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    Okay, thats for clarifying about Haynes in the US - I wasn't sure if it was one of those British things like the Clangers or the words "West Ham" just being intrinsically funny that just baffle non-UK residents [1]. I knew that they still did car manuals but perhaps the fact that I hang out in bookshops more than car-accessory shops has skewed my perceptions a bit. [1] For "Harry Potter" fans who might recognise the name of this English footba - soccer team, it is probably not an accident that one of Harrys schoolmates supports them...
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    If you're in the UK and looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for the aviation-minded in your life, I noticed the other day that Haynes [1] have two new manuals out - one for the X-15, and the other for the F-117 Nighthawk (!). [1] Not sure how well known this brand is in the US - basically, they became famous for publishing books on how to take a car apart and then put it back together again, with a volume seemingly covering every British-available car in existence. As cars have relied more and more on sealed black boxes recently, they've branched out to cover a wide variety of subjects from tanks, aircraft and even the U.S.S. Enterprise... (Star Fleet incarnation). Please note that the publishers take no responsibility if by following their guidelines, you take your personal F-117 to bits and then find yourself with a FLIR leftover after reassembly...
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    One thing I forgot to mention about ZZ is the animation quality - its pretty good generally, which surprised me (despite having seen the series before). Also forgot that Haman went to the stylists after Zeta...
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    I think I'm getting old... "ZZ" was recently released in the UK (the first half so far, anyway) and I've been re-watching it... and you know what? Its not bad. Oh, as far as being a Universal Century "Gundam" show goes, its a disaster but... if you take it as a standalone parody mecha show that just happens to have some very suspiciously similar-looking "Gundam" characters in it (hey, look - I see what they did there, the captain of that ship looks almost exactly like Bright Noa, but it can't be Bright because hes chasing chickens! Genius!)... and a religious colony of neo-Luddites that live in a giant space station actually would fit right into any other Tomino show... Like I say, I must be getting old... I'm interested to see how I'm going to feel once the tone starts shifting back to "normal" in the second half...
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    Faith, Hope, Charity and Desperation? The A330 AWACs in an interesting idea...
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    'twas ever thus. France was one of the initial partners for what became the Typhoon, and left in a huff, and the Royal Navy was originally a partner for a pan-European warship design before leaving and developing the Type 45 on their own... the obvious answer to "European entities" is BAE Systems, though to the best of my knowledge they've never created a fighter aircraft entirely on their own before. (Or maybe... SAAB?).
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    Worth bearing in mind Germany already operates both the Tornado and the Typhoon - something that seems to be overlooked in this news is that just because Germany may favour the F-35 as a Tornado replacement, it doesn't mean that they might not also be interested in another future aircraft to compliment it, such as the proposed Airbus fighter. I'm not saying thats what they'll do, or that it would make sense operationally or financially, but as we all know the F-35 can't dogfight (at least according to the internet forums on which all military purchasing decisions are made... ) so the Germans might be interested in a 7th Gen 5D thrust vectoring hyper-agile mind-controlled Mach 4+ fighter to go alongside it...
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    Its not clear from that image, by the way, but the Doctor is now rockin' a couple of pretty distinctive earrings.
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    Colin Baker has probably just stuck his fist up in the air and gone "YES!".
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    "Dorvack" is one of the series, along with some little-known anime about giant aliens being defeated by transforming fighter planes and pop music, that "donated" mecha designs to "Transformers" - "Roadbuster" and "Whirl".
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    So heres an oddity... the Western versions of "Zeta Gundam" had to substitute the opening theme due to rights issues, so can anyone explain to me why (on the UK release, anyway) the "Prelude to ZZ" episode is able to include the theme in its entirety?
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    It really is a fun movie, though at times its tongue is so far in its cheek its in danger of choking itself, but thats really the only minor criticism I have.
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    Being very generous, it could be possible that its been removed "for maintenance" and theres a supporting crane or something thats blocked from view (there is an overhead gantry) but...
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    2nd Destroid from the left... anyone else notice that one of its arms appears to be floating? (if you look, theres no connecting joint between its shoulder and the arm).
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    For those of us on the other side of the Retro Gaming pond, there is now another attempt to revive the ZX Spectrum (and yes, its a Spectrum with a HDMI port!): https://www.specnext.com/
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    I see from the scans posted later that you're right but... good grief, I didn't think "worse than 'Cyberpirates'" was possible! (for the record, I have mixed feelings about "Robotech" - on the one hand, it did get me into giant robot anime through the RPGs).
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    It wasn't "The Cyberpirates", was it? It was published under Eternity, not Antarctic but even when back when I bought anything vaguely anime-ish I recognised the art in that as being fantastically bad. http://robotechvisions.wikia.com/wiki/Robotech_II:_The_Sentinels:_Cyberpirates
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    The details are very hazy for me now, but at one point Thrawn does execute a crewmember for something to do with the tractor beam problem - something about the tractor beam operators supervisor not instructing the operator that Lukes trick was a possibility.
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    I've got it! Considering recent debates about other newly introduced aircraft, the Su-57 will from now on be assigned the NATO codename "Flamewar".
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    For those of you trying to find a NATO codename for the SU-57 that hasn't been taken, heres a handy list - and, no, I didn't know "Firebird" was assigned to the Chinese J-10!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_reporting_names_for_fighter_aircraft
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    Probably won't be "Foxfire", IIRC that was the codename allocated to either the MiG-25 or MiG-31 radar. Although the Russians have their own names for their equipment (one of the best known is "Akula" - "Shark" - what NATO called the "Typhoon" class SSBN; ironically enough, NATO assigned "Akula" as the codename to a completely different class of Russian submarine) I remember reading that some Russians used the NATO codename "Fulcrum" to refer to MiG-29s. "Fenestrator"...? Edit: Oh, and "Flipper" was a codename assigned to a prototype Russian fighter from the 50s I think...
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    While thats widely reported, and was indeed tactical policy due to the Hurricanes lesser performance, in practice things were very rarely that neat and orderly. Most contemporary accounts seem to indicate that Spitfires or Hurricanes engaged whatever they found first (or were engaged by whomever found them first).
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    A Macross forum and no-ones mentioned Sharon Apple yet? (granted, there are... questions that may be raised over the authenticity of her work, but OTOH, most manufactured bands don't have a heavily armed alien battleship to fight their corner for them... ).
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    So... a F-35B then? [1] [1] Yes, I know the nozzle was actually designed in the US before the YaK-41 etc...!
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    Allegedly, the Russians are working on a new V/STOL fighter. It will be interesting to see if some of the comments applied to, ahem, a certain other attempt at the same thing recently will be applied to it... (assuming the project is real).
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