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    June 19th, 2013, 02:41
    So... Anybody got their cockpit LSO guy working?
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    June 16th, 2013, 18:38
    That was quick, it's already up at Simviation, Driessen-D-III.zip. :salute:
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    June 16th, 2013, 18:11
    Hey, I found the tailhook! I really should read the readme files so I don't have to have people tell me this stuff. :icon_lol:
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    June 16th, 2013, 16:02
    Even on Coral Sea V-3 Div was never real happy when a Whale had to go into the hangar bay. A real challenge to move around, guys crossing the hangar deck used to stop and watch while they were parking one. Don't remember one ever getting crunched, our ABH's were pretty good.
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    June 15th, 2013, 14:02
    Thank you for the replies. :salute: I no sooner started reading when I got that deja vu feeling and it occurred to me that I had indeed read the earlier thread about Bomber_12th's updated flight dynamics for the Wozza and SkyUnlimited T-6's. So... I'll go back and re-read and d/l what I need. Having turned 65 this past April 29th I will chalk it up to a "senior moment" :redf: which I think we're all allowed occasionally - even those of us who haven't hit 65 yet!
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    June 15th, 2013, 02:11
    I was wondering if anybody with far more flight dynamics skills than I has ever put together a good set of aircraft.cfg specs that works equally well (or almost equally well) with the various AT-6/Harvard/SNJ offerings available in FSX. One example in particular, I've been flying the SkyUnlimited SNJ-4C model on and off their USS Monterey (CVL-26) and the aircraft seems underpowered. Deck-launch with the aircraft spotted clear back at the ramp and I hit the water when I go off the bow. Reducing fuel load doesn't seem to help much and payload is just the pilot. When I'm on the ship and change planes to the Wozza or AlphaSim/Virtavia T-6 they deck-launch just fine. I may do some cut-and-paste with the SkyUnlimited SNJ's cfg file but if somebody has done something that feels right for them I'd like to try it.
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    June 14th, 2013, 09:54
    A-3 was a big honkin' jet to bring aboard any carrier, especially the 27-Charlies. Pretty easy to see why all the flight deck personnel stood way clear of the landing area when "Whale on final!" was announced over the 5MC flight deck PA system. :icon_lol:
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    June 9th, 2013, 11:22
    My old destroyer, USS Comte De Grasse (DD-974), was used as a SinkEx target in 2006. Better to see old ships sunk in the line of duty than tied up derelict to be chopped up later by some fly-by-night salvage company, as happened to another one of my old ships, USS Coral Sea (CV-43).
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    June 7th, 2013, 15:47
    That's what we have to live with when we give back what we already paid for in blood. We should have kept Iwo Jima, and Okinawa too for that matter. Ever since we gave Okinawa back in 1971 the local Japanese have done nothing but bitch and moan about the air operations and our military presence in general, but they're happy to take our money.
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    June 6th, 2013, 11:58
    TARPSBird replied to a thread U.N. in The NewsHawks
    I was surprised to see that this thread had not been locked yet, so I just wanted to drop in and say hi. :wavey:
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