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Also don't forget J-32 Lansen by Timmy, here at CombatAce. Also J-21 over at the A-Team's place. SAAB J's are some of the most beauty-birds in all SF. If you haven't seen it, now you have: 1960s pre-ABBA girl Agnetha and SAAB Drakens... ~> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yINoi3zS6VU

They use optical jammers. They won't let anybody get a solid pic. I see, on the larger of the two shapes, at its upper right edge, is a shiny spot. Canopy reflecting in sun...?

Wow nice. The flag shot. Do it again at sunset. Also find a spot somewhere the low sun glances of the snow. The low sun can make a surreal image of sunlit snow and the shadows it throws on itself in the setting sun....or rising sun in the morning. Something like that anyway.

It helps to think of Education Industrial Complex. But also, State propaganda, and the Pharmas profiting from the school meds. They all feed on each other. And ezlead is right: The Parent Industiral Complex is to blame as well. Maybe Huxley was more right than Orwell, corral the sheep with *too much* trivial information, trivial make-work homework in this case here. For Uni students paying their own way like I did, not going into debt, the Textbook Publishing Industrial Complex is a particular sore spot.

HUD MFD lol no I wouldn't go near it. Maybe F-102 or Hunter simulator, then yea. Why is TK the *only* one of these sim guys who can think independent?

Looks like a hanger full of B-45 Tornados. That's how they did it back then. Well angling them through the doors anyways. Hangers too small. pfft another reason I'd rather have Antonov An-2. Leave it in the snow, and fly it from backyard. Ask wife for takeoff clearance. Mow the lawn first.

And no thread left behind. Its that time again. Its NOT my fault. My IBM Model M has a bump key.

Dogzero, that pic is game box hyperinflation gone wild. Over the years, this is what I played. A few others I tried were quickly tossed without comment. When I do a game, I focus on one, so I would spend 200+$ on a BIG game box once every 6 years lol, provided the games were complex enough. SFP1 alone is not, but unlike the others is moddable, and TK and the modders together make it complex enough to keep me interested. Master Of Orion I Su-27 Flaker 1.0 IL-2/FB/PF Strike Force Project 1 At times I still plug in my old DOS 6.22 hard disk (400 MB) and play MOO-1. I still get amazed an old game from 486 cpu days works peachy keen on an AMD Athlon X2 250 system I recently put together. I just realized.....1 small size stick of RAM now is way larger than my old hard drive. Yikes

Fubar:: Sorry mate, I was thinking of simmers in general. I lobbed that quote in your direction to fire up the idea that "feels to slow" is how combat flight simmers deal with sense of scale in the only way they know how. Pushing all that 3D stuff that surrounds you onto a small 2D screen way out in front I'm guessing is the problem. Any ideas there?

Coming from Mississippie (don't edit that spelling mod Dave) I'll say the Paddle Rules! Or it did at one time at least.

Ah thanks fellas that's it.

Very nice rscj thanks. xclusiv that link (at top) said its not real (the snub) but it sure looks like it. Opinion?

The Annie Glenn and LBJ Incident comes to mind. Several versions of that event, all of them good enough to lock the doors. No hand shaky.

Randomizer Something I was thinking about for simulating operating failures. Tweak or add semi-functional things to the data.ini and make their hit boxes really large, as in SUPER large. Then setup an AA gun or guns around the terrain that have astronomically poor accuracy but when combined with the large hit boxes of the tweaked systems, could hit the aircraft in those boxes and cause damage. Something like that.

Fubar:: "Looks too slow" is a common complaint about flying low in The Sims. I think one reason is everything that should be around you is instead concentrated inside the monitor way out in front of you. Say you play THE SF with 90 degree field of view, and that is compressed to about 30 degrees in front of you on the monitor. That has to make terrain pass too slow. About the contrails. They were first noticed late in World War 1, and may have been predicted before then (not sure though). Very interesting accounts I'll see if I can find some of them.

That looks great. I always wondered if the old board games (SPI's Air War) would be waaaay better with manually set cockpit panel guages like in that Jimmy Jet, than moving little square cardboard counters on paper sheets. The boy under the tree: Fubar LeMay? Give that kid a cigar.

Dave:: I call it U.S.. And don't edit that out either lol. Toy gun hehe... I'm surprised the article didn't call it automatic weapon. I'm also stunned that .gov didn't keep the...automatic weapon™. It could be worse. In UK they probably would confiscate the kid as well. Just a toy. Not even a toy gun. That's why I don't read "the news" or watch TV anymore.

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.