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    Probably inspired by methods used to train birds to fly alongside microlights and the like so that documentary makers can get really close-up shots. Took me a second viewing of the trailer to realise something like that was going on and that one of Star Lords special skills isn't "invisibility to dinosaurs"...
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    Just a historical note about the T-4 - theres a famous story, possibly more of a legend, that Stalin mandated that it had to be an exact copy - to the extent that the airframe included copies of holes that had been drilled by mistake in the original...
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    I only found out very recently. I guess he maybe is one of those people who keeps cropping up in the culture you're interested in to the point where it almost becomes scary (Hideki Anno may just be the ultimate example of this; the more I got into anime, the more I found him metaphorically leaning against the window, misting it with his breath... ).
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    Technically, a gyrfalcon is a raptor...
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    I don't know the details, but I've been hearing that the harpoons firing mechanism involves... guncotton...!
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    In the UK at least, this was the lead item on at least two of the main news programmes.
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    Lonely here with just the two of us, isn't it? I also didn't like the end and having two shaven-headed good guys reminded me of the confusion I got in Gundam SEED Destiny trying to work out which blue-haired pretty boy was supposed to be the main character, but I actually enjoyed it much more than I expected to.
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    That has to be the longest range Black Hawk ever...
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    Giant R2D2 is Giant.
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    "There have also been some hints of a massive conflict in the past that have had a serious impact on the Earth." in Gundam? Really?!. I'd forgotten about the pilots, er, throne. Its the sort of detail that Tomino excels in, and I for one have long waited for answer to the burning question from the end of "Chars Counterattack" - whatever happened to Amuros poop?
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    I'm not sure about the overall pacing - I've only seen three episodes - I mean the fact that Tomino just cannot let his characters sit still in an individual episode.
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    It was certainly a very odd episode which I'm still trying to absorb. Moffat provided nightmare fuel for about oh, I don't know, an entire childhood - again - but it felt like two separate stories that just happened to be taking place in the same location...
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    I'm still absorbing it. It is very old school Tomino; the pacing in particular is very much part of Tominos personal quest to hurry anime the hell up (whilst, at the same time, being unable to make a series less than 50 episodes in length). It doesn't seem as groundbreaking as "Turn-A" was, but hey, if at this stage in his career Tomino wants to make a greatest hits kind of show, well, I for one am not going to blame him. Tominos skill in building worlds is still evident though; I've seen the first three episodes and already I kind of want to live in that world, which is pretty much how the Universal Century got me in the first place. That and red-head mecha pilots...
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    I had this happen to me in the Studio Ghibli museum. That was embarrassing, but I did at least to get to visit their back offices...
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    I used to watch this as a kid in the UK. All I really remember is the opening sequence in any detail, but it also may as well have been set on another planet for the setting it depicted; we have freeways in the UK - motorways - but where I live a two-lane road is considered a bit excessive as a means of conveying vehicles...
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    Yes, the last couple have been very good. Early indications are that the next episode - written by a popular childrens author - will also be a bit of a cracker as well.
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    No problem, the Tiffy can escort both...
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    Well, anytime else an F-22 needs an escort, just give us a call across the pond...
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    I've read a couple of books by Falklands Harrier pilots and can't recall any mention of the technique being employed. It cropped up a lot in printed (Printed! Ha! Those were the days!) media related to the Harrier that I encountered but I've never seen it having been actually employed in a combat-related account (as opposed to a demonstration or "theoretically", we can do this neat thing!" situation).
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    So, er... we can has compact nuclear fusion reactors? http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details
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    I would imagine that once the airframe is complete a small amount of "flex" wouldn't matter all that much as a whole. It was just in this case, the particular tolerance was incredibly precise, the pin had to fit in a hole; once its in the hole... (as speeds got higher, though, you had to worry more - the Concorde airframe actually expanded a few inches at high speeds and temperatures and had expansion sections to compensate; theres a famous story that during its testing, a technician dropped his hat in one of these spaces and when he returned to retrieve it it had been squashed as the section contracted again!). Another thing about that Spitfire, they painted it with the original black/white recognition aid under-colouring scheme, which I haven't seen on a flying one before.
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    Technically, the "Tigercat" existed about sixty years before "Macross Zero"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F7F_Tigercat Regards the freezing of the Tornado components - its not just modern aircraft. There was very recently a programme on UK T.V. about the rebuild of a rare Mk. I Spitfire; one of the pins used for fitting the wings had tolerances so tight that the presenter held it in his hand a for a few minutes and his body heat alone was enough to cause the metal to expand just enough that it wouldn't fit anymore - they had to leave it lying on a cold desk for a bit so that it would fit again! (David would like that rebuild, by the way - the owners of the airframe insisted it be refitted as correctly as possible, which included recreating a rear-view mirror originally from a MG car that wasn't part of the original spec but a personal modification by the pilot!).
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    Turn-A Turn, Turn-A Turn, TURN-AAAAAAAAAAA!! Slightly pleased.
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    A number of "Tigers" have been made for movie use; IIRC, the most famous ones are the Tigers from "Kellys Heroes", which were built on T-34 chassis. As has been pointed out above, the lack of non-interleaved road-wheels is the biggest giveaway thats not an authentic Tiger.
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    Ah, thank you - I'd heard of it before. miles316, I have a reasonable idea what blue signifies in Macross - basically, AWESOMENESS is about to happen.
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