Lexx_Luthor

Tom Cooper had an article from Air Enthuisast, 2002... Early MiG-23M/MS Floggers in Action ~> http://www.acig.info/CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=183&Itemid=1 In another article, actually I think on his acig forum, he stated the MiG-23 was five years too late. The pilots who knew how to fight with it, did very well. Kinda like the P-40 had a rather raw reputation in the Pacific, outside the Flying Tigers in China, who were taught by Chennault how to use the plane to beat Oscars. To paraquote Yeager, its the player, not the flight model.

Nice. Wush I was there. from United States Here is Wikipedia on Moscow Victory Parade 1945 ... ~> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Victory_Parade_of_1945 Gep, or someone, Putin was down in the crowd during the parade, is that normal now? In the old parades, you always saw Stalin, Kruchev...(sp?) lol, etc.. standing on the Kremlin Wall, waving and clapping. Stalin was the scary one with that limpy hand wave ... his wimpy clapping was even more scary, cos you knew when Stalin waved and/or clapped, somebody was going to get shot. Its nice to see something different. And, its *nice* to see Russia freed from not just Nazi occupation, but freed from Communist occupation as well.

Was. Dave's beer got all lapped up.

Hey that's pretty cool. Yea, but then what about the souls that vote them all in? An irrational conundrum. There is an alternative to not voting. I need to make up a I wrote in Ron Paul bumper sticker. He's was not allowed on the ballot for the last two president selections.

Yeap, iL2 gunners were the best. Don't know about iL3.

Dave:: uh, me, lol Ep IV is a complete story for me, the beginning and the end, the rest were shallow -- very fun but not the gut punch deep and simple story that followed you around for weeks or months like original Star Wars had. I never saw the prequels. For me, only Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks had that same punch, and that was when I was much older. That was amazing what Ron Howard did there. But you've seen my mods, so you already know I'm a weirdo. Others may not know so,....

Well, its not going anywhere fast, or slow for that matter. But its unbelievably interesting to research to make it....believable. Just found this tonight, you know those hex concrete plates on red airbases, well here's a 2007 article from FAA site. PDF ~> SOVIET PRECAST PRESTRESSED CONSTRUCTION FOR AIRFIELDS .. Here's the site ~~> http://www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov/

Can't end up worse than the prequels... : Don´t dare Murphy Actually, what really happened, as we will see, Greedo shot himself.

Streak I agree and that's one of the reasons I'm staying with SF-1, but They will give TK a hard time anyways. Look at any game forum, shucks I complained at ubi when I first played FB with Trident integrated chipset, lol. When I got my first real gaming card, ATI 9200, I learned my lesson hard.

Love these threads, always learn something new. Yak-25 same thing, normal load 50rpg for each N-37, but max 100rpg "in overload condition". Yefim Gordon:: ...yet the ammunition boxes could hold twice as much." EmP:: But if you're gonna dogfight armed only with AIM-9B (what it was supposed to do), you're gonna have a baaaaad time. I've always suspected that B was like *every* other missile at the time, in this case a NAVY missile for fleet defense against bombers. Not much about this exact topic, but I just found... The Sidewinder Story::

Well the new version is too good, maybe. Seamless yes, and it took only that one day to paste up, but since then, I've found some oddness that is just ... odd. The new version from unshaded 3dem can't be "enhanced" with brightness and contrast the same way I can do the older, shaded 3dem version. I've found that I can adjust brightness and contrast to give exact height results for Lake Baikal and the peak of the island/peninsula at the center of the lake, with Tibetan lakes only being pushed up about 500m. With the new version, the Tibetan lakes get lofted well over a kilometer. The color table behaves differently between the two 3dem options -- shaded vs unshaded. So I'll stick with the shaded. Anyways, the really large mountains look blocky, but the lesser mountains have personality. I guess, the new shaded method mountains look better in a uniform way, but they all look the same, while the older method mountains have more variabilty it seems. Anyways the map so far, new colour table much easier to work with. 110kb ~~> http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d178/Lexx_Luthor/9000Tj2.jpg

dunno nesher, Israel knows it can live with an alawite.gov, but not jihadist rebels with captured chemicals. What were we...USA...doing trying to destabilize -- using islamists moderate or not -- a .gov with HUGE amounts of chemicals? Smooth -23 thanks. The -29 is smokey though, one engine more than the other. Now I wish I had sound on my computer just to hear the -23. Love it.

