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Bingolicious, the F-14 Association comes through once again . . . . .

Seen that one as well, sure this was a conventional VG aircraft with only one wing swept . . . .

No, I mean I'm certain I've seen a photo of a VG aircraft (thought it was a Tomcat) with one wing right back and one wing right forward. Even if it was photoshopped I should have been able to find the pic again . . . . .

. . . . and I can't find it again. This is going to annoy me now . . . . am SURE I've seen it . . .

That video is awesome. Mega-bonus-points to the person who finds and hosts the video of the RAF Tornadoes training prior to the Gulf War - have seen a clip in which a pair are flying down a canyon and a very British voice suddenly says, calm as you like "Oh bugger, we should have taken the last left back there . . . . . "

NASA gets some truly awesome toys. Most of them aren't built specifically for them, but after other places are done with them they make big puppy-dog eyes . . . . . It's also the only place in the world that would consider adding Nitrous to a Blackbird. I'm genuinely not kidding, there is a real NASA research document detailing exactly what you'd have to do and when would be best to use it . . . . . just the idea of max-powering the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever built, jesus christ . . . . . . . I want a job at that place! edit - for differences between left and right wings, check out the Tomcat NASA used to deliberately feck up the wing sweeps . . . . one wing at 45 degrees, one wing at 72 degrees. Flew just fine

Thanks dude . . . . Wonder if we could make a formal request for a small addition, then? Never sure what it would entail as a code edit - problem is in asking for a small thing you open the door to ask for much more . . . .

Yeah, sure! However, it would be running the full version of Lomac - and not a cut-down, remotely-controllable, server-only version. Bit less versatile. Or as people all over the interweb will tell you, an awful lot less versatile . . . .

Sea Harrier Over The Falklands, although No Escape Zone does slag off the RAF something rotten as well. Nothing quite matches Sharkey Ward's venom for his command and the RAF, though . . . . . grin. According to him, the closest the Nimrod got to the Falklands was 600 miles north of them. Close, but not close enough. The Vulcans, though, got all the way there and seemed to miss every time . . . . . I will agree with Commander Ward's assessment that it was a bit of a waste of jet fuel, but as an exercise in flight planning and just for the "because we can value", I think every one of those sorties was utterly magnificent.

Apparently the Nimrod never made it down to the Falklands during that conflict ;) Or so a certain RN Commander who wrote a disgruntled book about his experiences says - sure the RAF will say different, of course.

Heh, depends who you listen to :P No Escape Zone and Sea Harrier Over The Falklands both describe successful WVR engagements in training against logically much better jets - Sea Harrier Over The Falklands of course also tells the story of the air kills in combat. Training did have a fairly massive part to play in that . . . . . SHOTF specifically slams the Harrier squadron on the other carrier involved in that conflict for not being nearly as competent as they were. That's all with the Sea Harrier FRS1, with limited radar range and 2x Sidewinders - the FA2 had the most advanced radar/AMRAAM package in Europe when it came out, and is still a pretty decent machine today. I understand WHY they wanted to retire it, but I still think it wasn't a particularly smart move.

Chuck Norris owns Jack Bauer . . . . . and I'll tell you why. Jack Bauer takes 24 hours (OK, 18) to defeat the bad guys - Chuck has to do it all in the space of a TV episode or a two hour movie. Chuck has defeated more baddies, too. Ergo . . . . Chuck is the winner!

Oh. Ohhhh. Oh . . . . . HELL YES!! Ladies and Gentlemen, discard all names ever thought up for a fighter aeroplane . . . . . . The Chuck is here . . . . . .

ph34r teh mighty Soviet AN-2!!!1!one! ;)

. . . . . yeah, I think that's an accurate description :P

Hell yes! . . . . post where you live and I'll Google up a weather station, biznatch!

I was bored, so looked it up - Aro Valley's a suburb of Wellington, right? So assuming you're looking towards Wellington International? A commercial airliner is 200 feet long, and painted in nice, shiny, conspicious colours. A fighter sized target is a maximum of 60 feet long, and usually carries a low-vis paint scheme . . . . . . . . . . it's useful, but IMO it's not an entirely valid comparison . . . . . I rarely have to look for fighter aeroplanes, but they do flit around here sometimes - if you get out over Wales then the RAF or USAF are often playing in the RAF Valley tactics area. Spotted a four-ship of something-or-others a while ago . . . . . and they are very small, and very hard to see. I'd love to know what kind of eyesight and lighting conditions you'd need to see a fighter head-on at 30 miles. Planform, perhaps, but head-on . . . . . . ?

Surely not! I wouldn't dare infer such a heinous and slanderous concept . . . . .

It's starting to annoy me now, as I'm sure it must be a couple of other people . . . . . there are mods out there to increase brightness and viewing distance of the other lights ingame, so why not the meatball? At the moment you just can't see it . . . . Have browsed through but can't find anything so far - can anyone throw any light on where the relevant bits are hiding?

. . . . . yet I notice you have a Fighter Ops sig. Oops! Did I say that out loud? Gosh . . . .

Aaargh. As far as I can remember . . . . Every object in Lomac has a unique CLSID number - whether it be an object, a skin, a weapon, or a loadout. You can borrow those old CLSID's for your new skins, no trouble. The ID numbers translate roughly to the number of the skin filename - OKRAS-R-1 will be the right-hand half of skin ID number 1. . . . . it doesn't work perfectly like that, though, and you may have to experiment to find out which ID number corresponds to which filename number. I think filename-1 may actually be ID 0 in most cases, for example. IIRC, you can only have as many skins as there were originally. I think there are a couple of exceptions where you can have as many as you like, notably the Su25T . . . . but with the A10 that's not the case. If your skins are in the TempTextures folder, they will override any existing textures - so either you haven't got enough textures to provide a full skin for the model, or you're missing out some of the unit codes or something. Provide a screenshot? .cdds files are compressed libraries for .dds files. You can use the .cdds browser included in LoMan to flick through them and find the originals - if you like, you can export them, edit them, and reinsert them or stick them in the TempTextures directory. Important - once you've overwritten them into the .cdds, you sometimes can't get them out again . . . . so keep a copy of the original textures. You can change the order of the list in the MeInit without any problems, it'll change the order in which the skins are displayed in the mission editor too. Suggest you check out the original skin textures, and try to map them against the skins descriptions in the unchanged MeInit - should allow easier arrangement of the final list. This list of A-10 tailcodes/bases may help you on that: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/lab/6153/Bases.html

Hmmn - it's possible to dodge Shilka AAA if you take the right approach, may be possible to do the same here. I think I might give that a go, it'll be exciting 'n stuff :D

Ah, I've been talking at cross purposes . . . . thought you mean firing from all rocket pods instead of just one at once. Hmmn, tricky. What defences does the Molniya have again?

Um. Have you tried using a heavier caliber missile than the S8? Six S13s pack a fair punch . . . . . Somewhere there's a salvo button, or at least used to be . . . . don't know where it went. There's a pickle quantity thing somewhere, too.

Pffft, CH-53s . . . . coolest Sidewinder-equipped aircraft is the Nimrod :P