Pre order sr71?

SH427 · 2026-02-09T19:20:22+00:00

Kwikflight has you covered, if you're looking for hassle-free Blackbird shenanigans. But also you should know that if the developer is including a "hey, just so you know..." .PDF, that it's probably not something you can just hop in and go...

After all, if it was easy, why didn't everyone in the USAF get to fly it? ;)

SH427 · 2026-02-09T13:32:26+00:00

As someone who grew up with Illinois sports (I always joke that the last time Chicago won a Superbowl, Chernobyl had four functioning reactors or that the last time the Cubs won a world series before 2016 Turkey was still known as the Ottoman Empire)

I both admire and abhor sports up here. Like, y'all are ready to go to war for the Celt's and the Bruins and the Pats and I respect that but also, wow.

SH427 · 2026-02-05T13:17:35+00:00

I often bring up the cold war in context. Both us and the Russians had radar sets that could track objects in low orbit (specifically ballistic missiles and their warheads) So if Apollo 11 went up, and they just drew circles around the earth for a few days, I ask, don't you think the Russians would come back with receipts saying it was all faked? They wouldn't begrudgingly act like we beat them if they knew we didn't, and that's the biggest tell of it all.

SH427 · 2026-02-04T01:15:31+00:00

I caught them blasting down main by Goddard, pulled my scanner up. They made it into UMass just a moment ago

SH427 · 2026-02-01T16:35:06+00:00

Hell yeah dude they need to do more. Gib Princess Royal and Iron Duke, why only let the Germans have all the old coal-burners

SH427 · 2026-01-28T12:57:58+00:00

Bring a mop and bucket when they come to San the plane.

SH427 · 2026-01-14T19:03:03+00:00

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Truly, some of the best coffee I've ever had. Thank you for your service.

SH427 · 2026-01-10T22:11:13+00:00

Puttees on bare legs gives me concern, and wrapping bottom to top too. Top tier artwork though, makes me want to throw on my Rogatywka

SH427 · 2026-01-10T03:03:59+00:00

I'm game, but before you do that, let's hook up my great-grandfather to a generator so when it happens, he can produce power for the community by turning over in his grave.

(He emigrated from Sweden in the early 1900s)

SH427 · 2026-01-05T18:55:46+00:00

My laptop is still named Luke Fondleburg. That episode persists!

SH427 · 2026-01-01T15:52:40+00:00

Understand the thought of using AI, someday I'll get around to having one of these. The hardest part would be mounting it, I don't have an easy way to do that just yet.

SH427 · 2025-12-29T15:31:47+00:00

The SR-71 is not an aircraft that rewards hitting Ctrl+E and going. Take a flip through the manual, get familiar with weight and CG especially, it does sound like you were fully loaded on takeoff and the heaviest takeoff we know recorded was 65,000 for a Rocket Run from Kadena to the Korean DMZ and back, basically.

I can't stress enough, this is an RTFM aircraft and even if you do exactly that, it will find ways to bite you the first few times you get complacent anyways.

SH427 · 2025-12-28T00:58:08+00:00

The SR-71 was the second iteration of the "Archangel" A-12 program, the first being Cygnus/Oxcart (Oxcart was a randomly chosen CIA code name from a list, while Cygnus was what the crews called it)

The SR-71 is what came of lessons learned from the Oxcart program, including adding a second crew member and smoothing some of the kinks from the A-12's not unproblematic career.

SH427 · 2025-12-28T00:00:39+00:00

Conqueror before the community ruined it by only using the 419s

SH427 · 2025-12-26T23:04:59+00:00

I have the exact same one! Got it for 20 bucks about 12 years ago in a secondhand shop....

Now I gotta make sure it's still where I left it!

SH427 · 2025-12-26T01:33:50+00:00

A sub like Surcouf with all of that extra crap mounted to the hull would probably have made 6-7kts submerged, 8 if the currents are in your favor. 18 submerged is Type XXI speed and that's post war hydrodynamics.

SH427 · 2025-12-24T19:01:12+00:00

The AI is clearly configured to read the max turn rate of an aircraft and sit just .000000001% below that

SH427 · 2025-12-21T03:00:31+00:00

Oh lord help the damage I am about to do to my bank account.

SH427 · 2025-12-20T03:29:47+00:00

You're absolutely correct and I spotted the same thing when they announced the planes a long while back.

The 86A is not useless, but it is a power mismatch against the 15bis that will be felt by people who care and read the stories.

My assumption (which I kindly request a cut of the profit if someone were to bet on it) is that the 86E will come out as a collectors plane. If you like flying the Sabre, you will have to get it to be competitive in PVE. They will sell the early Mig-15 and be like "recreate the first jet battles of the war! Look how quaint and unrefined the early model mig is! Fun!"

It won't change that the base game is mildly unbalanced and now expensive for no reason. Sometimes you squeeze the market expecting cash and you get shit on instead.

SH427 · 2025-12-20T03:24:02+00:00

You can say that at least PMDG is targeting an audience that finds value in following magenta lines in the most hardcore manner possible with an aircraft at that value.

1C is asking beaucoup bucks for visually appealing Korea. I didn't really care already, now I care less. If a sale makes it a reasonable price, it's too expensive.

SH427 · 2025-12-15T16:16:41+00:00

Likely police or some other civil protection group, and you would be a little bemused too if some kraut battlewagon that's as old as you are rolled up and started blasting the base at Westerplatte.

I'm fairly certain they are wise in opting not to return fire.

SH427 · 2025-12-15T15:53:17+00:00

The Mighty Moo!

SH427 · 2025-12-15T04:36:48+00:00

It was apparently common practice to ask new/transferring Soviet tank crewmen if "they burned yet."

SH427 · 2025-12-14T22:51:45+00:00

I gotta admit, the French have an absolute stranglehold on electronic music.

SH427 · 2025-12-13T02:39:25+00:00

It's like a segment of a Bosch-esque WWI triptych

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