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Wasn’t interested in a Mig-31. Got the Tomcat and as far as I was concerned that’s the only interceptor I need. However, I watched a really cool video about the 31 and I have to admit it’s a really interesting aircraft with some really cool features, plus the Caucasus map is an appropriate setting. So yeah I was wrong about the Mig-31 it would be really cool. Unfortunately gathering enough info on the type may prove the problem. We have reached a stage with DCS where I will start to choose the modules I buy instead of buying them all as I struggle as it is to find the time to fully learn the ones I have and the Tomcat alone will take enough time to master. I look out now for interesting modules, personally I feel we have enough trainer aircraft now and I see no need to release anymore. I’m sure some people may feel differently about this. So I agree about the Mig-31 after a Tornado :megalol:

Looking forward to the updated Hermes Joey

Good video. Sad to think the Tornado will be gone from the RAF in the near future. I remember getting warplane magazine as a kid and the Tornado was one of the first articles. Reading about it set the imagination wild. Back then it was an absolutely state of art strike/interdiction aircraft, and I have loved the Tornado ever since.

Well I shall wait and see what he says.

I have to say this is already a big step forward compared to anything we already have. I really like it. Will it eventually be implemented to mirage and harrier?

Wow this is great. Very fluid.

This was what I was hoping to have clarified. Thanks Nick.

I’m looking forward to LGB’s with the B and was so glad and appreciative that HB are making it, but a large part of me can not wait for the A and all the quirks it will bring. Sounds like you will really need to manage her to get the best out of her. I remember reading an F-14 pilot describing that the F-14a could more or less do everything the B and D could do in ACM it was just a lot more difficult to do it. That special whining noise the TF-30s make as well, it just sounds like TOP GUN.

Seen a good question and answer on quora.com and thought I would share. In Top Gun it seems that every time an F-14 passes anywhere near another aircraft’s ‘jet-wash’ there was a huge risk of flame out. How accurate is that during ‘real life’ ACM? John Chesire John Chesire, TOPGUN graduate, and around when the movie was filmed. Answered Oct 16 · Upvoted by Glenn Davis, former Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class at United States Navy (19… and Adrian Kruger, Qualified pilot with a PPL, student of all things Aviation. TL;DR - Yes it was accurate. While it might not have happened “every time” in real life it did happen far more than it ever should have. As explained by Jim Mowreader the early F-14A had a terrible engine to put into a fighter, the Pratt & Whitney TF30 fan engine. It was extremely susceptible to engine stalls and was thankfully replaced later by the far more applicable and rugged General Electric F110-GE-400 afterburning turbofans in later F-14 models. I remember the first time a similar incident occurred in real life. On April 19, 1977 a pilot from VF-124 [Lt. G.A. ‘Bean” Barrett] was practicing the simulated “gunnery pattern” over the Salton Sea with several other F-14 aircraft in the pattern. While in the pattern Bean crossed the wake and jet wash of another F-14 in front of him. One or both of his engines stalled, and I believe he entered the dreaded, flat spin. Regardless the crew ejected safely. I remember everyone in F-14 training at the time was very disturbed by this incident. We were told the F-14 would not spin, and now we learned that was wrong. (Talking to Adm. Pettigrew last year who was the technical advisor for the movie, he said Bean’s accident and another similar one led to that part of the movie script. Originally the scene was supposed to have been a mid-air collision but the Navy did not like that so they changed it to a flameout and a flat spin for the scene, which then was OK with the Navy.) In the F-14A with that particular engine, almost any disturbed air entering it would often cause a compressor stall. Even without flying behind someone’s jet wash, the engine would often stall with a very hard turn at low airspeed and high angle of attack. It was not uncommon for me during a week of Air Combat Maneuvering (ACM) training to have a number of compressor stalls. Usually I was able to just clear them and resume, however sometimes to avoid “over-temping” the engine I had to shut it down. Of course sometimes, the engine just totally quit and shut down by itself at a high angle of attack. That engine caused a number of flat spins. I lost a good friend, squadron mate, and RIO in one: Lt William (Bill) C. "Shadow" Matthews. The forward transverse G-forces made it unable in the flat spin to eject. Also the scene of Goose hitting the canopy was based on an actual incident, but I cannot remember who the RIO was. Related: Top Navy plane found plagued with fatal spin F-14 design cure set at $78 million [Note: While this article says the F-14 controls were a problem - which they were somewhat - the real problem was losing one engine while both were in full afterburner which happens. The great asymmetric yaw that resulted caused the aircraft to ‘couple-up’, depart controlled flight, and then go right into a flat spin.] I would like to know if this is simulated in our F-14 sim with the F-14a if we were to be following closely behind another aircraft and get into its jetwash?

Nice to have the chance to try something new in DCS when the TARPS pod is introduced.

It certainly claimed its fair share of fighter sized targets during the Iran/Iraq war.

Pleasure to pre-order the A&B and support the HB team. Thankyou for delivering something I have longed for for possibly over 25 yrs.

So with about 3 mins to go i assume the announcement will be made on the following website? http://heatblur.se/

Oh my god it’s brought tears to my eyes. If that is a view from the rear seat then we have pilot bodies and won’t be starring at empty chairs. This modules going to blow us all away.

been meaning to ask if its possible for a talented modder, someone far more talented than me to make a static object mod of these two, to place in the ME. I think it would go great with the F-14 and Nevada?

It says about the claws being out this winter.

It’s good news isn’t it. Looking forward to it. To me the D-9 never looked right, I know it’s a respected aeroplane but I shall enjoy flying the radial engined variant more. It looked great.

I think you can set B-52s to carry and launch them from the mission editor.

I agree

Those were the days. Not an F18 in sight.

Had no idea this was in the last update great thanks.

I think Razbam said about it some time back then polychop I believe, but I think that one will be unlikely. Come on Heatblur! After the beautiful Tomcat of course....

Hi do you have a link to this Rapier units mod? I assume it contains the Land Rover. I would love to download this mod but can’t find it. Regards

It’s a great read.

I really hope so. Just want someone to do it. And do it well.