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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on March 28, 2008, 05:12:00 AM
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Know when to say when or can't stop the Speilburg?
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What's it ... like "Indy:Twenty years later?" No pre-war Nazis in this one, I reckon. Suspecting there'll be post-war ones. Afterall, they were pretty much his nemesis through the series (and I ate it up).
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I requested the flying wing from the first movie to be added to the plane set but my request fell on deaf ears.
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I requested the flying wing from the first movie to be added to the plane set but my request fell on deaf ears.
alas.
:(
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Well if you can request the flying wing then i get to request blimps with a detachable fighter! :rofl
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Well if you can request the flying wing then i get to request blimps with a detachable fighter! :rofl
:rofl unlike the flying wing in Indiana Jones, there where really blimps with detachable fighters...
read up on the USS Macon
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zrs5.htm
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Sorry, I'm gonna sidetrack a little bit, but your photo reminded me of:
Working in the GCA & telling someone they were #2 behind the blimp 5 mile final (PAR). :lol
Of course, it was a helicopter & he skirted right around the blimp. Was funny for a second though. :)
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I heard that they replaced his whip with a walkie-talkie.
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:rofl unlike the flying wing in Indiana Jones, there where really blimps with detachable fighters...
read up on the USS Macon
The Macon was not a blimp!
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The Macon was not a blimp!
What was it?
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The navy had two kinds of airships. Limp and rigid. (Keep the viagra jokes here to a minimum)
The limp variety had two sub types. the A-Limp airship and the B-Limp airship. B-Limps became blimps.
A blimp is a airship that uses gas pressure to keep shape, much like a shaped hot air balloon, but with internal air bladders to keep pressure.
A dirigible uses a rigid frame within the envelope for structure. The Macon was a dirigible.
<< after closer scrutiny, it look as though the a-limp and b-limp may be a legend. Some say the blimp was a spelling out of the sound that the skin of a blimp makes when you punch it.
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I see. Thank you.
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dude this movie is gonna be awesome, even tho harrison ford is like 70 years old. watch the preview! they even have teh warehouse!!!
This movie takes place in the 50's in south america. MAY 22!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTJ4v6KPrg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTJ4v6KPrg&feature=related)
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Who cares how old Harrison Ford is?This is entertainment,not realism.
I'll go see it.
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See Rule #17
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dude this movie is gonna be awesome, even tho harrison ford is like 70 years old. watch the preview! they even have teh warehouse!!!
This movie takes place in the 50's in south america. MAY 22!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTJ4v6KPrg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTJ4v6KPrg&feature=related)
Argentinian Nazis
or
Antartic Saucer Nazis
that is the question.
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dude this movie is gonna be awesome, even tho harrison ford is like 70 years old.
Na, he is a agile 66 years old.
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Soviets this time.
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And just to be accurate, the US was the only nation to operationally deploy airplane carrying airships. The Akron and it's sister ship the Macon we're the only ones designed from the get-go to be flying aircraft carriers. Each could carry up to five of these little scout planes. These dirigibles were intended to be the long-range eyes of the surface fleet, the planes being primarily a means to increase the recon footprint of the airship while providing a dubious self-defense capability. There was a vintage Navy recruiting poster that showed P-39's issuing forth from a mamoth airship (why Army planes instead of Navy ones is open to speculation). The only other airship to operate aircraft from it was the USN Los Angeles. It was built in Germany for the US as a war reparation, and didn't have internal storage (a.k.a a hanger bay) like the Akron class; the pilot of the scout had to climb up a rope ladder to reach a trap door in the bottom of the Los Angeles. This feature was added as a concept demonstration for the system latter deployed on the Akron and the Macon, which were built here in the US.
As an interesting asside, the Los Angeles was the only US dirigible not destroyed in a crash (she was decommissioned and scrapped); those Germans really knew how to build them!