What is your dream Alt mode ?

[Lint]

I'm no pilot so I guess I'll have to settle for this:


http://www.themotorreport.com.au/560...ealed-official

It's just begging to be made into a Transformer

[Iriorne]

I'm pretty sure the "official" names that most of us know planes by are designated by NATO.

Common English names for Russian/Chinese fighters are definitely assigned by NATO. Maybe it's changed, but I always thought the names were chosen by the manufacturer/client?

There doesn't seem to be a lot of hard information but US army helicopters, for example, are all named after Native American tribes, Republic had 'thunder', Lockheed have celestial objects (Galaxy, Constellation, Starfighter), McDonnell Douglas cargo planes were all 'master's. Of course, the US is such a big part of NATO that it wouldn't surprise me if they adopted the US names as standard.

[Raptormesh]

Funny that you mentioned the helis. What we know as the Huey for example is officially named the Iroquois.

I don't think it matters that you need to know all the names though, they're mainly trivia anyway.

[AJ_Prime]

This:

[GoktimusPrime]

Gok there is this for a Monkey http://beastwarstransformers.wikia.com/wiki/B%27Boom

Good point. For some reason I'd mistaken the mandrill for being an ape, but you're right, it is a monkey.

[dirge]

Love it

Mine is F/A 18 Super Hornet for sure. Sexiest Plane ever.

The G1 Micromaster Eagle Eye (not the Pretender; the only name reuse in G1!) is a baby blue F/A 18, although of course a low detail one.

[Jetfire in the sky]

Ahh, yes, very true Bloody Micromasters

[UltraMarginal]

I'm no pilot so I guess I'll have to settle for this I'm no pilot but I'm still going to pick something with wings:


http://www.themotorreport.com.au/560...ealed-official

It's just begging to be made into a Transformer

that's what you meant to say

that thing is a work of art

[DELTAprime]

that thing is a work of art

Lamborghini has totally replaced Ferrari as my favorite Italian car manufacture in recent years. Just awesome!

[GoktimusPrime]

The G1 Micromaster Eagle Eye (not the Pretender; the only name reuse in G1!) is a baby blue F/A 18, although of course a low detail one.

Did you mean Sky High? <---in terms of G1 name reuse; Sky High was both a Pretender and Micromaster. Although Micromaster Sky High is a Concorde jet, it is indeed Micromaster Eagle Eye who's the Hornet. G2 Eagle Eye's G1 name was Hawk (G1.5); so I guess technically that doesn't count as a G1 name reuse.