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I don't mean to add a frivolous reply to what's been a very thoughtful and intelligent discussion of one of the most beautiful and unusual birds ever to fly, but there's a new straight-to-DVD Wonder Woman animated movie where Steve Trevor, the American pilot who crashes into Paradise Island, is flying an F-23. There are three F-23s in the scene, in fact, and it's cool to see them in action, even in a cartoon. Again, not trying to be frivolous. But I thought it would be of interest to scholars of the plane that the animators went with the YF-23 when looking for the perfect design for their fighter jets in the movie. The movie itself is good -- Batman Begins meets 300, with a shocking amount of really intense action and violence (and a lot of humor, too, thanks to Nathan Fillion, who voices Steve Trevor).

(The last time I got this excited about seeing a plane in a movie was the two F-35s escorting the shuttle in Superman Returns.)

<blockquote data-quote="johnnyjetpilot" data-source="post: 55361">I don't mean to add a frivolous reply to what's been a very thoughtful and intelligent discussion of one of the most beautiful and unusual birds ever to fly, but there's a new straight-to-DVD Wonder Woman animated movie where Steve Trevor, the American pilot who crashes into Paradise Island, is flying an F-23. There are three F-23s in the scene, in fact, and it's cool to see them in action, even in a cartoon. Again, not trying to be frivolous. But I thought it would be of interest to scholars of the plane that the animators went with the YF-23 when looking for the perfect design for their fighter jets in the movie. The movie itself is good -- Batman Begins meets 300, with a shocking amount of really intense action and violence (and a lot of humor, too, thanks to Nathan Fillion, who voices Steve Trevor).(The last time I got this excited about seeing a plane in a movie was the two F-35s escorting the shuttle in Superman Returns.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="johnnyjetpilot, post: 55361"] I don't mean to add a frivolous reply to what's been a very thoughtful and intelligent discussion of one of the most beautiful and unusual birds ever to fly, but there's a new straight-to-DVD Wonder Woman animated movie where Steve Trevor, the American pilot who crashes into Paradise Island, is flying an F-23. There are three F-23s in the scene, in fact, and it's cool to see them in action, even in a cartoon. Again, not trying to be frivolous. But I thought it would be of interest to scholars of the plane that the animators went with the YF-23 when looking for the perfect design for their fighter jets in the movie. The movie itself is good -- [i]Batman Begins[/i] meets [i]300[/i], with a shocking amount of really intense action and violence (and a lot of humor, too, thanks to Nathan Fillion, who voices Steve Trevor). (The last time I got this excited about seeing a plane in a movie was the two F-35s escorting the shuttle in [i]Superman Returns[/i].) [/QUOTE]

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