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May 8, 2002 at 3:04 pm in reply to: This will get you going.. #1996539

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RE: This will get you going..

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 08-05-02 AT 03:07 PM (GMT)]Great site! 🙂
Reminds me for some reason of that old story about the Mitsubishi Starion. This turbocharged 80’s sportscar was apparently supposed to be called the Stallion, but the man at one of the Western offices misheard the Japanese office’s pronuciation of the word and the resulting name Starion stuck because Mitsubishi considered it agreeably spacey and futuristic. True or false? Interesting all the same.

May 3, 2002 at 10:39 pm in reply to: Here's a funny thing… #1997430

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RE: Here’s a funny thing…

No problem. 🙂
I wonder if it’ll continue past issue 210, if Bright Star have the will and the cash to do so? Hmm.

April 28, 2002 at 10:50 pm in reply to: UFOs #1998112

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RE: UFOs

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 28-04-02 AT 10:51 PM (GMT)]I saw a UFO once, but I’m not sure if it wasn’t part of a waking dream. For months after that night, I was convinced a silent black aircraft with a massive wingspan had swooped at treetop height over my house. Not so sure now; for a while I rationalised that what I’d seen was not a UFO, but covert testing of an RPV – but would that actually make what I saw any more credible than saying it was not of this Earth? Probably not.
Alien abductions? One night – true story – I was lying awake, and a copperplate robot burst through my bedroom door and advanced on me. And I knew it was going to kill me. I went berserk, started screaming, threw a pillow at the robot and – I dunno why – ran straight at the blighter. I went straight through the thing and ran downstairs, before it occured to me that all this was a dream – a particularly vivid dream that stayed in my conscious long enough for me to wake up and actually physically react to the “robot”. Good job I hadn’t got a gun; I was so out of it I’d probably have unloaded it on the thing.
So I believe that a lot of these abduction scenarios are actually happening in people’s minds. Doesn’t make it any less terrifying, or “real”, to the victim, though; as I found out, the mind can make a utterly realistic experience all by itself, with no chemical or alcholic assistance.

April 27, 2002 at 11:03 pm in reply to: Favourite War Movies / themes #1998315

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RE: Favourite War Movies / themes

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 27-04-02 AT 11:12 PM (GMT)]Actually… I’m watching Hunt for Red October again, and I’d forgotten how great that soundtrack is. Obviously the Russian voice choir stays in the mind, but the orchestral and electronic music is fantastic, adding real tension and atmosphere to the proceedings.
‘Course, the film’s good. They just had a Perry class frigate fire a shot across the Red October’s bow; of course, it had to turn to open up the fire arcs for the 76mm gun, and this was shown and actually mentioned in dialogue! YES! Astoundingly, Hollywood can do technical accuracy.

April 27, 2002 at 1:32 pm in reply to: All time favourite Movie??? #1998339

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RE: All time favourite Movie???

Glenn,

Oh yeah. Cameron’s films were a non-stop parade of quality from The Terminator onwards.
Then came Titanic. 🙁
Ah, never mind, it was still better than Pearl Harbor. Which is scary.

April 27, 2002 at 10:19 am in reply to: All time favourite Movie??? #1998436

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RE: All time favourite Movie???

Aliens – All-time classic. Alien is of course a classic, but this film… is fantastic in a completely different way. As a big plus it has some of the best production design ever; none of the Colonial Marines’ equipment has really dated visually or in concept over the years, and of course, there’s the Dropship. I want a Dropship!
There is honestly nothing – nothing – bad about Aliens. It’s all good.

Get Carter – the 1971 original, not the pointless Stallone remake. It’s so nasty that you end up feeling sorry for the villains; they’re a bunch of murderers, gangsters, pornographers and drug addicts, but they’re still not as bad-to-the-bone as “hero” Jack Carter (Michael Caine!), who is utterly satanic.

The Abyss – All time classic. Why this has always got lukewarm reviews baffles me.

April 26, 2002 at 4:39 pm in reply to: Favourite War Movies / themes #1998604

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RE: We were soldiers – review

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 26-04-02 AT 04:41 PM (GMT)]But it’s a recent military film starring Mel Gibson, directed by the guy who wrote Braveheart and Pearl Harbor – it positively must be inaccurate. It’s the law!
I’m only surprised they didn’t have 1960s US troops going into battle to the tender strains of “My Way” by Limp Bizkit. At least that’d be entertaining…

April 25, 2002 at 8:01 pm in reply to: Favourite War Movies / themes #1998735

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RE: Favourite War Movies / themes

I must admit the TV trailers for Blackhawk Down were interesting – putting carnage, RPGs and strafing AH-6s to the instrumental section from Moby’s “Why Does my Heart Feel So Bad”. It shouldn’t work, yet it did.
The Keep – has anybody seen this? Very strange story about WWII Germam soldiers awakening an evil entity in a wierd castle. Had an interesting soundtrack by (IIRC) Christopher Franke of Tangerine Dream.

