Apollo Leader

I liked runaway, but patlabor had the same idea and did it better A police division made for rogue technology

Runaway had Patlabor beat by 5 years or so.

The "bankofkev" on the previous page is an imposter. Before that post appeared, I have already swapped a few PM's with the real BankofKev (notice that some of the letters are now capped). Kev has not made a single posting to Macross World as of this time.

Here, a P-51C (one of only 2 in the world that can still fly) and an A-10.

PS--Apollo Leader--for the in-the-air shots, did you use a camera or did you you snag them from a camcorder? I've tried both methods, but results vary.

For the in-air or distant shots, I have my digital camera set to 1600 x 1200 with super fine resolution set. For this thread, I cropped the pictures to approxinately 640 x 480 to be consistent with the static display pictures I have posted here (saves memory, too). My camera has a zoom and a high speed mode (for taking pictures of moving objects) so that helps too.

Offutt will always be SAC HQ for me just like the Strategic Air and Space Museum will ALWAYS be SAC Museum to me.

Sorry I'm a week late with this, but better late then never!

At the end of the paragraph is a glimmer of a hope for a US release.

Leave it to me to start the first Gunbuster thread on the new boards.

I was watching Gunbuster for the jillionth time today and saw this for the first time since I've owned this series. Look at the botton left of the image. Someone forgot to add Noriko's lower body.

And some other Gunbuster news. I've been reworking my site. Some pages are up, some are down. Time to get with it and make the Index look presentable. And I've added a few new pages to boot!

Let me know what you think.

Noriko Takaya

Is this just in the full animation cell or is this blooper in the actual animation (which usually crops off part of the artwork)?

I only got to see the first the first two movies once on the big screen. The 3-movie marathon showing sounds tempting.

Click here at your own risk.

PARENTAL ADVISORY: Explicit Engrish!

Best one yet!

LOL, Richard (Apollo Leader) and myself ALWAYS talk about putting together a midwest con but we never have time.... I SWEAR, when I go to Wichita State University to start my grad work, we WILL host a midwest con of some sort!

It might happen here in Omaha next year. Stay tuned...

Apollo Leader got a nice up-close pic of the canopy w/mission marks. And you can cleary see the intake grill details, which is one of the most advanced parts of the plane.

It's just a simple grill... the main thing about making the F-117 was making a non-curved, faceted, aircraft that would not only redirect electromagnetic energy away from a transmitting radar, but one that would also FLY!

Offutt Air Show at Offut AFB. Just south of Omaha. SAC headquarters.

Anyways:

1. Inconsistency of the USAF! I was 30 ft away from the rope (so like 50ft from the plane) from the last F-117 I saw, and they (guards) yelled at me the second I took my camera out. You get pics of yourself next to it.

2. Inconsistency---all the A-10's, F-18's, and F-15's looked to have pretty far-off ropes. At same "no F-117 pics" show, I could touch whatever I wanted, no ropes (except the 117). (F-14 was at another show, but it's ropes were only like 2 feet from the plane--rather pointless, didn't restrict access at all)

3. Oooh, E-4B. Interesting that it doesn't appear to have any IR/ECM for the engines, only the APU. (Contrasting with Air Force One, which has them on the engines too)

4. I'd NEVER thought there'd be a Nimrod there. PS--it's a modified Comet 4C, which is quite a bit different from the original Comet. (Like, YF-17 vs F/A-18F different)

5. Man, I've NEVER seen a Harrier. That's the number one reason I wanted to go this year. (I haven't been there since 1990). Never seen a B-2 either, nor a B-1B in the air. This year appeared to be a GOOD one.

6. F-16's rock, especially ones from Hill AFB. (Even if Shaw AFB is now considered the main F-16 home)

7. F-15's my fave *operational* jet too. (YF-23 rules all)

Offutt is the home of the Strategic Command and the 55th Recon. Wing. SAC ceased to be June 1st 1992.

1. NEVER have had problems taking pictures of the F-117 at a show. What base/field did you run into problems? I remember at the 1990 Offutt Air Show when the F-117 made its first debut... there were two layers of security rope back in those days for the Nighthawk!

2. There was some odd criteria for which aircraft were roped or not. The F-15E's, the A-10's, the B-52, the F-117, the E-3 Sentry, the RC-135, and some other's were roped. The F/A-18 and the B-1B were not... it seemed real weird that the more modern B-1 was more accessible then the ancient B-52! On Saturday, they even had the boarding ladder open for the public to get a few of the B-1's cockpit! I asked one of the F-15E pilots about this and his answers were 1) the Air Force and Navy's rules were different about this, 2) the B-1 probably wasn't roped because much of the aircraft is high above the ground (unlike the lower sitting B-52 and the other fighters), 3) there was just "certain things on some of these aircraft that the Air Force didn't want people seeing or touching". I should add that in pass years, aircraft like the F-15E or A-10 had no security rope and anyone could come up and touch them... of course this is a post 9/11 world.

3. The E-4B mainly operates within the vicinity of Offutt and mainly stays within US borders. Probably not much concern for defense against IR missiles (that could change, though).

4. There has been a Nimrod at the show numerous times through out the years either on ground display or in the air. Also, German Tornado IDS's have been here on fround display a few time. There was quite a few NATO aircraft here for the 1999 show including Jaguars.

5. A B-2 has been part of almost every show going back to 1995. The B-1 is always cool to see. A Harrier performs here about every two or three years.

6. Though it's less manueverable, I love the sheer power of the F-15.

7. I liked the YF-23 over the YF-22 myself.

From what I can tell, the RX-78 and Char's Gelggog are still lined up for a September/October release.

I might get it this week. I will have to decide which version to get since I have both a PS2 and Gamecube. I'll probably go with the Gamecube version because the graphics are much sharper and its got Link.

Game Informer magazine has an article about the game. Bandai Ent. has been asked if they would release it in the US and the answer was that they would look into doing it.

I'll try to get the article scanned this evening... I've had the mag since Saturday, but I've just been too busy!

I hope a US PS2 release of AEUG vs. Titans becomes a reality next year!

For me it's ADV this year... Excel Saga and Mospeada (even if the subs in Mospeada kinda sucked)!

I gotta bunch more pictures, but they are pretty much a repeat of everything you just saw.

Again, if anyone wants me to e-mail them any of the movies I recorded, let me know.

Gotta wait another year to the 2004 Offutt Air Show and Open House!

The Nimrod shows off its bomb bay where it's torpedoes are stored.

An RAF Nimrod performed on both days of the show. The Nimrod is a direct descendant of the old Comet airliner... Britain's and the world's first operational jet powered airliner. The Nimrod is used for anit-shipping and anti-submarine patrols.

F-16 makes a tight, high G turn.

A few more F-16 pictures!

F-16 on a high speed pass.

This was a better picture I got of the F-117 when it flew on Sunday; it arrived back at Offutt just minutes after the T-6 had been cleared.

The T-6 is carefully pulled back to the runway.

Even with the hour + delay, virtually everything that was scheduled to fly took place.

Right after 12:30, the first round of CAF aircraft started flying around. When the first wave of aircraft landed, this T-6 Texan suffered a failure in its left landing gear (probably a broken pin from too much side force). The T-6 swerved to the right and ended up in the grass. This picture was taken about 30 seconds after the crash. The pilot had already exited the plain and the first rescue vehicle was on the scene.

Until the T-6 was towed away, the show was on hold for about an hour and a half.

The 1905 Wright Flyer III replica did several takeoffs and landings.

One of Offutt's RC-135's makes a flyby.