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HAHAHA those made my day. Both of them. Pretty good thanks.

My fave :: I gotta million of em.

Sounds like a good gig. Take that place and pump it up. At uni I loved studying on the floor in library, between the big walls of books, just sitting on the floor nobody in sight. A BIG library. Just kilotonnes of books and shelving and very little floor. I hated the nice finished wooden tables and comfy looking but painful chairs. That's where you are supposed to study. WretchFest Maximus. Icarus:: The guys I've met with the biggest balls were retired military or combat vets who have learned enough to never let their kids anywhere near the military. They know what's going on and what's not being told. They seen it, they smell it.

Britain is kaput, as we are. We get the same thing over here sometimes. I always looked at "parties" as something to avoid like a plague unless you are with good *long time* friends and stick with them. School disco/party? WretchFest Maximus.

THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111 hehe somebody's reading that Russian info warfare dude predicting breakup of Ussia into five pieces. okay...Treasury bubble or Jellystone Park pops and.... (1) South breaks off into the Gulf. (2) Eastern banking states breaks away into the Atlantic wash up on the steppes of the Bank of England. (3) California breaks away into the Pacific and returns to mainland China. (4) Canada invades to take back the rest, except... (5) Montana becomes Free.

Fw-190 carried a shucks I forgot -- a 2 engine bomber type plane as glide bomb. Oleg made this into the FB/PF sim. Well, okay maybe the bomber carried the Fw.

Thanks Hinch that's interesting. I'm kinda new to post-WW2 Britt aircraft. Its a whole new world.

er um...or that's my guess as to the thinking behind it all, or the rationalization for budget cuts maybe.

commander:: Actually, post-modern. I stopped paying attention to post-modern military stuff years ago. But my basic guess here is: (1) No longer any real competition out there from any other nation, which means.... (2) No resources need be spent on developing and operating dedicated aircraft.

Better:: If tanks are to be returned safely for re-use, they don't fulfill their ultimate function. This is standard during Peactime. Drop tanks get a bad rap. If the real crunch comes, they will be carried, and used, and...amazingly...dropped. Other planes got a similar deal. McDonnell F3H Demon normally carried one drop tank under belly, the other left behind because together they caused too much drag. I assume the tanks were normally returned for re-use, so only one was carried. If there were no hesitations of sending aircraft off where they might actually need to drop the tanks, say in a shooting war, they will be carried. Or so I'm thinking anyways. No drop tank left behind!

My guess: the tanks are brought back.

TK's Team during Patch Week.

Possibly. I'm right now analysing the screenshots just in from the U-2. I'll let ya know if what you suspect is correct.

Whoa Veltro. Hold that pose on the runway. DON'T MOVE THE MOUSE U-2 gotta get a few screenshots of that Mya from 70k feet. CLICK CLICK Done! Thanks.

uh, that's some Compensation going on there. Didn't know about that. Video of CONVAIR XC-99 first flight, with some still pics~> http://www.air-and-space.com/xc99.htm While its coming down for landing near the end, the busy moving traffic on the streets below makes it seem no so long ago. Weird.

tr:: Very much needed quote we Ussians are terrified of. Thank you!! One famous bloody Empire with the greatest techno advanced military and forcibly confiscated money was the democracy of Athens -- but big fan of Athenian NAVY though (their Air Force, well...). Support REPUBLIC!! ~ http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/aircraft/p-47/1.html

Hey thanks for the rails. AwSim stuff there. My basic take:: MiG-19P -- Only two 30mm cannon because of heavy radar. No missiles. No rails. Performance somewhat reduced over -19S because of radar mass. MiG-19PM -- No cannon, 4 rails. Radar mass and missile drag severely reduced performance; just barely supersonic at altitude. Some P converted to PM but only 2 missiles. I'd love to see a MiG-21F style nose LOD (with metal shine) to add onto MiG-19S for a high mach SM-12. The main thing holding MiG-19 mach back was the thick intake walls.

Wooden chairs, Iron cats.

column 5's total Cold War downloads still holds it all, with full boopidoo Su-15 cockpit. page 6 ~> http://www.column5.us/aircraft6.shtml Both Su-15 and -15TM. The cockpit is in the TM download for sure.

~> http://aerospace.boopidoo.com/

Put down the guns fellas/fellattes. The sign is giving motorists directions to the banks.

mmm well Grumman has part ownership of the top also. But their engineers may be forgiven for living in a more robust plane of existence as constantly flying carrier planes have a built in toughness just for being carrier based.

Mee too. I like "what if": K-7, B-70, Avro 730. Your next Re-Education lesson in unmatched overly large, burly, and often ridiculed Russian aircraft design is...well you do the work.. Advance google search -- the exact phrase -- Aviation Darwinism There are too many Heavyweight link results to poast here without crashing the CA forum server. Aviation Darwinism is a large subject of hysterical study. Basically: survival of the most survivable, with Russians owning the top of the food chain.

um...no...AI has its own throttle settings. This can be tweaked somewhat, but I do know that AI will engage afterburner in terrain avoidance, so maybe the AI will use full throttle if needed even without an afterburner. ANYWAYS it may be worth doing some lab experiments with.