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Old 01-20-2008, 04:50 PM   #33 (permalink)
Parker Midwinter
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Originally Posted by Vagabond Elf View Post
To my recollection, FAST-Packs are strictly exo-atmospheric. The slipstream would rip them off.

(As a trivia thing, the "V" in U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine squadron designations means "Carrier." It comes from the abbreviation for "aircraft carrier", "CV", which originally stood for "Cruiser, Aviation." ("CA" now means "heavy cruiser", and originally meant "Cruiser, Armoured.")

I do love the Valks, and would be interested to know what you modeled & rendered them in my own self.
correct, strictly in-space for fast packs [or at least you never see a valk using them in atmosphere.

it's not that they'd be ripped off by the slipstream, just LOOK at those things, the drag they would add! your flight characteristics would be quite adversely effected. plus them little wings likely wouldn't be able to generate enough lift to keep a valk in the air with a set of those HEAVY things on it.

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