Author Topic: Yankee Air Pirates Assure Oppresive Supperiority (Read 765 times)

Pongo · « **on:** September 20, 2000, 09:38:00 AM »

http://www.boeing.com/news/feature/jsffirstflight/gallery.html

doesnt this thing look like its out of a SF movie?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** September 20, 2000, 09:45:00 AM »

Spoke with some military-side-of-the-house friends via email, they were estatic about first flight.

Makarov1 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 20, 2000, 09:46:00 AM »

Dude, we're actually gonna pay for that beast?! It will never fly I tell ya! Things almost as ugly as a Corsair.

Zigrat · « **Reply #3 on:** September 20, 2000, 09:50:00 AM »

easily the ugliest plane ever! i hope LM wins the contract

Pyro · « **Reply #4 on:** September 20, 2000, 10:02:00 AM »

Looks like a parrotfish.

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funked · « **Reply #5 on:** September 20, 2000, 10:02:00 AM »

I like it.

miko2d · « **Reply #6 on:** September 20, 2000, 10:13:00 AM »

Yick... Looks like a fat pregnant cross of F16 and F22. On the other hand it is supposed to carry all the ordnance inside to reduce radar signature and drag, unlike F16.
And some of that ordnance will be volumnous anti-ground stuff, unlike F22.
miko

Ripsnort · « **Reply #7 on:** September 20, 2000, 10:29:00 AM »

I have a model(Virtual) of it from 1993, when it had the winglets out on the delta wingtips, they since changed that design, funny watchin this thing evolve along its course.

indian · « **Reply #8 on:** September 20, 2000, 11:26:00 AM »

Can we say perk plane.

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StSanta · « **Reply #9 on:** September 20, 2000, 01:25:00 PM »

Wow, you got that thing airborne now?

Wtg

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J_A_B · « **Reply #10 on:** September 20, 2000, 01:30:00 PM »

Ugly as hell.

And most ugly planes totally suck in war. Hope we don't have one with THAT as part of our arsenal.

J_A_B

-duma- · « **Reply #11 on:** September 20, 2000, 01:34:00 PM »

Uh, Santa, if I remember rightly part of the team working on this is from Denmark. Some cold country like that anyway

Man, it IS ugly, even worse than the Sea Harrier FRS(sp?) 2s with bulged radomes

Thinking about it, looks kinda like the competitor to the F/A-18 (?).. what was it, the A-8R or something? Based on the Crusader, had the same kind of forward-swept intake

-duma- · « **Reply #12 on:** September 20, 2000, 01:37:00 PM »

Er, guys, I think this is lifting-body technology (or whatever it's called, every plane using it looks hideous anyway). In case you hadn't noticed, the F-22's hardly the world's most beautiful creation either

All modern planes will look ugly, that's just the way of things. At least this one looks like the dropship out of Aliens

Ripsnort · « **Reply #13 on:** September 20, 2000, 01:45:00 PM »

Santa, you're going to make more enemies than friends with that signature of yours, including me.

I don't push my religion on you, don't push your atheism on me.

Hamish · « **Reply #14 on:** September 20, 2000, 04:42:00 PM »

Where's the arrestor hook?

Hamish

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