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I have the ghost of Reginald J. Mitchell and his rather famous Lady companion here and they'd like a word or two with you...

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Its fine, I just want to be next to you when the first Ghost fighter veers off the testing course and strafes the observing fleshy-goo sacks.

You're posting on a Macross forum and you're in favour of more unmanned fighters?

If it helps, they did do a little model demonstration to show how the race was set-up. They used a Concorde toy and... er... a SMART car for that.

6.5 Editors rating on 1-up, but some of the criticisms seem to be those of someone not familiar with the way previous games in the series played. They also make a comment about your cannon never running out of ammo, but I'm assuming that this varies with the difficultly setting - seems an odd thing to miss...

Top Gear did the Veyron vs Typhoon race this evening. I won't spoil who won. I will say, though, that the Tiffy climbs like a homesick angel. One with a rocket up its... They also featured a new Lamborghini, which apparently was inspired by the F-22. Hope that doesn't mean its going to have corrosion problems as well...

More missile decoys, you mean...

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Oh dear me, yes. Heres one of my favourite Spit pictures, though I'm not in front of it, unless you count the "holding the camera" clause!

Now theres something to get my teeth into! Biggin Hill, 2003, next to one of the twenty-two thousand odd "bloody silly name for an aeroplane"... [1]: Winnipeg, Canada, 2007: how about a little black magic - or Voodoo, at any rate! Thats my father on the right; as you can tell by his expression he totally shares my passion for fighter aircraft... <NOT!>

The bomb bay is impressive, isn't it? Its just one of those designs that seems completely outside of time, like Concorde - it will always appear slightly futuristic no matter where or when it is...!

Blast, you beat me to it! As anyone who has had the privilege of seeing a Vulcan take-off will already know - gravity? OWN3D.

Happy 60th, Mach One plus: http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123071181

A less contrived acronym?

I dare Mr. Pegg to insert "Babylon 5 is sh*t!" into the script.

Apparently Grahams never heard of The Clangers... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clangers I'm assuming we're discounting Japanese-inspired Western SF animation, co-productions and DC/Marvel Comics superheroes franchises, all of which could be said to be SF to one degree or another? Battletech (well, unless you're looking specifically for good Western cartoon TV SF series) and Exo-Squad might count. And, oh... calling Mr. Tracy. And Spectrum is Green! And anything could happen in the next half hour! Etc...

R.e: Military vs Civilian: "Razgriz Flight, this is Heartbreak One. Unidentified bogies at twelve o'clock. All pilots, report in." "This is Razgriz 2, Edge, standing by." "This is Razgriz 3, Chopper - whoo-hoo! Action at last!" "Cut the chatter, Razgriz 3. Razgriz 4, you there? Blaze, report in." "..." "<breathlessly> Ragriz 4, this is Razgriz 2. You are truly insightful. Hopefully, one day I shall share your insight and we and our nations can move towards a new era of peace and... " "This is, er, Razgriz 5. Callsign... um... Keith." "...and together we will march fearlessly into - wait, what did you say?" "His callsign is what?! Oh, man... " "..." "<pause> This is Heartbreak One. Ragriz 5, please repeat last transmission. Everything after "um"." "Uh. This is Razgriz 5, Keith. From accounting. Erm, you know, just down the hall from human resources?" "<under breath> Give me strength... this is Heartbreak One, no time for this now! Incoming missiles! Razgriz flight, break!" "Razgriz 2, roger!" "Razgriz 3, yee-hah!" "..." "Ragriz 5... try not to get shot down, anyone, I'll be up all night filling in the forms... "

Davids referring to a "Military vs Civilian" AC6 tournament; it loads in the top left corner after a little while.

Don't make me choose between Gundam and Babylon 5. Thats cruel. Plus Ivanova will rip your lungs out.

The story can be found in the book "Backroom Boys", by Francis Spufford, and according to the book was related by a SR-71 pilot to a Concorde captain, who then passed it on. I realise that doesn't count as a completely reliable source, but going by the information in the story, the SR-71 wasn't travelling at its highest altitude.

A few additions to whats already been said - would an AIM-9X catch Concorde if it was launched 5 miles behind it and Concorde was already doing Mach 2 +...? Hmm... SR-71 - apparently, they never did work out how to seal the fuel tanks properly; no filler ever made could stand the heat at top speed. The problem was "solved" by the fact the aircrafts fuselage expanded due to the friction, thus sealing the tanks completely at full speed. IIRC, SR-71s had to top up their tanks after take-off from a tanker... Back to Concorde - the story I heard was that a flight engineer once left his hat (or dropped it) it just before a speed run; it fell into a gap and after the run was completed was found to have been squashed completely flat due to the expansion of the airframe. Theres another lovely story about a SR-71 crew who were tootling along at altitude when they were asked to make a course correction. They were a bit puzzled by this, as at their normal altitude and speed there shouldn't have been anything else up there. As they sat there in their little metal cocoon, clad in flight suits designed to protect them from a totally hostile environment, they were then passed by a Concorde, with 100-odd passengers in normal shirts looking back at them...

Davids not joking here - in the 80s British Airways offered a Concorde to NATO for targeting purposes (a friend of mine thought this a little odd until I reminded him about supersonic Backfires). The only fighter that got close was an E.E. Lightning - not exactly a slow-poke aircraft itself - and even then the pilot described that particular aircraft as being quick, even for a Lightning. Theres still a Concorde lurking at Heathrow. Race ya home, F-22?

How about this as a compromise - both planes will kick a certain amount of ass, exactly how much to be determined the first time someone is dumb enough to line up for kicking of said ass...?

Hmm, interesting - Orguss volume One appears to be region free, but Cats Eye volume isn't. Orguss will play on my Brit X-Box 360, but Cats Eye won't...