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Have you done a dive test to adjust the center of gravity? That may lessen stalls and make a happier plane to fly. From a crusing speed and altitude, throttle back to idle and nose down to 45 degrees, then center your stick. If it dives steeper, move the CG forward. If it pulls up, move the CG back. Works for model airplanes, even though it sounds counter-intuitive. Can you make larger tail and canard surfaces, which are invisible outside the current configuration? All supersonic a/c need big tails to poke out of the shockwave, that's one reason the Bell X-1 was nearly unflyable near and above mach speed. Also there's not a lot of rudder area under the plane to keep it straight at high alpha. Really, you don't want to bring a hard-to-fly a/c into combat. What with people shooting at you, trying to miss the ground and complete the mission you don't have the attention to spare for a misbehaving piece of junk. Any plane that behaved as badly as the '19 reportedly has (in Mac+) would have been scrapped long before Dyson showed up. Convenient plot element I say, the unflyable superplane meets the lovable rogue pilot!

How about some Yukikaze Girls? Taking forever to get the 5th episode of Yukikaze done, but they had time to finish this dojinshi anime! Some images and a trailer here- http://www.bandaivisual.co.jp/dbeat/mave/top2.html The "Mave-Chan" featurette will be released in the USA along with the last 3 episodes of the series this year in a 2 disc set, according to Bandai's panel at a con.

A geeky-looking Macross Plus otaku walks into a con suite and orders a root beer float. Noticing three others at the cash bar, he says "Hey! Wanna hear a Robotech joke?" The first man at the bar, 6 feet tall and hulking, sets down his beer and says "I want you to know I'm a big Robotech fan and don't like people making fun of the greatest cartoon ever," then motions to his 6'2" companion. "And he's a bigger fan and even more short tempered," then to his next 6'4" friend, "and he's just plain onery when someone's making fun of Robotech. Still wanna tell that joke?" The Macross Plus otaku says, "Nah, better not." "Yer chicken!" "Nope, I just don't want to have to explain it three times."

When Isamu Dyson, pilot for UN-Spacy got injured in Plus, was he brought to a UN-Healthy hospital? It's a pun, son.

Thanks Azrael! 1/24 VF-11 plans drawn and ready to start lofting this weekend!!

How does the canopy hinge on a T-Bolt?? Rear or front, does it split at the re-enforcing frame? If you have a screenshot or illo you can post, please help a scratchbuilder out! In Macross Plus the VF-11 crash scene shows Dyson's T-Bolt canopy falling off, in doing so the scene seems to show a rear hinged, one piece canopy. Is that accurate?