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Opening is still two months away, so plenty of time for the ads to gear up.
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The problem with that shows there was no trust between the seats. It's possible the pilot would have called for ejection in another few moments, or he could have steered it to a course over the water, or possibly it was recoverable. Investigation is not done yet to know, but to have the back seater just decide to pop out when something goes wrong is its own recipe for trouble. As was stated, the pilot was working the problem and was surprised by the ejection, with which the Gs involved could have caused him even more harm than was already suffered. But the main point is, the pilot was the one in command of the plane it was his decision to make. If the observer was not going to trust him with that decision, then he should never have been in that plane. I would not trust him to sit behind me. And listening to pilots discussing the event, I hereby correct my above statement, as it was hogwash. They were not just approaching minimum ejection, they were at it, with a plane that even if the engine would restart would still take to ten to twenty seconds to get back to making thrust again. This armchair pilot should remember not to talk with my mouth full of my foot!
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So the guy in that back seat, and I don't care about his experience and such, decides to take control out of the hands of the pilot... Yes, who knows if this was recoverable, the investigation is not done yet, but even it it wasn't I'm assuming the pilot would have/may have had an alternate land/crash site, rather than being just kicked right out of his own airplane. I'd say that pilot observer is gonna have a lot of explaining to do!
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Glad to see Driver is out there and getting some good roles. But does he have to look so old already?!
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The 'Hey look at this really cool model build I saw' post
Thom replied to Shawn's topic in Model kits
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Wow, @electric indigo the shadow and depth to that paint is really well done!
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Admittedly not a Gundam fan, but that is some really nice bashing. Well worth the time and effort.
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Just spend a night there, in a sleeping bag under the wing of a P-38 or B-25.
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Thanks! Looks like I missed the $16 deal, but dropping 'Robotech' from the search box brought up some nice ones.
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That is one beast of a ship. I'll be pulling up a bench to watch.
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The future will be a wonderful place!
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@derex3592 Sometimes you just have to test things out to see if they work. or not. Shame it didn't, but at least you are happy now with what you have.
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Nice shelves @derex3592 And I can barely see that F-5, what with the camo...
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Those bring back some Robotech memories...
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To be fair, that describes almost every trailer for every TV or movie out there. That being said, Chronicles of Star Dune sounds pretty exciting!
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Just finished watching the Rising. Very well done murder mystery where the ghost is trying to find her killer. Some great acting all around. I'd wish for a season two, but this kind of story is pretty much a 'one-n-dun.'
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Snyder rarely disappoints!
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It's from HK Models and it really just the nose of their full size just put in its own box. The price on line is from about 60 to 80 dollars, depending. I had to do some scratching (not of myself) to close up the wing roots, trying to make it look symbolic of an assembly line example, just waiting to be mated to the rest of the fuselage. As for the resin seats, those and the control yoke are from Resin2Detail, a Ukrainian company. They do some great stuff!
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Answered!! Cultman has the decals on preorder! https://www.culttvmanshop.com/PREORDER-USS-Enterprise-D-Aztec-DECALS-2023-reissue--11400-scale--Star-Trek-TNG--from-Round-2AMT--Price-TBA--PREORDER-RESERVATION_p_7487.html
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Thank you @derex3592! Good luck with the paints, hope they are good. Thank you @electric indigo! From here those crew look good! A little more update on the Lancaster Nose. I made some detail for behind the seat, clipping and moving some piping from a discarded section and making some hoses from lead wire, electrical wire, styrene rod and slices of metal pipe. Otherwise that area behind the pilot's seat would be pretty bare. I'll also be moving a fire extinguisher from the nose to here and making another to replace it up front. And I moved this panel from being mounted right beside the seat to the side. I had to cut and adjust it, as following the instructions would have it sitting far too high above the sill. Don't know if that was me or the kit, seeing how the pilot's platform it was supposed to be mounted on hasn't changed height. Oh well, I like it better attached there rather than worrying about trying to get it to sit right between the sill and the seat. Now I just need to get the control yoke ready and I can start painting! Thom
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That is the risk. When it's the pilots/owners of the planes choosing the take the risk, that's perfectly fine even with a bad outcome. It's when it impacts someone's home that it gets a lot diecier. Still, the thought of any of these old war birds being grounded is like seeing the last Vulcan allowed to do only taxi runs...
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He may think it's all magic and faeries.😉 And thankfully no one was hurt on the ground. The wreckage however did stop just short of an apartment complex.
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Thanks, checking that now!
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Necro post!!!!! Does anyone know where one could buy the DVD of 2202 without going over a hundred bucks!?
