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Modern aircraft of the United States.
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New US Navy carrier based airplane!
Vodnik
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Warszawa, Poland
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 02:40 AM UTC
Pictures straight from US Navy website:






http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=15332

Pawel
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Metro Manila, Philippines
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 03:01 AM UTC
Too good to be true. But wow! Like the looks of it!
GunNut
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 03:25 AM UTC
It will be interesting to see if this movie is as dumb and lame as most non historical military themed movies....
Whiskey
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 04:24 AM UTC
I wonder if it really flies though and if it does what plane did they use for the platform.
LogansDad
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North Carolina, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 05:48 AM UTC
I like the fact that in the lower pic it appears that the A/C is launching (catapylt steam, blast shield, crew in launch positions), but the silly bird is quite obviously still chained to the deck! :-) :-) :-)
keenan
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Indiana, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 06:36 AM UTC
Probably made out of OSB board. In any case if the hooked it up to the cat it would fly one way or the other. Maybe not far but it would still fly...

Shaun
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California, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 07:15 AM UTC
What a Beast, looks like the product of too many subcontractors.
Remember the Ford Fiesta?
Here's how they plan to fund building the real thing.

blaster76
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 05:34 PM UTC
Read about it over on the Ship web. It's on the Teddy Roosevelt made primarily of wood with some metal bits and pieces for some movie.
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