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I believe it was Rourke's Drift and the bad guys (Zulus) outnumbered the good guys (Brits) about 1000 to 1. Of course the good guys had guns and the bad guys had spears, but the spear-chukkers came to fight. I seem to recall that there were 11 Victoria Crosses (Brit equivalent to US Medal of Honor) awarded for the single engagement. My only question is whether the bad guys will sing to the good guys as a worthy enemy in your campaign if they survive? Regardless, I cannot wait to see your work. Good on you!!!

Turn the Lucas crowd loose on another Star Wars follow-on. Since Madoff took off with George Lucas' fortune, he needs the work.

The commander of the 527th that transitioned from the F-5E to the F-16 at RAF Alconbury was Lt Colonel Gene Collins. Gene played baseball at Auburn when I played football there. 20 some odd years later we meet at his assumption of command ceremony at Alconbury. Neither of us knew the other was even in the Air Force. At the time I was the 17RW (TR-1) ADO. We looked hard at each other, laughed, and promised to never tell the tales we could from our college years. He is a tremendous guy and was a great commander of the 527th. Small world!

Welcome back to the fold. True hearts only!!

Not having to fight an air war with both hands tied behind my back like the real missions over Hanoi, I am very particular as to how I ingresss. Mostly in the weeds and, if possible, with some good hard dirt between AAA and SAMs and me. I like to think my lack of fatalities is based on good routing for ingress and egress from the target area. Low, fast, avoid the red-lettered stuff, behind the mountains and everything else you can twist in your favor. If you proceed direct to the white triangle, you are hanging a target on your backside. Flick to and from the map and choose/change your path into the target and out carefully. Let them die for their country and you go to the bar, drink the fear down, chase some broads, and generally feel good about defending the nation successfully one more time.

Actually, I think a RPG followed up with a machine gun attack is not near enough firepower to take on a mother-in-law. I compares with hunting a grizzly bear with a pocket knife. My daddy told me to never bring a knife to a pistol fight. Looks like that is what our hero did in this case and he gets to plan better for 6 years.

Estou morrendo de fome tambem. Esta na hora prenchier minha bahiga mais uma vez. Ssgoite (Lets go eat said real fast).

Pobrezinhos sem jeito! Nao e'!

Spillone104, Well Done, but it appears you left the "J47WaterExhaustEmitter" effect out of the package. Is there something I missed?

Pronounced Fesh-oh-ada (chime in Silverbolt if I do this wrong) and it is absolutely delicious (muitos saudades). Rice, black beans and whatever meat is in the Frig (any kind of sausage is good mixed with any other kind of meat [meat not organs]), onions, garlic, salt and peper, Farofa (fry corn meal in a very small bit of olive oil and it comes close to the real ground root product), and couve (cou-vee - thinly sliced cabbage quick fried in olive oil is a good substitute for the real plant). Last item is a vinegar based salsa with chopped onion, green and red bell peppers. Cook the Rice separately and the Black Beans and Meat together (spices to suit your tastes). Fry up the corn meal and set aside. When the rice, meat and beans, and salsa are ready, quick fry the cabbage. Dump a load of rice on a plate, scoop the beans and meat on top of it, cabbage on top of that, and salsa poured as desired over the lot. Sprinkle the fried corn meal over the plate and enjoy a simple, but delicious meal. Cold beer on the side just makes it better (Brazilian cerveza is my favorite).

My instructions were that my two daughters would not date until they were 18 and I am certain that my two daughters obeyed me to the letter. Or so my wife tells me. Highly recommend this as a family policy.

ta legal, Silverbolt. You got me!

Killerbee, with that much time and effort into it, release it. Well Done! Looking forward to it.

Looks great, AmokFloo. Drives me nuts to always find the fuel dump in the same place on every airpatch on the map. Some differences in the airfield layout is inherrently advantageous in making a challenging mission out of a airfield strike mission. Good work.

