A beautiful sight mate :yeah:

I know, I just like busting the balls of all our resident Harrier lovers.

Now that's debatable. Just in number of conflicts the both are fairly equal; Vietnam and SE Asia, Operation El Dorado Canyon, Desert Storm, and Bosnia (EF-111). However Vietnam's air war was on a scale only duplicated in Desert Storm.

If you compare their first combat operations the F-111 flew 4,000 missions with only six losses. I know the FAA lost 6 Sea Harriers in the Falklands but I doubt they flew anything close to 4,000 missions, it would probably be a couple wars before they reached that.

In the Gulf war 84 F-111s dropped 80% of the LGBs employed and had the highest success rate of any Coalition aircraft (3.2 to 1).

Yyyeeeaaahhh baby! That's good entertainment. :haha:

Damn, that's a shame, the F-111s are nice birds, and the dump and burn is just spectacular.

I haven't seen the Harrier do displays, she used to come up to Lowestoft and perform there...and then this happened:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgo2hOYhFW4

And they stopped bringing her... :damn:

Still, I got to see two Harriers fly over the other day nice and low heading out to sea, so that's my farewell moment for them I think.

Oi, and TLAM, hush you, Harriers are lovely birds, MDD wouldn't have nicked them if they didn't think so. :O: Ok, so there were some big setbacks in the initial development, particularly in the engine, including but not limited to, a lone unmanned Harrier trying to defect to the GDR, and another one getting stuck at a 75 degree angle on take-off, bending its nose point, and scaring the pilot enough to make him eject...unfortunately horizontally into a tree, breaking his neck. However, it was better than the Hummingbird and VAK 191B. :O::O:

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That is a rockin' picture. :salute:

Happy with new wallpaper :D

This is why US made bombers don't carry a tail gun like Russian bombers... our planes fart napalm...

They swiped my chili recipe. :hmmm:

I went to every amberly airshow and lots of riverfire so they will be missed by me .

Reminds me of the Stukas in IL2... :hmmm:

Haven't played IL2, but the Stukas in BoB II can't stand up to anything. :-?

And just about all the Japanese planes.:D

Generally the Stukas in IL2 tend to burst into flame after a few good hits, does make you wonder if it was a Junkers/Mitsubishi joint effort in Olegs world... :yep:

OIC :haha:

How is IL2 overall? Have heard about it before but tended toward a Cold War sim at the time.

With mods that you can't talk about here it's like SH3 + GWX and then some.