Watch Tora! Tora! Tora!; it is, in every conceivable way, a better movie.

Wait. Something’s missing.

Either Kinja’d or Best Of (reruns) would be my guesses.

o rly?

Wrong decade; H2 was ‘02-’09.

Looks a bit more like Andross from the first Star Fox to me.

“Everyone said I was daft to rebuild a Jeep in my yard, but I rebuilt it all the same, just to show them. It rusted into my yard. So I rebuilt a second one. That rusted into my yard. So I rebuilt a third. That burned down, fell over, then rusted into my yard. But the fourth one is still (barely) running. And that’s…

You mean a Human Replica Droid, like Guri?

Even a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there are rednecks with duct tape ready to assemble things never meant to be assembled.

My current work collection, except I’ve added the Hallmark Chessie engine:

Good advice.

Yeah, but he’s English, so it’d be hard to tell....

Fair enough. 

After takeoff, yes, though spotters were needed so that they would have enough time to either change course or altitude to avoid other ships or hazards. WIG craft are not nimble, and too radical a maneuver can drag a wingtip, which would cause the craft to crash.

Ekranoplans used what is called PAR thrust to reduce the speed needed to take off. Once enough speed has been achieved the PAR engines are shut down.