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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Pongo on September 20, 2000, 09:38:00 AM
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http://www.boeing.com/news/feature/jsffirstflight/gallery.html (http://www.boeing.com/news/feature/jsffirstflight/gallery.html)
doesnt this thing look like its out of a SF movie?
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Spoke with some military-side-of-the-house friends via email, they were estatic about first flight.
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Dude, we're actually gonna pay for that beast?! It will never fly I tell ya! Things almost as ugly as a Corsair.
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easily the ugliest plane ever! i hope LM wins the contract
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Looks like a parrotfish.
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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations
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I like it.
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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
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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.
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Can we say perk plane. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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Tommy (INDIAN) Toon
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Wow, you got that thing airborne now?
Wtg (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
"Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again"
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[This message has been edited by StSanta (edited 09-20-2000).]
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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
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Uh, Santa, if I remember rightly part of the team working on this is from Denmark. Some cold country like that anyway (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Man, it IS ugly, even worse than the Sea Harrier FRS(sp?) 2s with bulged radomes (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) 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 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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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 (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
All modern planes will look ugly, that's just the way of things. At least this one looks like the dropship out of Aliens (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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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.
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Where's the arrestor hook?
Hamish
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Thats why we like more of these propeller planes, because they look better (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Boeing 377 Super Guppies are easily the ugliest planes ever used by the US.
(http://www.aerofiles.com/boeguppy.jpg)
- Jig
[This message has been edited by Jigster (edited 09-20-2000).]
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That was the test rig for the hit balloon on my F4u1d in Aces high...
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Oops. rip, dinnae mean it as anything offensive or pushing a lack of something on anyone.
Just thought it was funny but I guess it is pretty tasteless. Then again, very little is holy to me (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
Incidentally, the pic is the logo for the American band Bad Religion (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
This one better?
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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
(http://www.geocities.com/stsantasatan/flag.gif)
"What is better; to be loved by one, or hated by all?"
[This message has been edited by StSanta (edited 09-20-2000).]
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I dunno...
Ever look close at a F-117?
Major ugly, vastly successful...
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Mino
The Wrecking Crew
"Who's next?"
Naso
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At least if it crashes in the water they can use it as a boat ...
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Originally posted by miko2d:
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
thats why we have the F15E (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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Originally posted by J_A_B:
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
Yep, F4U was considered ugly, sucked in the Pacific theatre didn't it?
P47 was nicknamed the Jug, cause it was ugly, sucked didn't it?
A10 Warthog, name says it all, its ugly, sucked in the Gulf war didn't it?
Want me to go on?
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Ugly planes rule.
Just look at the LW.
They're so ugly, they're beautiful. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif).
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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"
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Actually I think it is "freakin" ugly, and as for the afore-mentioned "ugly" planes, f4u, a-10, etc... I think these are beautiful planes. Form = function = beauty (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
The JSF has no primary function that I'm aware of, hence it is of course ugly.
BTW StSanta: goin to bad religion on the 30th, woohoo!!!
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F4U is great looking because of its wings, P47 looks just like any other WW2 fighter.. except for its size imo, and the A10 is just a WORK OF ART. Damn I love that puppy.
This THING is plain BUTT uggly. Looks like an f16 slapped on top of a 767's engine fan. Hey, maybe thats what it is! Heehee (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
LW planes are ugly (except for the me262.. niice plane)... but think about it.. they're GERMAN. They HAVE to be ugly (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif) .
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F-22 isn't exactly pretty....but compared to this monstrosity, its a friggin work of art!
USA should have gone with the F-20 back when they were considering it. Damn fine fighter....good looking and pretty cheap, too.
F-117 was originally a total failure...it has the F designation because it was intended to be a fighter, but lacks any kind of useful performance....but it turned out to be really useful for quick hit-and-run strikes. The Wobblin' Goblin isn't pretty, that's for sure.
J_A_B
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dudedog:
you should be called "luckydog" (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Missed them when they were playing here this summer; found out too late (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
NEXT time...next time... (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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StSanta
JG54 "Grünherz"