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Rocket-Powered 21-Foot Long X-Wing Actually Flies
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that some crazy California enthusiasts have built a 21-foot long model of an X-Wing. While this might be impressive in its own right, this model actually flies. Powered by four solid-fuel rocket engines the group has high hopes for their launch next week. Let's hope the built-in R2 unit makes it out ok.
and that this x-wing will end up as a recreation of Porkins last flight.
"I am a kernel in the linux army"
...along a ballistic trajectory.
If I weld four rockets to it, I wonder if my '67 Impala could fly...
That's why they don't have wings. They have S-foils.
And anyway, X-wings are quite capable of atmospheric flight. Just as long as you aren't damn fool enough to land one in a swamp; you'd never get it out.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
All we need is for the empire to think there is a rebel base here, and they will send the death star to blow up Earth. In which case that thing better fly and it better have one hell of a pilot.
You'd probably wind up embedded halfway up a cliff in Arizona after you miss a turn. Do you have a bumper sticker saying "How's my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT"?
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Always with you it cannot be done...
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At 1-800-ALQ-AEDA and warn them of this threat.
"We are greatly saddened today when we learned that while testing the rocket powered X-Wing fighter, a rocket powered bionic arm developed by the US military came out of nowhere and punched a hole through the engine compartment. Jek Porkins Jr., the pilot of the craft was quoted as last saying, 'NO, I'm all ri-- Aah!' as the plane plummeted to an unknown location."
-X-Wing fighter engineering staff
The actual quote is "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
Fromm the ammount of wood they used, I wonder if this one might actually float if it landed in a swamp
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
I used to hang out with model airplane enthusiasts and after watching flying snoopy doghouses, flying witches on brooms, flying lawn mowers, flying pizza pans, carpets, flags, picnic baskets, etc, people would just say, "You can make a brick fly if you put a big enough engine on it".
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Of course they're not having sex. That goes without saying. After all, they're Star Wars geeks.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
laser weapons that make sound in the vacuum of space?
Cut the chatter, Red 414242.
It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good!
"The Vogon ships hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't"
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
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How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Ah. That explains a lot.
'Hmm. Disconnected in the rough landing the main cable to the antigravity device was. No wonder it is, that get this ship out of the swamp he cannot. Reconnect it I will, before to lift it through Force powers I attempt. Impressed will young Skywalker be, and respectful!'
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Does it run Linux?
Will it blend?
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
Yes, Veruca dearest! But.. Daddy is about to earn his Darwin prize.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
What makes you think Yoda was averse to a little swamp dive? That little sucker could live on any remote and abandoned planet in the galaxy, and he chose a swamp planet, because he loves swamps so much. Well, that and it's a great excuse for not cleaning up his hovel. Any place not waist-deep in muck is considered clean on Degobah.
The enemies of Democracy are
When 900 years old you are, minimize flatulence you will not.
Wow, you act like you might know something. Of course it could be gas. Maybe you should take something for that verbal diarrhea you seem to have. Of course you could simply be retarded. Are you sure you're not a retard? Maybe just another moron talking out of his ass again like he knows a thing or three? I bet it's a bit of everything. You should take something for that. Perhaps a loaded .357 ingested orally will do the trick!
Since I'm feeling generous, let me take some time to educate you. Flying high powered rockets is legal in this country. It won't get you arrested or fined or thrown in Gitmo (Where the hell'd you get that? Oh, probably more gas.) It doesn't make you a terrorist or an activist or a radical islamist or any kind of -ist. Provided you follow the laws, file the proper paperwork and notices with the proper government agencies, it's perfectly legal.
Now, ready, aim, fire!
Do it doug.
Goatse
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That may be one of the only times that site is, in any way, on topic.
Not a sentence!