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Re: 2 New MOCs!
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 5 Mar 2002 03:35:52 GMT
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"Joe Meno" <jmenomeno@aol.com> writes:
> In lugnet.space, William Toenjes writes:
> > The Golden Eagle's scientific name is Aquila chrysaetos which doesn't lend
> > itself to well to an aircraft. The Secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius)
> > of Africa is a raptor that sometimes has a yellow head. (not yellow but cool
> > names: Goshawk, Kestrel...)
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> Good points there, but the Canary really isn't that threatening of a plane.
> Eagles and birds of prey are for fighters and attack craft. And I do want to
> make one of those besides the Shrike. This plane is in the neighborhood of a
> SR-71-too fast to be messed with, and it watches...so maybe Owl, or
> Peregrine..hm I like Peregrine a lot.
Anyway, Canary is a good name for reconnaisance. In the old coal
mines they used to use canaries to detect a lack of oxygen. (If the
canary stopped singing, get the hell out of there.) One could
generalize the idea of a canary being a way of warning the homeworld
(or whatever) of danger, thus reconnasiance.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) I thought of that too (pretty neat that you picked up on that), so I left the name as is. And your comment about homeworld does beg the question of the background of these....Looks like i get to do some thinking:) Joe (22 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Thanks for the compliment! (...) I'm very happy with the Canary, mainly because I was afraid the yellow would not work out as well as it did. And as for the Alpha Team extension, thanks! I like the premise of Alpha Team and have bought quite a (...) (22 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
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