April 24, 2002 at 9:08 pm in reply to: Blue Angels #1999004

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RE: Blue Angels

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 24-04-02 AT 09:12 PM (GMT)]>Piss off back to Air Forces Monthly.
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>p.s Go to Airliner World and vote Boeing

What? “Piss off. Oh, and by the way, go and vote for my preference at my poll.”
Persuasive! Kinda like stopping the Ice Cream Van for a choc ice by hurling a motorbike chain through the windscreen.

Phantom,

Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself. 🙂

April 23, 2002 at 8:30 pm in reply to: Women in uniform #1999244

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RE: Women in uniform

Funny, this has dredged up an odd memory.
I remember there was a photo book, made by a respectable military publisher, called something like Sisters in Armour . I thought it would be a serious discussion of female soldiers and their impact on modern armies. I opened it up…
And it wasn’t . I tell you, I nearly dropped my skateboard.
I think the biggest clue was that the front cover picture had a pair of young ladies manning a M551 Sheridan with expressions of purest bliss. Everything I’ve read about Ye Olde Sheridan suggests that, if those ladies had actually been crewing that tank, they’d be marching away from the dammed thing, sour faced with disgust. Either that or standing on the engine deck, shooting the poor thing to put it out of its misery.

April 23, 2002 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Military posts #1999246

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Ah, but can you? Can you post things on the AFM forum that AFM would never actually cover (such as tank queries, for instance)? What would that have to do with Air Forces? Tricky. 🙂

April 20, 2002 at 9:24 pm in reply to: What super hero would you most like to be and why? #1999922

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RE: What super hero would you most like to be?

Well, the patriotic part of me would like to say Captain Britain… But the flaw there is that the one issue of Captain Britain I actually read left me baffled, quite frankly. What was it all about? Mind you, I was about four years old at the time, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised the whole deal went flying way over my head.
Consequently, I would have to be Iron Man. I’d quite like a cool armoured suit that’d allow me to punch holes in buildings and shrug off AT rocket fire. And some kind of jet pack, I expect; seem to remember the guy flying around, back in the days when Iron Man was a back-up strip for Marvel UK’s Transformers comic – no idea if he still does, or did before. But even if he couldn’t fly, he’s still pretty cool.

April 12, 2002 at 5:43 pm in reply to: Bear of the week? #2001912

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RE: Bear of the week?

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 12-04-02 AT 05:48 PM (GMT)]The Grizzly. There was that story about the hunter who shot one repeatedly and posed for a photo with its corpse. The bear suddenly sprung back to life, slashed the guy’s face off and stomped back into the forest, apparently none the worse for wear. 😮
Darned things are awesome.

April 8, 2002 at 9:35 pm in reply to: Whats your favourite car? #2002329

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RE: Whats your favourite car?

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI. It’s a brutal-looking car and somewhat on the quick side; how can it fail?
neck-and-neck is the Honda NSX. A cynic would say it has no class, that it’s a soulless identikit supercar without the pedigree of a Ferrari or a Lotus. But I reckon that just enhances the car’s image; it’s a fast car with little pretention. I want one, but I don’t have the necessary 80,000 quid. Bah. 🙁

April 5, 2002 at 11:46 am in reply to: Military Quiz – No.1 #2002941

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RE: Military Quiz – No.1

Okay, let’s have a go…

1. I dunno. (Good start.)

2. Altitude?

3. Tirpitz.

4. Err… 1975?

5. Difference in size, intended role (IIRC Su-27 was intended as a long-range fighter/interceptor while the MiG-29 was a tactical fighter for Frontal Aviation) and control systems (majority of MiG-29s have conventional control while the Su-27 has FBW [I think])

6. Mitsubishi A6M Reisen, Mitsubishi J2M Raiden and Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa

7. Bock’s Car

8. September, over territorial claims and for Kuwait’s oilfields?

9. Ah. I don’t know.

10. Collins.

11. Er… Han class, I’m thinking 1981. Or thereabouts.

12. American Civil War.

13. The longbow.

14. The bomber he was riding in was shot down by a P-38 fighter sweep specifically targeting the Admiral.

15. UGM-93A

16. Rhone?

17. Knock down defensive walls using a swinging beam?

18. Akagi.

19. HMS Antelope, damaged by several bomb hits in San Carlos water then sunk hours later, by an unexploded bomb detonation, which set off the ship’s magazine.

20. Victory and Renown(?)
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