Runabouts---How useful are they?
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Re: Runabouts---How useful are they?
That's why I love the Eagles. Each different type was recognizable for the design components which spoke directly to its role; but they were still the same class, with enough commonality that an Eagle pilot could still just be an Eagle pilot.
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What are these?
"All this has happened before --"
"But it doesn't have to happen again. Not if we make up our minds to change. Take a different path. Right here, right now."
"But it doesn't have to happen again. Not if we make up our minds to change. Take a different path. Right here, right now."
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The Eagles from Space: 1999. They were the runabouts of that series, but truly modular as the two different pics show. IIRC, there was a dissimilar dedicated fighter class, but considered IU to be rare or otherwise less available.Sonic Glitch wrote:What are these?
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For some reason I was thinking about the F-15 Eagle.
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Well that's a little more simplistic - have the thing generate enough thrust, and you can pretty much attach anything.McAvoy wrote:For some reason I was thinking about the F-15 Eagle.
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Thats what I thought...McAvoy wrote:For some reason I was thinking about the F-15 Eagle.
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Space 1999 general purpose spacecraft. In the first pic, the big "box" in the middle is a swappable container. Many different variants were seen - passenger, medical/rescue, a laboratory, a couple of different cargo types.Sonic Glitch wrote:What are these?
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Never saw Space:1999. I know of the show, and those ships look damned cool.
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My Eagle was the coolest toy I owned... until 1978 brought the Millenium Falcon with the cutaway panel.RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Never saw Space:1999. I know of the show, and those ships look damned cool.
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I've never owned a Falcon. Got all the Enterprise, DSN, the runabout, the Defiant, Voyager and almost a literal ton of transformers.
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Never owned any scifi toys except Trek. I had E-nil, E-D, E-E and Voyager toys. I did have those micro toy ships though from I think Micro machines?
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Yeah, Micro Machine ST toys. I remember seeing them in Bradley's before it closed. Ah, the old Newington Mall. Now the Newington Plaza. *Sad sigh*
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Heh...I've got two boxes of them unopened in my closet
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I had them all opened and organized from first appearence they appeared in Trek to the latest. I think when I joined the Navy my Mom threw them out. That along with my entire collection of the DBZ series on VHS. That among other things I can't remember offhand anymore. Still looking for my comic book collection. Doubt she threw those out. I had a few valuable ones.
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I've thrown out a few things... but overall my collection is complete from 1984 on.