>>I mean, I don't like the whole retro-tech thing in general-"Let's
>>build a super-fighter, in the shape of something that totally wasn't
>>engineered for this job."
>(...)

Don't give me that look man. I call them as I see them, and the operational regimes are as different as the CSS Virginia and the USS Nimitz. Both have been to Hampton Roads though! Maybe if we raised the hulk of the Virginia and installed missiles and railguns it would be the better ship.
:P

>>But this one...The Avro Arrow is largely a myth, even today. In 400
>>years, what would they have to go on to reconstruct it besides a few
>>photos?
>
>Honestly? I think you may not fully grasp the spirit of the UF
>universe if you even have to ask that question. I mean, UF is
>obviously the kind of place where the persistent legends that
>they hid the first working production model away from the sinister
>conspirators who quashed the project in 1959 is actually true,
>and the rest follows naturally. :)

I guess I don't! I mean, I would never believe that kind of rumor in the first place, let alone believe that this kind of stuff follows naturally from it.

>>And then there is the designated punching bag status of the villains,
>>who can't notice the building of the factories, the shipments of
>>ultra-rare alloy, or the building of the airbases when they are
>>ostensibly in control of the area. That sticks in my craw as well.
>>How can I take them seriously when they're idiots?
>
>The idea was more that the Canadians were that good at subterfuge (and
>that northern Canada is that big and cold and empty) than that the
>Dome was that bad at noticing it, but hey. It's that much of a
>problem for you, that's fine. Pay the whole post no mind. It was a
>lighthearted parenthetical nod to one of the great white ghosts of
>aviation and a tip of the hat to my intrepid neighbors to the north,
>not the next big thing. It's not gonna leave a big hole in your
>personal UF universe if you pretend I didn't post it, and it's not
>going to hurt my feelings either. After the summer I've had, that's
>the least of my worries.
>
>Lots of love,
>--G.
>-><-
To be frank G-man, I have a hard time taking any of your villains seriously as a threat. They are...frequently unimpressive, is I think what I would like to say. Bad guys, to be sure. But...not terribly threatening. I would think they could frequently be defeated by a couple of kids named Mabel and Dipper. Good kids, not actually bad in a fight, but even if they have a show on the Disney Channel... And as for regards the old ladies of the aviation world, I think I would rather let them go than cling to them like a life preserver. Or, if one was to write stories about them, do them as alt-historical fiction.