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Can KSA stands for central?

Sorry Lemon, it is probably the pic. I see З not Э... so i traslitarate Z instead of E. Thanks!

Sorry, sorry, I confused the letters! By the picture I can't distinguish them...

In latin: 4 – MASLO LEV 8 – MASLO PRAV 5 – MASLO KSA 14 – TRIMMER ZLERON 13 – TRIMMER R.N.

Well done Oxyd! And thanks Thomas!

Interesting satellite view of Crimea: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2002111-0421/Azov.A2002111.0850.250m.jpg

Great idea! Someone knows how the map is generated in the Lock On engine? Is it impossible that we can add some terrain in the map?

Boys, you are fantastic!

Sorry Tharos, where I can find info about the seekers? The thing interest me so much, thanks in advance.

I wrote a mail to StrikeMax... No reply.

Oh, I can’t resist! I must meddle in this so technical conversation! Your posts are very precise and I can only add that the shock waves are simply the transformation (dissipation) of the mechanical energy into the thermal one (pardon me, I don’t know if the English terms are correct!). The mechanical energy is supplied by the engine, so is limited, and so the section of the shock wave, that in air tend to transform itself, away from the body who generates that, in an isentropic wave (an acoustic wave: the boom). For the axisymmetric bodies the things are in some way different: we have the conic shock wave. The flat shock wave compress the air in 10E-06 cm, the conical ones continue to compress the air even back. This is traduced (by physics lows) in minor energy loss. Hope my poooor English is understandable… and helpful!

Hei VapoR, I'm totaly with you! (Can I add the Su-15 to your list?)

Thanks a lot!

Hi KuostA, I've sended a mail with the skin of the KC-10. Try it and tell me what do you tink about. Bye!

I totally agree with GGTharos. The very first missiles had the problem well illustrated from Oxking (for a further example there were also the reflection of the sun beam on the condense generated by the target that can confuse the missile!), but today these problems have very marginal consequences, due to technical modifications, for example the AIM-9 have also a laser proximity detonator. With this I don't think that a missile can easily reach you when you fly low in a hilly territory!

Hi KuostA! I have received your PM, and I liked it too much! I have also send a mail to reply: “Ehm… I’m embarrassed! Thanks for your compliments, believe me, I appreciate them a lot! For the B-1, KC-10 and B-52, I hope to satisfy your request, but I can’t promise anything for the moment.” I have checked the skins of the 3 planes, I “TRY” to remade the KC-10 since is the only one in 512*512. Bye, and thanks again!

As always a very well done work Aquarius! I have noticed also the improvements. The only thing I don’t like so much is the light effect of the rivets and plates. I prefer to create a lighten and blurred copy of the layer of the lines and the rivets to put under to the original layer, but is my taste… Oxi, the friend that I must thanks too much, upload a skin pack for the Su-27 (in 1024*1024 res.), on Check-six (http://www.checksix-fr.com/). It comprehend also the Savasleyka AB skin, for who wants 1024 skins...

Thanks Starlight.

I don’t know if this is discussed elsewhere. I found in a German MiG-29 pilot’s interview that the eastern fighters, instead of western ones, are completely in control of the “fighter command” (I don’t know if this is the correct meaning of the Italian terms “guida caccia”), that order to the pilot itself what he must to do, and in some cases the controller from the “fighter command” can also take the control over some systems of the plane. So, the pilot don’t have got a real “situation awareness”. The “fighter command” also provides a data-link with the plane like an AWACS does. CAP missions were consequently not executed. The things are changed nowadays?

Any news?

Very good job Starlight!

I have tested better the Eagle and I must admit that the intakes moves (correctly, I think)… SUB17 you are right! Rest to consider that, like we said, the AI eagle intakes are fixed, and the internal ramps are absent.

And yes, the variable geometry is totally automatic. Is impossible to menage it manually, especially in the supersonic cruise!

I flied the F-15. I have also noticed that the inner ramps are totally absent, but this is not a serious problem, since that are in the intakes and not so visible… The problem is that the intakes do not move enough. Especially in the takeoff run, like DarkStar says. But this is not a capital problem... We can say that: the variable geometry is modelled, but is not modelled well (is my opinion).

Mmm… The air intakes control the air flow to the engines (in supersonic conditions the intakes is used to make a system of shock waves, but this is another story…). This is only my opinion, at the takeoff run the ramps must to stay closed because the air flow is sufficient for the engine in that environment. I don’t want to start any diatribe about that (I think the discussion is started time ago in the Ubi forum), my desires is only to have the same configuration that the AI have…