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    Something I really should have known but have only just been made aware of... 90 years of brylcreem hair, handlebar moustaches, "chaps" called "Ginger", stiff upper lips, bandits at six o'clock, tally-ho, wizard prangs, sticky dos, buying of farms, angels 20, giving them a squirt, bouncing bombs, Spits, Hurribombers and Wimpeys and of course, however many there are, they who will always be the Few: Happy 90th Birthday the Royal Air Force. Per Ardua Ad Astra...
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    Wow, I'm a bit surprised to hear that - I'd always thought that ASRAAM was a short-range deal. However, having just checked the stats again, it seems its range is in the order of 18km...
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    Oh, the ASRAAMs are a smoke-screen to stop Lockheed complaining. We've decided that as all anyone does these days is strafe deserts, we're actually going to use the pylons for some 40mm Vickers guns we found in storage...
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    The BBC did release a number of sound effects albums in the distant past, it wouldn't surprise me if they wound up in various sound archives.
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    It occurs to me that this would be the perfect time to introduce a movie where a video gamer saves the Universe. I can even think of a possible Earth-bound hazard, the anti-video games lawyer [1]. [1] "Any resemblance to actual lawyers, living or dead and answering to the name of Jack, is purely intentional."
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    Order of the Stick: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/images/rZ5a...KCDAwzZyA2l.gif
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    Actually, the Gunbuster might be quite a good example of Bandais engineering - it has the most amazing transforming feet ever.
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    Having had a little more time to think, more so than even that, what Gary Gygax gave us was perhaps the greatest gift of all - imagination.
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    Its amazing to think how many modern - and very big - video game franchises use similar principles to those in Dungeons and Dragons; although that itself grew out of tabletop war games its quite possible Gary Gygaxs contribution to modern popular culture has always been somewhat underestimated...
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    Slightly off-topic I know, but seeing as they're not allowed nose art any more, do you think F-15E drivers would settle for painting on "By Royal Appointment" instead...?
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    I'd be careful about what you wish for... Different class of aeroplane, but I saw a news article once about some Silicon Valley high flyer who paid for a ride in a MiG-25 (may have been a MiG-31, can't recall exactly now). He was about my build - in other words, light - and by the time they came down he practically collapsed onto the tarmac, and looked liked he'd been done over with a cricket bat [1]. Theres a reason why they invented G-Suits... [1] Substitute "baseball bat" for preference, but I know which one I'm grabbing when the zombie apocalypse starts...
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    Thanks for the corrections guys, I was being lazy and not checking...
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    Theres a famous story of how Boeings chief test pilot - Tex Avery? - rolled the 707 on its first test flight...
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    Gawd, do you remember when it was actually possible to own every Patlabor toy ever made? It was about six months ago! I would love a Labor that size to go with my Bandai DX toy, and I would love even more to have some pilot figures for it. I might just wait for the almost inevitable Unit 2 just so I can have Ota to go with it...
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    Wouldn't mind betting that this guy used to fly Buccaneers... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/777_flypast/ Bit of a silly stunt, but its possible the pilot thought he had more authority to do it than he actually did.
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    I seem to recall that there were some Macross eraser sets from back in the day, but as these were released about the time of the original series I doubt that they're likely to be cheap anymore...
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    What, four separate guns and those absurdly long legs ain't enough posing for ya?
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    Five Star Stories is another possibility...?
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    MegaFortress?
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    Just so no-one else gets as confused as I did for a moment there, that cartoon reads Japanese-style - right to left.
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    Its Japan. The country has 1/1 scale written on it, as seen from Space. [1] [1] Also "Heavy and Solid and Finished Goods".
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    Its not necessary, no. Most of the main players from CCA are absent for a large part of ZZ, with the exception of Bright Noa, who suffers the misfortune of becoming the Universal Centurys greatest straight man. ZZ is a tad under-rated, largely because of the first twenty-odd episodes, which are a horror show. After that, it improves quite a bit, though some of the damage is permanent. There are numerous theories as to why this is so, although the most common one is that Tomino was tired of Gundam by this point and deliberately tried to sabotage it (my favourite alternative theory, although unfortunately highly unlikely as the time lines don't work, is that the first part was handled by a stand-in as Tomino was busy with work for CCA, and on his return, found out what had happened and metaphorically threw the other guy out the window. Or possibly for real. This is Tomino, after all... )
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    "I am now fully sonic'd up, Hawk - and nothing can stop me! HAHAHA!" "I have to say, Destro, I'm not entirely certain about these new Cobra battle armours you've provided us with - they look like pepper pots, and its blasted creepy the way they keep going "EX-TERM-I-NATE! all the time... " "I destroyed the banana plantation and built an arms factory there. I like guns. Full of iron."
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    I quite enjoyed watching SEED, and I actually thought Destiny was better. However, both shows are hollow on the inside, trying very hard to be something they can't - which is the original Gundam series. 00 is an improvement in that its going in its own direction; I don't like every element of 00 but the series background is much more developed than anything we saw in SEED. The other trouble I have with SEED is that Tomino had already shown how to take Gundam in new directions without betraying the spirit of the original, and that was Turn-A. And we hated him for it (until actually seeing Turn-A), and got SEED as a result...
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    Sorry, I should have perhaps stressed more that is the unofficial name that is likely to be adopted by ground crew, pilots etc. Not the official name, which is still "Lightning II". Its similar to the way the F-16 is officially the "Fighting Falcon" and universally the "Viper".
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