me being annoying yet again

anna · Post by **anna** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:55 pm

was dirge,ramjets,thrusts and sunstrwakers transforms based on real vehicles?

anna · Post by **anna** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:56 pm

sunstrwakers????? lol!! i meant sunstreaker natually.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:56 pm

Um, well Sunstreaker was a jazzed up Lamborghini Countach wasn't he?

I'm not good with planes...

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:58 pm

Dirge, Ramjet and Thrust were all modified F-14s, iirc. Was was it 15s?

But yeah, they're pretty much based on real aircraft.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:11 pm

Weren't the original seekers F-15 Tomcats?

Which would make the coneheads modified F-15s, though I don't know of any that really looked like that. I imagine Thrust is the most likely to exist in real life with the VTOL stuff, but I've never seen one...

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:44 pm

That picture need repainting as Starscream or something...

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:46 pm

Yup. That's what Transformers is really missing. Another repaint.

Thank you!

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:47 pm

You're welcome.
Just not when I've having me tea.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:49 pm

Duly noted.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 9:53 pm

Ring first - my sister's pal and her boyfriend have an uncanny ability to turn up just as a meal starts. Then we have to share it with them - which reduces our original portions.

I told them to 'f*ck off' last week.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:22 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:Weren't the original seekers F-15 Tomcats?

Which would make the coneheads modified F-15s, though I don't know of any that really looked like that.

Well, it's not really that much of a stretch to imagine someone taking the Tomcat fuselage and applying delta-wing technology to it - Dirge & Ramjet.

As for Thrust...

I imagine Thrust is the most likely to exist in real life with the VTOL stuff, but I've never seen one...

...I'd imagine, knowing a spattering about aerodynamics and airframes, that having two massive holes in your wings would just about counter any airflow and nullify the resultant lifting effect. Thrust, therefore, has about as much chance of gaining altitude as a housebrick on a rollerskate.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:15 am

F-15 Eagle
http://www.ilexikon.com/images/a/a3/Usa ... 750pix.jpg

F-14 Tomcat
http://www.9sto.edu.pl/Ptaki/F-14%20Tomcat%20a.jpg

Starscream etc were Eagles.

The Skystriker in GI Joe/AF was a Tomcat.

Sunstreaker is a touring custom Lambo Countach LP500S
http://www.bcgator.net/Images/LP_500_S_Countach-01.jpg
(but with a huge blower mounted on the back. Oo-er.)

Hey, here's an interesting page I just re-found.
http://members.chello.nl/p.gerritzen1/index_000029.htm

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:44 am

KingMob wrote:
Hey, here's an interesting page I just re-found.
http://members.chello.nl/p.gerritzen1/index_000029.htm

Cool. I like Rodimus.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:10 am

Cosmos is pretty good...

Was curious about other Seeker designs, found this:
http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-15_active.pl
Dirge!
Kinda.
There's even a jigsaw puzzle of it here
http://freejigsawpuzzles.com/puzzles/f1 ... puzzle.htm

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:39 am

damm - too late, but Kingmob beat me to all the correct information.

Ill be surprised if in the new movie the seekers can be F-15's - why?

Because, in Independence day, the good guys (will smith) fly F-18's and are called the black Knights, the ace flying combat group of the US airforce. in reality the Black Knights are an F-15 troupe but the US gov wouldnt allow the use of the F-15 image in ID because they still belive in national security on the supposedly most deadly plane in the world today...

yay - crap fact me!

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:16 pm

KingMob wrote:Hey, here's an interesting page I just re-found.
http://members.chello.nl/p.gerritzen1/index_000029.htm

Cool. And fun too.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:58 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:...the US gov wouldnt allow the use of the F-15 image in ID because they still belive in national security on the supposedly most deadly plane in the world today...

Yet they allowed Starscream and the seekers? But what if the Chinese watch Transformers?

anna · Post by **anna** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:13 pm

i meant those specic styles they used i knew stascream was an f-15 and sunstreaker was a lam but i wasnt sure if those wing designs and car desien exsisted ah well that "real transformers" page was cool though and thanls all for the info.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:46 pm

the Sunstreaker Lambo with the engine mod wasnt ever a production model - but im sure u could mod on what looks to be 2 giant super charger intakes.

as for thrust, theres never been a plane like it in concept or reality - as plane buff im pretty sure it wouldnt even work.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:07 pm

KingMob wrote:Cosmos is pretty good...

Was curious about other Seeker designs, found this:
http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-15_active.pl
Dirge!
Kinda.
There's even a jigsaw puzzle of it here
http://freejigsawpuzzles.com/puzzles/f1 ... puzzle.htm

Dirge looks kinda like a Gripen to me... Those nose-stabiliser, for example.

Thrust, well there were some experimental planes with those VTOL wings, I believe, but not F-15s.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:01 pm

That Powerglide, tho, is quite poor. Much more like the Decepticon Micromaster Air Strike Patroller whose name I can't tag: Nightflight?

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:55 am

Tailwind?

Cool ID4 info. I had kinda thought the F-15s were outdated now, but saying that I think the Strike Eagle is still pretty top? The F-15E or something, I'm remembering this from a Tom Clancy book so it might well be horlicks.

I wonder what they would use instead? F-22 is an obvious choice, but there are non-G1 Starscreams based on that jet, so does that bugger that up?
The Joint Strike Fighter was my next thought, but I think Armada Thrust was based on that.
What's left? Hornet? They're quite cool looking.

What's a Gripen? I didn't know about that 'Dirge'-style Eagle till I went browsing. Kinda cool.

edit: nevermind, soz, found it. Gripen

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:48 am

Heh, remember Dreadwind on the letters page insisted he transformed into a Tornado?

Hmm, that Gripen looks like Stormcloud.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:05 am

spiderfrommars wrote:Heh, remember Dreadwind on the letters page insisted he transformed into a Tornado?

He did?

Wow.

Darkwing was a Tornado. Nice one, Furmo!

anna · Post by **anna** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:31 pm

too bad thrust(in spite of his porn name) is a cool jet mode (and so is dirge if you reverse his wings as i often do)

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:20 pm

Yeah, and I believe the G2 Skyscorcher Eagle Eye (green plane) is an actual Gripen...

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:24 pm

I hope you all know by now where the Gripen was designed and partially manufactured...

{Twitches joy-stick for a fierce left-turn}

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:24 pm

Predabot wrote:{Twitches joy-stick for a fierce left-turn}

Put that thing away! There may be ladies present.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:38 pm

Predabot wrote:I hope you all know by now where the Gripen was designed and partially manufactured...

I do indeed. Bristol, England - not more than a few minutes drive for me.

Hence the BAe Systems logo appearing on the Gripen website.

Oh, sorry Predabot. I didn't realise you actually meant "where the Gripen concept was orignally conceived, and the aircraft eventually assembled..."

Post by **Best First** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:41 am

Autobloke wrote:Ring first - my sister's pal and her boyfriend have an uncanny ability to turn up just as a meal starts. Then we have to share it with them - which reduces our original portions.
I told them to 'f*ck off' last week.

stop spamming up topics.

consider this a formal warning.

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me being annoying yet again

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