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A federal court of appeals upholds a Federal Aviation Administration order that automatically grounds pilots over 60 years old. More than 680 Intruders are built and the type remains in service until 1996.Īpril 22, 1960. It also sees action in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Later designated the A-6 Intruder, it would carry the brunt of the Navy’s bombing effort in Vietnam. The Grumman A2F-1 attack aircraft prototype makes its first flight at the company’s Calverton, Long Island, NY facility. Project Ozma is initiated at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W.Va., to listen for possible signal patterns from outer space other than “natural” noise.Īpril 19, 1960. The RCA-built TIROS 1 (Television Infrared Observation Satellite), the world’s first meteorological satellite, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Fla., atop a Thor launch vehicle.Īpril 4, 1960. It will provide a final assembly capability for UGM-27 Polaris sea-launched ballistic missiles and also a capability for loading them on submarines.Īpril 1, 1960.
The Naval Weapons Station Annex at Charleston, S.C., opens. The unit is based at Presque Isle AFB, Maine. The 702nd Strategic Missile Wing, and the first and only USAF unit equipped with the Northrop SM-62 Snark air breathing intercontinental cruise missile, puts its first missile on nuclear alert. In what is billed as the first known shootdown of a ballistic missile, an Army MIM-23 HAWK anti-aircraft missile downs an unarmed MGR-1 Honest John surface-to-surface unguided rocket. The out-of-the box flight models are designed to be pretty high fidelity but like the rest of the game are biased towards a shallow learning curve.
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If you are interested in aerodynamics, this series may be of interest to you, as it has one of the most complete physics-based flight modeling systems out there.
One last thing-I don't want to sound like Billy Mays. He only recently stopped updating the original game, released six and half years ago.
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However, it is one of the most moddable games you can buy and we have been at it since 2002, so there is a vast library of free stuff to download, most of it of excellent quality.Īnother very nice thing about this series is that TK supports his sims like a madman.
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This is from Wings Over Europe, another sim in the series, using a lot of free community produced mods to up the level of eye candy:īear in mind this sim only costs $19.99, so you aren't getting LOMAC level eye candy. I added a bit of heat blur to the exhaust in PS, otherwise untouched:Ī MiG-19 takes out an F-100 in a head on pass. Hunting Bears (these Tomcats are not released yet, but will be later this year): However, the modding community has done much to beautify things. The sim is designed to run well on really low end hardware, so the stock terrain and aircraft skins are limited in resolution.
Serious question: why are the graphics so bad?
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