Done! Took about 8 hours, using the new tools, for a seamless terrain, and preserving all the river valleys...butt...there's a problem. 3dem produces those large sinusoidal gaps for a reason -- correct distances between any two points, which is something I have been proud of in this huge hemisphere map. I just threw that away. More to come about this.

Well, spent a few hours pasting the western half, and its alot better than before, and so much easier, a day instead of weeks, working 24bits but I'll convert to 8bit when done, the new tools require 24bit bmps.

Sorry to hear that Dave. Make sure yall get some sleep too.

Interesting Ceaser, made me think, the F-12 would have made a great stealth fighter, since most wouldn't ever detect it at 80k feet and M=3, and like Tomcat may could have been able to just drop lower targets while on a high speed overhead pass, with followups coming behind of course. Unpopular opinion? Well....unpopular question...how many jet-jet gun kils since the eighties at least? Are guns finally obsolete, well depends, if you ever need one, it wouldn't be obsolete. So far we don't seem to need them, butt...I take it today its not as much cost to carry a gun so why not.

Happy Birthday Dave. May you suffer many many more of them!!!

poasted:: I was afraid of this -- Modder = Artist = good enough is not good enough. Starting from seed....from the very beginning with 3dem. But, I am learning new methods in Photoshop Elements, and with the new colour table, things are going much eastier pasting together a seamless terrain. This is today's good news.

I can't skin either, but there's some fantastical stuff made out there. Alot of early jets had bare metal, but many skins of these are not very shiny. You can adust this in each skin's texture file, .. I like shiny For metal skins, I use... Specular=1 Glossiness=0.1 Reflection=1 ...glossiness of 0.2 is good too, not as extreme. --- -- - For less shiny, painted skins.. either white F-106s or typical cammo skins, I use... Specular=0.3 Glossiness=0.1 Reflection=0.5

TK made an Su-9? Awsu9m!

Wow, I finally learned to change the 8 bit color table, and made it R=G yellow. Man this is powerful stuff. I can now easily see small differences in altitude anywhere from sea level to tibetan lake level -- above that, its not so important. They don't call Tibet the roof of the world for nothing. The yellow color is easier on the eyes, and (I looked this up) the yellow allows finer distinction between slight brightness levels especially at the lower, dimmer, altitudes. I wish I did this at the beginning, would have made things so much easier.

haha ... I stripped down to 120 basic defining and tranny tiles, mainly, by avoiding a number of 3-way collisions, but that will take some manual work later to ensure, not much though. Also, cut out some fluff. I panicked today, cos I just realized 3dem has an OPTION to turn off shadow lighting. I didn't know that, cos I never asked. I like the HFD better with no shadow, you can't tell a difference much directly, but comparing the two methods the shadow-off seems a bit better for mountains and valleys. However, that would not only require starting from scratch, but starting from seed. Its good enough I think. I'll never get this campaign finished, but doing it I learn so much about the geography of this hemisphere.

I've read about the new auto cut out of cylinders when idling, new Dodge trucks offer that, or were supposed to. I don't like it, becuase it assumes too much. If I had a real, long lasting real switch** that I could just hit when I was sitting for a while idling, I'd hit it and unhit it when time to go. But taking control away from me in a massive machine is not acceptable. I love to save fuel, in fact I do it the best way -- driving 55mph. Everybody hates me (over here in USA) but I noticed in 2008 when gas prices hit 4.25$/gal in Fla, everybody started driving slower even the BIG trucks on the highway. They always like to drive fast .... until fuel costs out weigh the time costs. I never felt so safe on the highway, can't wait for fuel prices to ramp again, and....everybody dumps their big pickup trucks for pennies not realizing the time to recoup costs is years. -- ** In the 1940s, RAF pilots noticed that USAAF fighters, like P~47, had real switches that really worked. Something like that, can live for a million switch operations, not these moronic plastic bubble buttons that are always the SAME COLOUR as their mounting plates. What happened to bare metal stereos where you could SEE the (real) metal buttons in low light conditions? lol sorry.

You know, I never thought of that. NW's clarity, density, brevity, as well as humour at times, is otherworldly, out of this world, compared to anything else *in* the world. -- - For the record: ( ) Here's Henry Kissenger on the Uk thing, WashPost ~> How the Ukraine Crisis Ends