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Don't get me wrong guys, I have nothing wrong with Max's blue hair. I like him with it. He looks rather unique with it in anyways. Like I said, I know it's just anime and that it's pretty much a routine to have characters with long flamboyant colored hair with wierd hairstyles and stuff but however I just think that Max's hair is a little too bold in blue and IMHO personally think that he would look better if his hair had was black with a little blue tinge in it. Not trying to start an argument or offend anyone so please respect my personal opinion OK?

No disrespect to you NERV but I said that SOME like Max and Gamlin have dyed hair while everyone elses hair is their natural respective color. I obviously know that the female charcters have long hair but when it comes to the males, they probably won't let their hair sag below the shoulders

Well, like I said, most of my comments were changes made for tactical purposes. I understand the show itself needed to ID the characters planes and also expand the marketing/variations on the toys. I really think its less about looking stupid and more about looking dead. During WW2, IIRC, in 1944, the US experimented with a new kind of camo uniform for operations in Europe. It was tested and promptly discarded. The camo was often confused for camo used by German paratrooper. Some US servicemen were shot and killed by friendly fire. Its a common tactic to target infantry commanders and radiomen on the battlefield. In law enforcement you are trained to take out the greatest threat, if there are five guys with pistols shooting at you and one with a submachine gun, you try to blow away the guy with the submachine gun first. If Valks color scheme on the planes or different head styles denote rank or skill level, and you flew a Regult, would you A) Shoot down the Valks that you could ID that held the older, more experienced, more skilled pilots in the distinctive planes first? or B) Shoot down the cannon fodders, and hope the older, more experienced, more skilled Valk pilots, that you IDed but ignored, aren't right behind you? I'm not trying to bust your chops, but trying to target enemy officers in combat to reduce the morale and competence of the enemy is a common tactic used throughout the history of warfare. 397051[/snapback] I gotta agree with Death Hammer on this one because these significant changes do serve a logical purposes for survival. I would focus on the experienced pilots first since they pose a challenge and once you gotten them out of the way, if you can since their so skilled, you can focus on the CF's since they tend to be piloted by inexperienced rookies. So I would go with choice A. Also my favorite valk the Valkyrie 2 is perfect example of what you said about it's best that individual colorschemes and distinct head designs to distinguish rank should go. The Valkyire 2 has the same battroid head designs like everyone else and a Zentraedi pilot wouldn't be able to tell which one is piloted by an experienced pilot with the exception of the color stripe on the chestplates. Also when you stated that the VF-1 should have different gunpods for purposes the Valk 2 has that but not a sniper rifle version of their beam pods.

Well to say something logical and intelligent about my topic, I would say that the U.N Spacy may be openiminded about pilots having dyed hair, or radicalstyles just to give them chance to express their personalities. I just honestly assumed that as long as pilots don't sport seemingly outrageous hairstyles like mohawks, dreadlocks, or cornrows or spikey hair then it's ok with them. Dyed haired and long haired is accepted and haircuts could be given at request.

I was thinking about how all the pilot characters in the Macross have either average height hairstyles, long hair and some of them have their hair dyed like Max and Gamlin so I had to ask, does the U.N Spacy allow VF pilots to have either long hair or dyed hair and do they get haircuts for that matter? I know that since Macross is an anime and in anime, anything goes as you can have charcters with long flamboyant hair colors and since Zentraedi and Meltraedi naturally have their hair in different colors, U.N spacy can't say anything about it. But in the case of haircuts, do they give them to pilots who want them because Guld in M+ has a small ponytail and I'm surpised that they don't say anything about that. So what's your take on this?

If that's the case then I might as well go see the movie myself but I don't see why some of you guys hate TC so much? Is he that irriating like he was labled last year for being the most annoying actor ever since he "jumped the couch" on Oprah?

David, are those pivoting intake lips of the F-15 supposed to be variable geometry or artificial canards like you say? I heard some guy refer to them as having variable geometry or whatever.

Oh, my fault. I had no idea it got deleted for it's vulgarity sorry about that

Well don't get me wrong Yellowlightman and no disrespect to you but I was just being funny honestly. I didn't mean it hence the smiley. I knew it was pretty much pointless to a degree and a complete waste of time to post in here you understand right?

