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Very, very nice. Thanks for poasting this. Not a bad idea, the 30mm, for these types of targets as well. Well maybe something smaller.

numinous ... this is goes into the record. Thanks for the tip Dave. Fellas, you need a new game. B-36 would need detailed nav modelling, targeting modelling, and if you ever saw Jimmy Stewart in Strategic Air Command, weather and tons of contrail modelling. They were making a high subsonic straight wing jet ARD (anti~radiation drone, just made that up) (GAM-67) to home in on surveillance radars. Also, lots of MiG-15s and stuff to keep all your gunners happy, except none of the B-36 gun sighting systems ever worked except the tail cannon. And you'd have plenty of air-refueled F-84s for escort and protect you from MiG-15s, so yes you'd have LOTS to worry about there.

Did you see this...? This is insanely fascinating. page 1:: In trying to develop my own StrikeFighter game campaign, thinking about how far grafix need drawing, I'd be thinking of flying along in a B-58, and you pass giant massive mushroom clouds, say a few hundred kilometers on either side, made by earlier strikes. Of course you won't see them at low level under clouds or at night if you are wary of eye flash protection and don't want to look out the window. In a computer game, you want to look out the window all the time...until some game developer models flash eye damage then you'd be motivated to keep the EyePatch and FlashCurtain controls ON all the time. Maybe TK would go for that -- Nah, forget it.

Mako, sad to hear about this. What gets me is, in winter, I've seen guys on the floor wrapped in blankets, with very high wattage heaters right next to, and touching, the blankets. Do they know what caused the fire?

tr:: We don't know the Empire was fascist. I figure the Empire was collectivist, as was Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The example to follow is... Nazi Germany ~vs~ Soviet Union. There you go Collectivism includes Fascism, Communism, and also, "capitalism" required by legal tender law to be based on bank debt...ie...not free or open market system....or so I'm gathering anyways. Collectivists have fought each other before.

We'll get it back. They will have to take it completely apart so they can ship it back, also, they must examine it in detail, with aid from Chinese transportation safety experts, to ensure safety in shipping.

Wrench:: That's why you fly at 50,000 so you don't need to make all that detail. Fly a B-36B across a 12,000km map... ... never mind. Dave are you into real heavy photography? I never had a real camera, but I'm great at setting up shots for others. I have the "eye" I guess cos I always looked at things most don't. But I'm looking for a really good camera now. Stuff I wanna do, night nature/atmosphere shots especially.

Granted this may not be helpful in stock campaigns, but I found in SF-1 2008 that setting some waypoints to an irrelevant goal makes the AI just fly dumb and blind. A flight of fighters, like say fully loaded F-4Cs, drop tanks to engage an air target. Setting the F-4's current waypoint to something like "takeoff" or "taxi" (forgot which work best) makes the AI ignore enemy aircraft. Thus, its possible to have staggered escort flights where they don't all drop tanks and engage one or two interceptors, leaving the strike or bomber formation to continue alone.

TE = Tooth Extraction

Yea, I can add air bases anywhere. Tiling is not my game. I tried to tile. I'm a disaster. I ya'll want a super size map, I'll do the HFD, and can locate air bases on the map. But, any campaign idea has to use the whole map -- 6, 10, 12 thousand kilometers whatever -- or there's no reason to use such a large map, losing detail for nothing. ** AGAIN :: the map centered on the north pole may be more interesting than my USSR centric map for SAC vs PVO...(what vs who?) Never mind. More basically, a north pole campaign involving Badgers and Bears can, finally, directly include Canada in a StrikeFighters game.

Don't buy it. Hang gliding is real flying, this wingsuit aint it. Yeah I'm into high speed -- but only at high altitude, and unless you have a Buck Gordon jet/rocket pack with your wing suit, wingsuits are not flying. This aint' it. Hang gliders can thermal to high altitudes, and stay there all day with the buzzards, and go cross country following the cumulus clouds. Hang gliders can surf the ridge lifts, and stay there all day. Hang gliders can land on the pilot's two feet, without a parachute. Any body here ever hang glided?

Just looked him up. Apparently, he played a B~36 flight engineer in Strategic Air Command, with Jimmy Stewart. Those days, they employed real actors. I wish they'd make a good DVD of that someday. Why they don't is a wonder. Seeing it for the first time, I instantly saw MASH as a strong protest anti~vietnam war TV series (and original movie as well) -- but safely, and quite creatively, removed to a more distant forgotten war -- Korea. My dad fought on the ground in the Korean War, and loved MASH to no end, but never noticed the anti~war aspect until one day I told him that it was all about Vietnam. He said it never occured to him until then.

I dunno, they drove a Dodge truck, so... The debri flying is the most freak, that tire especially, it flies off in a direction midway between the initial directions of the truck and suv momentums, basic vector addition lol.

