F-111 beta 2 is ready to go!

[Shashman 0]

That's pretty impressive

Kinda looks like an engine flameout

[Shashman 0]

LOL!

Talking about afterburner, how bout this :

[Sxep 0]

Har har wish i had seen that live

[miles teg 1]

Fuel dump is also a real crowd pleaser.

When an F-111 did it over the Grand Prix in adelaide when I was a kid, it scared the $#!t outa me.

But it was truly mesmarising!

The noise, oh the noise.... It was fantastic!!

I remember i saw an old flyt movie form Holland where Starfighters where used to SCARE THE HELL out of some hostagetakers...They made a flyby with fullthrust!!!    HAHA i wish i saw that! I´m sure they craped their pants.

I remember at Pensacola Naval Air Station (Florida) during a Blue Angels airshow, one of the Blue Angels F-18's split from the main group and snuck around back at low altitude then came swooping over the audience with full afterburner. That scared the hell out of everyone! He was so low you could almost feel the heat from the afterburner. Loud as hell also!

I'm sure more then a few crapped themselves.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[Skaircro 0]

Thanks for the respose guys!!

The dump and burn is just a fancy thing used at any event where there is a lot of people to impress: airshows, Gold Coast Indy, Sydney Olympics.... anywhere!!!

I think its almost an Aussie tradition!

There is a bunch of pics and stuff here: http://www.f-111.net/airshows/index.htm

as well as an mpg from the Sydney Olympics.

It has no effect in game, except if you keep doing it you will run out of fuel and crash!

Sxep - I dont know why the crew module crashed your game, has anyone else had this problem??

[Shashman 0]

Well fuel dump has other uses apart from impressing crowds at public gatherings namely incase the aircraft is having technical difficulties and needs to do an emergency landing (less fuel onboard= less risk of fire of course) and also if the aircraft needs to RTB for any reason and still has a full fuel load as it would be too heavy if it didn't dump some.

[Skaircro 0]

hehe.. yeah, sorry.

The 'fuel dump' is used to reduce the weight of the plane to a safe landing weight in the event of an emergency.

(I think all planes have this ability, including passenger planes)

The 'dump and burn' is where the fuel is dumped and ignited by the planes afterburners.

[Shashman 0]

Well actually most passenger planes would enter an orbit of the airport and simply burn off the fuel as opposed to dumping it.

[Sole 0]

I remember at Pensacola Naval Air Station (Florida) during a Blue Angels airshow, one of the Blue Angels F-18's split from the main group and snuck around back at low altitude then came swooping over the audience with full afterburner.  That scared the hell out of everyone!  He was so low you could almost feel the heat from the afterburner.   Loud as hell also!

I'm sure more then a few crapped themselves.  

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

Ive been to the 2003 KLu airshow at Twenthe AFB (Netherlands) and there also was an F/A-18 doing a solo demo.. man, that probably was one of the (if not THE) loudest aircraft of the entire airshow.. loud as hell indeed

[Sxep 0]

how about this verion next?

EF-111A

hmm maybe i´ll reskin yours  

I know i know its just for electronical warfare....

[Shashman 0]

I remember at Pensacola Naval Air Station (Florida) during a Blue Angels airshow, one of the Blue Angels F-18's split from the main group and snuck around back at low altitude then came swooping over the audience with full afterburner.  That scared the hell out of everyone!  He was so low you could almost feel the heat from the afterburner.   Loud as hell also!

I'm sure more then a few crapped themselves.  

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

Ive been to the 2003 KLu airshow at Twenthe AFB (Netherlands) and there also was an F/A-18 doing a solo demo.. man, that probably was one of the (if not THE) loudest aircraft of the entire airshow.. loud as hell indeed

Loudest thing, nevermind aircraft, is the SU-32

At Paris airshow '99 (I think it was that year anyway)

[ozanzac 0]

Quote[/b] ] how about this verion next?

EF-111A

hmm maybe i´ll reskin yours

I know i know its just for electronical warfare....

Would only wanna see an EF-111 if it was functional.

I.E. If it did jam enemy radars, otherwise it would probably just gather dust. I spose it could be used for a background role in missions, like scripting that the jamming did actually jam radars. This would be good for covert insertion of Special Forces behind enemy lines, like as in an intro to a mission, but the plane itself would be only be of use in the mission upon extraction.

Play with the idea and see what you come up with.

[Skaircro 0]

Quote[/b] ] how about this verion next?

EF-111A

hmm maybe i´ll reskin yours  

I know i know its just for electronical warfare....

Would only wanna see an EF-111 if it was functional.

I.E. If it did jam enemy radars, otherwise it would probably just gather dust. I spose it could be used for a background role in missions, like scripting that the jamming did actually jam radars. This would be good for covert insertion of Special Forces behind enemy lines, like as in an intro to a mission, but the plane itself would be only be of use in the mission upon extraction.

Play with the idea and see what you come up with.

I did look at the EF-111 and thought it would be cool, but I figured it probably wouldn't get enough use.

And the scripting needed to get the radar jamming to work is way beyond my scripting ability!

[Thud_and_Blunder 0]

An EF-111 Sparkvark was lost in W Iraq in the early days of the 1991 unpleasantness - might be a good topic for a CSAR mission with SEAL and HH60 involvement...

