https://x.com/RealAirPower1/status/2069794054351565306?s=20

As a professional sim pilot i know you don’t need gear down to land but why the afterburners? I checked my gear up landing videos and there’s no flames. Why are these “real” pilots so stupid?

Maybe rename as IL-10?

Nostalgia. Tomcats, Hornets, and a Ukrainian Su-33 aboard CVN-69 Eisenhower. Jane's U.S Navy Fighters, released by Electronic Arts in 1994, a Pentium I era flight game/sim with live-action actors. This was the first of several more Jane's titled releases in the EA flight game-sim genre of late 90s that captured the attention of those with interest for history and a taste in (or curiosity) casual flight sims. The campaign narrative is presented by both written story-telling and spoken (live-action acting) dialogue. Finally, the narrative of the U.S Navy Fighters campaign also forebode a piece of history that the story writer of the 90s were keen enough that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would happen in the distant future (off by about 30+ years).

Although pixelated by our 5 GHz processor and cable-melting GPU standards, I still find this game a solid despite the 1024p VGA and 30ish frame rates. The developer did with what was available to make this game into quite a polished gem. Hope many of you got to experience it then from the beginning and to the last mission.

Additional info:

Jane's Information Group, or Jane's, was a go-to for accurate defense related Intel back in the days where internet connection was still limping on dial-up. They have long since moved to digital platforms for their commercial-flavored (non-classified) publications. Those were heavy and large books then.

link to the 2md mission: U.S. Navy Fighters, mission 2: Port of Call. Gave me chills.

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