That’s a very impressive model, it did look like the wings swept back to the half way mark at one point in the film.

The F-32 would not look like that! Boeing had already admitted (before they lost the competition) that they would have to redesign the wing and add separate horizontal stabilizers in order to get the maneuverability to where the specs required it to be. Try looking in old copies of Aviation Week & Space Technology for the revised design.

The F-32 would have looked like this.

but those tripods… they were perfect.

I noticed that the legs were very similar to those little tripod search robots in the previous Spielberg/Cruise movie Minority Report.

The point in Signs ws that the aliens were primitive, meat eating, predators, not invading, but raiding for food. The LAST thing we expected “Advanced” aliens to be doing.

The aliens in Signs were invading Earth, but they had to do it in small groups to avoid being nuked.

Those were some evil alien ba$tards, weren’t they? I thought the alien designs were too much like stuff we’ve seen before (ID4 alien heads), but the tripods were cool.

I agree, the ID4 alien heads were not alien enough but the Tripods more than made up for it 🙂

I went to this film expecting a cross between Close Encounters, E.T. and Minority Report. Instead I got a Saving Private Ryan with the Nazi’s replaced by relentless, merciless alien killing machines.

Some of the details didn’t make sense and the ending was rushed and the characters were not that likeable, but overall WOTW is a pretty good film.

This is a impressive shot http://images.airliners.net/open.file?id=374678&size=L&width=1000&height=679&sok=JURER%20%20%28nvepensg%20%3D%20%27Rhebsvtugre%20Glcubba%27%29%20%20beqre%20ol%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=136&prev_id=&next_id=372126

Would seem that the chin turret wouldn’t be quite as bad about drag, but the mast-mounted sight does allow the Kiowa to hide much better.

Personally I’d probably go with the mast-mounted sight if I had a choice.

I guess the ARH will act as a medium level military police helicopter in a lot of missions, so the chin turret is probably a good idea as it will give a unobstructed look down field of view.

It would be nice if a sighting system was developed that could be quickly chin or mast mounted as the mission required.