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  1. David Hingtgen
    That's why I specified. (specifically, the only one that counts)
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    You could get a woman like that if you drove a teal Grand Am: http://blog.seattlep...ntiac-grand-am/ (best craigslist ad ever?)
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    National? As in merged-with-Pan-Am-in-1979 National? Do tell. Anyways--interesting article/magazine on US carrier flightdeck ops/safety/notation: http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Documents/media/flight%20awareness/flightdeckawareness-5thEdition08.pdf
  4. David Hingtgen
    That report on Hasbro reminds me of Disney--they wanted to fire Johnny Depp from POTC very early on, thinking that audiences wouldn't "get" his portrayal of Capt Sparrow, and that the movie would flop because of him. It's amazing just how badly many corporate execs "just don't get it" when it comes to what people like/want.
  5. David Hingtgen
    Detroit's new terminal is very nice. (I'd never been to the old one to compare). For pure arrangement/"getting from one gate to another" regardless of how new it is/how good the restaurant choices are: Atlanta IMHO has the best layout, period. It's basically a very large multi-tiered "H" but boy does it work. Can get from anywhere to anywhere easily and quickly. I don't know why no other airport seems to copy it---it's been studied many times and declared the best IIRC, and I agree. O'Hare (and a bunch of other airports) is basically "Y's around a semi-circle" and the design sucks yet it seems everywhere copies it for no apparent reason. (Better than St Louis though, that is the epitome of long corridors that makes anywhere to anywhere a very long walk)
  6. David Hingtgen
    The Anti-UN has cooler stuff/tech though.
  7. David Hingtgen
    I don't really fly often enough to comment (ironic that I love airliners, yet rarely get to truly indulge in my hobby) but I will say: Air France seemed quite nice overall the one flight I had. TWA and NW consistently had the worst food. Northwest once hand-delivered our bags at baggage claim.
  8. David Hingtgen
    Airliners have Jeffries Tubes---you can crawl above the cabin, then down through the avionics bays, to get to the nosegear...
  9. David Hingtgen
    I still can't figure out Takara's coloring scheme reasoning for MP-11. (and future seekers). It's like they combined the worst aspects of animated and toy. Light blue fists and feet? Animation. Black squares representing hinges? An insanely pointless and ugly homage to the toy. I mean, couldn't they NOT paint on big fake black hinges* on the fuselage? I'm surprised they didn't paint the tires silver and a few fake screws on the arms, "just like the G1 toy". Some things should NOT be emulated, especially when they only exist due to limits of technology. (hey, they could add some black rubber tubing to a MP Shockwave or something, or maybe a big fake AA battery compartment and bulbs to MP Galvatron, when modern tech would allow tiny batteries and LED's) *weren't the big black hinges on the wings a common complaint of the "US scheme" MP-03? So they fixed that by making them match the grey wings now, but then added other ones on?
  10. David Hingtgen
    Sorry to say, but yes, "don't use putty for weight" is a known issue for models. Most putties intentionally dissolve styrene to some degree--it's how it "sticks" to the model.
  11. David Hingtgen
    A production F-23 would have had a smaller rear fuselage around the engines, due to not needing room for thrust reversers---so it would actually have weighed less there. (the YF-23 didn't have reversers either, but the change was late enough that the rear fuselage was still designed to have room for them)
  12. David Hingtgen
    A lot of the detail/sculpting seems to have been "softened" from the grey prototypes we saw earlier. Frankly, they look a lot cheaper than I expected.
  13. David Hingtgen
    A production F-23A would have had a separate Sidewinder bay right in front of the AMRAAM bay---though it would have been 1 bay that held 2 missiles, rather than the F-22's "1 missile per bay" setup.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Very empty AFAIK. I do wonder if production F119 engines would fit in the #1 plane. Much of the actual systems were repurposed stock McDonnell parts---F-15 cockpit, F-18 hydraulics/gear AFAIK. Wouldn't have been so for production of course, but worked well enough for a prototype.
  15. David Hingtgen
    The X-32 was just plain UGLY. That's different. Plus, an intake like that actually is a serious safety concern on a carrier---the A-7 was legendary as a "sailor sucker", the F-8 a bit less so. Plus you know, the X-32 couldn't actually really hover without removing structural parts of it to reduce weight first. Finally, an actual F-24 (or F-32 if you prefer) would have had a different tail and possibly even delta wing----VERY different from the X-35, as Boeing admitted the current basic design wouldn't satisfy the requirements. The changes from X-32 to production JSF would have made the YF-22 vs F-22A changes look trivial. (and would have both cost and delayed the program a lot---and look how long it's taking to get the closer-to-production X-35 into service!)
  16. David Hingtgen
    Seems the British govt had some just-delivered unassembled-in-factory-crates Spitfires buried underneath a Burmese airfield in 1945 to prevent them from falling into Japanese hands. And were then forgotten. And now found again. And the British govt is paying to dig them up and get them back----so there may soon be a lot more flyable Spitfires out there---or at the very least, one heck of a nice batch of spare parts for the existing ones. Makes you wonder if there isn't still an Fw190A in a crate somewhere in the Alps or something...
  17. David Hingtgen
    You mean, same ending as otherwise, with a 1.5 sec clip added on to the end if you choose "red" for your ending color-scheme.
  18. David Hingtgen
    Yup, would you expect anything less from the military-industrial-govt complex? The "look" of the Spruance-class destroyer was also highly controversial, compared to modern Soviet designs. (as in, the Spruance-class didn't LOOK very powerful, because most of the weapons/reloads were in the hull, whereas Soviet ships tended to have many single-shot non-reusable weapons all over the decks--so many people thought the Spruance class had vastly inferior firepower based on how it looked, and nearly got the thing cancelled, if not severely reduced in numbers---luckily it was pointed out in time that they were actually quite well-armed, you just couldn't see much of it) Imagine if the F-22 faced that---"I don't see very many missiles hanging off the wings, it's a waste of money!"
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    Plus, the fact that it just looked so cool/futuristic--there's way too many USAF generals that are "visually conservative"----it's amazing the SR-71 got approved. Many of them do not like "futuristic-looking" planes regardless of performance. The F-22 looks like an angular F-15--and they liked that, and gave it points for that. It's a primary reason no US fighter has canards, yet nearly all other highly-agile designs do.
  20. David Hingtgen
    Yes, but I didn't want to write an entire essay on it. Those were the most egregious.
  21. David Hingtgen
    The hand-feet seems a little too fan-boyish IMHO.
  22. David Hingtgen
    FlightGobal is about as reputable/informative as websites come--their blogs are better (and often more factual) than many paper magazine articles.
  23. David Hingtgen
    Should have done it in the 90's, with a Super Tomcat. VERY easy to explain to the audience Tim Taylor style---"it's Maverick's old plane, but with 40% MORE POWER"
  24. David Hingtgen
    Love it, but I gotta wonder about how it could "fly" in battroid mode---most valks have their main engines as foot-thrusters. This does not. Or is battroid for ground use only?
  25. David Hingtgen
    Eh, I like the uber-white plain look of Unicorn. Kind of goes with the whole "hidden" theme.
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