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My roommate says the jets in 'Stealth' are flyable.

Your friend is a moron.

Steal also sucked, badly. In fact I don't think I have suffered that much in a theatre in quite some time. The plot was tired, predictable, and cliched. Acting was also sub par (and that is being generous).
 
Maybe... they used real air craft carriers. I haven't seen the movie yet, but i'm sure there are shots of the craft taking off and landing... conceivably it could have been computer animated, but then why shoot on real carriers?
 
Yes, it's much cheaper to build the real thing than to just render it on a pc.

I should add that this assumes you are using expert penguin engineers from Iran and plenty of duct tape.
 
Is he simply claiming that the design would work, or that the actual models used for filming would fly?

If the first, I might be giving them too much credit, but I doubt the producers would use a completely unservicable design for a movie about a jet.
If the second, I doubt it.
 
perhaps (haven't seen the movie)

but i did watch a show about planes once that was talking about wing designs

the further the wing is swept forward the more manuvarable it is, but they had one plane on the show that had such a great forward sweep on the wings that the pilot needed serious help from a computer to fly, if not relied on the computer entirely

having wings like that make is so menuvarable that even the slightest nudge can cause great changes

so if thats the case with "stealth" i would say no
 
Originally posted by: Looney
Maybe... they used real air craft carriers. I haven't seen the movie yet, but i'm sure there are shots of the craft taking off and landing... conceivably it could have been computer animated, but then why shoot on real carriers?
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They actually shot the aircraft carrier scenes on a real aircraft carrier. Pretty sure they built a mock up of it, but nothing that flew.

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Originally posted by: K1052
Your friend is a moron.

Steal also sucked, badly. In fact I don't think I have suffered that much in a theatre in quite some time. The plot was tired, predictable, and cliched. Acting was also sub par (and that is being generous).
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Aside from stuff that everyone likes, like Star Wars, he has TERRIBLE taste in movies. I had to sit through 'Thunderbirds' once. Stealth didn't even approach that level of suck.

He tells me that the movie was backed by the military, who made the jet for the movie and gave them mad funding. He says that the jet actually was made, can fly, and did fly for the purpose of filming.
 
Originally posted by: Ned
Originally posted by: K1052
Your friend is a moron.

Steal also sucked, badly. In fact I don't think I have suffered that much in a theatre in quite some time. The plot was tired, predictable, and cliched. Acting was also sub par (and that is being generous).
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Aside from stuff that everyone likes, like Star Wars, he has TERRIBLE taste in movies. I had to sit through 'Thunderbirds' once. Stealth didn't even approach that level of suck.

He tells me that the movie was backed by the military, who made the jet for the movie and gave them mad funding. He says that the jet actually was made, can fly, and did fly for the purpose of filming.
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Your friend believes in the tooth fairy too, doesn't he?
 
Stealth was a stupid movie. There has never been a movie with flyable jet 'props', they just cost too much money.
 
I'm still trying to figure out how Jaimee Fox decided to follow up his performance in Ray with this movie.
 
Originally posted by: BriGy86
perhaps (haven't seen the movie)

but i did watch a show about planes once that was talking about wing designs

the further the wing is swept forward the more manuvarable it is, but they had one plane on the show that had such a great forward sweep on the wings that the pilot needed serious help from a computer to fly, if not relied on the computer entirely

having wings like that make is so menuvarable that even the slightest nudge can cause great changes

so if thats the case with "stealth" i would say no
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BriGy i'm having a little difficulty understanding what you wrote. If you're questioning the validity of forward swept wings, that is most certainly a real life working concept. The X-29 is a working jet that employs forward swept wings. You're right about the necessity for computer assistance. It's unusable without fly by wire. The upside to the design is that it could probably turn circles around any current production jets.

::Edit:: oh you were talking about a legit show, not Stealth. In that case, you're right. My bad. Unfortunately the X-29 concept has not been used in any planned production models as of yet.
 
You friend is full of it. I am on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and was there when the film was shot. The plane they are towing around with a tow tractor at night was all plywood and bondo. I know. I stood inside the "bomb bay" of it. If they could have actually launched that hunk of junk off of the catalpult, the nose gear would have ripped off. The closeups of the cockpit were done with another plywood mockup of just the front half of the plane.
As for the landing parts of the film, the landing gear looked really familiar....like they cut and pasted the landing gear of a real F-18 onto the body of the "Stealth". Also like how halfway through the movie, CVN-72 changes to CVN-68, which is the Nimitz, but it's still supposedly the Lincoln. I guess Hollywood honestly believes people are ignorant and won't notice the change in carriers (or are they?). So much for Hollywood magic.
For all you Jessica Biel fans out there, she kept herself hidden for the most part. The one time she did come out of hiding and go for a run in one of our treadmill rooms, there were so many people trying to watch her, she gave up. Horny sailors and all, ya know. At least she did sign autographs and visit with the crew more than Jamie Foxx did.
 
Originally posted by: insanity2
You friend is full of it. I am on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and was there when the film was shot. The plane they are towing around with a tow tractor at night was all plywood and bondo. I know. I stood inside the "bomb bay" of it. If they could have actually launched that hunk of junk off of the catalpult, the nose gear would have ripped off. The closeups of the cockpit were done with another plywood mockup of just the front half of the plane.
As for the landing parts of the film, the landing gear looked really familiar....like they cut and pasted the landing gear of a real F-18 onto the body of the "Stealth". Also like how halfway through the movie, CVN-72 changes to CVN-68, which is the Nimitz, but it's still supposedly the Lincoln. I guess Hollywood honestly believes people are ignorant and won't notice the change in carriers (or are they?). So much for Hollywood magic.
For all you Jessica Biel fans out there, she kept herself hidden for the most part. The one time she did come out of hiding and go for a run in one of our treadmill rooms, there were so many people trying to watch her, she gave up. Horny sailors and all, ya know. At least she did sign autographs and visit with the crew more than Jamie Foxx did.
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:thumbsup:

 
Originally posted by: K1052
Your friend is a moron.

Steal also sucked, badly. In fact I don't think I have suffered that much in a theatre in quite some time. The plot was tired, predictable, and cliched. Acting was also sub par (and that is being generous).
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QFT! :beer:
 
Originally posted by: Ned
Originally posted by: K1052
Your friend is a moron.

Steal also sucked, badly. In fact I don't think I have suffered that much in a theatre in quite some time. The plot was tired, predictable, and cliched. Acting was also sub par (and that is being generous).
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Aside from stuff that everyone likes, like Star Wars, he has TERRIBLE taste in movies. I had to sit through 'Thunderbirds' once. Stealth didn't even approach that level of suck.

He tells me that the movie was backed by the military, who made the jet for the movie and gave them mad funding. He says that the jet actually was made, can fly, and did fly for the purpose of filming.
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be glad you didnt sit through Gigli
 
No way they built a flyable full size jet. Just looking at those jets they would have to have computer controlled flight systems like the stealth bomber. No way hollywood built one. Not even a flyable scale model of one. I call shens.
 
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