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Stahor said:
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Well, I wouldn't characterize my reaction as that bad, but...
1. Same name as a US Carrier. (Richard called her Langley, not Regina, so it counts.)
2. Builds and flies remote-control model WWII airplanes.
3. Built a fully functioning WWII USN Torpedo Bomber large enough to carry a torpedo that'll damage a car.
4. Accurately hit said torpedo on a car.
We're kinda fulling up the Duck requirements here, if you catch my drift.
landcollector said:
...Note to self: Make a few extra boxes of pizza rolls for KC!Iowa.
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Remember who Iowa's little sister is? Tell me Jersey wouldn't go full-on demon-threatening if someone took one of her precious pies.
 
PAGDTenno said:
This... isn't as remarkable as you seem to be implying. RC aviation hobbyists build some impressively large machines.
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Those are usually four-engine planes or jets though. This is a single-engine prop plane that was carrying a metal cylinder which, at the very minimum, broke through the windshield. If it did something like break through the car frame or smash the engine, it's a very big and very heavy metal cylinder.
 
Always Late said:
Those are usually four-engine planes or jets though. This is a single-engine prop plane that was carrying a metal cylinder which, at the very minimum, broke through the windshield. If it did something like break through the car frame or smash the engine, it's a very big and very heavy metal cylinder.
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You can order battleship models big enough to make them fight, I'd imagine that you can find some plane models big enough for the same. And then, there's the BIG nerds, who make the models themselves. To the scale they want.
 
Burning Baron said:
You can order battleship models big enough to make them fight,
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:Citation Needed:
That's awesome, but you know the saying about stuff sounding too good to be true.
Burning Baron said:
I'd imagine that you can find some plane models big enough for the same. And then, there's the BIG nerds, who make the models themselves. To the scale they want.
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There's big nerds, and then there's Kanmusu. You distinguish them by the number and intensity of WWII-navy-related quirks an individual has.
 
Always Late said:
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That's awesome, but you know the saying about stuff sounding too good to be true.

There's big nerds, and then there's Kanmusu. You distinguish them by the number and intensity of WWII-navy-related quirks an individual has.
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People purchase and fly WW2 fighters. And some of them hot-rod them. Compared to that, building a model that'll carry a 5-10 pound "torpedo", is nothing.
 
LordSunhawk said:
nope, because USS New Jersey was the first US shipgirl summoned.
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Always Late said:
... then we've either got some chronology problems, or Iron just trolled us.
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Well, just because Jersey was the first shipgirl the US managed to summon doesn't rule out the possibility of Regina Langley Richardson-Nicholas being the anthropomorphized spirit of USS Langley (CV-1). After all, Texas and White summoned themselves.
 
YuffieK said:
Well, just because Jersey was the first shipgirl the US managed to summon doesn't rule out the possibility of Regina Langley Richardson-Nicholas being the anthropomorphized spirit of USS Langley (CV-1). After all, Texas and White summoned themselves.
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Texas is a special case, being over 100 years old. And White got called by the Battle of the Strait of Juan De Fuca.
 
So yesterday I drove past the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton. CV-62 USS Independence was no longer there. It appears that like the Saratoga it has started its time down to the scrappers down in Texas.
 
MagisterAurelius said:
So yesterday I drove past the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton. CV-62 USS Independence was no longer there. It appears that like the Saratoga it has started its time down to the scrappers down in Texas.
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When he visited the Midway with my brothers last summer, my dad saw Nimitz leaving the harbor. The carriers aren't long for the seas. Enterprise is going in the next few years. Even Britain's last carrier, Illustrious, is waiting on bids for scrapping.
 
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