[Shashman 0]

An EF-111 Sparkvark was lost in W Iraq in the early days of the 1991 unpleasantness - might be a good topic for a CSAR mission with SEAL and HH60 involvement...

Hmm...Never heard it being referred to as the "Spakvark" before.

It's nickname is the EF-111 Raven

Perhaps if it was made it could have the same effect as the DKM RAH-66s radar jammer? If permission was granted of course

[ozanzac 0]

Quote[/b] ]Thud_and_Blunder Posted on Aug. 07 2003,23:41

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An EF-111 Sparkvark was lost in W Iraq in the early days of the 1991 unpleasantness - might be a good topic for a CSAR mission with SEAL and HH60 involvement...

An f-111 also scored a monouvre kill over an Iraqi Sukoi or Mig, can't remember, back in Gulf War 1. For those that don't know. The moanouvre kill is when a persuing aircraft crashes as a result of defensive manouvres, IE, the mig smashed into the ground whilist attepting to engage the "Raven", (official EF-111 name). All it did was switch its powerful ECM on. This scrambled the Iraqi flight computer and bang, whaddaya know, the indicated altitude isn't the true altitude anymore.

Amazing yet true.

[Shashman 0]

[OFFTOPIC]Talking about amazing kills: The first confirmed air-air kill of the F-15E Strike Eagle was when one downed a MI-24 Hind.....With a GBU-12 LGB.I swear it's true.This happened in ODS [/OFFTOPIC]

[ozanzac 0]

If only it were a TV guided Maverick, then we'd have the vision to prove it!

[Thud_and_Blunder 0]

Sparkvark (you probably already know that the 111 was the Aardvark, and the spark bit should be obvious...) was the user's name - Raven was the official one; think Thunderbolt 2 vs Warthog to get the general idea. As for the TV Maverick; we were co-located with an ANG A10 unit during the first unpleasantness, and used to debrief them on anything we'd seen (we'd land around 0300-0400) so they could go and visit at dawn. After we'd woken up around 2 in the afternoon (difficult to sleep beyond that in a tent in Saudi, even in Feb/March) their crews would then bring over their gun-camera films from their first-light flights for us to see during our briefing sessions. Plenty to see when the Gau-gun was being fired, but as they used to fly a break-lock manouevre immediately after firing Maverick, we only saw what the missile was being pointed at up to the launch. Nothing after that was recorded on board the aircraft. Shame, as they hit some very worthwhile targets - as we'd see from the BDR films.

[ozanzac 0]

Sparkvark (you probably already know that the 111 was the Aardvark, and the spark bit should be obvious...) was the user's name - Raven was the official one; think Thunderbolt 2 vs Warthog to get the general idea.  As for the TV Maverick; we were co-located with an ANG A10 unit during the first unpleasantness, and used to debrief them on anything we'd seen (we'd land around 0300-0400) so they could go and visit at dawn.  After we'd woken up around 2 in the afternoon (difficult to sleep beyond that in a tent in Saudi, even in Feb/March) their crews would then bring over their gun-camera films from their first-light flights for us to see during our briefing sessions.  Plenty to see when the Gau-gun was being fired, but as they used to fly a break-lock manouevre immediately after firing Maverick, we only saw what the missile was being pointed at up to the launch.  Nothing after that was recorded on board the aircraft.  Shame, as they hit some very worthwhile targets - as we'd see from the BDR films.

Mmm, I bet it woulda been good. Say Thud and Blunder, what is/was your occupation?

Love hearin those sortie stories and the like...

[Thud_and_Blunder 0]

These days I have a lovely quiet sinecure, helping those nice police men (and women) keep a lofty overview of the West Midlands here in sunny UK. It's like getting paid to do your hobby; now, if only there was an income to be made from sitting on my BFA and playing OpFP...

[Sxep 0]

Sparkvark (you probably already know that the 111 was the Aardvark, and the spark bit should be obvious...) was the user's name - Raven was the official one; think Thunderbolt 2 vs Warthog to get the general idea.  As for the TV Maverick; we were co-located with an ANG A10 unit during the first unpleasantness, and used to debrief them on anything we'd seen (we'd land around 0300-0400) so they could go and visit at dawn.  After we'd woken up around 2 in the afternoon (difficult to sleep beyond that in a tent in Saudi, even in Feb/March) their crews would then bring over their gun-camera films from their first-light flights for us to see during our briefing sessions.  Plenty to see when the Gau-gun was being fired, but as they used to fly a break-lock manouevre immediately after firing Maverick, we only saw what the missile was being pointed at up to the launch.  Nothing after that was recorded on board the aircraft.  Shame, as they hit some very worthwhile targets - as we'd see from the BDR films.

Mmm, I bet it woulda been good. Say Thud and Blunder, what is/was your occupation?

Love hearin those sortie stories and the like...

yeah hes right, give us more

Its really interesting to hear what really happend in wars, what the soldiers tell...not whats on the news for example..like censored

[Shashman 0]

If only it were a TV guided Maverick, then we'd have the vision to prove it!  

Well some SF personnel witnessed it.In one of them's own words: "The Hind just vaporised[...]"

[Sxep 0]

Can you tell us what your next project is?

[coporal_punishment 0]

Last time i talked to Skaircro he said he might do the C8 Carbrio its a light transport aircraft used by the Canadian Air Force (Sxep you would like that, joking)