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    Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification.
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    "Dune"...?
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    Regards Knights26s comments, I find it a little unlikely that even the U.S. would sanction building ten different aircraft, regardless of how much they may have in common, to replace one or two types for each arm. I also have trouble imagining a single aircraft that is both for Close Air Support and Anti-submarine work... there may be other considerations as well from an international perspective; the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force for example would have been looking for a Harrier replacement, which is effectively what the F-35B is (in the UKs case, also a possible Tornado IDS successor) and I suspect many international customers would be in the same boat, looking for a single multi-role type (or at most, two) rather than multiple dedicated types. BAe did have plans for a "Super-Harrier" once, and I also have to wonder if the F-35 would be attracting as much ire if the navalised F-22 had gone ahead...
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    Some history on the F-35 programme which largely avoids the, ahem, "debate": http://www.airvectors.net/avf35.html It is interesting to consider that all three services at one point had their own development programmes going - considering the, er, comment the F-35 gets for not being the F-22/PAK-FA/J-20/F-15/F-16/P-51/T-65B what sort of remarks three separate aircraft would have gotten, all of which would have to have been at least as good as the F-22, and presumably just as... erm... "affordable"...
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    Damn it, Bandai, you promised. Still, if DVD is what we're gonna get, then DVD is what I'll take.
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    I'm glad that the one thing that doesn't seem to have changed over the years is that AnimEigo still stands for quality. I don't have an opinion on how they released the set, but I have one and the "middle episodes" "Moonlight Rambler" and "Red Eyes" almost look like they could have been made ten years ago (it obviously helps that these had a bit of an animation bump compared to previous episodes, but still... ) rather than nearly thirty. I'd sum it up by saying that what they did with this set isn't remastering, its remastery.
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    THERE IS NO JUSTICE. I met him twice, at booksignings, but then as the man himself used to joke, unsigned Terry Pratchett books are probably rarer than signed ones. Thank you, Sir Terry, for Captain Vimes, and Nanny Ogg, and the Librarian, and million-to-one chances happening nine-times-out-of-ten, and the fate of the Space Invaders, and offensive chocolate, and Dried Frog Pills, and worlds that were mirrors of worlds... and, of course, a certain anthropomorphic personification who, I suspect, has just put the kettle on especially...
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    I think it might be more accurate to say that planes don't have much luck on an Indy...
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    If I was feeling mischievous, I could point out that this obviously proves that the F-16 is not survivable...
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    To slightly modify some famous lines... "...of our friend, we can only say this: of all the souls we have encountered in our travels, his was the most... human." Also... "Beep. Beep. Beep."
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    F-16, AV-8B, Mirage III, Mirage 2000, Mirage F1, MiG-27, F-105, Hawk, Hunter, Su-17, Sea Harrier FRS1, 2, Harrier GR.3, 5, 7, 9, J-10, A4... they all have something in common with the F-35 oddly enough...
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    There have been a few cases where even though a new system has worked, other reasons have prevented it seeing widespread use. When they were testing "decoupled manoeuvres" (for example, travelling in one direction but having the aircrafts nose point off the actual line of travel) back in the late 90s, it was thought that although they had some potential combat value, the skill required to process and actually make the move might be beyond the average squadron pilot (as opposed to the test pilots engaged in the experiments). Additionally, improvements in missile technology also meant that close-in dogfights where such moves would be most advantageous may have been considered as less likely to occur.
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    Of course, with its greater situational awareness the F-35 might not hit the other guy in the first place...
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    No problems, I realise its a bit nit-picky but I just can't help myself sometimes!
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    Please, in the UK it wasn't "coastwatchers", it was the "Royal Observer Corps"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observer_Corps
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    Glad its not just me... Just to elaborate on "The Pilots Love Song", the main aircraft of the protagonists is a largely unarmed training/observation aircraft. The observer defends the aircraft with a bolt action rifle [1]. This is not entirely implausible, as thats pretty much how air combat started; even in World War II aircrews sometimes carried submachine guns with them in the cockpit to aid in their aircrafts defence (in the Fleet Air Arm, pilots of the mediocre Fairey Fulmar used to throw toilet rolls out to confuse enemy pilots!). Attempting to use such weapons against the types of opponent these planes face in the show is perhaps not entirely realistic though (I'm being a little vague to try and avoid spoilers). [1] To be fair, they do fire some remarkably powerful bullets...
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    Russia apparently is interested in the UKs Strategic Pasty Supply: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31530840
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    It doesn't feature real world aircraft (excepting a dive-bomber that is a Ju-87 Stuka), but "The Pilots Love Song" has some interesting air combat scenes which range from the reasonably plausible to the somewhat ridiculous. "Porco Rosso" also does not exactly reflect reality but there at least three real between-war (or at least, based on) aircraft in there, though one of them is rather obscure and seen only as a fleeting glance. You could mention how virtually every fantasy air combat anime ever made, especially ones featuring open-cockpit designs or floating battleships with massive deckspaces, almost entirely ignore the problem of decreased air temperature or oxygen levels with altitude. As far as air combat manoeuvres go, theres also the "Immelmann turn" in "Last Exile", which you could point out shouldn't be called an "Immelmann turn" in-universe as its named after a real world pilot. Then theres the case of how "Patlabor 2" may be the only movie ever where a major plot point revolves around not just a type of aircraft being identified but a specific variant... I'm trying to think of others but all I've got at the moment is aircraft "guest spots", like the Shinden in "Ah! My Goddess"...
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    Saw an article on UK news this evening about NATO operations shadowing Russian aircraft near the current Ukraine dispute. It was interesting to see Italian Typhoons flying alongside their allies, Polish MiG-29s...
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    Until I saw one in Canada I'd always assumed that "Hooters" was something created by Hollywood...
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    Ah, please ignore.
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    The Me262 is popular in anime - in Mazinger Z, its shown being used by the JASDF to fight Doctor Hells creations...!
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    I was going to point out that a Buccaneer doesn't have a built-in cannon, but then someone goes snatching rockets out of the air...
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    On reflection, I think I went a bit too far there, sorry if I offended any Boeing fans... its just every time I think "Boeing" and "fighter" the X-32 appears...
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    Carrie was recently a guest panelist on the British T.V. comedy quiz "Q.I.". They managed to go a whole ten minutes before mentioning "Star Wars" and then... lets just say, you really don't want to know where the Rebel Base is hidden...
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