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There you go again, bragging, Dave..............

Ditto! Sweet work, Veltro. I never did understand why the Brit bombers didn't have belly turrets for defense.

Email and register to gain entry to the A-Team's Skunk Works site. It is full of Third Wire add-on aircraft. http://cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1/ Be sweet, Capun chooses at his own discretion who to allow in and who not.

If you want to read a real-life great flying book, read "Thud Ridge" by above mentioned Col. Jack Broughton. Living life on the edge headed north in a Thud. And it is real!

Well, that just about covers everybody here...................................What else you got to do with your spare time???? Like I continuously remind my spouse, there are worse things....................!

Raven FACs awake! There is a real, live Oscar Duck in our midst!!! Charlie beware.......................

The services are doing their best, but when you put women and men in close proximity, men and women do the same things that they do everywhere else. Surprise, surprise! Up and down the rank structure, it is all about undue influence or out of line actions in regard to duty, risk, responsibility, etc. The military is great about making situations FUBAR in this area because it is vague guidance to people used to getting explicit guidance. It is a judgement call that the military is not keen on making and actively encourages membership to not go that way. Nevertheless, people are people and get in remarkable circumstances when romance is an issue. Sex is defended as romance and romance is viewed as sex. It is still all about undue influence and what small scope of solutions to those sort of problems are available to the military in normal circumstances. Viewed from the perspective of a combat situation, the scope narrows even further. I don't think there are any good answers, but the Israelies seem to be better at handling it than most. Then again, they have to deal with it since it is a small country surrounded by enemies. The US is a large country which can select it enemies and is constrained by our politics. Dealing with this issue is always going to be unsatisfactory to the service, the guy who has to deal with it and the personnel involved. Glad I'm retired.

If I may add something. ........ Look in the .data.ini under [fuselage] section, and there will be a "SystemName[XXX]=" reference to CANOPY. Remove that or put "//" in front of the line and renumber the SystemName[XXX] items. Then look for the [CANOPY] section and either delete it or put "//" in front of each line. By putting the "//" in front of the affected lines you "remark" out the line following the "//". The computer as it reads throuh the .INI file comes to that line and ignores the instructions on that particular line. Advantage by leaving the code in the .INI and remarking the code for those lines is that when some bright guy here on CA finds a fix, you don't have to scrounge around to find the code necessary to get a working canopy again.

Great skin. Hate to break it to you, but the Jolly Rogers is a US Navy unit, not USAF. Hey, its a ficticious skin anyway! Actually wish the USAF would get a little style in their paint jobs anyway. Better still, bring USN and USMC flying units into the USAF. That ought to stir up a hornet's nest!

Feliz Natal!

I got no treeeeeeeeeees in Vietnam, I got no treeeeeeeeeees in Europe, I got no treeeeeeeeees......correction......bushshshshshshshshshs in Israel............. Poor pitiful me..................

Wrench, missing the INIs in the file! Great skin though. Added: OK, I'm an idiot, found them in the other stuff folder. Disregard me, great job.

A real beauty!

Kameraden, RIP.

WoV, clean install and patch through the latest patch and I have the following helicopter problems. Cobra, HH53, and Chocktaw fly OK, but the main rotor doesn't rotate. All flavors of Huey and the Loach blow up on the runway. Anyone have any ideas? All aircraft are add-ons from earlier years.

Rest and lots on non-alcoholic liquids. Better still, don't go there. I don't anymore because I can think of far too many times I have embarassed myself and my spouse under the influence. I love her too much to do that to her any more.

FC, sweet!!

Ditto. Great Campaign!

Nice job, Storm. I like it!!!

Scares me and I'm fearless.................

Ditto

It's all about ego. Fighter jocks couldn't stand to be called bomber pilots (inferring that they were BUFF drivers). Had to have an "F" in front of the designation so they could still swagger at the bar with the Rhino drivers (pilot retention was a big issue then.......still is now). The F-111 Series was aptly called "McNamara's Folly". A single type jet for everyone's needs and, following that, pure simulator time to save on expenses. Pretty soon we could fly a bunch of simulated missions in simulated aircraft during a simulated confict and declare a simulated victory.

Well said, gbnavy61. Service needs come first and it is the luck of the draw as to who gets what aircraft. The only things you can control is how you do the duty you are assigned to now. Nobody gets a better job/assignment by doing the work they are assigned now poorly. Want to get as close to a guarantee as as possible, go to a service academy. They get first pick and should. ROTC gets leftovers and if there are no aviator slots in the leftovers, there are no ROTC flight school slots. Just the way it is. I was a plowback T-37 instructor in 75 looking for a fighter and all that was available was tankers, bombers, or airlift. Drawdown to Vietnam was underway and I was lucky to get a flying job at all since some of my contemporaries got a missile silo.

The attached file is a good readme on adding some landing and anti-collision lights to the great A-Team B-36. I had to make some assumptions on where the lighting would be because I was working from the USAF museum pictures. Nose gear lighting is fairly standard and the inboard prop nacelle appears to have an outward facing and inward facing light. These nacelle lights were probably to allow a crew member to visually check the wheels down and locked and condition at night. I tested my lighting on the "J" model in WoV and I think the lights will be appropriate for the other models. Hope no offense is taken by the A-Team for this addition. B_36_Addons.txt

Actually, my best guess for those nacelle lights is based on a picture of the underside of the nacelle in question, which showed the lights as I constructed them. Ice formation is probably a big issue, but they probably looked at the leading edge of the wing with spotlights from the huge cockpit area (reminds me of a basketball court). The nacelle lights are not fitted to serve that purpose.