Why did you choose your Avatar.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

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Originally Posted by captain_azad

simple

joey jordison = ownage

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Why do you have eight posts.

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dont know, dont care :whistling

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Originally Posted by JPaul

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Originally Posted by Tempestv

Matches my username- painting of a Tempest V

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Indeed, then the question becomes - why did you pick the name.

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because it is a very nice airplane, and I am a bit obsessed with aircraft. in fact I intend to turn my engineering degree into areospace engineering.

my favourite model :wub:

I usually use an avatar taken from one of my favourite films or cartoons. The girl footballer with the fake moustache from Shaolin Soccer is my favourite avatar of all time.

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Originally Posted by Cheese

I usually use an avatar taken from one of my favourite films or cartoons. The girl footballer with the fake moustache from Shaolin Soccer is my favourite avatar of all time.

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I liked it too. I found it really hawt in the way Spatch finds Kaoru hawt.

i chose mine cos i made it and cos i loike the x files and cos i loike battlestar galactica :mellow:

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Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

i chose mine cos i made it and cos i loike the x files and cos i loike battlestar galactica :mellow:

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Where's the battlestar galactica bit :unsure:

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Originally Posted by enoughfakefiles

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Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

i chose mine cos i made it and cos i loike the x files and cos i loike battlestar galactica :mellow:

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Where's the battlestar galactica bit :unsure:

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David Duchovny's head, 'cause his acting is lyke robotic, innit.

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Originally Posted by enoughfakefiles

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Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

i chose mine cos i made it and cos i loike the x files and cos i loike battlestar galactica :mellow:

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Where's the battlestar galactica bit :unsure:

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the cylon centurion's body that mulders head is affixed to :pinch:

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Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

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Originally Posted by enoughfakefiles

Where's the battlestar galactica bit :unsure:

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the cylon centurion's body that mulders head is affixed to :pinch:

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I not even gonna post the smilie :pinch:

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/7069/eodney3lx.jpg

flip it. :pinch:

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Originally Posted by Tempestv

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Originally Posted by JPaul

Indeed, then the question becomes - why did you pick the name.

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because it is a very nice airplane, and I am a bit obsessed with aircraft. in fact I intend to turn my engineering degree into areospace engineering.

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I was watching a programme on ultmate combat aircraft yesterday. The FA 22 Raptor is nothing short of extraordinary.

http://www.blueangels.org/Aircraft/H...2_Raptor_1.jpg

If anyone hasn't heard of it, it has full stealth capability, but can also fly at supersonic speeds. It can maintain supersonic speed without using afterburners.

In effect it's fast as feck and invisible to radar and infrared. You really wouldn't want to fight one.

Unfortunately they cost about $120,000,000 (£87) each.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

If anyone hasn't heard of it, it has full stealth capability, but can also fly at supersonic speeds. It can maintain supersonic speed without using afterburners.

In effect it's fast as feck and invisible to radar and infrared. You really wouldn't want to fight one.

Unfortunately they cost about $120,000,000 (£87) each.

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Does it still do vector thrusting?

They seem pretty cheap. I'm going down to Lidl to pick one up.

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Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

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Originally Posted by JPaul

If anyone hasn't heard of it, it has full stealth capability, but can also fly at supersonic speeds. It can maintain supersonic speed without using afterburners.

In effect it's fast as feck and invisible to radar and infrared. You really wouldn't want to fight one.

Unfortunately they cost about $120,000,000 (£87) each.

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Does it still do vector thrusting?

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I believe it does, not quite Harrier standard but it's very maneu turny.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

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Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

Does it still do vector thrusting?

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I believe it does, not quite Harrier standard but it's very maneu turny.

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If I was a plane making guy, and I wanted to cut some costs, I would get rid of the thrust vectoring.

I'm fairly sure you don't really need that much maneuverability in modern air combat. It's just Amerkan extravagance, to be honest.

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Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

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Originally Posted by JPaul

I believe it does, not quite Harrier standard but it's very maneu turny.

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If I was a plane making guy, and I wanted to cut some costs, I would get rid of the thrust vectoring.

I'm fairly sure you don't really need that much maneuverability in modern air combat. It's just Amerkan extravagance, to be honest.

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I think it's quite handy for landing on terrorists.

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Originally Posted by Barbarossa

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Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

If I was a plane making guy, and I wanted to cut some costs, I would get rid of the thrust vectoring.

I'm fairly sure you don't really need that much maneuverability in modern air combat. It's just Amerkan extravagance, to be honest.

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I think it's quite handy for landing on terrorists.

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Don't be stupid.

They use Daisycutters on terrorists.

Bastards! :o

The Eurofighter is also V Cool. It can also operate supersonic sans afterburners and can work at an almost constant 9G. The pilots not only wear anti-g suits, they also have anti-g boots which inflate when they are operating at high-g.

http://www.gcseinmanufacturing.com/G...ighter%204.jpg

I chose the best shot I could find of Chewbacca to fit my handle.

People at work started calling me Chewie a little over 20 years ago 'cos of my beard and long hair, and the handle stuck until I left there in '88.

Although I've been using the nick on the interweb since first 'getting on' it 9 years ago, it's not something I've used IRL until I landed my current job 2.5 years ago and lots of people started calling me either 'Chewie' or 'Wookie', without knowing about my internet alias. I still find that a little weird.

