Knight26

Funny story to go along with the kitbash, dude must have been on crack when he made that though.

MMM, nice backgrounds, I agreee that green eyed red heads are my weakness too, glad I'm dating one now, have to see if she'll dress up like that for me. Now that would be one hell of an anime-expo costume.

The SWASTIKA predates the Nazi regime by a few thousand years, cultures all around the world have used it to symbolize various things, the sun, life, etc... THe Nazis just perverted it for their own use, and unfortunately since then most people still assosciate it solely with the Nazis. I will stop now, as this discussion has gotten me in trouble many times before, though it can be a fun debate.

I remember Beyond 2000, not a bad show, made down in Austraila if I remember correctly. WHy bring it up?

I'm considering going onto this list. EXO have you looked into how to modify it into a seat position for cockpit seating? I know I know I'm crazy, but some clever limb breaking and repositioning should be able to do it, though you will likely have to cut off the feet like I did with my original.

The VF-1 can use FAST Packs in an atmosphere. The beginning of Dynamite 7 shows on on the ground.

Key word there is on the ground, if you look at the area it is a training grounds, probably for a small backwater colonies militia. More then likely that one FAST Pack equiped valk was just there for maintenance training demonstrations and work. It would be after all much cheaper to train the ground crew planetside then send them into space to work on the real thing.

Accident type 1: The aerodynamic fairing that originally covered the intake of the drone was pyrotechnically jettisioned, damaging both drone and mothership, mothership RTBed with drone still attached. Several attempts were made that fit this profile in order to try and solve the problem.

Accident 2: -1G seperation technique, seperation successful, but control issues caused drone to collide with mothership, drone destroyed, mothership severally damaged, forced to RTB. Several launchs were actaully made this way, but determined to be unusable outside of a testing situation.

Accident 3: Aerodynamic faring removed, no way found to overcome the problem. Standard 1G acceleration, drone seperation failed, drone crashed into mothership destroying both craft.

The M-21/D-21 project was closed shortly there after. The D-21 continued life as a recon dron launched from B-52s, using a rocket motor get it up to speed for the Ramjet to work. There was also the problem that with the Drone attached the extra weight and drag required to get the ship up to speed enough for the ramjet to work required a run up from New Mexico to the california coast.

Actually an accident occured with each seperation test, but only one resulted in the destruction of the aircraft.

WHo is Rob Van Dam?

The M-21 was the mothership, a modified SR-71, the D-21 was the drone. It was designed to do the actual overflight, at speeds aproaching the hypersonic threshhold and then parachute to safety in a friendly country. I should have stated that better sorry. I don't waht you were talking about with the designations.

*Sees Super Armored VF-19 walking down street, after leaving pilot's girlfriends apartment.*

*AFter gawking in wonder, runs like Sheol to get out of its way, hoping the pilot didn't see him.*

Dang man, that thing is super armed allright, especially once you consider how many more missiles are hiding in the backpacks.

Ok, I used to give a weekly instructional briefing on the SR-71/A-12/YF-12/M-21+D-21, etc... I will quickly explain the A-12 designation. The "A" Stands for Archangel, which was the code name Lockheed used for the top secret CIA project. Archangel 12, A-12, was the twelfth and final design considered for the series and is the one that was built. The YF-12 was designed as an anti-nuclear bomber interceptor, it carried 3 tactical nuclear missiles in internal bays that it would launch at formations of Russian bombers. The missile is the direct precursour to the AIM-54 Phoenix and much of its technology went into that weapon. THe YF-12 concept was scrapped becuase launch at high speed caused seperation damage to the aircraft, the aircraft could not turn on a dime at high speed, and the resulting EMP would have klnocked out all of its avionics, mind you all the Black Bird Varients were pretty much flown strictly on instruments. The M-21/D-21 was developed about the same time, and so was the SR-71, the A-12 was the daddy to all of them. The M-21 was intended to be able to carry the D-21 drone to the border of russian airspace, release the drone, let it over fly and then ditch itself someplace safe for pick up. However, several disasterous test launchs ended that program, leaving only the SR-71 and the handful of A-12s left.

