Why did you choose your Avatar.

[Chewie]

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.

[DorisInsinuate]

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.

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

[Barbarossa]

@Chewie, your co-workers must really hate you

[JPaul]

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.

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

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

[Chewie]

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

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

[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.

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



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.

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

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.

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.

[JPaul]

Do you use bittorrent.

[Tempestv]

Do you use bittorrent.

it's downloading now-thanks

[JPaul]

NP, hope you enjoy it.

[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...