BTW I hadn't actually seen any Star Wars films in their entirety until I bought the DVD boxed set last year.

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Originally Posted by Chewie UK

I chose the best shot I could find of Chewbacca to fit my handle.

People at work started calling me Chewie a little over 20 years ago 'cos of my beard and long hair, and the handle stuck until I left there in '88.

Although I've been using the nick on the interweb since first 'getting on' it 9 years ago, it's not something I've used IRL until I landed my current job 2.5 years ago and lots of people started calling me either 'Chewie' or 'Wookie', without knowing about my internet alias. I still find that a little weird.

BTW I hadn't actually seen any Star Wars films in their entirety until I bought the DVD boxed set last year.

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Oi, this is a plane thread. Stay on topic.

:whoosh:

@Chewie, your co-workers must really hate you :P

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Originally Posted by Chewie UK

I chose the best shot I could find of Chewbacca to fit my handle.

People at work started calling me Chewie a little over 20 years ago 'cos of my beard and long hair, and the handle stuck until I left there in '88.

Although I've been using the nick on the interweb since first 'getting on' it 9 years ago, it's not something I've used IRL until I landed my current job 2.5 years ago and lots of people started calling me either 'Chewie' or 'Wookie', without knowing about my internet alias. I still find that a little weird.

BTW I hadn't actually seen any Star Wars films in their entirety until I bought the DVD boxed set last year.

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I think the one you chose is actually a bit coquettish.

For the hard of thinking, yes it's a kind of potato.

lol
Yeah, it's a bit posey, innit?

@DI:
Chewbacca's a co-pilot so it's still on-topic.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

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Originally Posted by Tempestv

because it is a very nice airplane, and I am a bit obsessed with aircraft. in fact I intend to turn my engineering degree into areospace engineering.

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I was watching a programme on ultmate combat aircraft yesterday. The FA 22 Raptor is nothing short of extraordinary.

http://www.blueangels.org/Aircraft/H...2_Raptor_1.jpg

If anyone hasn't heard of it, it has full stealth capability, but can also fly at supersonic speeds. It can maintain supersonic speed without using afterburners.

In effect it's fast as feck and invisible to radar and infrared. You really wouldn't want to fight one.

Unfortunately they cost about $120,000,000 (£87) each.

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A very nice aircraft, and by all accounts, one of the best handling aircraft around.

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Originally Posted by DorisInsinuate

If I was a plane making guy, and I wanted to cut some costs, I would get rid of the thrust vectoring.

I'm fairly sure you don't really need that much maneuverability in modern air combat. It's just Amerkan extravagance, to be honest.

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Maneuverabliity is actually very inportant in dogfights. you might not think that there is really all that many of those, but that is the mistake we made with the F-4 phantom- we figured that with powerfull radar and missles the phantom would be invincable in the air. infact it was not even armed with a cannon. it was soon realized that you still are going to have dog fights and the phantom was fucked if a mig got to close to launch a missile at. a lot of phantoms got shot down this way.

what kills me about the F-22 is that it was desined to fight the soviet union- here is plane that is only getting introduced now, but was desined to fight an enemy that hasn't existed for more than fifteen years. the same goes for the B2 bomber.

the eurofight is quite nice i must say. the Griffin and the Rafale are also very nice.

Do you use bittorrent.

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Originally Posted by JPaul

Do you use bittorrent.

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it's downloading now-thanks

NP, hope you enjoy it.

I chose mine because I love classic movies. I think that Audrey Hepburn is one of the most beautiful women in the world.

Sorry...I dont know anything about planes. Im pretty grounded most of the time...:)

I change mine alot but i chose this one becuase it was a foobar2000 icon and it looks cool.

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Originally Posted by wEeZeR's_AiR

I chose mine because I love classic movies. I think that Audrey Hepburn is one of the most beautiful women in the world.

Sorry...I dont know anything about planes. Im pretty grounded most of the time...:)

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I'll get your coat...

Peace bd

I didn't really choose mine, as I made it myself. I thought it was funny, and people have said it reflects me perfectly.

I haven't found an avatar I really like so until I do I'll just keep using my high school graduation picture.

I don't know why I chose mine, I think it was cos when I first jined I thought an animated avy would make me look less of a n00b.

I don't think its changed either since I joined apart from the odd Xmas hat, its sort of part of me and my persona on here now.

I do remember one Saturday though when everyone posting in the lounge was using my avy :lol:

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Originally Posted by wEeZeR's_AiR

I think that Audrey Hepburn is one of the most beautiful women in the world.

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:wub:

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I don't know why I chose mine, I think it was cos when I first jined I thought an animated avy would make me look less of a n00b.

I don't think its changed either since I joined apart from the odd Xmas hat, its sort of part of me and my persona on here now.

I do remember one Saturday though when everyone posting in the lounge was using my avy :lol:

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Yours is cool.

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Originally Posted by DanB

I do remember one Saturday though when everyone posting in the lounge was using my avy :lol:

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That was a confusing day. :stars:

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Originally Posted by twisterX

I change mine alot but i chose this one becuase it was a foobar2000 icon and it looks cool.

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I'd have to say twister, you have the best avatars. rly. I almost copied your alcohol 120% one :lol:


:ermm: :lookaroun

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Originally Posted by brotherdoobie

I'll get your coat...

Peace bd

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DONT STEAL MY COAT!!:ph34r: