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Feb 16th, 2008

Editorial

Editorial: Site Progress: Navigation and Database



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Feb 4th, 2008

Article

The Secret Air Force - For more than a decade, until just before the November 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, a secret Air Force aggressor unit flew Soviet MiGs in more than 15,000 sorties against US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots.

New in People Gallery

Dr. Carlo Kopp.
Dr. Carlo Kopp

New in Organisations Gallery

Air Power Australia

RAAF News:
Night-time flying training
Army BlackHawks to support Queensland flood relief



Feb 2nd, 2008

Added image gallery of the China Campaign in Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour

Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour - 2003. Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour - 2003.
Title - Command and Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour
Release Date - 2003
Platform - PC
Developer -
Publisher - Westwood
Collection - YES
Comments -



31st Jan, 2008

POLAR BEAR brought this worthy cause to my attention:

DVDs4Vets at www.dvds4vets.org

"The idea to start DVDs4Vets came about on Veteran’s Day, 2006. With increasing reports of severely wounded soldiers returning home from Iraq, many of them, due to physical hardships were unable to easily obtain some of the basic entertainment most civilians take for granted."




New Image Gallery

Command and Conquer: Generals - 2003. Command and Conquer: Generals - 2003.
Title - Command and Conquer: Generals
Release Date - 2003
Platform - PC
Developer -
Publisher - Westwood
Collection - YES
Comments -



29th Jan, 2008

What would you pay for 52?

What would you pay for 52?



When games were fun, and funny too!

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge - 2001 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge - 2001
Title - Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge
Release Date - 2001
Platform - PC
Developer -
Publisher - Westwood
Collection - YES
Comments - It's tongue in cheek sci-fi fantasy world is sorely missed these days! Some games have become too earnest for their own good, or at least in this case Westwood took a turn for the dour when dropped the fantasy-sci-fi feel of the series in Command and Conquer: Generals.



28th Jan, 2008

Red Alert 2 in XP

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Image Gallery
Red Alert 2 Update: 2008
I fired the game up again to see if it would run in WIndows XP. Yep, no problems. There was one annoying trait though, which caused me to quit after a few skirmishes and campaign missions. The DVD drive runs flat out while you are playing (only during the campaign I believe). Not only is this noisy, but I've worn drives out before like this.



26th Jan, 2008

Just what does it cost to have some fun these days?

Comparative costs of home entertainment - January 2008
Comparative costs of home entertainment
I ran a quick comparison, showing what PC flight sims cost per hour in relation to other popular forms of entertainment. It is interesting to note the both the most expensive and the cheapest items are comic books. The content is the same, the media has changed from print to digital. Flight Sims turn out to be nearly the cheapest per hour!




GITCORP Digital Comic Collections
GITCORP Digital Comic Collections



25th Jan, 2008

Organisations - Royal Australian Air Force section added.



People - New exhibits from the Wacky Wally collection:

Australia Special Edition 98, a flight sim  addon for Microsoft Flight Sim.
Title - Australia Special Edition 98
Platform -
Host sim - Microsoft Flight Simulator 95, Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Release Date - 1998
Developer -
Publisher - Peak Interact International
Collection - YES
Comments - MiGMan thanks Wacky Wally for donating this sim to the Flight Sim Museum Collection.



Azores and Madeira, a flight sim  addon for Microsoft Flight Sim.
Title - Azores and Madeira
Platform -
Host sim - Microsoft Flight Simulator 95, Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Release Date - 1998
Developer -
Publisher - Apollo
Collection - YES
Comments - MiGMan thanks Wacky Wally for donating this sim to the Flight Sim Museum Collection.



Escenario Mexico Gold Scenery, a flight sim  addon for Microsoft Flight Sim.
Title - Escenario Mexico Gold Scenery
Platform -
Host sim - Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Release Date - 1998
Developer -
Publisher - Flymex
Collection - YES
Comments - MiGMan thanks Wacky Wally for donating this sim to the Flight Sim Museum Collection.



Europe 1
Title - Europe 1
Platform -
Host sim - Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Release Date - 1998
Developer -
Publisher - Flymex
Collection - YES
Comments - MiGMan thanks Wacky Wally for donating this sim to the Flight Sim Museum Collection.



20th Jan, 2008

Escenario Suramerica Andes by Playsoft - Scenery Addon for MS Flight Sim 98
Title - Escenario Suramerica Andes
Release Date - 1997
Platform - PC
Developer -
Publisher - Playsoft
Collection - YES
Comments - MiGMan thanks Wacky Wally for donating this sim to the Flight Sim Museum Collection.



19th Jan, 2008

New exhibit:

Italy 98 addon for Microsoft Flight Sim.
Title - Italy 98
Platform -
Host sim - Microsoft Flight Simulator 95, Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Release Date - 1998
Developer -
Publisher - Lago
Collection - YES
Comments - MiGMan thanks Wacky Wally for donating this sim to the Flight Sim Museum Collection.



