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Taz, your Sabre's are sweet. Just got my 7th kill with the Huff skin added to your F-86F-30. I knew Jim Thompson (pilot of the Huff) and he told me that he really didn't have anything to do with the dragon down the side of the aircraft, his crewchief was going through some separation difficulties with his wife and painted her likeness (according to his perspective) on the side of the jet. Jim was a full colonel at the time stationed at Columbus AFB, MS, as the safety officer. I was a T-37B instructor pilot at the time and with enough beer at the bar he could wind up a mighty tale of his two MiG kills in Korea. Fine pilot and a great guy. Sweet to see his Sabre defending the skies once more in the sim.

Ditto. A reminder that only one trip to Rio will have you speaking Portuguese like a native. Warning, very difficult to return to anywhere from Brasil......que beleza. Great work.

Taz, yes, I did add a dorsal and ventral rotating beacon light and a futile attempt to get the canopy to open by adding the device and additions to the [fuseleage] section (numbered sequentially) to call the lights and canopy. I may try removing the canopy deal since it did not work anyway. The lights work fine. That, indeed, was the culprit. Speedbrakes work as they should now. Thanks.

Thanks for the check, Taz. I guess it is me and my particular install. I have a copy of SFP1(all patches applied) that I have set apart just for the Korean conflict and I have found this speedbrake problem specifically with the F-86F-30. SpeedBrake section of the data.ini attached: // Airbrakes --------------------------------------------------------- [LeftAirbrake] SystemType=AIRBRAKE DeployTime=3.0 RetractTime=1.5 AnimationID=4 ModelNodeName=L_airbrake_door_outside DragArea=1.20 [RightAirbrake] SystemType=AIRBRAKE DeployTime=3.0 RetractTime=1.5 AnimationID=5 ModelNodeName=R_airbrake_door_outside DragArea=1.20

Happy, Happy, and many more to all.

Ditto. Persistance and determination.

We could stop the fighting immediately if we entered into a long term deal to buy all of the Russian and all of the Georgian aircraft. It would be a little expensive, but we wouldn't have to move them far to attack Iran.

You press on there, bigal. Whip the problems one at a time and we'll just wait slavering in the nearest cubicle. Trememdous work thus far!!!

It was not long winded and explained a lot. When what should be a small event rolls up to a catastrophic event, many failures happened along the way. Training shortages, equipment shortages or failures, leadership, and management at all levels. No doubt that the passageways of that ship are full of heads rolling from the top on down. That is the way it ought to be. One of the things that distinguishes the US Military from most others is the ability of the subordinate to step in when the boss goes down and get the job done right. Command under pressure is where from the basic seaman to the captain himself, responsibility and accountability flows with little or no direction. Obviously, this did not happen here. Cases such as this are not the model and I am sure the Navy is hard at work examining what went wrong and what needs to be changed, institutionally, throughout the fleet to return to where things should be in a professional service. It just seems to be a lot of damage and a lot of injuries for a smoking accident. Somebody got the priorities mixed up and a return to the basic 'every sailor is a firefighter/damagecontrolman above everything' seems in order. I'm an AF type and, Lord knows, we are guilty of unprofessional conduct on our own turf, but like our Navy, we hold a pretty high bar up there and hold the entire chain of command accountable for failue and achievement. At the end of the day, the story remains the same, if you cannot do it, we will find some one who can. It is a 365/24/7 committment and that is the oath you take when you sign up. Promotion is not a reward, it is an acknowledgement of the ability to achieve higher expectations.

Beautiful work, Oberfrankengamer. Don't worry about the English thing, the Brits tell us we don't speak it very well ourselves.

I think FastCargo is a former Bone driver. This is spectacular.

I am not as familiar with carriers as others, but I am very familiar with their strategic capabilities that they give to our nation as options. I will admit that I am not impressed when a out-of-place cigarette can do this much damage to the ship. What would happen with a hostile weapon hit. Entire survivability of the ship upon which this nation puts a lot of trust is brought into question.

