Knight26

Hey strange request, does anyone know where I can find a C-17 Globemaster III toy, model, etc... We have a guy here going away and he loves the little diecast planes but has never been able to find anything for the C-17 that wasn't an expensive wooden model.

Isn't this based on a model custom from a magazine, can you show us that for comparison besides this one? I swear there were some better pics of it out there.

If they can make a Starscream 1:48 that looks good in both modes I will be all over it, displaying it proudly next to my 1:48 valks.

Very nice

me likey lots

Hey guys check this was sent htis today, if this comes out like the MP Prime I will be all over it.

Question, are there any good PS2 emulators out there that will let us Macross fans without consoles play this holy grail of Macross gamedom?

Fly yes, use the BVR weapons like the Phoenix, no.

that was cool, liked the waldo unit the kid was wearing, very impressive

you definitely have an interesting style there, but you might want to try hand drawing from now on, paint is a pain to make anything in.

hey that lightening photo I took that at edwards two months ago, oh wait, oops, I wasnt suppossed to say taht, lol

Man I wish cameras weren't banned on the flight line, today I was out on the plane and right in a row taxied by, F-16B (TPS), an F-16D (VISTA), and an F-16D (Block 60) right in a freaking row, I could have gotten all three in frame at one point.

Nice but the motion blur is maybe a tad too much, and a little distracting, but overall the composition is very nice.

Hey guys, now that I am over several illnesses, trust me you don't want to know, i will start my daily bike ride around base again and will take plenty of pics. So keep an eye out starting next week, if there are any requests please let me know. I can already hear some of you salivating, lol.

The original sketch looks a lot better IMHO

yeah but we are also talkign about the aerodynamics, the FRX-00 for one thing would never fly

that sounds like the best idea for this thread so far. Infact I was almost contemplating starting another thread to do just that, put up an anime aircraft and have people list the issues it would have with actually flying.

See my earlier post.

Phalancx if you want a relatively good free to cheap 3-D modeler pick up Wings3D or Rhino, just search for them, anything else will cost you a few thousand dollars, yes thousand.

When you really sit down and look at it, with very few exceptions, most anime aircraft are derived from existing aircraft. For instance the transport plane for the new Appleseed is basically a C-130 mated with a V-22, now there is something like that in the works by Boeing, but it is radically different and a far cleaner design. The inherent problem you run into with converting a plane from an anime to something real is that as stated mechanical designers in anime are not engineers, they design things to look interesting, not necessarily to be practical. True, some like SK, have a background in engineering, SK was an Aero/Mech in college before he dropped out. But in the end they are artists. There have been some anime aircraft that look very feasible and with some major work could possibly fly, the fan jet from Macross, the Dragon-2 from Macross, infact a lot of the standard cargo, ASW, and helos from Macross look very feasible, but then their designs draw a lot from existing aircraft. On the other hand the designs featured in the new yukikaze anime for the most part would not be feasible, they are too big, are massive drag magnets, and in some cases too fragile, they would break up in flight, assuming the could get off the ground. F-01 pointed out the modified F-16 and F-15 from Patlabor, these are very visually interesting aircraft, but they would never be produced. Why you ask? SImple the investment to make them would far outweigh the cost of just buying the existing airframe, or even a newer existing airframe or one in development, like an F-22 or F-35. Would I have liked to have seen an F-15ACTIVE derived fighter, sheol yeah, that plane seriously kicked, and could even give an F-22 or Su-37 a run for their money, but the plain and simple fact is that we will never see something like it produced. In the end no matter how pretty or realistic it looks anime is fantasy, even the more based in reality shows are still just fantasy, and the mechanical designers are not engineers, they are artists and for the most part do not understand the stresses, strains, and other engineering forces involved with the design of a real aircraft.

The designs, while interesting, are very poor aerodynamically and structurally, especially the mave, with how the cockpit is seperated like that. The mainline fighter also is poor in that regard the stresses exerted on those spars that hold the two halves apart would be enormous. the thing would come apart in flight under any hard manuevers, assuming it could get off the ground in the first place. I would write more, but I feel like someone has been dancing a watsui on my grave right now and I have two meetings left to attend today before I can leave for the doctors, ugh.

Mine is a refernce back to my shadowy days as mercenary fighter pilot where I flew under the radio/tail code Knight 2 6. My other handle that I sometimes use, though not much anymore, SonOfStorm, comes from a my name. It is what happens when you translate my first and last name several times from their original languages to their litteral meanings. Actually it shoulde be Son Of The Storm, but I always drop the The because of length.

look at these pictures they clearly show the intake, it is a sort of chin in itnake with a wierd tongue thing: http://www.jtw.zaq.ne.jp/cfblg701/frx00%2041.jpg http://www.jtw.zaq.ne.jp/cfblg701/frx00%2061.jpg all in all though, yukikaze aircraift design, while interesting really are pretty bad aerodynamically and structurally, the Mave would really come apart inflight as it is under any serious loads.

wait which one is the mave, again, the big grey one or the weird modular black one, either way both have air intakes, teh gray one has them inverted IIRC to what we normally think of air intakes, and the black one has them sort of recessed and hidden, it's a wierd design.

*rolls eyes, shakes head and walks away*