Sildani
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I think it's AgentONE who has the Alfa 4C. By the way, I've got my eye on a 99 Jeep Cherokee with 204K miles on it. One owner, who really took care of it. Anything I should look out for when I look it over?
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Interesting stuff. I still don't know why the USAF doesn't do one of the best things Brown advocated: replace the wing spars with composites. The greater strength should allow for the deletion of the outrigger landing gears. Then, my other suggestion would be to replace those eight old turbofans with four newer ones, perhaps off the shelf from airliners. They'd be more efficient, reduce maintenance, and possibly lighten the wing further. As for the Megafortress... yeah. It was also given a butterfly tail as I recall, a pointy, Concorde-ish nose and a Stinger missile launcher in the tail. Still, the idea is there...
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I still don't have a 171, so I'd get one.
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The head on 03 is kinda reminiscent of the YF-25 Prophecy. As for the random, I wonder if it folds down to form fins that hang underneath the fuselage, like the huge fins underneath the RVFs we've seen. The difference would be that 03's fins are arranged horizontally rather than vertically.
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Dunno. I've been in a few BMWs and none of them feel particularly well made, or crafted of luxurious, long-lasting materials. They drive wonderfully well, and their inline sixes are legendary, but overall I'm not too impressed.
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Which might explain the four-bladed prop on the Würger.
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Watched a show and did some research on that a while back. Boeing was having a bear of a time just building the two 32 prototypes because of a lack of experience with large sheets of composites and carbon fiber. The upper fuselage and upper wing skins were basically built as one piece, and that led to massive problems with applying and curing sheet after sheet of material - bubbles, extreme slow cure times, and so on. Then, when it came time to do the flight tests, it did pretty well. However, when the V/STOVL tests were done, it was found the gaping air intake allowed too much hot exhaust to re-enter the engine, which sapped power. Boeing couldn't redesign it, so they saved weight by removing the hinged intake, the streamlined exhaust nozzle covers, and even the landing gear doors. So lightened, it could stagger into the air, vertically. The 35 could just go. Finally, Boeing said that if the 32 was chosen, the production model would be substantially redesigned. The new 32 would ditch the delta wing in favor of swept wings of remarkable chord, in part to simplify production, and would have a conventional empennage. With all those problems, I think we'd be in much the same boat. Besides, I think I remember reading somewhere that most of the 35's problems are in its code for the flight control computer - some 9 million lines worth. We're firmly in the age where, if the computer flying the plane is faulty, it doesn't matter how "right" the design is.
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That... would actually be pretty dang cool.
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Super parts look great on the 27. I'm kinda surprised Bandai hasn't reissued them as a standalone set.
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They're trying too. Damn. Hard. Don't care about the cast of women, but I do think, so far, that this movie is too earnest about being funny. Dunno about proton pistols, or a proton knuckle buster either. That said, I laughed out loud at "The power of pain compels you!" I also like the new Ecto 1, but it doesn't hold a candle to the original. I'm keeping an open mind, but the trailer hasn't made me make this movie a "must see."
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The Chinese are quite busy with their J-10s and J-20s. And their modernization of their ADF system. I don't think the F-35 is worth the money. But it's what we have to work with, and I believe that in the end it will work rather well. I'd love it if some of the gold-plated crap on it could be deleted, though.
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I liked SPECTRE. Better than Quantum, not as good as Casino, not nearly as good as Skyfall.
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Not air. Hydrogen slush. Basically something combustible that can expand and drive forward motion. It's not necessary to make the nuclear engine work, but it's necessary in order to actually GO.
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Not air. Hydrogen slush. Basically something combustible that can expand and drive forward motion. It's not necessary to make the nuclear engine work, but it's necessary in order to actually GO.
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I concur with Duke's analysis. -
Neither do I. Why the hell does his voice go up an octave, unnecessarily?
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I liked "You Know My Name", the theme of Casino Royale. "Thunderball" and "Goldfinger" are, of course, up there.
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They learned a lot from the F-16 and 18, and that F-15 demonstrator whose name temporarily escapes me. That F/B-23 looks very, very nice. It also looks like a completely different aircraft, internally, only superficially similar to the YF-23. It might have been able to do the job though. The 15 and 16 have been updated because, in part, they have already been built in their hundreds and thousands. It was more cost effective to modify them to new technology than for their operators to buy new aircraft. And let us not forget that those aircraft weren't unchanged when they were done - witness the difference between the F-16A and one of the current blocks, with its CFTs, blisters, enlarged spines, and other various protrusions. You can't expand "outward" like that on a stealth aircraft.
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The 23 was never going to be the bomber. Wouldn't have the legs. I like the 23 a lot, but let go folks. By now it'd have to be redesigned to accommodate systems, radars, engines and weapons that didn't exist 30 years ago.
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My mom had a 92 Talon TSi, FWD. Fun, fun little rocket, and dead reliable.
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What do those air intakes actually feed? Two more engines? Where are the exhausts?
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NSX used to be a goal of mine. I don't fit. 😔
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Ayep. I was at an air show at RAF Mildenhall in 1994, and rather near the runway. A Harrier was performing its routine and decided to come to a dead hover about 60 feet above the deck, about 500 feet away from me. Dear. GOD. I have never, before or since, experienced sound as a physical force upon my body. I heard nothing but the savage white noise of the turbofan, while the vibrations passed through my entire body, the resonance making me desperately sick to my stomach. After an eternity, it resumed forward flight. I stood there and heard nothing but a titanic ring for ten solid minutes, which was about the same time it took for my body to stop hurting. So. Loud jets are loud. Oh, yeah, the B-21. Call it the Wraith or the Marauder II.
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What a cool car the 3000GT is. I still want one in Pearlescent White.
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Interesting. And not an h-game, despite the ungodly amount of pornography about the girls available online, correct?