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    This isn't quite the right date, but seeing as theres a centenary flypast in London shortly... Happy 100th Birthday, the Royal Air Force! Per ardua ad astra.
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    I loved "Battle of the Planets" as a kid, and even then knew there was something different about it compared to the other "cartoons" I would watch (and, er, also that Jupiter doesn't have an atmosphere that you can race horses in but never mind... ) The reveal that Zoltar might actually be a woman [1] blew my tiny mind at the time. It was the start of a long road that led eventually to several wonderful adventures in Japan, but thats another story... I think what I love about Gatchaman is Galactor, especially the first incarnation from the original series - they're the Evil Anime Organisations Evil Anime Organisation of choice. I was also impressed, watching the original Japanese incarnation with the character of Jun - yes, that skirt - but shes also usually the more considered, intelligent one compared to Ken and Joes go-to solution of "MOAR MISSILES!". [1] Was a long time later before I found out the "truth"...!
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    IIRC, the English Electric Lightning could mount unguided rocket pods above the wings.
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    Of course, what we really want to know is... will there be singing?
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    So it looks "The Dirty Dozen"... but in SPACE - I mean, AIR!...?
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    Good grief, is Russia in response patenting some sort of disposable rocket interceptor that fires one salvo of rockets at the incoming B-17... I mean, B-1 formation and which then rams its target whilst the pilot parachute... I mean, ejects?
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    Minor bit of F-35 news, the first nine F-35s for the UK are due to arrive here in mid-July.
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    Attack on Veritech?
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    This will probably mean more on my side of the pond, but former Sinclair industrial designer Rick Dickinson has died. He designed the case for the classic, rubber-keyed ZX Spectrum home computer (for the UK, the NES of its day). The Spectrum was the right computer at the right time at the right price, but its Dikcinsons design that made it an icon here.
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    I don't know why they don't just flat out state that what they basically want is a FFR-41MR Mave "Yukikaze"...
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    Good grief, that looks like someone had some "Ring Raiders" toys as a kid...!
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    British Airways, and I flew out from Airstrip One... sorry, I mean, Heathrow Terminal 5.
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    Hi-Metal R

    F-ZeroOne replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Okay, thanks for the replies about the wing issues!
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    Hi-Metal R

    F-ZeroOne replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    Hi, apologies if this has been asked before but I''ve just picked up a VF-1J Max and Millia pair and I've had trouble getting the wings to stay inserted on their mounting points; is this a known issue with these toys or do I need to try inserting the wing a bit more firmly?
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    I've just got back from one of my trips to Japan and was rather interested to see that the airliner I got back was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which felt rather new. I was in economy, but one impression I got was there seemed to be more vertical "space" overhead than I've felt before in other airliners. Mind you, this might be just because the plane I flew out on was so old I think it still had Frank Whittles signature inscribed on the engines...
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    At this stage, its almost obligatory for a British person of a certain age to use the following quote: "GET OUT!" [1] [1] A reference to the TV show "Spaced", where "Hawk the Slayer" featured as a minor plot point. The series is perhaps best known for if not making Simon Pegg famous, at least pointing him out as someone to watch in future.
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    Well, an entirely domestically developed F-3 is. Sounds like they're going to reach out to US firms for possible co-development. Not strictly aircraft related, but the wreck of the USS Lexington has been found: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-43296489 Not completely certain, but does on of those images show the infamous 1.1 inch AA gun?
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    Reportedly, Russia has deployed up to four Su-57s to Syria. Why is a bit of an open question, as by most accounts they're some way from being operational and its possible they might give away more to interested parties than they take from the experience...
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    I did indeed mean a space combat game. I'm aware of "Battlefront II" and the starfighter combat is quite good fun (if only I could stop ramming asteroids) but it'd be nice to have the kind of truly epic space dogfights and batsh*t crazy story "Ace Combat" is known for... "Sir! Its the Rebel Fleet! And... and... " "And what Lieutenant?!" "They... appear to be singing, sir!".
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    That or "Star Wars"...
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    Heh, I learned about that one quite early - when war comics were still a thing in the UK there was a story one of them ran occasionally about a two-seat Harrier with an A.I. fitted (Harrikaze?) and in one the pilots encountered some Tornado pilots who were quite sniffy about their aircraft; the Harrier retaliated by bringing up the "Blue Circle" [1] story! [1] For those unfamiliar with this part of the Tornado ADVs development woes, there were major issues with the planned Foxhunter radar, which couldn't be installed in the early models; a ballast weight was installed in the nose instead, which was partly made of concrete - the term "Blue Circle" comes from a popular cement product of that time.
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    I vaguely recall reading that one of the possible issues with the F-15 for what the RAF intended to use it for was that it was a little short on endurance (and bearing in mind the RAF tanker fleet wouldn't have been as large as the USAFs). Not sure how true that is, but it may have been one factor,along with the usual politics and the always seductive and often fatal kiss of "commonality"...
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    Wot, no Fairey Battle? I recently read a neat story about the Beverley; a RAF aircrew were on approach and monitoring the radio behind a USAF jet that was itself queuing behind one; air traffic control advised the USAF pilot that he would be next to go in after the Beverley had landed and the RAF crew overheard the pilots reply: "I don't know what a Beverley is, but theres a goshdurn [1] combine harvester in front of me!". The Roc gets a lot of stick but then it was probably never intended to go mano-a-mano with Me109s; it was a Fleet Air Arm aircraft and its intended use was probably to intercept and shoot down lone enemy "shadowers" operating hundreds of miles away from land-based air cover; it was never envisaged that the Luftwaffe would wind up living practically next door (we'll leave aside the fact that most of those shadowers could probably have outrun it anyway... ). The Tornado F2/3 also gets beaten up a lot for not being a F-16, but the it was never intended to be; its job was to shoot down the Soviet bomber hordes, again hundreds of miles out between Scotland and Norway... its interesting to consider what people would now be saying about the F-16 if it had never been revised from the original design intention of a day-only "dogfighter" armed only with two short range missiles and a cannon... [1] The original story uses an alternative for "goshdurn" here.
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    Sad to say both crewmembers in the GSDF AH-64 crash are now confirmed to have died. Its also being reported that the AH-64 had its main rotorhead replaced a couple of days before the incident.
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    Its possibly a hangover from the days when artbooks would be printed showing the inner "workings" of the early giant robots like Mazinger Z...
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