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02-22-2010, 02:38 PM | #11801 |
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Wait, wait, wait! Duke was raised by hippies?! Man, I'm glad I bailed on the Devil's Due comics pretty early on.
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02-22-2010, 02:54 PM | #11802 |
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We've since lost a LOT of those early posters, too.
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02-22-2010, 03:04 PM | #11803 |
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You know how it's been said that the Flagg is WAY too small to be to scale. Well check this out: Amphibious assault ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maybe the Flagg was just WAY ahead of it's time. This type of ship makes perfect sense for the Joes. Check it out. It's a Navy vessel, but it's primarily tasked to the Marines, which seemed to me like how the Flagg was used in the cartoon: A Navy vessel tasked to the Joes. Yeah when we talked about it before, I figured the Flagg must be more like a Tarawa Class carrier, and the Joes about a 2000 man unit like a MEU. Marine Expeditionary Unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A nice self contained unit with all the hardware you need. I was looking at when I joined the thread myself a few days ago. I thought I was day 1, but I was here a few days later. But it feels like forever. Still I love when anyone new pops in and any of the beginning posters show up. |
02-22-2010, 03:17 PM | #11804 |
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Expeditionary Strike Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is how a MEU rolls out so there is whatever Naval crew for the 8 different ships that make up the Strike Group. So even if the Flagg was Amphibious capable, it would still come with a Destroyer a Submarine, a Missle Cruiser, and a Frigate. |
02-22-2010, 03:33 PM | #11805 |
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And Duke was an artist to boot. Apparently a pretty good one.
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02-22-2010, 03:44 PM | #11806 |
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I kind of liked Duke's hippy dad. On the one hand, he instilled in young Conrad the virtues of self reliance of doing what was right. It gave the scenes some pathos to know that they had this uncrossable gulf between them, even though they still loved each other.
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02-22-2010, 05:11 PM | #11807 |
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A few weeks ago on the Military Channel,they talked about a new ship called the U.S.S. New Orlean,which is a Landing Platform Dock Ship. It is one of 8 or 9 being built and when they are finished,they will replace 40 other ships,that are being retired. It is 700 feet long and can carry an 800 man assault force. It looks like it carried two hovercrafts. G.I.Joe may not need something that big. A 400 foot ship would do the trick and would be able to carry the Whale for the personnel and another hovercraft for whatever vehicles are needed for the mission.
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02-22-2010, 05:13 PM | #11808 |
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Keep in mind that a 400 foot long ship in 1:18 scale is still over 22 feet long. Where would you put it?
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02-22-2010, 05:43 PM | #11809 |
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That's interesting; I had no idea about that. What happened? Memphis and Cincinati have sort of devolped as the hubs of the Midwest... Wichita is much more central geographically. That's really intereting... I wonder if this played any roll in Flint's pilot qualification.
Then during the early 50's when the Jet age started. it became so busy with commercial and Air Force traffic. That by 1952 Wichita Municipal Airport was wanted by the airforce to re-teach Bomber pilots, since the B-47 & B-52's was built here. So the Air Force bought the Airport and turned it into McConnell AFB and share the runway with Boeing, and paid Wichita Airport to move west, and built Mid-Continent Airport. Ironically, it still can't handle a Boeing 747. So thats the short answer of why Wichita didnt become a hub.
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02-22-2010, 05:49 PM | #11810 |
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Gentleman, here's another unsatisfying answer from Larry, and to be honest I think this is his way of saying: Please don't ask anymore quesitons.
"I have no idea. Impossible to recreate where my head was when I wrote the original file cards. Everything about the Joes has been reimagined so many times, and I am in the midst of yet another reboot, so everything pre-dating this past January seems kind of moot to me."
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