MigBuster

You sure? - I've shot one down with an AIM-9 before - you have to be in the right place at the right time - the main problem is that normally I'm no where near parameters for a missile shot What angle are you trying to down them from and with what weapon?

Placed with coordinates? What are you using to generate the lights?

in SF2NA they always seem to launch if given the chance - are you talking about the same setup?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CYy5MgFd7ME#t=687

Any unhappy customers from Austin Texas yet

Nightmare - you on the ground floor I hope!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6zOuvhY-k&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSvoG78g4C8

http://video.boeing.com/services/player/bcpid1173939806001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAukPAlqE~,oAVq1qtdRjwBrIkHYj2MSytJiEK9s5fy&bctid=2684464741001

Wicked!

Man to sit inside Helicopter while we fire at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fj9hdmEeBY

Looking at footage of the actual crash and the events of that season it seems they have been pretty accurate - even the bit about Hesketh racing - just a bunch of rich toffs - hilarious!!! The casting wasnt far off either

I assume it would be fully clickable on everything

Hello everyone, We're almost there! We've almost reached the goal. That is amazing. I think the backing pace slowed down a bit because everyone feels that the base goal is pretty much there, but the very next stretch goal is so far it's virtually unreachable. We need smaller stretch goals, and we need to make them good. I've asked about this in the comments yesterday and received overwhelming support. The thing is, after the base 100K we are hitting the no-internal-funding zone. Features begin to cost what they really cost. We need to raise a lot more money for individual line items. 150K seems like a very reasonable stretch goal to add, but we can hardly do anything for the extra 50K. Definitely not a map and definitely not a whole new plane. The only thing we can try to squeeze in for the 50K is a cockpit for the 262, and that's only because we are already doing the AI version. So, the new stretch goals will be as follows: 100K: Base 150K: Flyable Me.262A-1 jet fighter 275K: Normandy map extended North to include Southern England (up to but without London) 425K: Flyable B-17 Moving the 262 up allows us to create an attractive stretch goal at the lowest cost possible of all. This pushes back the flyable B-17 by the same 50K, but I think it's worth it. Please help us get there! If you've already backed the project, please consider increasing your pledge. If we all put together, everyone who pledged $40 or higher gets the Me.262 for free in the initial release! And if you have not yet backed, please consider doing so. Even backing at the $1 level helps. That still gets us a little closer to our goals, and most importantly shows the overall level of support. This project is not just about the dollar amount, but about community support. The number of backers shown next to the project is extremely important! We're currently at 1,378 backers and $97,293. If we can get to 2,000 backers by the project's end, even if that means only adding a single dollar from these new backers, that is still going to be an amazing showing. Please remember that backing at even the $1 level allows you access to backer-only updates, polls, and discussions. We will be interacting with the community a lot in the months between the end of the KS campaign and the initial release. We are currently discussing our 3rd party content development options internally. A decision will be reached next week as to the exact extents, but some level of involvement is virtually guaranteed. We will almost certainly do a backer-only something, perhaps an SDK, perhaps some other tools. So backing at even the $1 level will allow you to either get directly involved in modding and expanding the game, or just to access the internal updates on the progress. Thank you everyone for your support and for your enthusiasm. Let's keep pushing forward! PS Some of you noticed that the P-51s in the previous update had no weight with the gear struts fully extended. Everyone responsible has been dealt with. Struts have been compressed. Apologies extended. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/508681281/dcs-wwii-europe-1944

Seems to be moving

For historians, wreckage from a World War II German bomber in the French Pyrenees is an exceptional find, but some local residents are less keen on digging up the past. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24159975

You are saying you cant add jets that you have added a cockpit to?

