed up my knees... But you can't fly Tomcats unless you played football.

mmm, nose like F6D Missileer, the tail....dam

I don't fly SF campaigns (making my own generator), but I can make a suggestion.... For fun, and as experiment, put Su-7 as N. Vietnamese fighter. You should have maybe 6 minutes of afterburner at low level. AAMs or not your choice.

<< JPMorgan Chase allots $9.3 billion in bonuses >> Hush money.

-- to see another quake, volcano erruption or tsunami soon. Venezuela now.

I wonder maybe kids too, before they get mind wiped by culture. Any stories on that maybe?

Congrats server man. I need to get back into that. Years back I used to climb up and down tall pine trees for excersize, fast as possible, run to the next tree and do the same, and go way out on a limb 30ft up to do chinups. You don't let go. I am more sane now, but not as good shape. I hate that. And when you come back, the wind switches direction.

I don't watch TV. well not in like 8 years. I give up!!

Old 1967 article. B-36 could carry two 44,000 pounders. After dropping the first at 35kft, then rise to 40kft to drop the other. The collapsing tunnels idea is interesting.

That's a big place. I'm on it like Blue Bonnett. First stop Ranch Hand: 22 million gallons of herbicide? ~> http://www.utvet.com/agentorange2.html Yikes!!!

Wow 50000 dead? Its our backyard in both location and constant intervention, so I don't blame others far away if they don't help out much. We do have still the transport and material resources most others do not. Interesting about the Dubai angle. That was a debt ponzi scheme from the start. I think the whole Rich Arab State thing is falling away. These are good, popular with the old war vets I've talked to~> http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf

Sounds funny thanks. But it looks like New England, not England. Stay away from the bottle. : drinks : lol that was funny. If true, well I guess they would bar that. Another one I can't remember from too far back. That B-52 and KC-135 collision off Spain. Follows the surviving crew after bailout. All I recall is bizzare music and weird shots. I was fascinated by it at the time. Much very strange.

Thanks!! Recently, there was a Pakistan town (I think) that booted out the Taliban, and a week or so ago they got mauled by a Taliban revenge attack....right.. it was a car bomb on a soccer field. Killed dozens of locals. All I figure is that Afganistan was once a modernizing nation, then the Soviets and CIA came and left them with rubble. Something sad is going on here.

I Dream Of Jeannie is always good for the Classics. Once they had Major Nelson taxi to takeoff in F-106, lift off in F-104, and taxi back to park in F-5, or in some permutation of that order. You think TK will let us do that? I wanna get Jimmy Stewert's SAC just for the flying filmage but the movie is VHS :dntknw: :dntknw:

I'm thinking like Julhelm. Mav, that guy's response should tell alot between the lines. Tip: stay away from the booze though! : drinks : -- military Civil Affair units -- Sounds creepy. Are you sure that will work in the field in the face of unpopular authoritarian governments that our civilian "leaders" are propping up? I'd guess this is where the otherwise unpopular terrorists get an excellent recruitment device. hgbn, that's why I'm kinda thinking the other way. Expand the Forever War, expand the terrorism. Through Amazon, ya'll might still locate a used copy of... The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941 to 1944, by Edgar Howell; Dept. of the U.S. Army, 1956. It details the Soviet partisans terrorizing Russian and Ukraine villages, slaughtering them, to show the locals that the Germans could not control their rear areas, and so create fear of cooperating with the Germans. It sounds like today's post-modern Islamic terrorism through fear. Caught between Nazis and Communists. That had to have been hell on Earth. And we funded it all through Moscow. A curious soft hardback; great fold out maps. Trying to find a decent link to Smedley Butler's book, but post-modern antiwar websites are...annoying. F.A.S. has a very short speech given by Butler here...the whole book+ can be found at Amazon. Yea I take this guy seriously. Smedley Butler on Interventionism, 1933 ~> http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm

Imagine if you had 20kt nuck SAMS. Its a big problem, however, SAM crews often would not know if their target was destroyed. Like its said for tankers, you just keep firing and firing like Duracell Bunny. You don't take a chance. One solution may be altering the damage model so the plane's damage more easily becomes destroyed. Actually, I think even destroyed "status" will still let SAMs fire. I've seen this. Lose a wing, fall maybe 4,000 feet, then rises up 3,000 feet, losing another 4,000 feet, etc...slowly fluttering up and down to the ground in about 10 minutes, SAMS targeting the one wing wonder the whole time. If you got nuck SAMS, you got alot of post-fireball clouds all over the place. You will have to learn the Art of damage modelling in the sim. I have not yet, but will eventually have to myself.

