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Unlikely, but not impossible. When they designed the F4H-1/F-4 Phantom II back in the fifties, I'm sure they said the samething. Hell, they designed it without an internal gun! Boy were they wrong a few years later in Vietnam! Lo-viz isn't just for the fighter roles, but for the attack roles aswell. As the Blue Angel narration says, "Now that Blue Angels five and six has got your attention, you have witnessed the ability of a small aircraft to enter a target area virtually UNDETECTED." Sure it's nice blue paint and going real fast, but imagine that in lo-viz? It will be too late before you notice. Yes, it would be nice to be nice to see those gray and white Navy birds once again, but tactical reasons will make that unlikely.

Negative, the movie you are referring to is 1980's "The Final Countdown" where the Nimitz traveled back to December 1941. VF-84 was featured in the movie. VF-41 was shown briefly too. See above. Also "Top Gun" was 1986.

You gotta be kidding me! Don't tell me this is another Political Correctness issue like it was for the Playboy bunny being painted on VX-4 F-14s and one of the Marine VMAQ squadrons .

So who's going to be the east coast FRS for the Super Bug? No ne? Will VFA-122 be handling all Super Bug quals?

Thanks, I forgot all about that. I don't remember them on the CV/CVN scenes though. I do however remember the Miramar flight scenes now that you've refreshed my memory. It was right before Maverick crashed his F-14. I can guess the Black Lion "formula." The first exterior scene of Mav and Goose's F-14 shows a modex (nose) number of "203." The Black Lions at the time were the 200 series for CVW-11 off the Enterprise and the styling (font) of number is consistent with the VF-213 A/C of the time (mid-80's). you figured me out.... and as "Cougar" was ghostrider "one one seven", he would've had to have been a part of the "fighting aardvarks" Another trivia, for most of the Miramar and Fallon scenes, the A/C were from VF-51 and VF-111 of CVW-15.

Thanks, I forgot all about that. I don't remember them on the CV/CVN scenes though. I do however remember the Miramar flight scenes now that you've refreshed my memory. It was right before Maverick crashed his F-14. I can guess the Black Lion "formula." The first exterior scene of Mav and Goose's F-14 shows a modex (nose) number of "203." The Black Lions at the time were the 200 series for CVW-11 off the Enterprise and the styling (font) of number is consistent with the VF-213 A/C of the time (mid-80's).

Good point. Hell, Supes has been in live action far too many times. I like Supes, but some other hero needs to take a shot in the (live action) spotlight that hasn't been re-done to death.

Since that page didn't seem to have what "V" stood for, I'll post it here. "V" became the Navy/USMC designation for fixed wing aircraft. (They couldn't use "F" or "FW" because it would probably cause confusion, especially since "F" was already taken!) The other letters (again from the site) designated what type of A/C (i.e. F = Fighter, A = Attack). Very true. Just FYI, the real VF-1 wasn't featured in "Top Gun." At least not its insignia. The insignia in the movie was from a propeller driven E-2 Hawkeye squadron! Unfortunately, the real VF-1 Wolfpack flew into the sunset eleven years ago during the Drawdown of the nineties.

(In regards to the Tomcat and Intruder. . .) Great pics of GRUMMAN birds at a BOEING site!

Thanks for posting the pic! I remember the Mospeada (and for that matter, all the anime toys) sold here stateside had all firing mechanisms removed from the weapons at the time (mid 80's. I guess toy companies were still in the wake of the Battlestar Galactica Viper toy that killed a four-year-old when he fired a projectile into his mouth a few years back) whether they were in a "Robotech" box or original Japanese line box. I had that Mospeada 21 Bike. Me and my brother took apart some of the weapons and saw space for a spring and other related firing mechanism components. I think the projectiles were glued permaneantly in their "chambers" if I remember correctly.

Looks like Anne Marie Martin (or Eddie Benton as she was known until 1981) still looks good!

I loved that show!

Hasegawa rocks!

I'm bummed now! I love his movie themes (my personal fave is Star Trek: First Contact) He will be sorely missed.

So can I drive it to twork everyday?

Sweet! I wish I owned it!

AAAAAA************!!!!!! You got me drooling on this one! 1/350 scale? Big for a starship? Anyways that'll go well with my Tamiya (contemporary days) Enterprise.

That's why the timeline has been distorted, because all of the Enterprises keep traveling in time! Otherwise the tech in the new show wouldn't seem so advanced than Kirk's crew and the Klingons wouldn't have the turtle shell foreheads! Yeah, the new Star Trek show, bombs. I tried to get into the action of the last season from the season premeire, but I drifted away. I'm a big Trek fan, but I'll admit, it's running its course now.

Thank you, I was going to ask whether in the original series and DYRL if they use Naval ranks or Marine Corps/Army/Air Force ranks. The DYRL DVD that I possess, the ones doing the subtitling in English use Naval ranks. Maybe they [subtitlers] were going off this chart: And assumed that since they're on a ship, it was the Naval side of ranks.

What is that resin or plastic? (I ask if it's resin because that's the usual color of most resin kits I've seen.) Looks nice, too.

Hey, that's not politically correct! Whatever! In the nineties, that USN squadron and one USMC squadron (F/A-18) had to drop the playboy bunny because of PC (BOOOOOO!) especially after 1991. I think Vandy A/C has just recently started painting the playboy bunny on her tomcats again .

I seriously need to get back into the hobby!

Damn! Really breathtaking model! I haven't built a model in six years and seeing these new Macross releases (new to me anyways!) makes me want to get back into the hobby!

No problem!

Thanks. I don't mind 1/72. It's just that for years, all I've been seeing is 1/72 Valkyries by Arii, Bandai and (with of course the same molds as the previous two) Revell. I built them when I was young. I only heard of the great Hasegawa kits last year. I like the idea of building the Valk's with the flaps deployed too. One of these days. . . I bet that resin 1/48 Valk must cost an arm and a leg!