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Thanks Brent,, now for the textures to make it look like textures:D

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I am looking for a decent image of this squadron badge found on the Rooivalk. Perhaps anyone can help me?

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I went to my well worn copy of Steenkamp & Potgieter's Aircraft of the South African Air Force, but the badge has changed since 1980. Back then it was on a black shield with the motto scroll below the shield. When did the change to a blue circle happen?

I guess it was with the re opening of 16 SQ? I also have the black version. but here is a scan of a patch - I will modify it in Photoshop
http://images.travelpod.com/users/centa ... -patch.jpg

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Sorry Jakes .. I've been asleep on the job

This should work .. from #675 in 2007.



Cheers

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Cool stuff, Thanks Brent!

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What color flightsuit and helmets does the Rooivalk drivers wear?

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Looks like the normal flight-suit olive greeish colour ..

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This is me - Busy with the Rooivalk's office

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Magies maar ek kan nie meer wag nie!

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Glad you are happy so far

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Can anyone tell me what this levers is for in the Rooivalk? I guess it is to control the nose gun?

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Hi Jake
Those levers/control sticks are only present in the WSO's "cabin". It is used to control the FLIR/sight and to launch/fire the weapons.
While the pilot has some capability to control/fire some of the weapons it is mostly the WSO/Navigator that does the weapons control.

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Great thanks for the info!

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Just one more thing on those control sticks, Jakes!
Originally, the Rooivalk was suppose to be equipped, and able to fire, the ZT-3/ZT-35 (Ingwe) ATM. This missile is not a fire-and-forget missile. The missile has to be "flown" or controlled onto the target. The control sticks were used for this purpose.
I'm sure that these are used for much the same purpose in the current Rooivalk, although the Makopa/ZT6 missile does not require manual control after it has been launched. The sight still has to be controlled and missiles or weapons must be selected and fired. I know for a fact that the 20-mil cannon and the Makopa seeker can be "slaved" to the sight and target tracking can be manual or automatic. The sight can be "locked-on" to a target and the missile seeker or the cannon, slaved to the sight, will track that target as long as the target stays with-in the limitations of the selected weapon.

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