I only skimmed the article, but I got the gist. The comments are a sinkhole. And I was only in THERE because the article talked about F-22s and F-35s and I have to say - they WEREN'T. They were F-18s, plus a much larger fictionalized hovering craft vaguely similar to the F-35. And it's good they were F-18s, because those are Navy aircraft and are what actually belong on an aircraft carrier.
I am loving both that you know this and that they got it completely wrong.
Curiously, I wonder if the Navy would have been more co-operative.
Have you read or seen The Americanization of Emily? There's this great bit where the main character's (Naval) superior decides that the Army is going to get all the credit for the landing at Normandy when really the Navy did all the work, so he assigns our guy a camera man and sends him out to make a promotional/marketing film. It gives me this wonderful notion of sibling rivalry. Along with the yearly football games, of course.
Hee! I, uh, am acquainted with this sort of thing... occupationally, so to say.
Well, the Pentagon is all branches of service, so it's not like the Navy *could* help. Apparently the military did help with Iron Man itself, for example, which did get a LOT right. (And then some... there were F-22s in that one, for very very good reason. PM me if you want to know more.)
No, I haven't, but that's hilarious! And totally believable. Sibling rivalry is definitely the way it is - always present, can truly get rough at times (ask the Marines on Navy ships), and still you're all one family.
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Date: 2012-05-09 06:37 pm (UTC)I only skimmed the article, but I got the gist. The comments are a sinkhole. And I was only in THERE because the article talked about F-22s and F-35s and I have to say - they WEREN'T. They were F-18s, plus a much larger fictionalized hovering craft vaguely similar to the F-35. And it's good they were F-18s, because those are Navy aircraft and are what actually belong on an aircraft carrier.
... Wow. That was a random sort of rant.
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Date: 2012-05-10 05:01 pm (UTC)Curiously, I wonder if the Navy would have been more co-operative.
Have you read or seen The Americanization of Emily? There's this great bit where the main character's (Naval) superior decides that the Army is going to get all the credit for the landing at Normandy when really the Navy did all the work, so he assigns our guy a camera man and sends him out to make a promotional/marketing film. It gives me this wonderful notion of sibling rivalry. Along with the yearly football games, of course.
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Date: 2012-05-10 08:57 pm (UTC)Well, the Pentagon is all branches of service, so it's not like the Navy *could* help. Apparently the military did help with Iron Man itself, for example, which did get a LOT right. (And then some... there were F-22s in that one, for very very good reason. PM me if you want to know more.)
No, I haven't, but that's hilarious! And totally believable. Sibling rivalry is definitely the way it is - always present, can truly get rough at times (ask the Marines on Navy ships), and still you're all one family.