God bless those who did not return and their families. Been there, done that, don't want to go back.

Good job, ataribaby. Thanks

Took the AD F model for a spin up North in WoV against an industrial target (even hit the thing a blew it up) and I was able to get about 630 kts max in full burner on egress clean and about 580 max in full military power (~70%). That looks about right. krfrge, you need to look elsewhere for your top end speed problem with the F-105F (late model) because the FM appears to be good.

racindriver1, you have a lot of expertise here on these forums, but to solve a technical problem, you need to present all of the information to narrow down the possibilities. I never climbed out of my jet and told my crewchief that the jet was broke and walked away. Help us out a little. What are the specs of your box? (Windows XP, What Service Pak installed?, CPU, RAM, HD size and space available, etc) What are the specifics on your blue screen? Exact word-for-word message you are getting. We may not be able to save you any money, but if you need help, you need to provide the information that will narrow down the things that might be wrong. That way you only have two or three things to try yourself (one-at-a-time) until you get a solution. If you end up seeing the computer dude in the repair shop, you will need to provide that same information and the things you did to attempt repairs at home that did not work. He may not charge you less, but you may see your machine back from him faster. Now, from what I have read here, sounds like the registry or some critical Operating System (Windows XP) has become corrupted. I suggest you try a re-install or repair as recommended earlier on this thread as a place to start. When you do, take some notes on exactly what happened and how it turned out. You may need that later.

True, but I seem to recall that these FMs are a little old and I didn't spend much time in the sim F model. FYI 2 Pilots deal in three speeds, indicated airspeed (IAS), calibrated airspeed (CAS), and true airspeed (TAS). IAS is the measure of airballs being stuffed down the pitot tube inflight Makes sense that the higher up you go the faster you have to go through the air to get the same speed because of air density (low altitude - airballs close together; high altitude - airballs further apart). CAS is the IAS corrected for installation error. The maintenance dings on the pitot tube when it was hammered inplace by Rosie the Riveter. TAS is the speed measure, no-wind, across the ground. In other words at 70, 000' my IAS was 105 Kts, my CAS was something different, and my TAS was 415 Kts.

Still cannot wait to put the Buc through its paces in WoV. She is most shapely and very victorian in form. Quite the lovely to tuck in every night after a long day at the races............ Who was that poor lost soul that thinks even the A-10 is winsome in flight..........

It appears that the problem still hasn't been addressed. The Thud was able to get to just under 700 kts on the deck and I am assuming that the F model pretty much matched all other models. Clean (without external load) the max speed (for the WoV F-105F) is way too low. The bird was built for just this mission and the Aardvark was the only jet until recent times that could match the venerable Thud top-in low level. Thud drivers used to remark that less than 600 kts, you were dead meat over North Vietnam during the war. They didn't give that advice if the jet couldn't get there. I can get Armordave's F-105D-31 up to 630 kts in burner and sustain over 600 kts on the deck in full military power during egress from North Vietnam clean. Haven't been shot down once, so there is some truth to the story, to the extent our sim reflects real life and I think, by and large, it does a pretty good job of that. I haven't tried out the F model, but I will tonite and if she peaks at less than 600kts then she needs to be fixed. FYI, on an average day, about 730 kts is equal to Mach 1 at sea level.

RIP Respect and honors due.

Wrongo, moosebreath. The Falcon was designed from the ground up as a cheap lightweight overpowered fighter. The bomb truck it turned into was the result of Pentagon wars over which would be the air superiority fighter (F-16 or F-15) and which would be the bomber. They both ended up trucking bombs and doing a pretty good job of it when reality set in and the Army told them they didn't care who won the air war. Own the turf, win the war and air superiority plays only a minor role in that. However, unload an F-16 and it is back to what it was designed to do, eat up the other guy, which, bye the way, it does handily against the F-15 and F-14 (depending on the driver). (eg F-16 in the adversary role in Red Flag and Top Gun training environemnts) Remember the Israelies have many F-16 air to air kills in the Bekka valley where the bomb load was carried into the air to air engagement. The F-15E and the Bombcat cannot do that very well (once again depending on the driver).

