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Here's one for you guys............................(or not) The F-35 concept originally started out as a secret project started in the late 1960s at Mcdonnell Douglas. It was vastly rumoured that Robert Macnamara had approved the project along with the F-111 in the late 60s, and in his tenure at the World Bank it seems that he may have also had some financial influence in the defence industry still that allowed this secret project to unfold. Given a temporary designation of X-19 the project was set up as a counter to the Lightweight Fighter program. Several high ranking USAF officers in the Pentagon were most annoyed with some of the radical thinking being proposed in fighter design at the time and they wanted something could carry a lot of fuel and its weapons internally. The design was released in 1971 but there was concern from the designers that a powerplant could be found to overcome the drag and weight such a design would bring. A full scale prototype was ready in 1974, by then it would hope the design would cancel the need for the YF-16 and YF-17 that were also being readied. It was to use the same avionics and Engine as the YF-16, these being the best available at the time. Unfortunately the best available engine only produced around 14,000lbs of thrust in Mil and 23,000 lbs of thrust Max, and yet the empty weight of the X-19 was already over 29,000lbs. This meant the jet was woefully underpowered and in Mil power was vastly inferior to even the A-7D. It could carry nearly 3 times the fuel of the lightweight fighters, but its wide body gave it a much larger cross section and more drag. The angles on the body were supposed to provide RCS reduction, but manufacturing techniques and RAM coatings were no where near sufficient to achieve anything like this. Other problems began to crop up: It would need a cradle in the bomb bay to ready missiles like the AIM-9 to achieve lockon, but in doing so meant there was no space for anything else. This idea was eventually shelved so it was decided to carry A-A missiles externally. The AIM-7 was originally due to go in the bay but a design problem meant the bay was not big enough for this. Also electronics for the laser designator was not advanced enough to carried internally and thus would need to go in a pod. Many months of flight testing only produced a top speed of M1.4 leading to accusations that the fuselage was not area ruled properly. Since the project was declassified in 2011 one of the former test pilots made several comments including - "I couldn't see anything behind me and the visibility was terrible", "I didn't think the thing would get off the ground - I nearly ran out of runway!" and "The thing was slower than a turd stuck to a tortoise, and in an environment where you merged 99% of the time it was truly a clay pigeon against everything we flew against including the A-7D". Needless to say the whole thing was quickly swept under the carpet and not revived until the 1990s.............

Dont think this was actually banned

um - Its the What If Forum If proof were needed this stuff was convincing!

Crikey no - take as long as it needs to reach perfection :) Well shows how much I know then - and if the jets are in the packs then I guess there are no permissions problems if anyone wants to put them up individually? cheers guys

You will have to run each exe separately and install them how you want them If they are older exes you need to do them in order and also in conjunction with relevant patches - that you will find on here or on the TW site. You will also need to install them how you want them - i.e. are you merging the whole lot or are you installing them to different locations

errr .....but needs a bit of work looking at this............. http://www.hml.queensu.ca/papertab

F-16 Water survival refresher video:

Why did they keep dumping you back - did you not float properly?

Just a shortcut to start the actual game up?

It might be affecting a few mods - but I haven't noticed that much wrong in my install You take a risk with any patch - I only bother patching if there is something that might change things for the better.

If you can watch BBC iPlayer then I thought this was an interesting documentary on some of the key things that caused some major issues in Iraq after 2003 - has most of the key players being interviewed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b02w1gth/The_Iraq_War_After_the_Fall/

Crikey yes - just from the many poor decisions that seemed to have occurred although we may never get the full facts it was at least some insight into why things seemed to go so badly .

Were they kind enough to issue with a raft like that - or do they just give you a bottle of Scotch and tell you to put up with it :)

Well made video featuring some community made mods - the old girl keeps kicking!

LOL nice one Erik - it wasn't much fun typing that lot out in Word tbh

If only Blind desperate hope left to make a bit of money http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10889719 Tom Cruise is still feeling the need for speed. Plans for a sequel to action classic Top Gun are still on the boil, according to Jerry Bruckheimer. The movie producer offered a swift update on the long-gestating follow-up movie while speaking at the Produced By Conference in Los Angeles over the weekend. "For 30 years we've been trying to make a sequel and we're not going to stop. We still want to do it with Tom [Cruise] and Paramount are still interested in making it," Deadline quotes Bruckheimer as saying. "What Tom tells me is that no matter where he goes in the world, people refer to him as Maverick," he added.

Yeah I did see the Su-9 was in an update for the Android game a few weeks back. So that leaves the MiG-25 and F-5A/C/E, and F-4S for the next pack :)

What a total nightmare - stay safe. We have missed that this year - despite having the coldest spring on record

Good luck with that: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22726671

Looks like they may have got it - from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22846645 A German World War II bomber has been raised from the bottom of the English Channel. The Dornier 17 aircraft was shot down off the Kent coast more than 70 years ago during the Battle of Britain. Believed to be the only intact example of its kind in the world, it has laid in 50ft (15m) of water on the Goodwin Sands. Attempts by the RAF Museum to salvage the relic have been hit by strong winds over the last few weeks. The BBC's Nick Higham on board the salvage barge said the weather conditions for the hour-long operation were "near perfect" on Monday evening.......

Flip I missed off Tornado for the 4th Gen skin/aircraft section! sorry Yes not a problem helping move things over - although advice on any pitfalls would be useful in case the server doesn't like it.

It might have handled it back then - now with gfx changes to the core game in later patches it likely needs more resource so has pushed you passed the limit. Of course you may have to try different drivers - or is your OS still in a good state? is the hard disk full, have you got 200 spyware programs running when you play ? Then advanced driver settings come into play for FPS - even for BMS on a GTX-670 it seems! If it is a hardware issue then you need to get a new Laptop - kinda the disadvantage of them I suppose.

He states he is an ordinary guy - yet at the same time declares himself to be judge, jury and expert on the issue - even though it sounds like he doesn't understand much about comms security. It sounds like they can target suspects regarding some forms of communication - hasn't this always been the way.......