To: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) From: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Reply-To: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Sender: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Errors-To: postmaster@falcon3.k9.com Return-Path: devnull@falcon3.k9.com (Falcon3 Mailing list) Precedence: bulk Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V6 : I74 Falcon3 Digest Volume 6 : Issue 74 Wed Oct 5 06:27:53 PDT 1994 Compilation copyright (C) 1994 Jeff Beadles Send submissions to "falcon3@falcon3.k9.com" Send add/drop requests to "majordomo@falcon3.k9.com" Archives are available via ftp from ftp.k9.com [199.2.109.18] Today's Topics: FAQ update krismon@hh.sbay.org (Kris Ong) Re:IR detection LOURENCO.YNHH@DVPO.YNHH.YALE.EDU (L re: Falcon Gold and OS/2 "Frank Racis" From j.hoppenbrouers@kub.nl Subject IR detectors Jereoun writes: >I remeber having read that C130s can carry some autobot thatsenses missle >launches, blinks a light in the cockpit and dumps a load of chaff/flares... I have some experiences flying in and directing (fire) AC130 gunships, (A model). The most important detection system on those was the Mark ONE eyeball. What they do is they have crewmen stationed, in the cockpit, a big open window under the wings, and standing on the tail ramp, (with a monkey harness). Each guy has a small trigger thing in his hand. When he sees a missle launch, he calls out the launch over the intercomm, and then drops flares with his dispenser trigger. It's actually quite scary to be standing on the edge of an open ramp, in pitch blackness, held in by a monkey harness, and all teh sudden see a launch plume coming right at you! You can be that trigger gets a good mashing! Each AC of course has an EWO who controls lots of stuff too, but the MK I is the most important system. Especially in Iraq where the AD system had been pretty much successfully supressed and the main threat came from IR (shoulder and otherwise) SAMs. What teh Iraqis would do was turn on their fire direction radar for a few seconds causing the gunships to change course. Through this method of cat and mouse, they would try to work the gunships over to an IR kill zone that they had setup. If the gunship saw what was happening it could either break off and bug out, or ignore the FD radar, in which case the Iraqis might actually let one fly. Very tense stuff. Los ------------------------------- From: "Frank Racis" Subject: re: Falcon Gold and OS/2 Can't say for OS/2 2.1, as I'm running 2.99 (the beta version for 3.0), but Falcon Gold runs just fine. It's nice to be able to have mouse, cache, CD-ROM, and the sound card driver all loaded and still have enough memory left for Falcon. I've only had 2 problems: 1.) No digital sound with ProAudioSpectrum 16. OK, I can GET the sound, but the game pauses while it plays. Like I said, no digital sound :-) 2.) If I have a Win-OS/2 session open while runing Falcon, as soon as Falcon hits the CD, it ties up the system. It's not quite a hang, but I have to kill the DOS box and the Win-OS/2 session to do anything useful again. This may be due to my bogus CD-ROM driver, though. Even with those problems, when I want to play Falcon, I still boot into OS/2 instead of DOS. -Frank ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 6 : Issue 74 ]]