fantasy airshow

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by Gilly

nice selection Winny
The only things I'd add are:
the liberator from blakes7 and the Xbomber from the 80's kids show Starfleet!

Throw in the ship John Boy Walton flew in Battle Beyond The Stars too. The only spaceship to feature a set of jugs. Must have been about aerodynamics

[winny]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

Throw in the ship John Boy Walton flew in Battle Beyond The Stars too. The only spaceship to feature a set of jugs. Must have been about aerodynamics

Now that's funny.. I hadn't really looked at it like that before. The best actor in that film was John Boy's mole. I must have watched it almost as much as I watched Star Wars as a kid. I loved it. Then the VCR decided to eat it one morning..

Didn't they use special effects out of another film in it?

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by winny

Now that's funny.. I hadn't really looked at it like that before. The best actor in that film was John Boy's mole. I must have watched it almost as much as I watched Star Wars as a kid. I loved it. Then the VCR decided to eat it one morning..

Didn't they use special effects out of another film in it?

Yeah it was a favourite of mine too. I never realised until a lot later it was a remake of The Magnificent Seven with a space setting.
The special FX were reused in Space Raiders a couple of years later. It was a Roger Corman film and he was famous for streching his resources.

I believe James Cameron and Bill Paxton worked on this film set dressing and special FX and thats where they met. So Hudson fans owe this film some respect!

[Davedog74]

whats the sci fi film where a bloke has to talk a speaking bomb out of going off ?

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by Davedog74

whats the sci fi film where a bloke has to talk a speaking bomb out of going off ?

That's Dark Star, John Carpenters college project film. It had a beach ball alien in it which actually was part of the inspiration for Alien. The script writer Dan O'Bannon who wrote it thought it would be good to expand on the idea with a scary alien.

Ok my scifi inner geek is showing now!

[f1rebrand]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

That's Dark Star, John Carpenters college project film. It had a beach ball alien in it which actually was part of the inspiration for Alien. The script writer Dan O'Bannon who wrote it thought it would be good to expand on the idea with a scary alien.

Ok my scifi inner geek is showing now!

A great film for its tiny $60,000 budget.

[Gilly]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

The only spaceship to feature a set of jugs. Must have been about aerodynamics

ahhh Sybil Danning!!!.....

[dkwookie]

Originally Posted by Gilly

ahhh Sybil Danning!!!.....

I'll buy that for a dollar!

[scottyvt4]

lol some of the fantasy stuff faaaaaaaaar too much time on ones hands................. but some awesome selections


the airshow stuff epic selections Dave 10 just aint enough, you start to think and a fair few more pop into you're head!!!!

1. Spitfire (any variant be awesome to hear a griffen engined one)
2. Bristol beaufighter
3. Hawker Typhon
4. Bf 109 E3
5. Mosquito
6. Harrier GR3??
7. BAE Jaguar
8. AC 130 specter
9. Douglas Skyraider
10. F4F Phantom

2nd half

1. Mig 29 fulcrum (sp)
2. Vulcan, valiant and valiant fly past
3. Halifax, manchester, lancaster and wellington fly past
4. Lynx doing some aerobatics
5. Apache
6. Hind
8. B17, liberator, B25 and B29 flypast
9. P51 D
10. Red Arrows

[Soviet Ace]

For a more modern air show, I'd include these.

Fighters

MiG-15
MiG-15bis
MiG-19
MiG-21
MiG-29S (Strictly air-to-air, with very limited unguided ground attack capabilities.)
Su-17
Su-22
Su-27
Su-33 (Just an SU-27 but with folding wings and used by the Navy. Kinda like a F-14 Tomcat or something similar.)

Bombers

Tu-95M
Tu-95KD (Fitted with air-to-ground missiles for better defense, and more modern avionics, etc.)
Tu-160 "Black Jack" (Like a Soviet B1 but with better range and payload. Also more reliable in maintenance.)
Tu-119 (A varient of the Tu-95 Bear, but only reached prototype stage with seeing if a strategic bomber could last when being powered by a nuclear reactor!)
Il-28

That's pretty much it involving Soviet planes. I'd throw in some odd balls here and there, but those would be my main attractions.