If all the other games work its a mod basically Cut out a few folders from the WW2 mod folders and run it - maybe start with the Aircraft folder

Nice - none of those decks need redoing

Analysts are unsure about what markets Textron AirLand is targeting with its new jet-powered Scorpion light tactical aircraft. Ostensibly, the new attack aircraft is aimed at the US Air Force, but analysts are doubtful about the service’s desire to operate such an aircraft. Perhaps a more pressing question is the USAF’s ability to afford a new programme given the impact of Congression-mandated sequestration budget cuts. “Beyond the issue of being able to afford another new programme, many of the missions suggested for such an aircraft might be better performed by RPAs [remotely piloted aircraft],” says Mark Gunzinger, a noted airpower analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. “Possibly at less cost than a manned platform if you factor in the need to maintain pilot currency.” According to Textron AirLand, a joint venture between Textron and AirLand Enterprises, the Scorpion is being designed for irregular warfare, border patrol, maritime surveillance, emergency relief, counter narcotics and air defense operations and building partner nation capacity. The target market is the USAF’s Air National Guard component and foreign partner nations that cannot afford high-end combat aircraft like the Lockheed Martin F-35. “The target market that we have was kind of this hybrid of both ISR [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] and light attack,” says Scott Donnelly, Textron’s chief executive officer. “This aircraft was designed because we saw a very, very large gap between very high performance aircraft and single-engined turboprops.” Donnelly says that acquiring the Scorpion would cost less than upgrading existing aircraft like the Fairchild Republic A-10 or Lockheed F-16. Additionally, sustainment costs for the new machine are expected to be much lower than either existing warplane. Oddly, while the Scorpion can be used as a trainer, Donnelly says this version of the aircraft is not aimed at the USAF’s nascent T-X jet trainer programme. It could, however, be modified to fit those requirements with a single engine and swept wings, he says. Historically, the USAF and most advanced air forces have shunned aircraft like the Scorpion for much higher performance machines, says Richard Aboulafia, an analyst at the Teal Group. It is doubtful that the USAF would have purchased this aircraft even at the height of the two Middle Eastern counter-insurgency wars. However, Aboulafia suspects that Textron must have specific foreign customers in mind already. “I’m not so sure anyone would be this committed to the programme if they didn’t have some kind of likely launch customer,” Aboulafia says. “I just don’t know who that could be.” Traditionally, the only solid market for an aircraft of this class has been the UAE. The Scorpion has a reconfigurable internal payload bay that would be able to carry a variety of weapons and sensors or fuel, but the aircraft will not have any dedicated built-in combat avionics such as radars or electro-optical cameras. Total capacity of the bay is 3,000lb (1362kg). The aircraft also carries 9,000lb of internal fuel. The aircraft is also being designed with six external hard-points that appear to carry a combined total of 6,200lb of weapons or fuel. At max gross take-off weight, the aircraft weights 21,250lbs and will have ferry range of 2,400nm (4440km). Donnelly says that the demonstrator aircraft that Textron is building will be powered by two Honeywell TFE731 geared turbofans, which provide a combined total of about 8,000lb (35.6kN) of thrust. The engines give the Scorpion a maximum speed of 450kt (833km/h). Textron is in the final stage of construction on its Scorpion demonstrator aircraft, Donnelly says. The aircraft is expected to make its first flight before the end of the year. If a customer can be found, the aircraft could enter production in 2015, Donnelly adds. Seems somehow familiar........................... http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/analysis-textrons-scorpion-will-struggle-to-find-a-niche-390725/

Many happy returns!

You going to the DCS site? It has a VISA sign after clicking on buy

Landing has always been pretty much visual in SF for me. The A-4 is probably the easiest to stick on deck IMO - to see the deck come in a bit higher. For night - crikey I'm not sure if even the new carriers have lights - I gave up bothering at night.

Depends how you look at it - they will only do the work if they can guarantee some funding - which is fair enough as far as I can see. There is no money in it - the market for this type of sim is so tiny that they know they will probably lose money regardless - they probably rely on commercial contracts for actual profit and use developments from that for spin offs like this. The tiny vocal minority who want to see this level of detail have to put up or shut up - that simple....................