David Hingtgen

A real Gripen C mainly adds in-flight refuelling capability.

Chindenathus said what I was going to. Basically---a properly installed LED will last forever. My PS2's red LED has been going for years on end. But most cheap LED installations like in keychains and toys, have no resistor/circuitry----they'll work, but only 1/1000 as long as they should. That gives then tens, maybe hundreds of hours of operation, instead of the thousands or hundreds of thousands of hours they would if they had a proper resistor. Going resistor-less means you can do it cheaper, and in a smaller space. But it won't last long, and it especially doesn't like to be on for longer than a few seconds, as it'll REALLY burn out then with no resistor.

Big Boeing bombers have traditionally done well with having only a stub of the fin remaining---you can find very similar B-17 pics. Strange that the JAL 747 did so much worse, but I think it had its controls frozen as well, which doomed it.

Nothing's been done for many years, and there can't be THAT much demand for its services. There's not much the An-225 can do, that the An-124 can't. Anyways, I recently heard An-225 #2 is just a static test frame, and can't be made flyable. Pic of the day: Never let someone tell you turbulence is just an annoyance. It has ripped apart large jets in mid-air, and severely damaged even more.

For how "up to the minute" civil aviation usually is, this has been a surprisingly "rumor-filled" event. It actually seems it might have been fixed, before the first threads indicating it had been damaged showed up.

With the complexity of the transformations, I think Deluxe is too small for almost any movie character. Especially Bonecrusher----imagine him Leader-sized.

Wouldn't silver or gold paint have looked a lot nicer?

I wasn't complaining about the missiles, I was complaining about the launcher being integrated into the arm, and being oversized. Look at Classics Hot Rod. He doesn't have a gigantic Frankestein arm, he's fine. The launcher is his GUN, and it's not half as big as Cybertron Thundercracker's arm. Leave the gimmicks/weapons to the weapons, not the limbs. Targetmasters were a good gimmick, because the robots didn't suffer at all. They were even retrofitted to existing toys. But Armada---nearly every toy was gimped by having to incorporate gears and springs inside big boxes to make mechanisms work.

Seems the rumors are true, the An-225 is likely irrepably damaged in the UAE. World's largest plane for those who don't know. Nose gear collapsed while attempting to kneel while loading, and the forward fuselage basically bent down and crashed to the ground. There's a 2nd An-225 half-built, and I'm hoping they can salvage a lot of the 1st's parts to finish it. But the wings would be the main issue---they cost a lot, and the 2nd one doesn't have any---but it'd be almost impossible to get the off of the 1st, and then transport them. It's unlikely overall, there's just not enough money/point to do it. And using the 2nd one to repair the first is just as unlikely---the airport the accident happened at is considered too ill-equipped to be able to perform major repairs.

Survey for collectors from Hasbro----fill out the form, tell them what you think. http://www.hasbro.com/common/surveys/hasbr...ocollectors.htm I restricted my rant to "oversized firing missile gimmicks that ruin the sculpt of TF's". I used Cybertron Thundercracker as my example.

Anyone else get an AT-ST vibe from that drawing? Never thought of it before, but that particular drawing make me think of it.

Now that all the ground-pounding is out of this thread, here's my new wallpaper: http://airliners.net/open.file/1195977/L/ And a view from directly behind: http://airliners.net/open.file/1197864/L/ I don't know why, but a lot of the best pics of US planes come from Australia--maybe they just try harder to impress when they're down there or something.

Due to the way the forum works, it arranges posts by time, so they're all in order relative to themselves---but they're also "in front of" the first post in this thread. So everything after this should be in order, and I think I snagged all the relevant posts. Debate away!

I'm thinking I'll move all of the recent posts from the Aircraft thread here, so you can continue the conversation. Yay/nay?

Hmmmmn. A thread just about war----that might draw too many "political" people to "come out of the woodwork". You can try, but it'll be closely monitored.

That is the actual, final F-35 helmet and suit AFAIK. No HUD--it's projected onto the visor.

It diverts into "war" pretty often though. So long as it remains apolitical and civil, we usually let it go for a little while.

Seeing a chopper in the water is itself a rare and cool event, but to pick up a zodiac too? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXtaGPUFPr8

F-35 suit is basically just the "next-gen" G-suit---might have a few special connections for the helmet, etc.

F-35 helmet: Of course, I'm much more fond of the redhead in the F-35 suit.

Trust me, we spend a lot of time hunting down spammers. I check the new member registrations almost every night to try to get them before they post. But I can't delete every member I "suspect" is just a new spammer, because there's too much risk of deleting an actual Macross fan that just joined. (Though IMHO, I've never been wrong---every one I was suspicious of but "let go" ended up spamming I think)

The PG version of 300:

The first TMNT is among the best NES games ever IMHO. Never beat it, just came very close. 2nd one was easy, 3rd one was boring.

I'd buy Paper Mario in a second---if I'd ever seen a Wii in my life.

http://www.fighterchicks.com/Callsigns.htm Callsigns are given, not picked. And usually as embarassing as possible.