Re: Level of Detail?

[damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)]

On Mon 14-Apr-1997 12:38a, ElevenMike@aol.com wrote:

El>   Re: the AirScout:  I'd keep it.  Think about a war with, say the Rich
El> Five
El> (sorry, just my favorite bad guys ever).  The AirScout is MAN-PORTABLE.

In a pig's eye it is, just take a look at the "blue print" of it.  It's a
piece of crap based on someone's love of "little Nell" from a James Bond
flick.

El>  Kentucky is full of trees that P-47s can't see through.  You CARRY the
El> AirScout to near the target, say an Air Force Base.  

I don't think so, and yes I know what the book says, I just can't see it be
broken down into something that wouldn't be too combersume to even be
considered man-portable.

On a stretch of
El> local
El> ROAD, you launch the strike.  The AirScout is SMALL, a hard target
El> compared to a P-47.

True, the P-47 is a REAL aircraft.  Hell, for about the same size, you could
have a R-22 helicopter instead of that silly AirScout.

El>    It appears overhead in relative silence (no motor noise), 

With the rotors and prop? I don't think so.  It's going to be noisey, and
there is little anything can be done about it.  Look at the tailrotor in a
helicopter which is major portion of the sound of a helicopter, yet it's
mechanically driven.  Would you think it's silent since there is ICE directly
attached/next to it?  I think I've got my American Aerospace around here
somewhere, and it had a two page article on the R&D on limiting the Db level
from the tailrotor in a overall reduction to Db produced by helicopters in
general.

fires 2.75"
El> FFARs (Folding Fin Aerial Rocket) at key targets on the airbase, 

And if I remember correctly, pilots use to fire several marking FFARS to get
the majority of them on target. Having only two are a major draw back since
this type of aiming isn't possible.

strafes
El> the
El> ground crewmen (20 years to manufacture one), and disappears.

As it crashes into the ground from ground fire.  
 
El>    The Flyboys will be MAD.  They'll look high and low for you.  But
El> they'll
El> be looking for an AIRCRAFT.  

True! Airscout cannot be described as an AIRCRAFT. ;-)

Not two or three pack mules and the mule
El> skinners.
El>    Awww!  Did your pretty little airplane go BOOM!!!!?????

Could be worse, the Airscout would probably knocked out of the sky from the
propwash from a P-47 alone......

El>    Seriously, the AirScout give ordinary teams with something
El> unprecedented
El> in the post-ooops world.  Aerial reconnisance.

It's garbage. Too limited cargo, with silly 20 maintence because of the rotors
taking power from a fusion plant, ARG.  I'd rather fly a lawnmower engine with
some wings on it..... (And Walt knows my attitude on flying ultralights:)



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