So that movie was Bedford Incident, thanks fellas.

One fascinating film I saw *long* ago, but don't know what it was. Black and white film about a NAVY destroyer(?) playing cat~n~mouse with a hidden Russian sub among the icebergs in the Arctic, and they accidentally nuck each other -- nuck torpedo vs nuck ASROC rocket (I guess). No survivors. No heroes. Just makes you're mind go blank. I like those kinds of face slap endings. THE BEAST, western movie of Soviets in Afghan. Guy who bought the tanks from Israel ~> http://www.warriorsinc.com/FilmThoughts.cfm?ProjectID=7 Actor training ~> http://www.warriorsinc.com/FilmTrain.cfm?ProjectID=7 M.A.S.H. ... really about Vietnam. Kelley's Heroes. My top fave, and its often said its really about Vietnam so its here. :)

You're right that might work, implement Terrain Editor lessons for all schools. Not one tile left behind.

Well, TK is right to keep things simple while leaving the terrain modding open for business. Most of the world can be mapped well using the rectangular method. As for non-scale mapping, I suggest re-scaling the polar region for playability if desired. If theres a big oversight, its that GTOPO30 has a south pole section in polar coordinates, but not for north pole. On the other hand, now that I think again, another big hole is TE not having an Inclusion Region which would include the current Exclusion Region's use as a subset. An Inclusion Region function would allow special tiles to be restricted to tiny regions on large maps, and so greatly minimize 3-way transitions...ie...say dozens of high altitude lakes could be tiled and restricted to the location of the lakes themselves, each lake requiring a different tile. 3dem helps to fix that blank spot over the north. Reindeer meat is great for kids too ~> http://ed-thelen.org/NikeSimulation.html

I love the ground radar. Very simple and basic but its there and it works wonders on hilly terrain and flat lakes just what you need for IDing targets at night like RAF did in WW2 (lake coastline). But it fails to differentiate between ground and water, only sees terrain slope so lake vs flat terrain is no use. One day ("ten years") I'll paint grids or something on the radar bmps and try playing offset aim points. I wish the ground radar would check tile type (water=1), not just height map. I guess that's how it works. :dntknw: Good article on mapping the Soviet Union using radar to make radar target images for SAC bombers... ~> http://www.spyflight.co.uk/scul.htm

PAK FA is a...jet fighter? I was wondering what the fuss was (other places). Seeing the "name" I figured it was an AA gun, or portable SAM, or perhaps a bit out of time, a small artillery field piece. --- Never mind me. Slink away to play F-91 Thunderceptor. Man if all TheSims developers had an analogue brain like TK.

Ouch. I forgot, I guess TE is a 32bit program, so more than 4GB memory may not help TE create larger terrain tiles -- larger map kilometerage and/or smaller tiles.

* bumpit * Man I'll sticky this thread (bumpit to the armpits) next time somebody says SF is getting "old." Everybody now knows that SF hasn't even begun to fly. I am able to TE the game up to 15,000km map (full scale) with 4km tile size. That would allow extending the RoF map to Florida: India at the bottom, Florida upside down at the top. However, I much prefer 2km tile size to better map water borders like sea coastlines and lakes. The best I could do with 2km tile size is 11,000km for now. I may need more memory, or there is some TE limitation. Since I'm bumping into my 4GB memory, I'm hoping its just a memory thing.

WretchFest Maximus, no thanks. I have avoided movie theaters for over 5 years now, and the only thing that might get me back is the upcoming ("two years") filmwork of Joe Haldeman's Forever War, by the same guy who made Alien and Blade Runner. Sounds like that might work. Otherwise, today's movies are like air shows without F-106, nothing to see, move along. I wanna see just one movie showing giant banks behind the curtain, enslaving the population in paper debt, not just cliche "the corporations." If you read your General Smedley Butler closely, the WW1 war manufacturers were at best getting hush money compared to the giant banks, who never had to disclose their war profits. Those fellas hauled in 18 kilotons of gold during WW2, at a time when it was declared "illegal" for American men and women to use gold in commerce. The one movie I know that takes a slight glancing peek at that gold, from a common man's and soldier's view, is Kelley's Heroes. They don't make movies like that anymore. They sure as hell can't make movie stars like that anymore.