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that looks sweet

any NAS Pensacola out there?

and ATHF...IIRC ATHF was pitched as being like 75% cheaper than any other show CN could buy...then when it gained popularity it accounted for more of CN's ratings than all of its other shows combined...so they stopped showing it...not really certain what business model they employ, but I seemed to have missed it whilst acquiring my MBA.

Uh...

saw the original...at a "drive in"...now who here even remembers what that is?

awesome, thanks!

so any one else think its the best star wars story since Empire?

- did you read the 14th post from the beginning? By this one?

Yeck...greasy french fry innards everywhere...

I tried it a few times after reading this...I guess if its possible the "sweet spot" is quite small. Any one else have any luck?

Those are cool, once you use them, the default terrain is rather lacking

awesome, makes the commute more tolerable, no doubt

and the mahogany canopy rails? knowing the French, it probably had an ashtray...

found the original on AVSIM...had to remember my account password...will install this week, but am really looking forward to this Wrench-version...you know how much I enjoy details by the by, need anything for the Okinawa side of those improvements?

Oh now that is close...

Funny you should mention that...I was thinking that the Army should be split into a Homeland Defense; ie, National Guard force and a QRF (yep, like the Marines). USAF would do well to have a similar posture of re-awakening ADC and a similar ALLIED FORCE concept of protracted air war hitting targets for political reasons. But the real jist of the earlier topic is that one would think it unlikely that the bad guys will use airliners again, and if they did a two-ship of F-16 can not stop a plane leaving Dulles from suddenly crashing into the White House...do the math...and try to take that shot over DC, besides their look down shoot down capability is no where near that good into such a congested area..."suspicious track"...yeah a cessna carrying cocaine, I agree completely...a suicidal airliner...I vehemently disagree. Seems to my mind that a new tactic is much more likely...an IED in the Lincoln Tunnel or on I-95...America has 4 million miles of roads...and how many highway patrolmen are trained to handle or even recognize an IED? No, this enemy is like the sand, knows no bounds, and can try anything...we should try to improve our processes...we cant prepare for every contingency, but we need to get better at not doing the same old thing.

I remember reading about it years ago...no idea why the 2k beat it...I mean...it has two engines, canards, faster/cleaner

well Honesty... It is impossible for me to believe that when the project that Moseley said was / is his #1 priority ran afoul in Congress, to include people being dismissed and millions mis-allocated that he claimed he knew nothing about it...then, barely weeks later CSAR-X goes the way no one expected, and again he claimed to know nothing about it...even the GAO took notice and cried foul...then cutting 40,000 in addition to the 22,000 jobs he already cut, all without one cent (in fact, the opposite was realized, all money was drained into the Army) and still insisting on making more cuts? Why? To further feed the Army? No thanks. This smacks of deeper issues. No one is doing anything different, we trudge along the same paths...we are fighting an entirely new foe, one that Cold War mentality will not muster against. Of course he has no magic wand to fix all of our fears, but why change the uniform? Then another uniform change...then another...then talk of re-aligned the MAJCOMs...again... Wag the Dog Yep, I know it sounds like a rant, conspiracy theory, uninformed dweeb...and maybe I am.

I am not saying that it is knee jerk, hey look at me press seeking...well maybe. Obviously there were a lot of smart dudes involved and a lot of consequence-oriented discussion...clear the fleet too soon and the first one that crashes gets front page coverage. And never said SAMs are perfect. There are targets that SAMs can protect that fighters cannot, particularly point defense high value. And airspace? We control the airspace, we decide who flies where, with as many concessions to the commercial market as one can imagine. That being said... We have a Patriot battalion here on Okinawa...of course it does not take an entire battalion to defend a nuclear power plant or the white house. What I am saying is that we have options. As an informed member of the defense community you know, as well as I do, that we have spent the last 12 years driving by the rear view mirror...even after 9/11. It is time to do better. Have we been effective? In many ways yes, in many ways we should be doing better. Who can fix it? Not one person, it is a culture change that may take a while longer to materialize

congrats! I used to belong to a virtual airline called Delaware Air, it was really cool and a lot of fun

Wrench, please let me know if there is a way to get access to it

Has anyone tried / seen this in action? http://www.fspilotshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=1221 looks too promising

Wish we would sell them the -22, they probably would prefer it over the -35...but given the legendary Japanese reverse-engineering abilities it is perhaps understandable why it may be a while before it is offered up...that and it would be rather embarrassing to have to face an improved version in an Exercise (F-4E Kai).

Good luck!

wait...no evild@mncommbuildings? Count me in!