First there was Firefox.....

robert arndt wrote:

Bob, it was on a US carrier a couple months back, for a movie. Pretty good
looking prop, if a bit far fetched.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.

Its a very cool looking prop. If it not a national security issue, what
movie was it being used for?

Its for a movie called "Stealth" that comes out next year..plot sounds
like Knight Rider with jet planes.

The movie is "Stealth" and it comes out 7/29/05. The aircraft was
filmed on the deck of the aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln". The
aircraft is a "Talon" controlled by AI pilot who gets out of control
and starts to destroy stuff. Two other pilots are sent in to destroy
the aircraft.

Sounds like Will Smith did not kick all those robots asses in I-Robot
after all......

Bob




Rob



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Kerry Ferrand wrote in message .nz...
Its for a movie called "Stealth" that comes out next year..plot sounds
like Knight Rider with jet planes.

And here comes another full load of stuff for the "aviation bloopers"
section ...

robert arndt wrote:

Bob, it was on a US carrier a couple months back, for a movie.
Pretty good looking prop, if a bit far fetched.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.

Its a very cool looking prop. If it not a national security issue, what
movie was it being used for?

Its for a movie called "Stealth" that comes out next year..plot sounds
like Knight Rider with jet planes.

The movie is "Stealth" and it comes out 7/29/05. The aircraft was
filmed on the deck of the aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln". The
aircraft is a "Talon" controlled by AI pilot who gets out of control
and starts to destroy stuff. Two other pilots are sent in to destroy
the aircraft.

"Knight Rider with jet planes" probably ain't far off the mark, given
that the director/writer, Rob Cohen, was responsible for "Knight Rider
2010". He's better known recently for directing "The Fast and the
Furious" and "XXX", both movies with lots of testosterone and very
little plot. Oh yeah, and the *nudge* *wink* treatment of Skull & Bones,
everyone's favorite Yalie "secret society", "The Skulls" (2000).

-Marc

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(Stephen FPilot Bierce) wrote in message . com...
Kerry Ferrand wrote:
Its for a movie called "Stealth" that comes out next year..plot sounds
like Knight Rider with jet planes.

After seeing the Northrop Grumman "Switchblade" pictures...

Close enough for a patent infringement lawsuit. And if the plot is
about a warplane AI going berzerk, and I were a bigwig at NG, I would
NOT be amused.

Relax, in the movie the aircraft is a Boeing F/A-37 Talon. And its
configuration is NOT the same as the Switchblade if you see any 3-way
profiles of the Switchblade. A basic concept of a multi-sweep wing
isn't anything.

Rob

(robert arndt) wrote:

I wrote:
After seeing the Northrop Grumman "Switchblade" pictures...

Close enough for a patent infringement lawsuit. And if the plot is
about a warplane AI going berzerk, and I were a bigwig at NG, I would
NOT be amused.

Relax, in the movie the aircraft is a Boeing F/A-37 Talon. And its
configuration is NOT the same as the Switchblade if you see any 3-way
profiles of the Switchblade. A basic concept of a multi-sweep wing
isn't anything.

Then if I were at Cessna I'd sue them for stealing the designation for the A-37
Dragonfly counterinsurgency aircraft.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922
{Sig Quotes Removed on Request}

From: (Stephen "FPilot" Bierce)
Date: 7/15/2004 3:21 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

(robert arndt) wrote:

I wrote:
After seeing the Northrop Grumman "Switchblade" pictures...

Close enough for a patent infringement lawsuit. And if the plot is
about a warplane AI going berzerk, and I were a bigwig at NG, I would
NOT be amused.

Relax, in the movie the aircraft is a Boeing F/A-37 Talon. And its
configuration is NOT the same as the Switchblade if you see any 3-way
profiles of the Switchblade. A basic concept of a multi-sweep wing
isn't anything.

Then if I were at Cessna I'd sue them for stealing the designation for the
A-37
Dragonfly counterinsurgency aircraft.

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922
{Sig Quotes Removed on Request}

Cessna would be the wrong party to sue. It was USAF who assigned the
designation A-37.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Marc Reeve wrote:

robert arndt wrote:


Bob, it was on a US carrier a couple months back, for a movie.
Pretty good looking prop, if a bit far fetched.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.


Its a very cool looking prop. If it not a national security issue, what
movie was it being used for?

Its for a movie called "Stealth" that comes out next year..plot sounds
like Knight Rider with jet planes.

The movie is "Stealth" and it comes out 7/29/05. The aircraft was
filmed on the deck of the aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln". The
aircraft is a "Talon" controlled by AI pilot who gets out of control
and starts to destroy stuff. Two other pilots are sent in to destroy
the aircraft.


"Knight Rider with jet planes" probably ain't far off the mark, given
that the director/writer, Rob Cohen, was responsible for "Knight Rider
2010". He's better known recently for directing "The Fast and the
Furious" and "XXX", both movies with lots of testosterone and very
little plot. Oh yeah, and the *nudge* *wink* treatment of Skull & Bones,
everyone's favorite Yalie "secret society", "The Skulls" (2000).

-Marc

Oh yeah, and there's lots more pictures dating from about mid-June (if
your news server archives that far back) over in
alt.binaries.pictures.military.

-Marc

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