Author Topic: F-19 (Read 943 times)

Mini D · « **Reply #15 on:** September 20, 2003, 01:10:51 PM »

Had the F-19 game, got the F-117 "Patch" that turned it into a 117 and then bought the F-117 game. Back in the day, I bought every new sim that was released. Damn that included some dogs.

MiniD

milnko · « **Reply #16 on:** September 20, 2003, 03:29:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Reschke
Pretty damn hairly trying to ingress under the radar on the Kola Peninsula as well.

Yeah, I remember well how difficult it could be.

Ya could elect to fly low, and try to thread thru the mountains below radar coverage, avoiding the ZU-23's and SAMs, then attempting to pop up right before your target, using so much fuel your chances of RTBing were practically nil.

OR

Ya could elect to fly at high altitude, and try to keep total EMCON, watching your little LED threat detector as you tried threading thru SAM radar sites, Soviet E-3s and MiG patrols.

One thing about those old Microprose games like F-19, Silent Service, and Gunship was that ya hadda really plot out your attacks beforehand to survive to the next mission.

SOB · « **Reply #17 on:** September 20, 2003, 03:41:00 PM »

Yaaa! A Milenko sighting...where the hell is my camera?!

rpm · « **Reply #18 on:** September 20, 2003, 04:10:34 PM »

I think aircraft designations are just randomly assigned by the military. Several have been used more than once (F-4 for example). The part about confusing a Mig21 with a F-21 does'nt really occur. NATO will give an enemy aircraft it's own name, usually not a flattering one.

milnko · « **Reply #19 on:** September 20, 2003, 06:51:25 PM »

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Originally posted by SOB
Yaaa! A Milenko sighting...where the hell is my camera?!

HIYA SOB!

Ripsnort · « **Reply #20 on:** September 20, 2003, 08:31:59 PM »

All you young bucks prolly don't remember "F-19 Stealth Fighter"
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ra · « **Reply #21 on:** September 20, 2003, 08:43:54 PM »

Awesome graphics!!! Where can I buy it? Will it run on a P4?

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #22 on:** September 21, 2003, 01:50:20 AM »

Hehehe RIP, I see you didn't read some of our posts in this thread:o

Spooky · « **Reply #23 on:** September 21, 2003, 07:11:28 AM »

remember trying to lob a fuel-air bomb into the sub pens entrance in F19 ?

my favorite part!

and missile avoidance was similar to torpedo avoidance in "red storm rising "(also from Microprose!) the MFD were pretty much the same in the sub and in the plane !!

Sandman · « **Reply #24 on:** September 22, 2003, 09:43:38 PM »

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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
Hehehe RIP, I see you didn't read some of our posts in this thread:o

Frenchy, if you stopped reading the threads you might have 11,000 posts too.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #25 on:** September 23, 2003, 07:36:37 AM »

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Frenchy, if you stopped reading the threads you might have 11,000 posts too.

Nah, I just ignore rhetorical posts from Californians...its part of our Northwest nurturing.

gofaster · « **Reply #26 on:** September 23, 2003, 08:40:15 AM »

I still have my copy of F-117 and F-15E Strike Eagle. It was one of the first flight sims I owned. Lots of fun. Gunnery was too easy, but it was a hoot to be flying over the land of the ayatollahs and wasting their resources. I remember the 1979 Iran hostage crisis very well.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #27 on:** September 23, 2003, 09:33:47 AM »

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I remember the 1979 Iran hostage crisis very well.

Aye, so do I...thats when I fully expected the draft to kick in again (Selective Service *did* begin) and thought we'd be at war soon with Reagan coming into office. I thus began a hobby (in preparation for the draft) that I still do to this day, consistant excercise.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #28 on:** September 24, 2003, 12:33:36 AM »

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Yep... The F/A-18 was previously desnigated YF-17. It lost the contract competition awarded to GD for the F-16.

The F-20 was also included in this fly off, and from most of the people that were there at the time they said it won it hands down. The F-16 was chosen for political reasons (same thing happend w/ other air frames that i dont feel like getting into)
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QUOTE]Interesting story about them. When the IAF first brought them over and were checking the Marines out on them, they put metal shades up over them on the tarmac. As you can imagine, the skin of a plane, not to mention the rest of it, gets pretty hot in Yuma, Arizona on a 110deg day. Just by putting a shade up you can keep exposed metal from becoming untouchable (something I'm well aware of after growing up on a farm and working on the machinery). I bet the IAF guys wondered why the Marines had never thought of that. [/QUOTE]

I was stationed at Yuma for 6 years, and they JUST got cover shelters for the rest of the birds there a couple of years ago

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Also, the father of a friend of mine was a Lt. Col. and flew F-18's at the time. He took my dad and I on a tour of the flightline once and took us through the HQ of the aggressor squadron. The walls were covered in Hammer and Sickles, Soviet patriotic slogans and pictures of Stalin and Lenin. The aggressor pilots all wore gold helmets with big red stars on the side.

These guys are a cool bunch. They are acutally Marine Corps Reservists who are awsome pilots. There hangor is a trip all decked up in commie probiganda. They teach american pilots how to deal with soviet era tactics and such. There official designation is VFMT-401. Nowadays they fly F-5E tiger IIs and they are IMPRESSIVE to watch and still have big red stars on there tails and wings.

just some info

davidpt40 · « **Reply #29 on:** September 24, 2003, 08:02:25 AM »

F-20 was a mean machine