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  1. David Hingtgen
    First actual launch of a Super Hornet using electromagnetic catapult: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLsg_viWW0 2 mins in for the launch itself.
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    I can't help but think the Bandai thought process went along the lines of "Please Mr Kawamori, we need an excuse to re-do the VF-25 toy withOUT admitting we did a bad job---so could you make a new valk for the movie, but like the VF-25 so we can re-use some parts, but still a little different--especially the legs/nacelles, where we really screwed up?" And thus, the YF-29, Bandai's canon excuse to re-do the VF-25, yet not re-do the VF-25...
  3. David Hingtgen
    Kind of going for a Valkyria Chronicles look...
  4. David Hingtgen
    I believe I heard that for ME1, too. None of those DLC's added anything...
  5. David Hingtgen
    Yup. Amazon had "found a cache" or something, and I got the gunmetal version w/MGS4 for less than the standard PS3 cost at the time. (and 60GB early ones were going for like 500-600 then, I think that was their peak).
  6. David Hingtgen
    Mine's gunmetal.
  7. David Hingtgen
    Only 10 more eps? At that rate, Chloe will still only be like 10% transformed. "Yeah, sorry, we wasted her entire character for a season just to show/do nothing..."
  8. David Hingtgen
    Oh yeah---that is one amazingly persistent/gutsy security guard Encom has.
  9. David Hingtgen
    Did we somehow all miss this? http://www.masseffectsaves.com/MESS/ME2ColoringBook.pdf So many references/in-jokes.
  10. David Hingtgen
    PS---if you ever buy one, the cannon fodder SV-51 is the SV-51α.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Yeah, I wondered about that too. Digital fire, glowing drinks--yet real pig?
  12. David Hingtgen
    Saw in 2D. Good, not great. I think part of the problem is that there's just no way to "wow" people now with a digital world. The Matrix already explored a similar aspect, and half of all SciFi movies have a "cyberspace" scene inside the computer etc. As a big fan of Reboot, I was of course drawing constant parallels---users, games, programs. Anyways--I didn't like Zeus at all. Seemed very out of place, and a waste of 20 mins IMHO. Finally---Kevin Flynn's dialogue is supposed to be lame/old/hippie. He's stuck in the 80's, and he was still stuck in the 70's back then... I personally liked it. Or, just imagine he's channeling "The Dude". PS---no after-credit sequence. The obvious one they could have done, I think is going to be expanded into "TR3N" or something. On a related note, where's my figure? The lack of that in the movie itself too, is a disappointment.
  13. David Hingtgen
    A nit-pick, but it's SV-51γ, not SV-51Y. (as in, gamma)
  14. David Hingtgen
    If you want a really good Rafale, you need 1/48. http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/kits/rm/kit_rg_4517.shtml Hmmn, the one electric indigo posted might be the Hobby Boss kit. That's actually an overall better kit, but it's really more like 1/80 scale.
  15. David Hingtgen
    Space shuttle wallpaper. Big enough to cut/trim/resize to any size you may need. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-132/hires/iss023e044629.jpg (a 90-degree rotation helps a lot) And--nobody's ever gone sledding in this fun of a manner:
  16. David Hingtgen
    I would imagine it's almost certainly this kit: http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/mod/italeri/036preview.htm
  17. David Hingtgen
    If they're cheap, I buy figures just for parts. Revoltech/Figmas are usually too expensive to do so though--every fig I want for parts, is fairly desirable to other people inherently. (I would love to have most anything from a Bunny Haruhi) (also, there's like 4 different scales for Revoltech, so a lot of times swapping won't work).
  18. David Hingtgen
    The F/A.2's radar is newer than the APG-65, the newer version of it is the Typhoon's radar. Also, I feel the Sea Harrier is an inherently more agile version of the airframe. When it was first installed, the F/A.2's radar would have been one of the best AMRAAM-capable radars out there IIRC, surpassing most F-15/16/18's in service then. The Sea Harrier (all versions) has A2A as a primary role, Harrier II's do not.
  19. David Hingtgen
    2 new members with this thread as their first post. That's not suspicious at all...
  20. David Hingtgen
    Best A2A Harrier was the F/A.2 version of the Sea Harrier. For the Marines, I'd definitely go with the F/A-18D.
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    Basically. I remember looking at the Neo-Geo box many times at Software Etc and Babbage's.
  22. David Hingtgen
    The IRST is a non-issue, as the PAK-FA obviously uses Plasma Stealthâ„¢. End of the British Harrier:
  23. David Hingtgen
    Then it's a bad design. Valks shouldn't NEED armor to look decent. The VF-25 certainly stands alone. (the DX version, is another matter).
  24. David Hingtgen
    Actually, having forward-swept wings means your wings should be mounted further back, as center of lift should be aft of center of gravity*. Look at the X-29. *Unstable planes, by definition, do not follow this rule. However, extreme instability would require so much correction that I believe it's "aerodynamically inefficient"---I know of no unstable plane that is highly unstable. They're all "barely" unstable. The F-16 I know actually had an alternate wing-mounting location built-in to the design--if they couldn't get the unstable version to work aerodynamcally or FBW-wise, they would simply move the wings a few inches and make it stable. The main point was that it's a matter of inches.
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    If you do that, all you've got a VF-25 with the wings on backwards.
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