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I went to the Andrews show in '04, it's actually not that bad if you do it right. We found that the best way to do it is to take the Metro in (I forget the stop now, I think it's the last on one the Green line). There's shuttlebusses that will take you to Andrews in about five minutes from there.

Thrustmaster HOTAS Cougar. My old F-22pro/TQS combo finally gave up the ghost so I figured it was time to upgrade. And speaking of doing a good VFA-103 re-paint, does anyone know what the Navair rules are for where you can put tailcodes on the horizontal stabs? I know you can't put them on the rudders but are there any other restrictions? I'd like to try and paint something that's as close as possible to something that could actually fly.

That reminds me. I got a new joystick and throttle combo, I should get to work on re-painting the Rhino available for FS2K4 in a proper Jolly Rogers scheme (one that doesn't have the vagabond stripe going through the LERX, and doesn't have the a tiny little jolly rogers squished up into the corner of the fin).

Short skirts are always good. This is a good one. Despite a simpler concept the artwork is much more complex. One things though Kristopf and Maria look oddly foreshortened in the last panel. Was that on purpose?

Well it is Fox after all...

I doubt you'd see many VF-4Gs in the UN Spacy outside VF-X squadrons. They always struck me as the equivelent of the VF-1X or the Lancer and Bison upgrades of the Mig-21. It's a way for poor independant colony worlds to have a decent VF complement without spending gobs of cash.

Having once lived not far from Phalanx I can say that I always thought Fox 5 was full of crap, and from the sound of it they still are. Tyndal is home of the Raptor Training wing, the squadrons there wouldn't deploy anywhere unless it was an extreme national emergency. The Raptors at Langly (specifically the 27th TFS) are the operation ones, they'd deploy to Iran or N. Korea if needed.

Everytime Max's eyebrows are behind his glasses they appear blue, however everything behind his glasses appears blue. I'm sure you aren't arguing that Max has giant blue patches behind his eyes. 397297[/snapback] so his 'black' eyebrows somehow lighten up and look blue behind the lense? now matter what kind of filter you put in front of it black would always look black, if black looks blue behind his magic glasses then why arent his pupils blue too? besides you can see the blue sticking out where his eyebrows comes out from behind the lense 397353[/snapback] Everytime his eyebrows aren't behind his glasses they're black, are they changing color?

Well that's the crux of it isn't it? What natural color does Max's pale blue hair represent? With one or two exceptions just about every character in Macross has a pretty good approximation of a natural color: Minmay occasionally has red, brown, navy blue, or purple highlights in her very obviously black hair, Roy occasionally has gold highlights in his blond hair, Claudia has almost orange highlights in her obviously brown hair. But Max's hair is pale friggin Blue! What the hell is that supposed to represent?

Looks more grey to me. Roy's hair isn't yellow though it's a pretty sandy color of tan, a pretty good aproximation of blond. It's one thing for an anime to have somwhat simplified the colors in the hgihlights of someone's hair (Minmay has several different color highlights in her black hair throughout her various appearances depending on the light conditions) but Max's isn't close to anyhting natural it's bright friggin blue!

Everytime Max's eyebrows are behind his glasses they appear blue, however everything behind his glasses appears blue. I'm sure you aren't arguing that Max has giant blue patches behind his eyes.

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Actually in the M3 image I posted I cropped out the image of Millia where she had Green eyebrows.

No.

And that's a perfectly good argument except for one thing: Mospeda isn't part of Macross. I'm not arguing that all characters in all anime who have unnatural hair colors must dye their hair. There are plenty of anime that do not use the wacky hair colors convention and with the exception of Max and aliens Macross seems to be one of them (across most of the franchise no less) which leads me to believe that the intent is that Max dyed his hair not that he was born that way.

Actually there's a good case to be made tha Max's hair is dyed. IIRC he's the only non-alien in all of the Macross franchises who doesn't have a naturally occuring hair color. It seems that in Macross' case the anime convention of people having weird hair color only extends to aliens, or alien-human hybrids (like Mylene).

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the F-15's system is more of a "stability assist" that smooths the ride out rather than a full blown FBW.

The Mig-29 was not unstable until the most recent variants as I said above. It's more that the Russians designed the Mig-29 as a replacement for the Mig-21 (which the F-16 was designed to counter). Mig felt it wasn't necesary to add FBW to counter the F-16's maneuverability, a naturally unstable aircraft with FBW definitely has advantages over a neutral or stable aircraft but it's not necessary to have an extremely maneuverable plane. IIRC early model F-16s had analogue FBW before switching over to a digital system. FBW has absolutely nothing to do with what gauges are on the dashboard, in most cases those aren't even controlled by the same computer. You can have a Digital FBW aircraft with nothing but old fashioned "steam" gauges or you can have a non FBW aircraft with a completely glass cockpit (for example the F-15E, A-10C, F-14D, AV-8B, or any number of modern Boeing jetliners).

Sorry I realized where you got confused I left out my key point which is that the Su-27 has been naturally unstable with Fly by Wire from the begining. It's always been FBW.

Size has nothing to do with it. The F-14 is roughly the same size as the Su-27 family but it's stable. Generally relaxed stability aircraft with FBW just have a center of gravity that's back behind the wing (ie you could balance the whole plane from a point just behind the wing), while naturally stable aircraft always position the CG smack dab between the middle of the wing. The original Mig-29 variants have their CG right between the wings, later models had extra fuel tanks and avionics mounted further aft to push it's CG back behind the wing to give them relaxed stability. The Su-27 was designed with an aft CG from the beginning.

Actually the Su-27 has been naturally unstable from the beginning. Early models relied on an analogue system while newer variants (like the Su-30 and Su-35) have a digital FBW. I think you're thinking of the Mig-29, which did not have FBW in the beginning but newer versions (like the Mig-29M and the Mig-35) do.

Given it's legendary status among fighter pilots I imagine that Roy drinks Jeremiah Weed. 100 Proof Whiskey seems Roy's style.

One of the backups kick in (most FBW systems are triple or even quadruply redundant).

Which F/A-18 is suppose to be the "Rhino"? Rhino has long been a nickname for the F-4 Phantom II. 396382[/snapback] The Super Hornet with it's big nose mounted IFF "horn" has been nicknamed Rhino to tell it apart from the baby Hornet.