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It's more nostalgia than anything. I remember scouring every magazine I could get my hands on, buying every book my poor, broke, high school self could afford, trying to guess what the "ATF" would look like. I was hoping for something "out there". You had Syd Mead's ATF robotic assembly line artwork, talk of things like "Pilot's Associate" (R2-D2 analog), etc. If they'd rolled out a J-20 I'd have thought, "yep, THAT'S what I'm talkin' about". Instead? "An F-15 with canted tails and a friggin' Bonanza!? WTF?" The first artwork I saw of the "real" designs were in Popular Mechanics. Of course that changed when I got my YF-23 rollout issue of AvWeek. My jaw was on the floor.

[QUOTE="Sferrin, post: 292427, member: 7600"] It's more nostalgia than anything. I remember scouring every magazine I could get my hands on, buying every book my poor, broke, high school self could afford, trying to guess what the "ATF" would look like. I was hoping for something "out there". You had Syd Mead's ATF robotic assembly line artwork, talk of things like "Pilot's Associate" (R2-D2 analog), etc. If they'd rolled out a J-20 I'd have thought, "yep, THAT'S what I'm talkin' about". Instead? "An F-15 with canted tails and a friggin' Bonanza!? WTF?" The first artwork I saw of the "real" designs were in Popular Mechanics. Of course that changed when I got my YF-23 rollout issue of AvWeek. My jaw was on the floor. [/QUOTE]

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