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Great news, Gepard. Thanks so much!

Damn fine work, Julhelm! Thanks for the substantial contributions.

Great work on a magnificent bird!

And the real irony of it all is that the most ethically challenged of the "buy one, get one free" duo, is running for President! Bubba was probably the most gifted politician of the latter part of the 20th century, but he was a train wreck of a human being. All those seriously twisted land deals were drafted by the Rose Law Firm, and Hillary originated all the legal contracts. Bubba would just tell everyone exactly what they wanted to hear, and dazzle them with his personality. Hillary has always been the truly pathological party.

Very nice work,Brain32! The SFP1 community can always use more folks with terrain modding talent.

Deuces terrains and mods for WOV are highly recommended material! I just checked, and sfmods is still under reconstruction. Any idea on when we can expect the site to be back up?

Thanks so very much, MarcFighters! I don't think most people realize what great aircraft these were. I'm going to go grab them now!

Great addition to the sim, thanks alot 101tfs!

USAFMTL is a VERY wise man! Exactly a week ago I lost every one of my SFP1 downloads when doing a complete operating system re-install at the same time I was adding a new bigger hard-drive. I always have backup files on two different hard-drives, but had moved all the files onto a single drive in preparation for swapping out an old hard-drive. That was when the "impossible" happened! Lots of the SFP1 material I had is no longer obtainable now. Diego's pilot skins, BadFrank's Mig Cockpit, High Res A-4 cockpits, and files from contributors long gone. Prowler very graciously hooked me up with a replacement of his BEAUTIFUL Banshee Package, which was extraordinarily nice of him! It wasn't until I had lost all these files, that I realized how much of the truly great contributions made by some of the real legends of the modding community no longer are available anywhere! Multiple hard-drives should normally keep you covered, but sometimes stuff happens. An external hard-drive would probably be great investment. Yes, it could happen to you.....

The Mirage IIIO is on page 5 of the Cold War Aircraft downloads, and the file is by Charles. Enjoy!

Thank you Dels, and thanks to USAFMTL and friends for all the work bringing this bird back from oblivion!

Microsoft just posted directx_aug2007_redist for download. The redistribute directx includes all the directx files, not just the updates. Your April 2006 directx is at least six updates old, so it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to grab the most current version.

These will make great additions to the sim. Thanks for all your continued efforts, Geo.

Understood...................

RE: We did it in Korea: Marty O'Brien's Casualty Book Chapter Two - The Korean War: A Terrible Toll Forty three years after the war, it still is difficult to get a reliable accounting of overall casualties—due to both the insufficiency of recorded data and a plethora of political obstacles. But we have to keep digging. The following information has been selected from a number of different sources. Due to variances in the reporting, however, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of any of the numbers. It has been estimated that some four million men, women and children were killed, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated on the Korean peninsula during the three-year plus struggle; two million of whom were civilians. One source put the toll of Communist combatants killed, wounded or missing at about 1.5 million; the total for North Korea was 214,899 killed, 303,685 wounded and 101,680 missing. Patrick Brogan in "The Fighting Never Stopped," 1989, cited early UNC estimates which put North Korean "KIA" at 316,579. Another source puts Chinese losses at 401,401 killed, 486,995 wounded and 21,211 missing; after the war, the UNC put Chinese casualties for KIA at 422,612. Marine Colonel W.S. Brown, Commanding, 1st Marines, had this to say in a June 14, 1951 regimental memo: "You have counted many hundreds of dead in the various positions taken in spite of the enemy’s propensity for burying his own dead, so that is most probably only a small part of his casualties. His wounded will probably die, ours won’t." Whatever the true numbers, the PRC refused to release casualty numbers and they remain a state secret. In his "Korean War Almanac," Col. Harry G. Summers, Jr. Said that from 1950 to 1953: "Using the Korean War as an excuse to eliminate all those who might challenge his newly won power, Mao unleashed his "Resist America and Aid Korea" campaign. During the three years in which it was waged, estimates are that as many as 10 to 15 million victims perished. Even sympathetic observers report that at least two million people were slaughtered in cold blood by the Chinese Communist Party—four times as many as died on the Korean battlefield." On the United Nations side, the Republic of Korea, by far, provided the largest number of troops throughout the war and suffered the largest number of casualties. Brogan cited South Korean losses at 103,248 KIA and 159,727 WIA, according to the UNC; but, the government of the REPUBLIC OF KOREA itself reported that 113,248 South Korean soldiers died in the war and 159,727 were wounded; it has been estimated by the ROK that altogether 1,312,836 South Korean soldiers and civilians died during the three-year conflict. By war’s end in 1953, South Korea had 590,911 personnel under arms. U.S. Losses UNITED STATES forces in the war zone suffered the second highest number of casualties among the UN forces. According to updated statistics provided by the Department of Defense (DoD) in October 1995, approximately 5,720,000 Americans served worldwide during the Korean War era (1950-55); of whom some 1,500,000 served in the Korean War theater of operations. During the Korean War era (1950-55), there were 54,268 American deaths worldwide. Deaths attributed solely to the Korean Operation (Korea and surrounding waters), as reported by the service branches, were significant: (a) According to the DoD, between June 25, 1950 and January 31, 1955, 33,651 U.S. personnel died from "hostile" causes; 23,835 were killed in action, 2,535 died of wounds, 4,845 died while missing, and 2,436 died as prisoners of war. [Of the 33,651 personnel who died in the Korean War, 8,135 remains officially have not been identified or recovered though 1996.] (b) In addition, 3,262 U.S. personnel died of "Non-battle" causes, including a high incidence of hemorrhagic fever in 1951-52. © Elsewhere in the world, 17,355 personnel died in "Other" operations [Korea-related and "Cold War"] from a variety of causes, including combat and combat-related deaths. Of 105,785 personnel who were wounded in-theater in Korea and who were hospitalized for wounds, 103,284 survived. No record was maintained of non-hospitalized wounded in Korea which may have quadrupled the number of WIA; a high percentage of the wounds were caused by fragmentary weapons mortars, grenades, etc. The United States, the major supporting participant in the war, committed seven army divisions; 1 marine division; army and corps headquarters; almost all logistical and support forces; one tactical air force and supporting elements. In addition, 1 combat cargo air command; two medium bombardment wings; 1 complete naval fleet, including a fast carrier task group, blockade and escort forces, reconnaisance and antisubmarine units; supply and repair units; and military sea transportation services.

