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    Ah, wait until Northrop unveil their entry to the "sixth-gen fighter" competition; with their track record it will be the coolest looking fighter ever. And then it will lose to whatever fake-plastic-dog-t**d-with-wings-stuck on that Boeing comes up with.
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    For a minute I did think you meant the A400M, which I've seen "in person" and thought was quite cool.
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    Military acquisitions seem to be one of those cases where there never is any good news until the damn thing is actually in service. Look at the C-17, which went through much the same. Or the V-22. Or the Eurofighter Typhoon. Or the most recent one I'm deliberately not going to mention, just for variety's sake...
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    According to Wikipedia, there seem to have been at least a dozen delivered to various air forces but its unclear if that also means "in service".
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    Ah, now you've said it, yes, the rudder is a giveaway... I didn't think the wings were right for a Spitfire... A relative reports that they may have seen an A400M at my local airport today. Apparently the regional airline has a maintenance contract with the RAF!
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    Note to pilot: I don't care how you land at Sandy Shores, thats not how you do it in real life! Is that a Spitfire, late-model? Its a bit hard to tell from the image quality...
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    Hitler and the 80s seems to be popular at the moment (following video may be mildly NSFW):
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    There was another installment in this series today, in which James May assigns the greatest military hero of the 70s British toybox, Private A(ction) Man [1] his most dangerous mission yet - to boldly go where no plastic army man has gone before and break the sound barrier... but Mays team of (actual) rocket scientists find themselves facing a rival challenger, an unlikely British toy female pioneer of supersonic flight... [1] I believe in the U.S, his friends call him "Joe".
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    My Gundam lore has been gathered from various sources over the years, and in at least one of them I've seen it rendered "Zakurello". In the days before Gundam was available in the West on DVD, I saw "Zeon" rendered "Zion", "Gion", and "Jion". None of these may be official but unfortunately they've tended to stick in my brain and they sometimes escape...
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    Hey! Someone remembered the Zakurello was an actual thing that existed!
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    Of course, some missiles have a self-destruct system that safely destroys the projectile if it travels too far without hitting anything...
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    Music video that may be of interest - no, its not "Danger Zone!". See if you can spot the Hurricanes...
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    Not only that, but had it been finished it would have had thousands of tiny, distributed exhaust ports two small for a proton torpedo to get down. Not that it should worked on the first one either - according to some sources, a proton torpedo had a maximum range of a couple of kilometres. Now match that against the 160km or so diameter of the first Death Star... (this is what happens when RPG mechanics become semi-canon... )
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    I once had a work colleague who was called Lorien. Apparently his father was a big "Lord of the Rings" fan. The UK T.V. personality Jonathan Ross allegedly wanted to name his son "Galactus", but his wife put her foot down...
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    Once you get far enough away from Earth, I think the public at large would then consider it "safe" - any closer to the planet thats theres a risk of re-entry, and y'know... it'd be like a "Futurama" episode...
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    I think possibly two different things are being thought of here? One is a nuclear rocket thats turned on once the craft has entered orbit, the other is a nuclear rocket thats turned on when its leaving the ground (which would be different to say, a space probe using a nuclear power source for power). NASA experimented with the latter during the 60s, and theres been at least two fictional sources I know of that have considered the implications should a malfunction occur using one (Stephen Baxters "Voyage" and the graphic novel "Ministry of Space" - both set in alternate universes involving Mars mission attempts). One potential issue is that you'd need to test the rocket somehow in any case - and early tests are usually ground-based...
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    If it had "Lucasfilm" or "Bad Robot" at the start its almost certainly not an official trailer.
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    Not exactly the same, but there was a news story in the UK press a few years back about how Pepsi paid for a Concorde to be painted Pepsi blue and it backfired because the new scheme meant that Concorde couldn't fly at Mach 2 because the paint messed up its ability to handle the kinetic heating. Not sure how much truth there was to that, the UK press are typically exceptionally poor at accurate aviation stories (did you know the A-10 Thunderbolt II has a 30inch gatling cannon?).
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    Wouldn't that have had the same issue, though? I recall reading somewhere that one reason the -22 was picked over the -23 is that the YF-23s avionics were more "off-the-shelf" (as it was a prototype) whereas the YF-22s were more representative of a production example. Not sure how accurate that is though...
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    Probably inspired by methods used to train birds to fly alongside microlights and the like so that documentary makers can get really close-up shots. Took me a second viewing of the trailer to realise something like that was going on and that one of Star Lords special skills isn't "invisibility to dinosaurs"...
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    Just a historical note about the T-4 - theres a famous story, possibly more of a legend, that Stalin mandated that it had to be an exact copy - to the extent that the airframe included copies of holes that had been drilled by mistake in the original...
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    I only found out very recently. I guess he maybe is one of those people who keeps cropping up in the culture you're interested in to the point where it almost becomes scary (Hideki Anno may just be the ultimate example of this; the more I got into anime, the more I found him metaphorically leaning against the window, misting it with his breath... ).
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    Technically, a gyrfalcon is a raptor...
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    I don't know the details, but I've been hearing that the harpoons firing mechanism involves... guncotton...!
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    In the UK at least, this was the lead item on at least two of the main news programmes.
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