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  1. David Hingtgen
    Angled tailfins are mainly for retaining control/stability at high-alpha-----a vertical fin will be operating in the wake of the fuselage at high-alpha, while ones canted outwards will get clean air.
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    Man it took me a while to identify that airliner. It's a DC-8-61, but the engines are wrong. Are they just mock-ups to replace the originals? (I first thought it was a DC-8 wing, but the more I looked, the more the engines looked wrong). Then I found it: http://www.airliners.net/photo/McDonnell-D...8-61/0890926/L/ But those are NOT DC-8 engines hanging off the wing!
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    Here's the latest on early 787 deliveries: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightbl...ke-most-of.html The short version: the first ones built are going to be overweight.
  4. David Hingtgen
    AFAIK, LCD image persistance will go away eventually. Burn in is permanent.
  5. David Hingtgen
    Hmmn. Based on how PG Gundam eyes etc are molded, they very well could mold the clear canopy and the black frames together as a single part. Now, the question is if they'll actually make them purple this time around...
  6. David Hingtgen
    ANA is the 787 launch customer. That particular one won't go to them though, they (along with most other airlines) have refused to accept any delivery from the first half-dozen built. (they won't be up to par)
  7. David Hingtgen
    Direct-download of THORA subs from anywhere seems nigh-impossible for the past few months. I found most of the eps up to 13, but 14 was taken down almost the moment it went up (my fave ep of course) and haven't been able to find it since.
  8. David Hingtgen
    First 787 in airline colors: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/asian-sk...ana-livery.html
  9. David Hingtgen
    Jeez. "Stealth bomber photographed breaking sound barrier" "A stealth bomber is frozen in time as it breaks the sound barrier during a test flight above the Californian desert" Bad enough for the headline to be wrong, even worse for the byline to repeat it!
  10. David Hingtgen
    VF-27? "Grace green" please.
  11. David Hingtgen
    Reprolabels just made stickers for MP Thundercracker! http://www.reprolabels.com/Binaltech/
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    I meant, looks the best of all *movie* Devastator toys.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Am I nuts, or, excluding his right arm---that looks the best of all Devastator toys? And it's got 7, not 6 components...
  15. David Hingtgen
    I read about the Borg upgrades too, in summary of the comic prequels. Borg weapons vs Constitution-era federation ships... (though in the theater, I just figured raw power of Romulan disruptors combined with the sheer size of the Narada gave it enough advantage)
  16. David Hingtgen
    Honestly I'm kind of surprised mine sold at my asking price a few months ago.
  17. David Hingtgen
    And Shockwave simply increased his badassitude.
  18. David Hingtgen
    http://www.holloman.af.mil/news/story_media.asp?id=123148046 Go pick your own wallpaper, many good ones.
  19. David Hingtgen
    A through G deck for bridge to engineering. 625 feet tall. Those are some really friggin TALL decks... (assuming the "belly of the ship" is like deck M or something) The Kelvin's interior was much better IMHO. PS--apparently all the Hot Wheels are like that, it's not a variant/error. There is no "A" version out there, despite the packaging.
  20. David Hingtgen
    VF-0D would need so many new parts it may as well count as all-new. (and I want one!)
  21. David Hingtgen
    Didn't they actually reduce the capability of most LED-backlit TVs this year? As in, no more local dimming?
  22. David Hingtgen
    I'm only 20 mins (or less) from "that Iowa town" and I can tell you that it's fairly simple: Kirk will be born there. "New Kirk" was raised there. (remember, Roddenberry himself approved it, even on-screen movie canon can't over-ride that IMHO) PS---as for Kirk being born in a ship---I figure it's the same as the babies that are born in airliners (especially if said airliner is over the ocean and not even in any particular nation's airspace)---wherever the parents say on the birth certificate.
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    That really doesn't seem to scale with details etc. Though it would explain how they have space inside for 4-story mostly-empty engineering spaces... (that was my main nit to pick--not how the engineering areas LOOKED, but how OPEN and EMPTY they were----no ship/plane ever built has room for empty, unused space all over--you just plain don't see high ceilings in a man-made vessel)
  24. David Hingtgen
    IAD's Sv-51 is so awesome, Shoji Kawamori has seen the footage of it flying, and it was briefly shown on TV in Japan as part of a Macross special.
  25. David Hingtgen
    While it may not have "meshed", the Kobayashi Maru scene was hilarious IMHO.
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