David Hingtgen

It's been a few months since I last mentioned how much I hate deer. They are without a doubt the dumbest creatures on the entire planet. I'm quite certain that the only reason they are not extinct due to their own stupidity and suicidal tendencies, is the fact that they breed like rabbits. I. HATE. DEER. We'll know more about the damage once we manage to get the hood open--the latch is wedged under the radiator upper mount. From looking through the big gaps, the air intake seems ok as are the diagonal braces---but I can see some of the air temp/coolant level sensors etc are disconnected. Seems to run fine so far though, amazingly. Air dam's totally messed up, and I suspect the entire front fascia is about 2 inches higher than it was. Plus the obvious radiator and headlight issues. PS--this is not my car, but a family member's---she wanted me to look at it. Still, it's yet another Pontiac I'm very familiar with (and have driven many times) hit by a suicidal deer in Iowa. I was planning on cleaning the engine bay for her next week, ironically.

My method for setting up head on attacks is simple: Turn the other way. If he breaks left, break right. If he goes high, go low. So long as you always go in the opposite direction, after 180 degrees of turning (assuming he continues the turn) you'll always end up head-on. To gain a few seconds/separation, accelerate during the first half of the turn, and brake during the latter half. I've still used the F-15C for most of times I've won. For the first forms, just keep a close eye on him---his mini-nukes leave a pretty distinctive trail, and he of course pulls off to avoid his own blast radius---watch for him to launch them, then go after him---he's very easy to hit the moment before they explode. Also keep watching after each "stage"--the radar won't lock on, and he's invincible for a few secs, but he'll be very vulnerable the moment the next "stage" starts---if you've kept on his tail all the while, you can unload the moment you're allowed.

I didn't even catch that---I knew something was pretty off about the canopy, but couldn't pin it down. (I did notice the extra frame near the rear, but I think that's more to make robot mode look like the cartoon model)

Whoops, never mind. Thanks, Shin.

"the power of Disney" LOL, I'm going to use that.

Knight26---you're not the only one to ask that question. The real question is why not SEA Flankers?

That will so utterly kill Sony. If that's the case, I will own like 10 PS3 titles in the next 5 years. And I'm not paying 600 bucks to play 2 games a year. I've played quite a few PS2 and XB games over the years, but the "permanent" collection is like 20 and 10, respectively.

AC2 had fuel, but you could spend the whole mission in afterburner and not be even close to running out. Speed: AC has always made the planes closer to each other, evened things out. Thus the F-15 isn't notably faster than most others, and the F-117 and A-10 aren't as slow as they should be. What the "speed" indicator really should be is "acceleration". Or "power to weight ratio". The F-117 and Harrier have approximately the same speed, but VERY different power ratios and acceleration characteristics. Same with the F-4 and Flanker. The YF-23 should out-accelerate ANYTHING, with a very high power ratio. If you really want, add altitude effects. The Tornado will easily outrun everything at low level, but really sucks up high. The F-4 won't be in its element until high up, but will match most anything when it is. Possibly: weapons load affects speed/handling. Thus, huge bonuses for internal carriage and small missiles, vs tons of high-drag bombs all over. No dogfighting with your F-15E when you're loaded for tank-plinking. Finally, almost-real planes I really want: F-111H. F-111B with the F-111F's engines and mods. Carrier based interceptor with Phoenix missile carriage. And DAMN fast. (outrun an F-15 under all conditions AFAIK, because the F-111F can) F8U-3N Crusader III. It's like the F-8, but with Sparrows. And potentially Mach 2.9----with a fixed intake. (2.4 for certain, 2.6 very likely, 2.9 was what they wanted)

Planes are unlocked by shooting down their aces, basically. The F-16C was among the very last plane I ever got, annoyingly. I think the F-16C rocked in this game--it had extremely typical and useful weapon options---AMRAAM, 2,000 pounder, and HARM. I usually buy the F-16 as soon as possible (as my first upgrade from the base plane).

The cartoon version switches around what model of truck Prime is. Mainly a season-by-season thing. Kind of like how Sideswipe sometimes looks a lot like a Countach, and sometimes looks more like Bluestreak...

Bayou Billy, from The Adventures of Bayou Billy.

I want a Fine Molds Star Destroyer. The AMT one is the only kit that has such poor fit that even when I was only 10 years old I realized it had huge gaps and ill-fitting parts when building it. Well, tried. I don't think I ever did get it together.

Semi OT, but basically EVERY Japanese manufacturing company built war equipment in WWII. But Mitsubishi was certainly #1, they built a lot more than just planes. (Notably the Yamato-class battleships) No different than here---Chrysler and GM built tanks, and some car companies even built B-25's.

For the love of God don't hang around ACIG.org. Trust me, it's like going to Robotech.com for Macross info. Tom Cooper may be fairly reputable, but the forums there are no better than Abovetopsecret.com etc.

GE and PW are two different companies. Though there are a few joint projects for large airliner engines recently. The TF30 is a PW engine. The GE engine for the F-14 is the F110, which is used on the F-14B and F-14D. And Iran's would have the exact same problems. Note that all the videos you see are the IMPROVED version of the TF30! Early ones were even worse--failed more often and with bigger booms. Feel sorry for VF-1, VF-2, and VF-124, who had to deal with the really early ones.

Unless of course you go Soldier/Knight/Mercenary like I did, with the Typhoon being among the last planes you get.

Which one of many F-14 exploding videos is it? Doesn't really matter, it's the same thing every time: The TF30 is one of the worst jet engines to ever enter service. Their compressors stall all the time, usually leading to blade bending, and subsequently blowing up the engine.

Pixy and PJ are still better by themselves than Edge, Chopper, Swordsman, and Archer combined.... Pixy has 1/10 my kills in some categories, as opposed to Edge (the best of Razgriz) who has like 1.5% of my kills.

In the end, Britain had(has) the best Tornado variants. Only the UK and Saudi Arabia even had the ADF version, and the IDS Gr.4 far surpasses the "almost how they were delivered" versions everyone else has.

Dobber--I don't see anything new in those threads from what was known a few weeks ago. We're looking for the new "airbrake and radar" pics Renato mentioned.

That was my point/question---if it was going to be for a Valk, coolant would likely be inappropriate. Also AFAIK, green-dyed coolant is only used in the smallest of piston powered planes, and non-military. You're much more likely to find it left clear or colored pink in larger props and military planes, I think.

Before I see the pics: I still say that's "swappable nozzles", not engine detail, based on previous pics... Anyone who knows F-15's knows the difference between feathered and unfeathered nozzles, and I think MP SS has feathered for robot mode and unfeathered for jet mode.

I still vote Rafale. The new carrier is being designed for both the UK and France, and so it will be designed with Rafale capability in mind. It's actually the UK version that's not finalized, as they don't know what plane to design it for! But with Rafale capability being inherent to the design...

Mine (and I think Skull Leader's) #1 site is down at the moment, no point posting a link that's dead at the moment. That site will beat any other site for accurate up-to-the-minute F-22 info, trust us. I will say F-16.net is about the best site period dedicated to a plane. F-15StrikeEagle.net and any F-14 site have nothing on the Viper's page. Strange that there's no Hornet page out there AFAIK.

How does Robotech even count? Shouldn't each third be considered separately? ;P Seriously--how are they counting Minmay's songs? Do they mean Macross songs? Because there's no way they thought Reba West is the "standard all future anime should be measured against".