I use the WOE HunterFGA9 cockpit for the MiG-17, and it looks way better than the A-4 pit. For the MiG-19 I use the Razbam Banshee cockpit, which is beautiful!

Obviously no compromise in quality, this skin is as beautiful as your many previous works! I'll vote for beta releases....

It may be because your 8800 uses Directx10, instead of Directx9.0c. For video drivers and utilities, guru3d is the best stop on the web. You might have to revert back to Directx9.0c, which I think Sony touched on when he was giving tips on using Vista with Thirdwire sims. With Vista, you get Directx10, whether you want it or not. You might take a look on the Thirdwire forum to see if anyone else is having the same problem. The program Zur is probably referring to is Driver Cleaner Pro, which is available at guru3d. With Nvidia video drivers first use Add/Remove Programs to uninstall ONLY the video drivers (Not the chipset drivers if you're using a Nvidia chipset motherboard!), then re-boot in Safe Mode (F5), run Driver Cleaner Pro, install the new Nvidia video drivers, then re-boot. I change video drivers more often then most people change underwear, and the above procedure works like a champ!

Check the MESSAGESYSTEM.INI in your flight folder. The MESSAGESYSTEM.INI will have to be extracted with the Extract Utility. The first entry in the ini is , with lines for TextFontName= and TextSize=. I just took a look, and found the MESSAGESYSTEM.INI in the FlightData cat file.

From the aircraft Data.ini about midway down: // Crew --------------------------------------------------------- [Pilot] SystemType=PILOT_COCKPIT PilotModelName=WWIpilot <Specify pilot model name here..... PilotHeadNodeName=head Position=0.0,-1.14,0.73 MinExtentPosition=-0.27,-1.49,-0.29 MaxExtentPosition= 0.27,-0.45, 0.84 This should allow you to change pilot models for different aircraft.

ErikGen has posted his IAI Sa'ar model at Checksix-fr for download. The IAI Sa'ar was an Israeli modification of the Super Mystere B2. Very nice model!

Wow, nice job!!!!

Hey Wrench, thanks for all your efforts to bring us a Mega-Zipper (that sounds wrong!). This should be a great variation on a classic aircraft.

ErikGen has posted a Super Mystere B2 update over at Checksix-fr, which includes a retractable internal rocket launcher with Matra rockets. It requires downloading his Super Mystere B2 package at Checksix-fr, and then adding the updated files. A very nice addition to a very nice model!

It looks good! You've got my vote for sure.