The reason you don't see FAST PACKS in use on earth missions is not just due to weight but aerodynamics. The FAST PACKs are designed strictly for space use, therefore are not aerodynamically sound. A modifed version of the leg packs migth be able to be used, but not the backpacks.

We had this discussion back on the old boards. In WW2 the Japanesse did use 3 man formations, just not too effectively, requires great communication. In a modern air warfare environment a two man formation is preferable because in general you will only expect attack from above or below, depending on altitude, and not both. Whereas in space it would be better to fly in a three fighter formation because you can expect attack from any direction. In a strike formation this would be essential so the two wingmen could cover the striker while he goes in for the target.

Ok, it's off to the publishers, went over the page count a little but no big deal. I don't know why but after I sent it off this time I felt more nervous then after the initial send off. Infact after the initial send off I felt great, like a big weight was lifted off my shoulders. This time I got butterflies afterwards. Well, I guess it's back to waiting have to see what they think of the next pages and wait to hear back from the others. Wish me luck.

Very Interesting.

What plane has reversable controls? Last I checked all fighters are laid out the same, throttle on the left (thinking hand), stick in the mid or right side (action hand). I have never known any southpaw pilot to have that much difficulty using the right handed control scheme. However, when flying a plane like a Cessna right handed people, like me, have a hard time transitioning to having the throttle on the right. It is something you get past though, and after a few flights are fine with it. I've actually known a few southpaws who had the same problem I did transitioning to the Cessna, it's just a backwards scheme to waht you are used to.

Well, it wasn't scotch but SuperO and I had a couple hefeweizens last night to celebrate, and some fresh brewed off the tap root beer, good night.

It's Sara, what do I win?

Hey Everyone just wanted to share a little news with you. I recieved the following e-mail from one of the publishers I sent my manuscript to:

Sean J. Schauer:

We are pleased to request the next part (page 55 to 100, or as close to 100 as section ends) of your novel Infinity War The Academy Years.

The file number for your work is ****.  Please indicate this number somewhere on your submission.

Thank you for considering us as publishers for your novel.

Yours Truly,

Kimberly Gammon

Editorial & Sales Manager, EDGE Publishing

www.edgewebsite.com

Needless to say I am to totally stoked it isn't funny. Wish me luck all, maybe we'll see my book on the shelves in not too long, and my designs gracing the covers.

The pilot is very close to 1:48 scale, I had some posts about this before, right around the time of the Con sicne I had stuffed my pencil sharpener pilot into my 1:48. If the pilot is 1:48 scale he comes out to around 6'6" if I remember correctly, need to find the old thread. For it to be Hikaru it is around 1:43 scale I think. Like I said find the old post either here or on the old forums and all the calcs are there.

Ok here's a brain teaser for you, is there any kind of adapter plug out there that would allow you to plug a PC gamepad or joystick (standard connection or USB) into a PS2? I just think it would ten bars past cool if I could use my Saitek X-36 HOTAS on a console flight sim, like the new Macross game.

My bad Fulcy, and I actually knew that, it was more for the sake of folks who don't have any material science background. I should have rephrased it as, will it be of a hard resin, or a more rubbery flexible grade? How's that?

Rohby, what material are you casting it out of, resin or rubber? If you can post it out of rubber that might be better so that people can put them in the cockpit of their valks, like I did.

If you get a laptop from the store, get it from Circuit City, not Best Buy. It might cost a little more but the service department is heck of a lot better. And, get the extended warranty, I know from experience that this is a good idea. Best Buy has really crappy service work, they always ship it out someplace else and it can take up to a month to get it back. Circuit City's for the most part do it all in house, only send them out when they are in super bad shape. But, if you get the extended warranty it can die the day before the warranty is up and as long as you bring it in they will likely replace it, if it is no longer worth saving. Trust me on this, happened to me once, two days before the warranty was up my computer fell off my bike while ont he way to school and was severely damaged, got a brand new model right off the line as a replacement, for no cost.