#tf nacelle

[ut-girl666]

Inspired from a clip out of Matt Rose’s “PART TWO: Twitter trying to say MORE things at the same time”:

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Hotlink and Nacelle (both young little 🏳️‍⚧️ MTFs): *proudly showing their good work off to their mentor (Starscream)*

Starscream: *wants to say ‘good job’ to show things are still the same, and their change of gender hasn’t changed his care for/pride in them, and also wants to say ‘good girl’ to affirm them as femmes now, and show that he’s supportive of them*

Starscream: *What comes out:* “GOOD GOD”

Star internally: NOOOOO YOU FUCKING IDIOT, IM GOING TO GO FUCKING KILL MYSELF-

HL & N: *start crying after this has happened for the second time this week and 12th this month, and go sob to Megatron, very desperate for some assuring words from someone important*

Star: *still mentally berating himself, before he realizes, and runs after to frantically apologize to them… where they are now being halfway cradled into the sides of an angry gladiator growling at him*

(video clip for reference under the cut)

[mrfandomwars]

Best Seeker Poll - 1st Qualifying Round

Polls

Skywarp VS Acid Storm

Wheezing Arrow VS Slipstream

Ion Storm VS Blackout

Red Wing VS Ramjet

Thrust VS Hotlink

Bitstream VS Nova Storm

Blast VS Sunstorm

Thundercracker VS Cloudcover

Nacelle VS Sandstorm

Starscream VS Dirge

Winners:

Skywarp

Slipstream

Ion Storm

Ramjet

Thrust

Nova Storm

Sunstorm

Thundercracker

Nacelle

Starscream

May the Best Seeker Survive!

[nellywizard]

Quick drawing I made of Smokescreen and Nacelle before bed.

[swivelbot]

Shoutouts to THE BITCH of all time.

And these ones too I guess…

[kaontic]

Reflector is a disappointment you guys. 😔

Context: Somebody failed to live vicariously through their “son”. :P

Maybe it had somethin’ to do with treachery or basketball idk.

Am I doing this meme again? Yes I am.

Audio: Aqua Teen Hunger Force

[sparatus]

adhd is going utterly insane lately ive now flipped Rapidly between sims, fnaf, dredge, barbie, control (2019), and transformers in the past like. week. can i focus on something for longer than half a day please.

[runwayrunway]

No. 24 - Icelandair's Special Liveries

Congratulations to Icelandair's Hekla Aurora livery for being my first multi-request. And for a special livery, no less!

So, as a quick supplement to my main Icelandair post, I'm going to discuss the airline's three special liveries (excluding those which are crossovers with other brands). They've even been kind enough to provide a page for each, describing their various inspirations and how they relate to Icelandic identity.

Þingvellir

I'm starting with Þingvellir. Painted on a Boeing 757-300 registered TF-ISX, this livery was released in 2018 to celebrate 100 years of Icelandic independence and also something involving football, which in a very classic moment are treated as being equivalent in weight. I think Iceland may have won at the football? If you are aware of the context of the football, please don't tell me. I don't care about football.

Her colors are drawn from the Icelandic flag. It's really incredible how many flags out there manage to be red, white, and blue. It's honestly a kindness on Icelandair's part to not have those colors dominate their livery to begin with because it's incredibly saturated with flag carriers. (Red, white, and green are another similarly done-to-death scheme.)

Although I think the actual cross-shape of the flag could have been used to some decent effect, I have no real problem with where we ended up. I think this is recognizable as the Icelandic flag and visually pleasing. The first time I saw this I thought it was a heritage livery, because I didn't know off the top of my head what Icelandair's old liveries actually looked like. I think if they'd done this back in the day they would have been the talk of the tarmac.

Looking at it from the right angle, though, I can't deny that when you add in the glossy modern look of the Icelandair logo and the yellow nacelles it does sort of look like a football jersey somehow. Unsure if this is intentional, but all in all I just think this looks nice and I genuinely think if you did something about the yellow this would be a better standard livery for Icelandair than most airlines have. It's quite unique, as far as what's flying today.

Grade: C+

A few notes to close out: first, 'Þingvellir' is the name of the aircraft. Icelandair names all their planes after features of Icelandic nature, and Þingvellir is a national park known for being the site of parliamentary sessions. 'Þ' is pronounced roughly like 'th' in English.

