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F8U-1 from VMF-122 Crusaders over West Germany in the late '50's.Ain't she purty?The F8U-1 was yet another free download from Combat Ace. I've sort of been hitting them hard of late, but there's some...
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Delta Dart
I even had a model of this very aircraft in 1/48 scale.My new favorite air-to-air weapon: the AIR-2A Genie. Unguided but the game does a good job of simulating the MA-1 fire control so it ends up...
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Firing Sequence
Firing an AIM-4G.First you get tracking indications with the IRST.Then you fire.The bay doors open.Then the missile fires!There's a substantial delay between pulling the trigger and the missile...
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Sneaky Underhanded And Downright UnBritish
The "last" of the century series...F-117A NighthawkTo be super complete I'd include a picture of an F-4C and call it an F-110A Spectre...By the way, have I ever mentioned my F-117A conspiracy theory?It...
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Aardvark Amusement
I learned today that the side-by-seating and the escape capsule on the F-111 are legacies of the Navy's involvement with the program.I find that fascinating.
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http://www.guns.com/2014/10/04/ruger-sues-1022-component-maker-for-trademark-violation/So mentioning what your aftermarket parts fit is now a violation of trademark?What's next? Edelbrock sells an...
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Why Can't I Use A Calculator
The reason you should learn to do math on your own rather than rely on a calculator in one simple example.
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All my modding in Strike Fighters 2 has created a bit of a problem.Several of the stock planes have been given weaponry they never actually carried.The F-4C Phantom never carried the AIM-4 in any...
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Sinister Controls
The slide stop on the Browning Hi-Power has that spoon shaped part in front of the pivot point.I'd often wondered why.Playing around with left handed drills I discovered it's handy for locking the...
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GM'ing Traveller made me think about some things harder than I would have otherwise.An Aslan is a person, a Vargr is a person, a Hiver is a person, a Droyne is a person, even a K'Kree is a person!Once...
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My uncle had an article clipped from some military aviation magazine framed over his desk.It was about the increasing cost and complexity of black boxes in military aircraft.Included was a cartoon with...
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I almost feel sorry for the poor bastard.I complained that AIM-4's were showing up in the loadout of the F-4C...A relatively prominent member of the forum blasted me for doing no research on the Falcon...
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Victory!
I've been having odd loadout problems with SF2 since I started making modifications.I figured a lot of it out now!First things first, I finally got the dunderheads who thought they were explaining...
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A principle problem with open carry is that people aren't accustomed to seeing their fellow citizens running around armed.This problem is exacerbated by the simple fact that one cannot become used to...
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Adding fuel to the fire for my F-117A conspiracy theory...In March of 1962 the USAF painted a Q-2 drone with radar absorbing material and failed to detect and intercept it.The interest in stealth is a...
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I see that I said it wrong, again.I don't necessarily think that OCT is doing it right.I tend to think that rule one is: Don't freak the mundanes.Carrying an EBR into Target is freaking the...
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Blood Moon
I have a flimsy tripod, the garbage men doing their collection really shakes the camera.Caught a plane with my 15 second exposure! It's kind of remarkable how far the heavens move in a quarter minute,...
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Adventures In INI Editing
SF2 defines nearly everything with .ini files.It makes changing things easy, but you have to know the syntax...My rush of downloading free planes from Combat Ace came with the weaponry peculiar to the...
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The USAF developed two air to air weapons with nuclear warheads.The AIR-2A Genie and AIM-26A Falcon.The use of a nuke makes sense when it was assumed they'd be firing at massed formations of...
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