I have a Saitex X52 Flight Control System Joystick with throttle and I love this baby. It has blue afterglow light buttons and a MFD to it. I got this thing as an early Christmas gift and I use this for every flight sim and vertical space shooter game I have. BTW, don't ask how I can play vertical space shooters using a flight stick rather an arcade joypad.

I just honestly assumed that any type of aircraft could fly regardless of it being AS, but I assumed that only aircraft that have radical new wing design concepts were considered AS and required FBW systems to make them able to fly. Like with what happened with the B-35 flying wings where the aircraft was AU because of it's new design but 40 years after the Flying wing concept was panned, it became successful as the B-2 spirit was the able to fly thanks to it's 150 onboard flight computer's and digital FBW control system. I always knew that FBW is used to automatically or electronically control and maintain the body surfaces, ailerons, flaperons and elevators. Nied also pointed out to me that the MIG-29 were unstable from the beginning and I just had to think whether or not, like I said before that Mikoyan Gurevich made the Fulcrum AU on purpose just because the F-16 was and that since the Fulcrum was designed to counter the F-16, I assumed that they decided to match general characteristics of it to make it better than the Falcon by purposely making the Fulcrum's airframe AU, making it somewhat small, lightweight and maneuverable just like the Falcon. When it also came to my mind that triple or quadruple redundant FBW are what they are, does that mean that an aircraft has 3 or 4 FBW systems because they are that bad in terms being AU. By that, I mean that it takes 3 or 4 FBW systems to control it opposed to having just one or two? Also, if the Fulcrum boasts the same general characteristics of the F-16 in terms of size maneuvarbility and controls, how come the Falcon uses digital FBW opposed to the Fulcrum using Analog? Is it because the Russians weren't good at emulating digital FBW systems and that the best they could do was make it analog until they got better at perfecting FBW? Finally to verify this, is analog FBW where only the control stick is electronic and everything else is just dials and gauges where digital is where the stick is electronic and supplemented by small MFD LCD computers?

Also Penguin, in the Remastered version of Patlabor 2: The music "Wyvern" that was played when those Japanese F-15 Eagles had to shoot down that mysterious pilot, was remixed with new instrumental effects. I use to have both the original and sound renewal score of Wyvern on my old computer til' it was destroyed.

I always knew that this game was gonna have a L-A movie to it because I remember about 2 years ago that Hideo Kojima sold the movie rights to some company.

Actually the Su-27 has been naturally unstable from the beginning. Early models relied on an analogue system while newer variants (like the Su-30 and Su-35) have a digital FBW. I think you're thinking of the Mig-29, which did not have FBW in the beginning but newer versions (like the Mig-29M and the Mig-35) do. 396511[/snapback] Well I already knew in general that the SU-27 had an aerodynamic design, but when you say it was unstable from the beginning, was it due to it's large size? When you also point out that I was talking about the MIG-29 being more stable than SU-27, was it due to the fact that the MIG-29 was relevantly shorter than it? If you ask me, I think size is what made it unstable and since the Fulcrum shares somewhat similar design aesthetics with the Flankers except for the LERX. I think that by reducing the size of certain aerodynamically unstable aircraft and making slight to moderate changes to the airframe, you can get them to fly unless the Flankers were purposely designed to be aerodynamically unstable like the F-16.

That's outstanding!;)I can tell you put your time heart and soul into it and that's what I like.

One of the backups kick in (most FBW systems are triple or even quadruply redundant). 396462[/snapback] And for those who don't know, FBW systems aren't really needed for most aircraft in general hence the world triple and quadruple because it's only used for aircraft that are aerodynamically unstable. A good example of this would be the SU-37. It has FBW system linked to it's 3-D TVE nozzles and the aircraft is aerodynamically stable with or without it unlike earlier models like the SU-33 and the SU-27 which are stable and don't use FBW control systems(yet....,maybe). So like what Nied said, their just backups that are simply thrown into the avionics of aircraft like airliners just for the hell of it.

You know what, they should clone Christopher Reeve using his blood sample and this time make him unparalyzable so he can star in this movie.

