After I showed anyan the F-22 Reimu I did yesterday, he replied back with this drawing he did saying:
This is my reply. I was thinking of Alice with DC-130, but I just went with Aya and Blackbird.
Now I’m even more tempted to draw some more to add to the Touplanes(?) collection.
KC-767 confirmed for the Hiro of Flight Highschool.
9th comic is done, just waiting on anyan for the green light.
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Flight Highschool’s F-22 cosplaying as Reimu from Touhou.
Yeah. It happened as a combination of something stupid Meta said and a photoshopped picture of an F-22 in Reimu colors I did years ago.
Edit: Fixed the coloring to be consistent between character and plane.
I honestly don’t know whether to be reassured or worried that someone else thought of drawing a plane-related Touhou thing after seeing that Reimu Raptor
but yeah
Reimu in a Raptor
Airplane Touhous are more likely than you think. There’s a whole slew of Ace Combat/Touhou crossover art and it is awesome.
Stop giving me ideas. Now I want to do a Sanae F-16 (Viper) or Su-25 (Frogfoot). I can’t decide which but I’m leaning towards F-16 because I like Sanae and I like the F-16.
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Flight Highschool’s F-22 cosplaying as Reimu from Touhou.
Yeah. It happened as a combination of something stupid Meta said and a photoshopped picture of an F-22 in Reimu colors I did years ago.
Edit: Fixed the coloring to be consistent between character and plane.
Not only were they competitors in the USAF LWF compteition, but in the late 70s and early 80s they were also competing for many of the same national contracts — for example, Canada and Australia both evaluated the F-16 and F-18 before going with the Hornet; Switzerland Kuwait and Finland did the same. So even though F-16-tan is more popular, F-18-tan has her share of admirers as well…
I hadn’t thought of that. The funny thing is that still goes on even to this day. Variations of Lockheed’s F-16 and Boeing’s Super Hornet are often competitors in modern programs for other countries. It doesn’t really apply to the western world so much anymore, but emerging powers in the East are all looking for fighters now that they’re at a place to start buying something more than old Russian kit from the Cold War.
The most recent example that comes to mind is India’s MMRCA, where they were looking for a modern multi-role combat aircraft. The Rafale was announced the winner only very recently, which was a bit of a surprise considering the cost of the Rafale.
I remember when this was still going on (back when I worked at Lockheed and kept close tabs on this sort of stuff) the F-16IN Super Viper and F-18E Super Hornet were the strongest contenders. The Eurofighter was also competing, which is interesting because it’s probably the “best” of all the competitors, but its high cost was its biggest problem.
Although I was hoping the Super Viper would win, if only because I really wanted to see the Super Viper get built, I was expecting the win to go the Super Hornet. It seemed the most sensible decision to me, and papers written around that time examining the competition also supported that.
So yeah. I guess all I’m saying is that the the F-16 and F-18 have long competed against each other in most every modern fighter program in one way or another.
Thanks rallymodeler, for pointing that out and bringing it up.
NP.
Regarding the Super Viper program: I am very surprised that L-M didn’t go the Super Hornet route and perform an all-out redesign of the platform; a rethink of the F-16XL or even building an American version of the F-2. Instead, the F-16IN seemed to be a light development of the F-16E/F as supplied to the UAE. Interesting.
There’s a very simple answer to that: the F-35. To revisit and build the XL design would cost a lot of money to create the new tooling. Not to mention the engineering work that would take place to meet modern standards. It’s all money that Lockheed would rather be spent on developing and marketing the F-35.
It’s a shame the F-16XL never saw the light of day. It was an extremely capable prototype on par with the Strike Eagle in terms of payload capacity. It would certainly have lived up to a Super Viper moniker.
I know a certain forum that is always talking about how great the XL was and what it could have been. Their solution to a lot of design and mission problems start with, “So you take an F-16XL and…”
A Youmu is always good. I could always use more Touhou in my life.
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I don’t know
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Not only were they competitors in the USAF LWF compteition, but in the late 70s and early 80s they were also competing for many of the same national contracts — for example, Canada and Australia both evaluated the F-16 and F-18 before going with the Hornet; Switzerland Kuwait and Finland did the same. So even though F-16-tan is more popular, F-18-tan has her share of admirers as well…
I hadn’t thought of that. The funny thing is that still goes on even to this day. Variations of Lockheed’s F-16 and Boeing’s Super Hornet are often competitors in modern programs for other countries. It doesn’t really apply to the western world so much anymore, but emerging powers in the East are all looking for fighters now that they’re at a place to start buying something more than old Russian kit from the Cold War.
The most recent example that comes to mind is India’s MMRCA, where they were looking for a modern multi-role combat aircraft. The Rafale was announced the winner only very recently, which was a bit of a surprise considering the cost of the Rafale.
I remember when this was still going on (back when I worked at Lockheed and kept close tabs on this sort of stuff) the F-16IN Super Viper and F-18E Super Hornet were the strongest contenders. The Eurofighter was also competing, which is interesting because it’s probably the “best” of all the competitors, but its high cost was its biggest problem.
Although I was hoping the Super Viper would win, if only because I really wanted to see the Super Viper get built, I was expecting the win to go the Super Hornet. It seemed the most sensible decision to me, and papers written around that time examining the competition also supported that.
So yeah. I guess all I’m saying is that the the F-16 and F-18 have long competed against each other in most every modern fighter program in one way or another.
Thanks rallymodeler, for pointing that out and bringing it up.
