Airshow - Page 2

dar512 · 06-22-2005, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV

I need to get down to the Museum of Flight.

Cool place. When we lived up in the great Northwest, that was one of the places we would take out of town visitors. I particularly like the blackbird? that was designed to leak fuel on the ground so that it wouldn't leak fuel at high altitude.

BigV · 06-22-2005, 03:10 PM

Yeah. I distinctly remember that part too. Whole damn plane is made from titanium. Heats up and expands and seals itself. Reminds me of something my brother-in-law in the aerospace industy said once, "It's less like flying a plane, than it is a collection of 250,000 parts all flying in close formation". He wasn't talking about the SR-71, but it still fits. It is a prodigious feat of engineering. And it looks like a Star Wars prop from the reject pile--"Naw, they'll never believe it." Then they go and make the Princess' ship from Naboo (whatever NOT a starwars geek, merely an admiring amateur) ggrr. this one

Is that a blatant SR-71 ripoff or what? Maybe "homage" is the right word.

BrianR · 06-22-2005, 03:41 PM

And there is an SR-71 parked outside a building at Richmond Int'l Airport. I bet you no engines or avionics but if the need should arise, I'll bet my bottom dollar they can be produced and installed and the plane flying within a month. Particularly the ones sitting inside a museum, protected from the elements.

Brian

xoxoxoBruce · 06-22-2005, 09:33 PM

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Is that a blatant SR-71 ripoff or what? Maybe "homage" is the right word.

Form follows function when you have to deal with atmosphere but space shit can look like a model-T.

BigV · 06-22-2005, 10:30 PM

By "in space" you obviously mean the space between my eyes and my brain, right? It's a cg model, a lovely one to be certain, but the vehicle designers for star wars operate in an exempt-from-the-laws-of-physics zone. And yet it still looks like a chrome blackbird. I think this is a textbook example of the sincerest form of flattery.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-24-2005, 04:10 AM

No, I mean space as in not in air. Out there streamlining is completely unnecessary. Look at the solar sails or the space station.
I agree the Star Wars designers are into the zoomie, phalic looking creations.

Elspode · 06-24-2005, 01:48 PM

Outside of a couple of Chesley Bonestell drawings, I think that Princess Amidala's cruiser is one of the coolest looking spaceships ever.

06-22-2005, 03:10 PM	#17
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Yeah. I distinctly remember that part too. Whole damn plane is made from titanium. Heats up and expands and seals itself. Reminds me of something my brother-in-law in the aerospace industy said once, "It's less like flying a plane, than it is a collection of 250,000 parts all flying in close formation". He wasn't talking about the SR-71, but it still fits. It is a prodigious feat of engineering. And it looks like a Star Wars prop from the reject pile--"Naw, they'll never believe it." Then they go and make the Princess' ship from Naboo (whatever NOT a starwars geek, merely an admiring amateur) ggrr. this one Is that a blatant SR-71 ripoff or what? Maybe "homage" is the right word. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-22-2005, 10:30 PM	#20
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	By "in space" you obviously mean the space between my eyes and my brain, right? It's a cg model, a lovely one to be certain, but the vehicle designers for star wars operate in an exempt-from-the-laws-of-physics zone. And yet it still looks like a chrome blackbird. I think this is a textbook example of the sincerest form of flattery. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

06-24-2005, 04:10 AM	#21
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No, I mean space as in not in air. Out there streamlining is completely unnecessary. Look at the solar sails or the space station. I agree the Star Wars designers are into the zoomie, phalic looking creations. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-24-2005, 01:48 PM	#22
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Outside of a couple of Chesley Bonestell drawings, I think that Princess Amidala's cruiser is one of the coolest looking spaceships ever. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

06-22-2005, 03:41 PM	#18
BrianR Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,338	And there is an SR-71 parked outside a building at Richmond Int'l Airport. I bet you no engines or avionics but if the need should arise, I'll bet my bottom dollar they can be produced and installed and the plane flying within a month. Particularly the ones sitting inside a museum, protected from the elements. Brian

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