Oh I forgot your user name was Roy Focker. I thought you took personal offense to this topic.

Incredible Hulk or Don Perionne in this case since he's in romantic relation with Claudia.

You know what, they should get Jordy and Data back in this movie. I swear to God those were my two favorite charcters in the Next Generation.

Now, I don't want to sound like some of those guys who constantly keep jumping down SK's throat for not liking M2 and not including it as part of his timeline, and I don't wanna sound like I'm trying to get underneath SK's skin by saying this, but if you ask me, I think SK secretly admires the Valk 2. I betcha he probably has drawings of it locked away in his drawers or something and I think he also hates the Valk 2 is because he's probably jealous that he didn't design the sleek and sexy VF . Go figure! As for me, I'd like to see a spinoff series of the Macross franchise that uses VF's but is not realted to Macross story-wise. Something like with Mospeada and SC Cavalry. Have the ultimate collabo of Yutaka Izubuchi, Kazumi Fujita, Hajime Katoki, Kunio Owakara, Koichi Ohta, Shoji Kawamori for the mecha designs and have intense action like in M+ and have that DYRL feel to it.

As for looks go, I still class the regular Hornet higher than the Super E/F/G. Though of course I'm biased a tad bit. I work on Hornet A/B/C/Ds (well, D's only these days). But the most beautiful US jet in my eyes is still the F-14. I've built many models of that jet and drew it tons of times. The regular Hornet and F-15 are tied at 2nd place. 396186[/snapback] Yeah Warmaker, the F-14 will always be my favorite U.S fighter now til the day I die. I like the Tomcat 21 even better. I too have drawn pics of this remarkable fighter throughout my life and I've designed my own F-14 look alike aircraft that were heavily influenced by this bad boy. The F-15 is my 2nd favorite too and the Hornet is my 3rd. I went on to loving the F-15 temporarily after the F-14 after I took a picture of me in the cockpit of one at 1997 air show at Andrews AFB. I also rember 12 years ago when I was 7, I built a Tomcat model (snap together actually) and an F-15 model (snap together as well). I temporarily alternate back and forward between my favorite fighters. Also guys, you wanna know a very interesting typo in the speed of the Hornet? Well, for some of you guys, you may or may not have noticed it and I don't know if somebody pointed this out in the first thread but remember that one part in the movie Independence Day were Will Smith and his partner Jimmy had to outrun those 2 alien attackers in their F/A-18's by flying over Imperial Valley desert? During that scene, they briefly showed the MFD of Will's Hornet and his digital speedometer shows his fighter pushing Mach 3.5. Now we all know that an Hornet can't do Mach 3.5 even though it would be nice. It's also worth noting that I first fell in love with the Hornet after seeing them in action in this awesome blockbuster.

Yeah I gotta agree with Sumdumgai, I mean whats really good with all these happy persony looking male characters anyway? I mean you can tell that Nomura is making this game to target YAOI fans with their hedeous looks. I can't even look at Tidus without wincing. That's how bad it is. I'm not even fond of RPG games so why am I wasting my time here anyway? I still like the FF7 and 8 though as Sephiroth is the most coolest looking FF baddie in the whole franchise. P.S Rocket Punch, I remember that pic of FF11 in your funny pic thread and that title really speaks for itself. Why do they keep calling their games "Final" when they never end the long time series? It should be called First Fantasy or Second Fantasy or even better Final Fagasy

So I guess I was right about the F-22 pilot getting his assed own in a simulated dogfight by the "Horny Horn" (my personal pun for this skybird). Well actually, sort of, as I assumed in the other thread that the pilot was getting careless in action when it turns out the pilot was seemingly inexperienced. But I still do find that pic rather hilarious IMHO to see a Raptor lose to a Hornet. Also, someone stated that do people get into actual dogfights these day and that made me think more about that question as I answered no because like I said before, I haven't heard any personal accounts of USAF aces shooting down any enemy aircraft since the hey day of the war in Iraq. At this rate, the U.S might as well start optimizing all of their next gen fighters to have A2G capabilities since most of the time you hear them completing strafing runs and bombing runs on ground targets.

I also forgot one more spaceship. Those fighters from that old SciFi show Space Above and Beyond.