Thanks fellas. Dave, how does making 5000$ a year sound like? I suppose the 19 and 26+1/2 are age requirements (no sound on my computer). Embedding is disabled on this one, so click the watch on youtube thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15SmdiYQFOg

Man that is alot of iron, along a lot of highway. This is much shorter, but quite epic. I watched this maybe 30 times so far. EVER TIME you see something new. Try to put yourself in each participating soul's position. You see really interesting things the more you watch it. And, try to look both ways at intersections (can't always do it though).

Interesting you poast the MiG~3, as its my second fave aeroplane, after F~106, designed as a mass production high altitude high speed interceptor, and in the right hands excelled as a high altitude tactical fighter, as did the P-38 designed for the same role, although originally planned to be hand built in limited numbers. I read an account by a Bf-109 pilot there, during that stalled winter. He heard the news about Dec.7 the day after, but was so busy trying to keep frozen airplanes flying and dealing with the Soviet counterattack, only weeks later did he have a few minutes of time to stop and think, and he wrote that's when he realized that the war was lost back on the 7th. Very interesting about the two campaigns. Pearl and Barbarossa. So many parallels. Many think Stalin allowed the Germans to attack. Many think Roosevelt allowed the Japanese to attack. I got Admiral Theobald's book Final Secret of Pearl Harbor about this, but have not read it yet. I can believe it -- because I have long known about the banking debt system being set as a trap around the USA, and others, at that time, and Roosevelt's confiscation of gold from Americans -- can you believe that when you stop and think about it? okay this, short PDF, the text is selected excerpts from pages of Theobald's book. PDF ~> http://www.richardsorge.com/literature/books/finalsecretofpearlharbor.pdf

Dave:: Somehow, I know. Reading the stories of the olde hands back then, just another world kinda. Well do more interviews, before they are all gone! (the souls, not the machines) I always tell myself I'd love to interview PVO pilots from that era, before they are all gone, but never learned the Russian, and not in a position right now anyways, but.... Another one I always thought would be neat to poke around about would be Pacific island natives during the Japanese occupation. Become a historian, never thought about it before.

IL-1: The Return of Oleg Recall when he got in two near back-to-back car accidents in Moscow, a few weeks or months apart, and got a bit hurt but okay I think long term. Reminded me of the pilot who spun a Polikarpov IL-1 into the ground and survived, even poasted about it, hoped he saw it. Here, IL-1 or IL-400 (Istrebitel Liberty 400 hp) ~> http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/i-1/i1.html

Zur, found this...Joe Baugher, under F-100D... Provision for the installation of a quartet of GAR-8 (later designated AIM-9B) Sidewinder air-to-air infrared homing missiles was introduced on the production line with the 184th F-100D. Air-to-air missile armament had initially been tested on six modified F-100Cs. That 184th Dora I'm guessing was on the floor early 57, so there was no reluctance to use NAVY missiles when there were no alternatives. Shucks the Air Force and NAVY eagerly shared jet engines. If you need to *see* it, at Nellis super air base, 1959, there's a Dora firing off what looks like a Sidewinder at a rocket target fired seconds earlier. Pretty smooth. Right now, I'm thinking that Falcons might have been a better close-in missile, but *only* if mated with the airplane at the factory, during manufacture (ie...designed for it) -- see Gums here, and page 2 of that thread for more Gums. Dunno. --- Thanks again to MiGbuster for alerting me to that f16 site.

You may be right, but its not what I gathered. Even when Sabres were there, LeMay *seemed* to insist on F-84s according to one source. My interpretation of that is my own however. lemmee see if I can find more...

His recent book Rainbow~>Gusto is very, very good story of stealth applied to U-2 and Oxcart. Johnson hated "stealth" wanted nothing to do with it (kinda like me) ...Kelly he figured 90,000 feet easy for A12, but CIA strung along Convair until Kelly caved in and got on the stealth bandwagon, thus lowering the cart's performance. Very interesting stuff. Get it.

IL-3 I don't know why they didn't go with that, given Luthier made a poast about needing a sense of humour. IL-3: It's simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing.

Jedi (page, some time ago):: Read the Steinberg-Bergstein paper. That can be modded, at least visually (not the part about grounding airplanes), but will require ramping up clip distances to levels that Dave AND TK both would be forced to boycott.

Zur, NAVY sneaked early sidewinders on Formosan F-86Frederichs back in 1958, so following their war winning example, you can do anything you want. So effective were the IR missiles at high level where MiGs traditionally ruled, the Chinese didn't want to fight F-86s after that, high or low. I have struggled with using "H" for escort in my game. It would need Fury~esque air refuel, but I have a tendency to want to ignore anything "sabre" just to be different, and go all out on the Republics. LeMay seemed to prefer the F-84, even at the cost of B-29 crews in the lab "test tube" in Korea, or so goes my interpretation of why LeMay insisted F-84s be used for escorts -- to test them.

This may be of interest: interview of early 1960s era -52 pilot Ovidio Pugnale (now board member at B-52 Assoc.). here ~> INTERVIEW WITH OVIDIO PUGNALE - 30.8.1996 Its a three page interveiw, little arrows at the bottom take one to the next page, and they cover flash curtains and eye patches. Very interesting.