ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Tayasaurus]

"This place sucks"

[Ad Bot]

[Qwepir]

"This place sucks"

at least there are f-14s for you to ogle up close

[Mr. Hurricane]

I observe the F14 behind the Corsair, and remark at the similarity in the designs. I observe it all around. The aircraft is not in the best of repair. Dozens of scab patches, simply repainted with the squadron's logo. I put a ladder against the side of the roosterpit and look in. Under the edge of the canopy there's some names in another language.

Inside the roosterpit there are ancient avionics. Smatterings of buttons, brown townog RWR screens, gauges, instruments. I can liken it to the roosterpit of the Mirage or the MiG-29's before we got the upgrade packages.

I look back at the Corsair. Glass roosterpit. Advanced avionics. Generations newer fly-by-wire, a loving plasma gun. Ultramodern gimmicks for a modern war.

The principle of taking the pilot's focus away from flying and managing the aircraft and rather having him use it as an instrument by which to have his way seems to have been the one true driving force in modern air warfare.

[Tayasaurus]

"F-14 is my bae. I flew one of those forgeters for a short time and i already miss it. Military has a hard-on for dumping money into new planes that only seem to get worse with age... but THIS aircraft, this aircraft keeps going. It's the closest you'll get to a tank that flys... not excluding the A-10 of course."

[Mr. Hurricane]

"F-14 is my bae. I flew one of those forgeters for a short time and i already miss it. Military has a hard-on for dumping money into new planes that only seem to get worse with age... but THIS aircraft, this aircraft keeps going. It's the closest you'll get to a tank that flys... not excluding the A-10 of course."

Are Tippy and Jaakko in the same hanger?

[Tayasaurus]

Are Tippy and Jaakko in the same hanger?

Only if you want it to be i suppose. Otherwise she's just talking to herself and probably looking insane.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Only if you want it to be i suppose. Otherwise she's just talking to herself and probably looking insane.

I was only asking for reference.

[Operator¹]

Bell works on repairing the laser damage to the Razorback.

[Tayasaurus]

I was only asking for reference.

Then yes, same hangar.

[Gojira]

I start working on fixing my own Razorback, using the little Mercanan I know to navigate the manual.

[Badger]

My aircraft being miraculously unscathed somehow I leave in the hanger and go to assist others with their damages.

[Mr. Hurricane]

I look to see who's making the statement about the F-14. It's Tippy.

"I'd say these things got worse as they aged. Maintenance times got exponentially longer for every hour of flight time put on the airframe. If I recall correctly though, that's why they were exported,"

I pause and inspect the roosterpit.

"Though, these things are so loving big, that if you found decent airframes, you could tear out all the old bulky avionics and replace them with newer digital stuff. There would also be no need for a RIO in the rear seat,"

[Tayasaurus]

"Though, these things are so loving big, that if you found decent airframes, you could tear out all the old bulky avionics and replace them with newer digital stuff. There would also be no need for a RIO in the rear seat,"

"Re-purposing would be fantastic. If i could manage to get my hands on one i'd take the time to re-outfit it. Would probably be easier to do unlike the OTHER project i have back on base..."

[blockguy™]

I try to fix my plane.

[Mr. Hurricane]

I climb onto the aircraft and approach Tippy. I stand on the center-rear of the fuselage and hold my arms out to the sides, genturing to the aircraft.

"Here's your airframe, I mean, it's not NAUC's and if the rebels are using trucks with aircraft rocket pods on the back as artillery, who would give a forget if they got a jury rigged Tomcat?"

I look at the aircraft.

"What projects would you have back at base? loving with the TV's to be able to change it from Gladiator Crashers to Skeleton Man?"