RE: Proposal: "Full Thrust: ANIME" (Was Re: Macross)

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From:	mkwan@usa.pipeline.com (Michael Kwan)
Sent:	Sunday, August 11, 1996 12:22 AM
To:	"Earl R. Forsythe II" <73162.3521@CompuServe.COM>;
FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	Re: Proposal:  "Full Thrust: ANIME" (Was Re: Macross)

On Aug 10, 1996 17:56:59, '"Earl R. Forsythe II"
<73162.3521@CompuServe.COM>' wrote: 
 
 
>>>>in space combat. What advantage would a space fighter gain by
transforming   
> 
>>>>into fifty foot tall robot?).  
>>>  
>>Well, I always thought it could use the limbs to shift its orientation
around	
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>>>its center of mass, allowing it to alter facing without expending
vernier 
>fuel.	
>>  
>>Could it also be that the man-form can fire its main gun/autocannon
outside  
>>the fixed forward arc?  
> 
>Well, so could a fighter with a turret. 
> 
>Ray 
 
Oh, sure, come up with a reasonable and sensible answer.  I'd agree with
you; except, I'm having difficulty picturing, say, a F-14 Tomcat sized
space fighter with a large enough chin turret for a 20mm or 30mm rotary
cannon and still being aerodynamic enough for atmospheric flight.   
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Take a good look at the Hammerhead from Space:Above and Beyound.
and then picture a modified F/A - 18 and it can be converted. In fact
the design was tested in a wind tunnel but that was all the futher it
got due to funding.

T. Klaus