Posted on 07/26/2004 7:08:07 AM PDT by finnman69
The X-29's wings weren't the folding variety...
They were, however, made of super-strong composites to counteract the extreme lift torsion on the tips. It was also a fly-by-wire bird with 4 computers backing each other up. Without them to help the pilot, it was unflyable.
Not real...
I don't know about the Air Force, but the Navy does put pilot's names and callsigns on their aircraft.
ping
The Navy nowadays would certainly have a woman as a pilot of such an experimental machine, but she'd be in her mid-to-late 30's and far more experienced. She'd also probably be a Lieutenant Commander or better with an engineering degree, not a VERY young O-3.
It's a decent looking fake.
Whatshername from "The World is Not Enough" comes to mind.
A good counterexample is whoever played Eowyn in LOTR; she looked like she could fight.
Yes, she was a PERFECT Eowyn. Lovely girl, no dumb plastic surgery, and a good actress and singer, too. As for the other, that was Denise Richards, and you're right...
Eye candy, little else.
BTTT for later look (I know it's fake but it still looks cool)
Now THERE'S a WOMAN!!!!
Yup... she's built for speed! High speed - low drag.
Good example of the Area Rule.
POretty cool.
The plane itself seems based off of the "switchblade" stealth plane.
(A theoretical 'idea' plane that may or may not actually exist, much like the TR-3A Black Manta and the Northrop 'Shamu' stealth jamming plane.)
Would be neat if something like it really did exist, but it'd be a weird aircraft by any standard.
From an Old Navy Carrier vet - I never thought I would live to see the day something this beautiful would be on the deck of a aircraft carrier. The airplane aint bad either. hehehehehe
I can remember the introduction of the F4 Phantom II. It's revolutionary design, flying tail, gull wings, twin side by side afterburning engines. Man it was an awsome sight to us. Makes you wonder what will replace the F/A-37 some day.
It's a movie prop. But it's nice eye-candy.
Yea, darn, just a prop. I didn't read all the post which explained was not real. Nice though.
I read the name as "LT KARA WADE", and something about this kept tugging at my memory, so I checked the movie website and verified it is "Kara". I have no idea whether there's any connection, but I wonder if that name was chosen as any sort of allusion or memorial to Lt Kara Hultgren who was killed several years in a Tomcat/carrier accident.
As in "Kara Hutlgren went Wading?"
I read the name as "LT KARA WADE", and something about this kept tugging at my memory, so I checked the movie website and verified it is "Kara". I have no idea whether there's any connection, but I wonder if that name was chosen as any sort of allusion or memorial to Lt Kara Hultgren who was killed several years ago in a Tomcat/carrier accident.
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