Second, you may notice a distinct...how do I put this? Longness about her. This is because

('normal girl' here means 'narrow-body airliner'). image by @lobstersinmyhouse.

and I really like that.

Vatnajökull

Vatnajökull is a slightly less long but still delightful normal girl, a Boeing 757-200 with the registration TF-FIR. Icelandair bills her as the world's first flying glacier. I don't think there was much of a risk of anyone else getting that record, but she...sure is!

Vatnajökull is a fairly self-explanatory livery. It's an incredibly detailed glacier scene, representative of the very landmass for which the airplane is named. From Icelandair's website:

Even if you have lived in Iceland your whole life, the wonders of Vatnajökull never cease to amaze and enthrall. The largest glacier in Europe tumbles down the highest mountain ridge in Iceland, creating tremendous icefalls just above the southeast part of Route 1. The ice giant covers 8% of Iceland and is up to 1000 meters (3280 feet) thick. That equals 30 meters of ice evenly spread over all of Iceland – but we are in fact quite happy to keep it where it is. The Icelandic climate can be challenging enough without adding dozens of meters of ice on top of us.

It's actually somewhat difficult to find much more to say about her. This is just a very pretty glacial landscape drawn onto an airplane, and I think it looks very very nice.

This paint job is undeniably both pretty and impressive. I do sort of wish the tail and engines had been integrated as well, but what we got is more than alright.

Vatnajökull also features a glacier-themed interior, including glacier-themed headrests and drinks carts and, of course, some lovely blue mood lighting. The whole package makes me want to go potholing in a glacier very badly. They've definitely put a lot of effort into making the world's first flying glacier, and they've succeeded in that.

Grade: B

Hekla Aurora

It was very hard to choose pictures of this plane to include in this post. Hekla Aurora is stunning. She looks dramatically different depending on the lighting, but no matter which angle she's seen from she looks gorgeous and vivid.

Hekla Aurora is named for the active volcano Hekla and the aurora borealis, two noteworthy features of Iceland's unique natural environment. Obviously, though, she leans a bit towards the latter part of the name. The plane even comes with special interior mood lighting like Vatnajökull.

This looks so nice. It's even more striking than the simple blue Vatnajökull has. I want to fall asleep on this plane more than anything else in the world.

This plane is basically Icelandair's flagship. I swear this is one of the best-known planes flying right now. And she deserves every bit of it. This is a uniquely beautiful paint job and I am severely envious of anyone who has ever been able to fly on her.

I do, again, wish more had been done with the engines and the tail, but it's really hard to say anything about Hekla Aurora because this is just as much of an art piece as it is an airplane livery.

I have it as an active goal of mine to see her in person, even if from a distance, while she's still in service.

Grade: A

Unfortunately, this request was timely in the worst possible way. On the 7th of July, Icelandair announced their intention to acquire between 13 and 25 Airbus A321XLR airplanes. This is an interesting move from an airline which has up until now exclusively operated Boeing aircraft, but Boeing's refusal to actually build a 757 successor is a separate conversation. What's important to note is that Icelandair's special 757s are getting on in years. Hekla Aurora is nearly 30 years old. While far from derelict, that's definitely around the point most major airlines will begin to retire their planes. The confirmation of Icelandair's intentions to acquire a replacement model just makes it even clearer.

There is time to talk about what Icelandair will do going forward, what new special liveries they'll make. It's clear that all their existing ones are born from an appreciation for Iceland, and I'm sure they won't stop just because their planes are going to look a little different ten years from now. But It feels like an important time to voice my appreciation for TF-FIU, who has been bringing the northern lights everywhere Icelandair flies for nearly 10 years, even as those years finally begin to wind down.

[drlockdown-reviews]

So, TF reveals.

