- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Kalisoldier
bungie didnt think up the pelican the United States has planes that can take off and land vertically but not one that can hold more then a pilot and co-pilot i give em that. i just like flying and i like havng marines with me so i put the two together and i think a craft that lands and takes off like the pelican would be great instead of a helicopter as long as there is something to fly around in with marines where you to do some hunting im for it.
And Bungie is a little mistaken in even implying that the pelican is futuristic. If it wasn't so impractical maybe we'd do it today...all the pelican is is a jet with the jets mounted on pods that swivel independently-like we already have with props (forgot the name).
The new JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) employes a similar principle. There is a standard dual intake passage, and a swiveling jet turbine that can change the plane's flight from vertical to horizontal and vice-versa, like the Pelican, but with the swiveling jet inside the fueselage.
Now, the Banshee, Dropship, Shadow, Wraith, and Ghost...THOSE are futuristic, with the "antigrav" pods. If human technology has not significantly improved by the year 2500, then we may have a problem, and with Darwinian mechanics, perhaps we SHOULD be wiped out by the Covenant..."survival of the fittest", that's what they say.
I blame Rap Music
[Edited on 4/21/2004 7:53:02 PM]