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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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    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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