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Post by Bad Dates on Oct 4, 2007 3:34:38 GMT -5
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Yan
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Post by Yan on Oct 4, 2007 9:15:55 GMT -5
That's great!! Really cool! I hope we see some kind of footage of this...
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Post by pitfallharry on Oct 4, 2007 15:24:43 GMT -5
Ummm......The take off should be cool but who's going to land it?
"Family of four was killed today after a life size model of a SW X-Wing crashed into their car while driving down the freeway."
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Post by Ragingblues on Oct 4, 2007 15:27:59 GMT -5
That is very cool and I'm looking forward to seeing how the flight comes out.   May the Force be with them..... Ken |
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Post by bendingoak on Oct 4, 2007 18:06:16 GMT -5
where does one park?
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Post by Connecticut Jones on Oct 4, 2007 20:10:00 GMT -5
That... is...umm... wow..
CJ
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Post by corellia on Oct 5, 2007 7:59:06 GMT -5
okay where can I sign up as a test pilot ...?  seriously that's WAY cool! |
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Post by pitfallharry on Oct 5, 2007 8:34:43 GMT -5
Wait a second....You actually want to be in that thing when they set it off?!?!!?  You might as well strap yourself to one of those Acme rockets like Wile E. Coyote! ;D  |
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Post by corellia on Oct 6, 2007 6:43:32 GMT -5
Wait a second....You actually want to be in that thing when they set it off?!?!!? well maybe not this particular one... I'd rather fly a real one of course. |
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Post by pitfallharry on Oct 6, 2007 8:55:54 GMT -5
Yeah, I would too.......Well, actually I'd rather pilot the Falcon. I'd get me a pair of fuzzy dice and hang them in the window of the cockpit and then I'd pimp it out.....maybe put some flames down the side of it and then I'd put a chrome radar dish on it and some lights underneath it. |
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Post by GCR on Oct 6, 2007 9:28:52 GMT -5
Yeah, I would too.......Well, actually I'd rather pilot the Falcon. I'd get me a pair of fuzzy dice and hang them in the window of the cockpit and then I'd pimp it out.....maybe put some flames down the side of it and then I'd put a chrome radar dish on it and some lights underneath it. Harry - Don't forget the killer sound system with some intergallactic sub-woofers. Seriously, though...is that thing (the X-wing) for real? Let me get this straight, these people built a huge mock-up of an X-wing fighter, only to blast it up into the air with no way of controlling it?  -GCR |
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Post by pitfallharry on Oct 6, 2007 9:33:30 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D Oh, yeah.....my Corillian sub-woofers. I forgot about those. ;D They'd be blasting the P-Diddy version of the Imperial March. ;D As far as the X-Wing goes that appears to be the case. It's just like a giant bottle rocket. Yeah, I suspect a lawsuit surrounding this at some point.....along with maybe a death or at the very least some dismemberment. |
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Post by GCR on Oct 6, 2007 12:01:08 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D Oh, yeah.....my Corillian sub-woofers. I forgot about those. ;D They'd be blasting the P-Diddy version of the Imperial March. ;D ;D ;D ;D Well, that's quite a positive outlook you've got there PH! ;D So let me guess, your best case scenario is something like "A California man loses three fingers, two toes, and an elbow when a giant X-wing rocket crashed into his patio early this morning. The droid on board the craft was uninjured, but failed to pass a sobriety test." ;D -GCR |
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Post by Yan on Oct 6, 2007 12:22:55 GMT -5
Somebody get Yoda to land this thing...
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Post by Indy 500 on Oct 6, 2007 15:35:36 GMT -5
I hope they don't choose one of those chubby people to fly in it. That narrows it down to about two or three guys in the photo.
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Post by pitfallharry on Oct 6, 2007 17:27:38 GMT -5
Well, this is the special "Porkin's" model X-Wing.......so it can hold chubby people.  |
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Post by Bad Dates on Oct 8, 2007 10:04:06 GMT -5
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Post by corellia on Oct 8, 2007 15:08:08 GMT -5
Well, this is the special "Porkin's" model X-Wing.......so it can hold chubby people. really... LOL... okay that project made me *really* want to reactivate my own x-wing pilot outfit now... |
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Post by Ihatesnakes on Oct 10, 2007 10:04:42 GMT -5
oh man, that ended ugly.  ;D |
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Post by Ragingblues on Oct 10, 2007 10:08:27 GMT -5
I don't think they ever properly planned it out from a stress point of view. Let's face it, the X-Wing is a fictional craft that would require alot of stabilization to fly properly. That would require more weight, then more power, etc.... just to make a design work that should never really work anyway. But, it was cool to see it fly... even if only for a few moments. The sound of the launch itself was cool too. Ken |
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Post by pitfallharry on Oct 10, 2007 10:11:26 GMT -5
Was the other one a Y-Wing? That lasted a little bit longer before it fell apart. I have to say there for that few seconds when the X-Wing was taking off my heart was racing because it was pretty damn cool to see that ship actually flying for real. |
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Post by corellia on Oct 10, 2007 11:50:14 GMT -5
okay that WAS pretty cool... though it rather hurt to see it disintegrate after those few seconds...lol next time they should try to start it from horizontal position like in the movies, not with the nose up like a rocket. |
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Post by pitfallharry on Oct 10, 2007 14:32:13 GMT -5
okay that WAS pretty cool... though it rather hurt to see it disintegrate after those few seconds...lol next time they should try to start it from horizontal position like in the movies, not with the nose up like a rocket. Hahaha......I think that would be even worse if they launched it like that. The thing would shoot off down the desert like a shoulder fired missle. Lord help the person who happens to get in it's way. ;D |
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