JediMaster

Looks like the one at NASM in DC.

I actually saw one old-time producer complaining the internet has made things WORSE for them, other than ease of ordering stuff online helping.

Basically, it's super-cheap to start your own site and make your own with low production values and the bigger-budgeted ones aren't making as much!

Poor guys...

I want a transporter already!!

LOL!

No word on what a 1.13 would cover if made, but I doubt it would be that comprehensive.

I always thought that was the idea of college anyway? You've had 18 years to teach them, now they get 4 to figure out how to do things and learn to be themselves without being totally off the leash but still largely autonomous?

Shouldn't his grades be the yardstick? If he gets good grades, what does it matter how he spends his time?

Of course, when I met my wife she was 22 and her parents still treated her like she was a teenager with curfews and crap (even though she'd been running her own business for 5 yrs and going to college). Sometimes the parents need a kick to let go.

Mine is not.

I had a 1/72 Bone and an 1/72 B-52D and those things took up way too much room as it was!

Now...the Medic...Jedi Master. Quiet, but unusually dangerous...and one of the only characters where you should worry if he puts the gloves ON! :)

 

 

 

FastCargo

Don't make me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry.

There's more to a nuke sub than a working reactor. Sound suppression is very important and that's not the kind of knowledge that's going to be easily available. You figure it out by trial and error.

The Su-24 is the same age as the F-111. Long out of production, it will be replaced by the Su-34. No one is buying Fencers anymore.

The technical issues largely resolved now, it's quite simply the world's most overpriced F-16 upgrade. I don't know how it will fare against the (projected) performance of the F-35, but other than the stealth aspect which is obviously lesser I don't know how close it will be.

The Japanese basically got far less than they paid for, or paid for far more than they actually got, depending on how you look at it.

Interesting. At my wing the cmdr is an O-7 with the larger squadrons headed by O-6s and the smaller O-5s, with only the smallest O-4s.

Seeing as this wing has a nuclear tasking, I thought it would be important enough for an O-7.

From what RB said, I think it's the guy's girlfriend that's the problem. He wants to join, she's flipping out, he's asking if there's something he should do that will help assuage her concerns. My guess is he's afraid of losing her if she joins.

Given the higher-than-average divorce rate in the armed services, he's not wrong in that. With the number of people today who can't make a marriage work, having one person deployed for long periods and possibly in a combat zone is only going to make that worse.

I also agree he should not join if he's concerned about this, but I don't necessarily think he's cowardly. We're only getting RB's take of the situation, the guy didn't post himself.

If you take physics in college BTW you can get into the USN's nuke engineering stuff for subs and carriers. That's about as "safe" as you can get nowadays. Just have to worry about non-combat accidents for the most part. Of course, if you're joining to get the money for college, that path is obviously out.

I never joined for 2 simple reasons--1, I hate travel. Short distances, maybe go across the country for a week a year, but that's it. 2, I have a problem with authority.

Yeah, some of the names they ignored as being unflattering at best. The Fulcrum one, however, is actually rather complimentary when you think about it, and Flanker works just fine.

I still don't know who in NATO came up with "frogfoot." Why not just frog? I guess it's like "fishbed"...what is THAT supposed to be anyway??

The funny thing was Pacific did one thing very right--the abolition of health packs and replacement by the medic with a limited number of healings.

Then Airborne goes and dumps that.

I didn't because I never went there! Between the disappointment of the bots/SP/coop (after they said prerelease they were going to make it "a lot better" than BF42) and the irritation with the unlock thing I never got BF2.

Oh yeah, I forgot about VC1! That game oozed atmosphere and had great voice acting. The coop reminded me the coop in the first AvP game where you could play Marines or Predators and fight waves of Aliens.

I've not touched VC1 since before VC2 was released, though.

The Camel 130 I'm sure will be hotfixed, as will other stuff. That's why I have my pre-Exp modded version still as well as my non-modded Exp install.

The only known instance of a T-6 catching a T-38 in the air?

The wing cmdr was only an O-6?? For a nuke wing? That seems unusual, unless he was an O-7 select.

Communism was a great theory, but it goes contrary to human nature. You only want everyone equal when you're on the bottom. You always look for ways to move up, and if you do the last thing you want is someone who failed to make it up saying you can't have it because everyone doesn't.

When PEOPLE change, communism may work. Until then, it can only work as a veneer on another type of system, usually a totalitarian oligarchy.

Most of what you described won't happen because it's not like a twin-engined plane, with each engine powering one prop. They're interconnected and one engine can turn both. Only with loss of an engine AND the interconnect could that happen. I'm sure it could with battle damage, but again no twin-prop helo can stay aloft with only one prop working anyway.

While I'm sure in airplane mode it will fly fine, I don't know about hovering especially under max weight conditions. Hopefully they could dump fuel/cargo or at least land safely. Remember, it can't land in airplane mode, only helo mode, although the engines could be tilted forwards for a "rolling" landing. In airplane mode, though, the props would be slamming into the ground before all wheels touched down.

I think the F-15E would've been too pricey for the number of airframes bought back in the 80s when the Hornet won.

While Oz is getting the F-35 (at least, that is the current plan) to replace the Hornet, there's no doubt it can't replace an F-111. I think right now there are only 4 choices for that category (discounting the F-22 because it's so costly and no exports have been granted yet):

F-15E(A) -- for Australia --probably seen as too old a design for the price?

Super Bug -- what they picked

Mirage 2000 -- as mentioned, won't happen for political reasons

Su-30 -- probably also ruled out on both political and logistical reasons

The Typhoon isn't yet multirole enough and likely also costs a bit more. All other new-gen fighters have too little range/payload.