Comments on: It’s a shame, really

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:20:53 +0000

So…Enquiring Minds simply must ask this question of present company, i.e., this noble band of august Naval Aviators:

“The People’s Glorious Flying Tigerfish”… better, worse, or equal to The Thunderbirds?

I think I might know the answer.

By: Nose

Nose — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:53:20 +0000

So the Chinese took something made somewhere else and re-engineered it to make it their own?

We’d better watch out, they might do that again. Perhaps with hedgehogs.

Honestly, I didn’t think fish swimming in formation was that impressive, until they changed from the diamond to the line abreast and then split for a 2V2 (must have had some leftover gas).

Nose

By: bobble

bobble — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:35:14 +0000

ManlyDad -

Stunt fish in a 3-D environment? No problem. (I’ve heard that) 500-750 ml Pyrex(tm) beaker + water + fish + magnetic stirrer = loops, spins, and pirouettes. Not that I would ever do (or have ever done) anything of the sort. What’s that about the Devil and idle hands?

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:31:24 +0000

I’m just suprised none of the fish hit a P-3.

By: Peter W.

Peter W. — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:06:46 +0000

> Isn’t the vid Japanese?

Roger that, and the Captain called the voice-over correctly as Chinese as well. The writing superimposed on the screen is also in Chinese script, not Japanese. However the JET on the top left corner may indicate that this was originally a Japanese production, which was copied and commented on (then distributed) for Chinese audiences.

How the good Captain came across it, is the interesting part of the puzzle.

Best regards, Peter W.

By: lex

lex — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:12:57 +0000

I think it may be, H-H, I couldn’t puzzle it out. But it seems to me that the voice-over at the end is Mandarin and anyway the Japanese are allies