#plane talk

Except the DC-9. The DC-9 is the equivalent of a guy who’s a crippling alcoholic but is managing to keep it together. Sure he gets off work and immediately gets blackout drunk and sure he lives in his bachelor pad all alone and eats takeout for every meal, but he’s up to date on his bills, isn’t going to get fired, and only got the one DUI that one time.

Hello!! I have drawn a variety of military aircraft (though I will definitely admit I’m a bit partial to the fighters, f18 is one of my favs) but I’ve also drawn stealth/surveillance aircraft, reconnaissance planes, helicopters (a few times now!), bombers…I feel like the military areas I haven’t delved into much yet are cargo planes though that’s on the list.

If you want to have a look, you can search through my “Just Plane Monday” tag, that has almost every plane I’ve drawn for the last 2ish years. The calendar has a reconnaissance and stealth plane featured in it as well as fighters and general aviation aircrafts—I try to keep a good mix!

But I was thinking maybe Tommy's dad wanted to be a pilot, but couldn't for some reason. Maybe he had some medical thing that disqualified him. Maybe he couldn't handle the training and washed out.

Ok so at first I wanted to go with Tommy’s dad but then i remembered that in 7.10 he admitted that his dad wasn’t someone nice.

But I could see him wanted to excel in something that his dad failed at in a way to get one over his dad

Like maybe it was something that bounded them until Tommy was old enough to become Tommy and not just “his dad son” and his dad didn’t approve and started to be his asshole self

Omg, you’re right on the money with the plastic-model-parts analogy!

According to Wikipedia, Tacit Blue was nicknamed “The Whale” and also referred to as an alien schoolbus. Somehow looks even weirder from the side, with its short little duckbill, tiny wings set so far back, and where do I even start with that tail? Looks like you asked a child to build an airplane, only said child had never actually seen a plane before, and had decided to build one in Minecraft.

However, it was just a flying testbed for new technology, I guess its design also helped inspire the B-2 Bomber, which is also bizarre-looking albeit in a much more elegant way.

They both look pretty Sci-Fi, but old Blue is more of the 1960s-low-budget-Star-Trek variety, haha. You know, I think I just convinced myself that I actually love Tacit Blue, the low-poly-Beluga-whale that she is. Maybe a chick will be named after her in the future!

I also learned she has a “sister” of sorts, the Lockheed Have Blue. Both Northrop and Lockheed were competing for the same government funding to design the stealthiest plane possible, with Tacit being Northrop’s contribution and Have being Lockheed’s. Lockheed won the contract, and while the Have Blue was just a prototype, the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk (the first was aircraft with stealth technology) eventually developed from it.

Have Blue’s concept art (left), the real thing (right)

I really enjoyed what @linkspooky said on this topic during the podcast. I’ll link to it here.  Her point was that having characters suddenly switch talking in theme is extremely tacky, but the theme itself is a good one. even as didactic was it was in presentation. Being willing to share the blame isn’t a problem. While there are obvious degrees to their crimes, they are all in fact mass murders. Being able to acknowledge that they have all done wrong things feels essential to ending the cycle of violence.  I just wish it was more naturally done.

“Stop apologizing, Specs. You did nothing wrong.” Colette gathered her luggage and followed the rest of the family. 

Penelope was being her usual pouty self after operations. No cause for alarm. Everybody was deathly silent as the plane landed, no doubt shocked from whatever her other self said or did.