In other news, most marine gas turbine engines in use since the Sixties have been modified airliner engines.

What's the over/under on "Cope Taufan" being a character in Episode VII?

"Most extreme," you say?

The same reason yachts have it: it makes the ships easier to air-condition. Since they aren't used anywhere near where actual fighting is, they don't really need navy haze gray. The need for cooling is why some of the Persian Gulf-stationed amphibs got painted white, also.

It was a great opener for the game, so good it wasn't until a subsequent viewing that I thought to ask "Why are they leaving fortifications to charge uphill against an enemy with more numbers and a specialty for close combat, when they know reinforcements are already on the way?"

Why do you hate SpaceCar?

I'm not sure who this cartoon is even for. Does anyone think "I need to buy a car, better check what the national car dealership organization has to say about that first?"

I was really expecting the Sentinel to be the next large Imperial ship, seeing as how it has actual screen time.

Point of order: canon.

Let's not romanticize here—the Crusader III, while a neat aiplane, had no growth potential and was in no way other than top speed competitive with the Phantom.

The variable-incidence wing was a feature of the original F-8, which it had instead of conventional flaps for exactly the reasons you guess: to keep the carrier in view of the pilot during final approach.

This is MovieSpace, where speeds are in the WW2 aviation range, there's sound in a vacuum and an up and down, nebulae are like fogbanks, and asteroids are close enough to jump between.

Maglev is the only way I see this happening.

I'm betting it will still take five hits to kill someone, though.

Just as Convair remodeled the B-36 into the B-60 by inserting a wedge in the wing root to give them sweep and trading the mixed powerplant for an eight-jet setup identical to the B-52, the C-99 would have been updated to the Model 6.

What units of measure were used to quantify craziness so that the stunts could be ranked?

I was going to ask if maybe the wrong metric prefix had been used...

Getting shot would also seriously fuck with your depth perception.

If it has all-around video systems, why does it need windows? Those seem it would relegate it to COIN/paramilitary/security use only.

At least they picked the correct end to pinch down. I guess some designer remembered playing Car Wars, after all.