From the developer of Thunder Over Vegas:

Thanks for checking - doing beta testing on Thunder over Vegas now, will be on sale in Jan.

Air Racing to follow, probably in late spring.

Happy holidays.

I have had direct contact with a developer of Thunder Over Vegas in the past (Patrick Hunt). I have sent him an email requesting the status of this sim.

Have any of the XSI developers ever played Jane's USAF with the Thunderbirds addon? It was far from perfect, but better than anything else I have ever played for learning aerobatics routines with both verbal coaching and red-lined hoops acting as flight path targets. Along the same lines, Xtreme Air...

Thunder Over Vegas probably uses the Xtreme Air Racing engine based on the screenshots (same developer/programming team). If so, the graphics will be less than spectacular compared to LOMAC, but the flight model may be interesting. I intend to buy it and find out for myself

...will follow a new student from their commissioning as a new 2nd Lieutenant, to the awarding of their pilot wings in a simulation with great role-playing, scoring, medals, and ranking systems. This simulation will use real Air Force training methods and allow the player to learn to fly the T-6 Te...

The Dell Dimesion 3000 does have 3 PCI slots, I don't know how many are occupied on your computer. PCI video cards have gotten fairly rare. The best of the PCI cards are typcially the same as the lowest budget AGP/PCIe cards. If you get one of the better ones, you will find they actually allow you t...

If you don't already know about it, the Thunderbirds printed a very good book with a fairly detailed history and plenty of great photos like the ones on the gallery. It is called "We Rode the Thunder" and is available here. Michael Jacobssen, the one who provided most of the F-4 pics at the High Gal...

These T birds beat those T-Birds, ;) Do your T-birds have every paint scheme worn by the F-16s including the correct crew name block and flag panel? My F-4 addon does as well as obvious changes such as the font used for the numbers and pilot pics of every pilot the at flew the F-4Es. I made sure to...