You might check around on the internet for some real F-4Fs from prior Tiger meets. The participants all come painted up and really look cool. Good job on your Tiger F-4, but it might be a good idea to use the proper jet (you can download the F-4F here) and use some of the real paint jobs (most of them are pretty spiffy).

That would be the Merican language starting with a 'M'. I would remind all posting here that we are lambasting the commercial press. Key word here is 'commercial'. Paper balance sheets are very dependent on advertising sales. Business advertise to reach audiences. Papers are in a decline in the audiences they reach due to competition with faster media (e.g. radio, TV, the internet). Advertising dollars are down. Papers are in a terminal slide. The smart good journalists are looking elsewhere for jobs and the commercial press is left with the dregs in the business to run it. Therefore, the commercial press looks more and more like the expose' crap like the Star or Mirror and there is less and less credibility to their product. That is not a fair analysis for all of the written commercial press, but for most it is a survival crisis. So where do you and I go to get the straight skinny. My suggestion is do a cross-section of CNN, BBC, Fox and others. They are all talkiing about the same things, some with more or less facts, and all with a different perspective. Bye the way, I think the Brits have it right when they address their BBC reporters as news-readers instead of anchors, experts, stars, or analysts like we do. If you look closely at the credentials of most TV news dudes or dudets, they are barely qualified to read, much less analyze the news (e.g. Peter Jennings, RIP, was a high-school dropout).

I made another entry on another thread on this subject, but this thread appears to be the place to speak about engine/burner noise. One of the most distinctive sounds of the century series aircraft is when the burner is engaged. They all have what is known as a hard light. Sounds like a loud explosion that settles down to the burner thunder we are used to. Modern burners engage in stages and can roar just as loud, but stage up to the thunder we're used to (like roar-ROAR). They don't have that distinctive explosion that is the result of lots of JP-4 being tossed into the hot exhaust of a jet engine all at once as the burner is engaged (like roar - BOOM - ROAR). The British Lightning and, I think, the Mirage and MiG series of that era also had hard lights. It is very distinctive and something we have not emulated well in this sim. Got any sound experts that might give it a go? This is, after all, the sound of freedom we are talking about!!!!

Beautiful job, Veltro2K! Might remember that the burner for the Deuce is a hard-light and the sound engaging said burner would go something like boom-roar instead of the increased roar we use now. We haven't got it right for the Lightning, the Hun, 105, or the 106 yet either. Wish I had some wave files to help out.

Has anyone done a cockpit name decal that is editable in a common program such as Ms Paint? Is that possible? If someone can come up with the decal, I can come up with a readme file on placing it on the aircraft. Be kinda fun to fly your own bird instead of the stock issue.

That's a real beauty, Nikki. Great job!

Just wanted to say that the Jugman rides again. Flew my Thud into the bowels of downtown Hanoi with my name (courtesy of Dave) pasted on the side of my canopy making all the bad guys duck. 10 feet tall, bulletproof, and fearless once again. Can't thank you enough publicly, Dave. A real treat. I get to you later on a PM.

Ditto

Understand the reluctance to enter into a 'tedious How-To', but I was hoping for something far more simple. If it is not to be, it is not to be.

Thanks Timmy. I just acquired Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 to see if I can get started. Your instructions were for the Adobe version, but maybe I can figure it out with this.

NFG, you are not alone. I am old and get confused easily, but I would still like something easy for the average dude to feel like he/she is part of this community. I can't tell you how proud I was when my Chinese brethren used my lighting recommendations on the J-8 fixes mod. Really got some buy in from me on that one. My idea is to take a small decal template, change the letters to user specs, change the background color to user specs, produce the tga, put it in the right folder, call it properly from the .INI file and adjust the position to suit. If I can talk one of our modder magicians into making a template that would be relatively easy to modify with a program that most people can afford, then we'd be off to a good start. There is no telling what will end up on the side of the cockpit of some really beautiful aircraft, but the good news is that no one will have to endure the entertainment, but the creators. Anybody that is a higher quality decal maker than I got any thoughts? Better ideas?

Sweet, bradders. Care to contribute anything to a How To for the average dude here?

Now that's the way to dress the Rhino up for a fight, Mike. Care to offer any ideas on a How To I am trying to build for the average dude here?