January 18th, 2008

Flight Sim Museum Collection: Submission guidelines and contact details. Wacky Wally, A.K.A. Bob Schroeder of Florida USA, on assignment with coalition troops in Baghdad, IRAQ made this generous donation of Microsoft Flight Sims and add-ons to the Flight Sim Museum in January 2008.

Processing a large contribution to the Museum's physical collection by Wacky Wally. The items were so well packed that I have used them to illustrate good practice here: Collection.



January 16th, 2008

Indexes

Site Indexes - added January 16th, 2008
People: Authors - added January 16th, 2008
People: Pilot - added January 16th, 2008
People: Producer - added January 16th, 2008
People: Supergeek - added January 16th, 2008

January 15th, 2008

News archives

2007: page 01 - added January 15th, 2008
2006: page 01 - added January 15th, 2008
2006: page 02 - added January 15th, 2008
2005 - added January 15th, 2008
2004 - added January 15th, 2008



January 14th, 2008

News archives

2003: page 01 - added January 15th, 2008
2003: page 02 - added January 15th, 2008



Better organised classic scenery comparisons

Aircraft and scenery comparison

BA Methwold installed by Mosquito Squadron
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002.
Mosquito Squadron campaign mission Mosquito Squadron - BA Methwold in Flight Sim 2002
Mosquito Squadron campaign mission  




Aircraft and scenery comparison

Comparison of aircraft and scenery in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002. I took up all the flyable aircraft in the standard release of the sim, and where possible, flew them in the same locations, enabling a quick look at how far the graphics advanced in 5 years.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 Microsoft  Flight Simulator 2002
  Beech Baron 58 in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Beech Baron 58
  Beech King Air 350in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Beech King Air
Bell 206B JetRanger in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Bell 206B JetRange
Bell 206B Jetranger III in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Bell 206B Jetranger III
Boeing 737-400  in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Boeing 737-400
Boeing 737-400 in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Boeing 737-400
  Boeing 747-400 in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Boeing 747-400
  Beech Baron 58 in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Boeing 777-300
  Beech Baron 58 in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Cessna 172SP
Cessna Skylane 182S  in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Cessna Skylane 182S
Cessna 182S in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Cessna 182S
Cessna Skylane 182R RG  in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Cessna Skylane 182R RG
Cessna 182S RG in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Cessna 182S RG
  Cessna 208B Caravan in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Cessna 208B Caravan
  Cessna 208 Caravan Amphibian in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Cessna 208 Caravan Amphibian
Extra 300S  in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Extra 300S
Extra 300S in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Extra 300S
Learjet 45  in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Learjet 45
Learjet 45 in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Learjet 45
  Mooney Bravo in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Mooney Bravo
Schweizer 2-32 Sailplane  in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Schweizer 2-32 Sailplane
Schweizer SGS 2-32 Sailplane in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Schweizer SGS 2-32 Sailplane
Sopwith Camel  in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Sopwith Camel
Sopwith 2F.1 Camel in Microsoft Flight Sim 2002
Sopwith 2F.1 Camel



Tidied up these exhibits:

Combat Air Patrol on the Amiga

Combat Air Patrol

Thunderhawk
A brief but brilliant career in the 1991 combat helo sim - ThunderHawk



January 13th, 2008

Genres and Historical Periods indexed:

News archive indexed:



January 11th, 2008

Added a first index of articles (unsorted)



January 10th, 2008

Added news topics from 2001 to the database and generated indexes:



January 9th, 2008

Added what I hope will become a useful index: FAQs: Unresolved. There is a lot more content to link to this and all the indexes. For those who have sent in questions - please be patient! I also extracted the currently indexed User mods : Mods and External links



January 8th, 2008 Completed indexing the News for the year 2000



January 7th, 2008

Added more indexes to the Test indexes December 2007.: News from July to November 2000



January 6th, 2008

Tidied up Pacific Air War



January 3rd, 2008

Added more indexes to the Test indexes December 2007.
Visitor's Book - by Subject
Visitor's Book - by Year
F.A.Q. by Subject
F.A.Q. by Year



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Fighter Combat - Tactics and Manoeuvering by Robert Shaw

The bible of air combat. Not an easy read, but rewarding for those who want to improve their kill rate in virtual air combat. It is an actual textbook used worldwide by military pilots.
NATOPS Flight Manual for the F-4J Phantom
NATOPS Flight Manual for the F-4J Phantom

A total reprint of the 1975 F-4 Phantom manual, about 3 cm thick. Endlessly fascinating browsing for those with an interest in the nuts and bolts of military aviating.




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