cyberflyer · Jul 13, 2004 04:10 PM
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Cy
New Carrier Model
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That there is a stealth, swingwing carrier machine.
OOOOooooooo
Why hasn't someone as in tune with things as myself ever seen that before?
It looks as if it has some of Northrups YF-23 in it's herritage.
Mo info please?
From somewhere near Parkville, Mo.
William Crane
AMA 6733
It's a prop for a movie about a computer controlled fighter that runs amok. The movie is called "Stealth" and it's still in production.
Iskandar Taib · Jul 13, 2004 09:55 PM
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Heh heh heh..
There was this long running joke on rec.aviation.military about the "B-52N", the carrier version of the B-52. As it came in to land, one of the wings would fold up so it wouldn't hit the island.
Sometime later someone posted a "satellite image" of a carrier deck with what looked like a half dozen F117s (or was it B-2s?) parked on it.
Darn it!! You guys ain't no fun for the Rumour Patrol guys!
When you can, ADD to the rumour, don't debunk!
Anyone remember the taxi scenes in "Firefox" where the canards on the silly thing would flap around like the poorly fitted pieces of cardboard that they were? Good ole Hollywood.
From somewhere near Parkville, Mo.
William Crane
AMA 6733
Iskandar Taib · Jul 14, 2004 05:52 AM
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No, but I'll be sure to look for them when I watch that movie the next time.. 
The book was somewhat better than the movie.
cyberflyer · Jul 14, 2004 07:18 AM
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>When you can, add to the rumour, don't debunk!
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Check out the plane it's modeled after--Switchblade!
http://www.air-attack.com/page.php?pid=9
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Cy
Well, actually, the rudders on F-18's flop around like pieces of cardboard when it's taxing around on the carrier deck! They're not connected to the stick, and they're an integral part of the flight controls (for example, as soon as it heads down the catapult, they both swing inboard, towards each other. a F-18 driver explained to me that the computer does that to help induce a nose up pitch, which has been commanded by the trim setting through the computer) so they swing around trying to compensate for conditions that cannot be met (since it's not flying). To me, looks like they're broken! They quiver, swing one way, then the other, and completely independent of each other.
The elevators of MD-80s (and probably DC-9's, not sure) aren't connected to ANYTHING. When it's sitting on deck, for some reason or another, one is up, the other half is down! They're positioned in flight by the servo tabs, but on deck, just flop around. A good gust of wind will flop them around, and fairly frequently get the guy in the plane behind you to give you a courtesy call that you might have a flight control system problem!
See, them movie set guys are into ULTRA realism!
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Brad Smith · Jul 14, 2004 11:51 PM
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hey mike you know to much
Well, here's some more pictures, what the heck, the pilots kinda purty.
From somewhere near Parkville, Mo.
William Crane
AMA 6733
ty marcucci · Jul 17, 2004 09:48 AM
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See the Mona Lisa smile on the "pilot"? No one on a catapult about to be launched into the air from a carrier ever has a Mona Lisa smile on their face. Pure Hokkywood. 