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while i'm at it

Started by retro_seventies, April 01, 2005, 09:28:56 PM

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The F-14 Tomcat and the F-15 Eagle...the pinnacle of late 60's fighter design, still competitive and better than most almost 40 years after they were put down on paper.

how about we play swapsies...give the eagle some pussy and let the tomcat get the bird...

first up, the f-15 tomcat:

"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristin Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989.

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and then the f-14 Eagle:

suprising how they seem to look right, isn't it?

"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristin Wilson, Nintendo Inc, 1989.

nev

At a cursory glance they look like a normal F-14 and F-15  :dum:  
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elmayerle

The second one isn't that far from, IIRC, the Grumman Model 303E which was a non-vg variant of the basic F-14 concept.
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