I have heard that nothing could beat the Thud or the Aardvark in the weeds. I cannot wait to put the Buc in Vietnam and see how it fares on a classic Thud mission.

I was 18 Plus during that era: Name:Tim Lyle Gender:Male 1) How old were you during the Vietnam War? in 1965 I was 18 2) Where were you during the war? 65-70 in college. 70-71 in USAF pilot training. 71-72 Instructor Pilot T-37B 3) How did the war affect your life? No options coming out of college. Draft number was 2. I had already joined the AFROTC unit and was headed into the military anyway. There was a war on, how could I not join up and get in a few licks. 4) How did you follow the progress of the war? It was all over the news. I never understood the protests and protesters. Always considered them a bunch of cowards and wondered how they would explain to their children that their country was at war and they 'chose' not to participate. 5) What is your most vivid memory of the war? Being spit upon by a hippie in downtown Columbus, Mississippi, in my dress blues. I was so stunned I didn't do a thing which is in and of itself amazing because six months earlier I was playing football at Auburn and would have kicked his young ass in a most physical manner. Of course by then I was an officer and gentleman and conducted myself, for the most part, like one. 6) What was your attitude towards the war? did it change as the war went on? I suppose I was one of the naive ones who believed that we could win. As the war dragged on, that expectation dwindled and dissappeared. I think the biggest casualty of the war was the relationship betwen the American public and the military. It had always been close, but the politicians were not willing to take credit for their actions, so they just let the military be the scapegoat. At the time it was popular, but most people of that era nowdays recognize and place the credit where it should rest. 7) Did you know anyone who served it the war? What did they say about it? Mostly my service mates and they, pretty much, felt the same way that I did. They felt like the country who had sent them off to war had deserted them when all they did was volunteer to sacrifice their life for that country. Not exactly the payback they deserved. 8) How did you feel when the US withdrew in 1973? Glad and sad. We left so many behind. Better that there wouldn't be any more. 9) Why do you think that the US failed to win? The US never lost a fight in the Vietnam war. The politicians felt they could be better soldiers that the professionals and they dicked it up. Overall, we just got tired of a hopeless war, declared victory, pulled up the stakes, and came home. The other side and some of our own side have claimed victory, but the victory didn't have anything to do with the fighting. 10)What conclusions and lessons were you able to draw from the war? Probably the same as everyone else. Civil war is civil war and not necessarily communist aggression. There are some places, quite a few actually, where vast superiority in war-makeing is not enough. Politicians have to have as much backbone as the soldiers they send out to fight or you won't win anything. Senior Bush told the military when to start and when to stop in Desert Storm and limited his participation to keeping him informed (unlike Johnson). Junior Bush, pretty much did the same thing in Iraqi freedom, but who expected a 21 day war. He was not ready for what is called peace in that region. In both cases, the Commander-in-Chief let the highly trained professionals do what they do. Something that the leadership in the Vietnam era would not do. 11)What are your feelings about the war today? Sadness. A lot of good young men died for their country. Those who returned faced a hostile public. They must be feeling the pride in our country's treatment of our returning Iraqi and Afganistan veterans. A lingering longing for the same treatment they didn't get, but pride in the fact that it is now recognized that their treatment was just wrong. 12)Was the US a Hero, Villain, or Fool? No comment. 13)Are there any similarities between Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan? We have finally realized that committment to the use of arms is not a rheostat that you gradually increase hoping the change the hearts and minds of the enemy. It is pure hell and you unleash the tiger in all its fury or you keep it in the cage. Any other way is doomed to failure. 14)What was your best memory of the war? The dignity of those who returned to a thankless public and still maintained their professional attitude, no matter how bad it hurt.