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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.

mmmmm painful. Just stay away from wooden boardwalks. Although I once saw a really tall supermodel~esque lady walk with near like stilleto points on a wooden boardwalk (8 inch boards) with a good half inch gaps, and for maybe 30 feet she never let a point hit a gap, and she never looked down. That's an ace. Anyways that's the Ussian version of Japanese foot binding, can't run away from a threat....and can't chase a victim.

Best game of 2009 is Classic SF 2006. Its the only game I spend time with. I may again Patch up to 2008 but its what you spend the time with the most that is always the best no matter what year it is now.

Wow that looks great. --- Just read this, RATO boosted F-86s tested in combat against MiGs in Korea? Near the bottom of WHAT? AN F-86 AT 70,000 FEET! ~> http://sabre-pilots.org/classics/v143what.htm

xclusiv8:: Google is your Friend. A good xampel is F-86 page here, thousands of pilot stories... ~> http://sabre-pilots.org/classics.htm Very different is CRISIS IN TAIWAN, F-86Dora flying between Formosa and China, picking up MiGs on radar. ~> http://sabre-pilots.org/classics/v152taiwan.htm Also, OVERFLIGHT, recon over USSR ~> http://sabre-pilots.org/classics/v112over.htm Just found this one, so I gotta go :bye: F-93 ~> http://sabre-pilots.org/classics/v101yf93.htm

Thanks south pole (Argentina) !! The gaps can be fixed. Here is my working RoF map, 10,000km, with gaps filled as described above with some compromises. Far from the pole, there were HUGE gaps that needed filling. I call this image "false colour" and it brings out the detail visually so I can see what I'm doing while cutting and pasting terrain. However, this false colour won't copy high terrain properly and TE maxes out at maybe 3km height. I just switch between TE Green and this false colour to make terrain cuts, pastes, and fills -- I filled and hand drew maybe 50 low level, but not sea level, lakes that TE won't pick up as 0m height. Lake Baikal at 455m can be tiled with its own "baikal" tile set, with min and max height both 455 and using 0 slope, and doubling up the exclusion region using both the primary and .bmp definitions. I wish TE had an InclusionRegion.

* bump * I love burly Russian Style fighters. This is much needed for escorting B-29s to the Urals. I use the Wolf-Wrench Corsair cockpit panel inside Russo external model. Details here ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4410&sid=c0e2dff2c8445efd1ccc96e56c99a07d&start=32

Should of = Should have I can't believe I did that. I always say it that way, but never type it, until now.

I have no idea, but I just guessen, I say this goes alot deeper. The Saudis who performed the wildly successful 911 Massacre -- a very complex long term misssion -- were fairly wealthy I've heard. My take is the richer guys who could make and keep wealth, and not just some banker's son, are the *only* ones able to perform complicated missions that require intelligence and experience in planning projects. Any poor Joe can go on walkabout wearing bombs under his panties, but something like an airplane attack needs competent people. That shoe bomber guy a few years back was a poor Joe I think, and the way he performed his mission, he should of become a night comedian, without quiting his day job. I get the feeling the classical airline bombers of decades back were either wealthy, or had significant position of authority -- you get to high echelon in an organization by being crafty. Complex missions require craft. Perhaps they are scraping the bottom of the barrel, as the self-made wealthy guys don't want to do the complex missions. They want to live. Sounds dam smart to me.