Bowen

*snip*

Tomcat: Miss me yet?

I think there's something in my eye... ;_;

Yessss

The Super Hornet is a good example of what can be done to "stealthify" an existing airframe. Really, it's about the only serious attempt I know of.

Speaking of 'stealthification', what's the status on the Silent Eagle project

Also, any new info at all about those supposed LO Black Hawks used in the Bin Laden raid?

Wow, I'd love to have one of those

If only I had the tools and skills

A private MiG-23? Very interesting, hadn't heard of such a thing before.

According to Wikipedia, there's 11 MiG-23's in private hands, with at least 3 that are "operational" (to quote the site). I wouldn't mind seeing one fly. I like the looks of Russian jets.

I can't tell a MiG-17 from a -19 either.

Anyways---I'd say this guy does overall the best LEGO jets out there---any photo in his Flickr account is worth looking at, here's a good starting point:

http://www.flickr.co...ist/6271483893/

http://www.flickr.co...ist/6487525793/

And here's his BIG B-1B:

http://www.flickr.co...cist/6271962846

Yeah, MP is great

http://www.firstshow...cially-rated-r/

EDIT:

My testicles just exploded

We probably wouldn't do much better than the late-model WWII planes, I think. If you ban jet engines you could well be banning turboprops - which are, essentially, a jet engine with a propeller...! If you still allow CAD at the design stage, then there might be some interesting designs allowed and also if you allow composite materials and computerised flight controls which may have a significant effect on weight and handling. Electronics are in everything these days, so fuel effiency might be better due to electronic engine controls, but if you don't allow that - well, the late war fighters were pushing the limits of conventional prop design (arguably, the P-38 with its compressibility issues was doing that in 1940!), which is why everyone started moving to jets in the first place.

We might get a nice discovery channel show about some hotrodders trying to tune fighter engines

A production F-23A would have had a separate Sidewinder bay right in front of the AMRAAM bay---though it would have been 1 bay that held 2 missiles, rather than the F-22's "1 missile per bay" setup.

I wonder how the trapeze-racks for the AMRAAMs would've worked out

If something jams there you'd be down 2 usable missiles instead of just 1

This came to me via a FB link.

http://www.bleedingc...ut-does-matter/

Warning, spoilers:

And no.2

Can't have a Liefeld topic without this:

EDIT: There's a part 3 as well, only 2 embedded links per post though

Part 3:

Enjoyed the first 2 eps of the new season, here's hoping they keep it up

So it's just his Transformers films again except no giant robots and Shia LaBeouf? I'd be suprised if this, Transformers, and the Battleship movie don't create some kind of Bay-verse at this point.

Shia will probably get to play Casey Jones >.>

Airborne pirates on the way (sort of): http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/03/19/the-pirate-bay-to-fly-server-drones-to-avoid-law-enforcement

Return of the biplane?

http://gizmodo.com/5893768/new-bi+plane-design-promises-all-of-the-sonic-none-of-the-boom

Honestly I thought of a Battle Class seeing that.

You'd think anything taking off from the angled deck would get sucked into the front left lift-fan...

http://gizmodo.com/5889737/top-gun-2-is-real-and-stars-a-plane-that-doesnt-fly

Afraid it'll be just another CGI-fest (assuming it's true of course), not to mention the severe lack of '80's soundtrack...

Dang, would love a model of that bird

Also, is it just me, or is there a bit of Serenity in the cockpit design/shape?

At least it looks better than the F-22. And the competition:

You know, that middle picture reminds me of a UCAV featured in a certain movie which must not be named, while the bottom one (at least viewed from the top like that) kinda has a BSG Viper thing going on IMO...

Look, Dave! Cow!

Where?! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I loved that show, looking forward to his Neverlution

Anywho, back on topic:

Has Night of the Lepus been mentioned yet?

- Starring Zack Ward (Sgt. Donnelly in Transformers) and Monica May (Z/S.P.D. Yellow Ranger in Power Rangers S.P.D.)

Aside from Enemy Mine (I'd also say Avatar, but this came out a year earlier), what does this movie remind you of?

DAVE!

TITUS!

DAVE!

TITUS!

DAVE! *slap*

Speaking of the T-50, I do believe the expression 'dat ass' is appropriate:

If you hang out at Van Nuys Airport once in awhile (I recommend the 94th Aero Squadron for that) you'll see those F5's there!

Do they still have the same paintjob?

Reddsun1's sanity has left the building.......

Who needs sanity when you can literally deface people?

Anyway, looking forward to seeing this myself somewhere in the next couple of days

Why not just name the dog black? Thats what the word means in english as opposed to its latin origin.

Because then you'd have people bitching it's not called African American