- Magnus looks decent. Doubt he'll be the best commander ever, but he looks fun. Not running out to buy him, but he'll end up in my collection eventually. - Glad the 07 pack exists for new fans to have a chance to get those great early SS figures (and Barricade), but I own them all already, so easy skip - Hot Shot looks fantastic. Didn't think I'd need him, but fuck...I think I do... - Kaskade's mould use is annoying, but I'm absolutely buying the two-pack for Javelin, even if I have to sell Kaskade off. - Nacelle is the highlight for me. Since the Siege Seeker debuted, I've CRAVED that mould as Nacelle. Seeing her (apparently retconned now, but I could be mistaken) after all these years feels like vindication. - Nova Prime...looks really compromised, but four times over I've thought the mould would be eh and have ended up having a lot of fun with it. As such, I trust this will be fun (even if I'll likely upgrade the wings) - Called the Menasor box set, but to be fair, it was a pretty easy guess. Already own the originals. Easier to get Toyhax. Skip, but great for those who couldn't get the regular versions due to scalpers. - SG Sideswipe is mega hype. Hot Rod can fuck off, but I've already agreed with a mate to split, so it doesn't even matter. The countach mould is always a treat, so this will also be great. - New ROTB Sweep barely looks any different, and the original mould is mid. Pass. - Noah is absolutely gonna be a robot with a jet on his back, but it takes me back to the time of figures like DOTM Lazerbeak with those 'off the wall ideas'. Mega hyped. - Nightbird looks alright. Glad I didn't go in on the mainline, but argh; those wings are disappointing. Hope somebody fixes them, but still getting her. - Frenzy looks fine. Getting, but not rushing out. - Ratchet is a pass. Looks good, but I'm satisfied with the Siege one for now. - Thrust potentially being an Earthrise seeker should annoy me...but I already got the Bumblebee movie one, so honestly if it turns out shit, it's fine. - Potential Transit is hype as fuck.

All in all, killer release lineup. Very little I wasn't interested in. Even with only one more Legacy Evolution wave due this year, there's still tonnes to look forward to.

Things are looking bright for everything except my wallet.

[usafphantom2]

VS-27 Grumman S2F-1 Tracker 136615 (AU-10) by Wing attack Plan R Via Flickr: Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker/Bu.No. 136615 -Upgraded to S-2F. -1961: VS-27 as AU-10. -VS-32 as AT-42. - 1966: VS-32. -8/1966: Put into storage at MASDC. -Converted to US-2A. -1968: MCAS New River Base Flight. -11/19/1968: Written off. Photo Credit's: Unknown to me (Reprint). Photo date: 1961-62. Location: Aboard USS Essex (CV-9)? The Grumman S-2 Tracker (S2F prior to 1962) was the first purpose-built, single airframe anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft to enter service with the United States Navy. Designed and initially built by Grumman, the Tracker was of conventional design — propeller-driven with twin radial engines, a high wing that could be folded for storage on aircraft carriers, and tricycle undercarriage. The type was exported to a number of navies around the world. Introduced in 1952, the Tracker and its E-1 Tracer derivative saw service in the U.S. Navy until the mid-1970s, and its C-1 Trader derivative until the mid-1980s, with a few aircraft remaining in service with other air arms into the 21st century. Argentina and Brazil are the last countries to still use the Tracker. Design and development- The Tracker was intended as a replacement for the Grumman AF Guardian, which was the first purpose-built aircraft system for ASW, using two airframes for two versions, one with the detection gear, and the other with the weapon systems. The Tracker combined both functions in one aircraft. Grumman's design (model G-89) was for a large high-wing monoplane with twin Wright Cyclone R-1820 nine cylinder radial engines, a yoke type arrestor hook and a crew of four. Both the two prototypes XS2F-1 and 15 production aircraft, S2F-1 were ordered at the same time, on 30 June 1950. The first flight was conducted on 4 December 1952, and production aircraft entered service with VS-26, in February 1954. Follow-on versions included the WF Tracer and TF Trader, which became the Grumman E-1 Tracer and Grumman C-1 Trader in the tri-service designation standardization of 1962. The S-2 carried the nickname "Stoof" (S-two-F) throughout its military career; and the E-1 Tracer variant with the large overhead radome was colloquially called the "stoof with a roof.". Grumman produced 1,185 Trackers. At least 99 and possibly 100 aircraft carrying the CS2F designation were manufactured in Canada under license by de Havilland Canada. U.S.-built versions of the Tracker were sold to various nations, including Australia, Japan, Turkey and Taiwan. Sensors and armament- The Tracker had an internal torpedo bay capable of carrying two lightweight aerial torpedoes or one nuclear depth charge. There were six underwing hard points for rocket pods and conventional depth charges or up to four additional torpedoes. A ventrally-mounted retractable radome for AN/APS-38 radar and a Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) AN/ASQ-8 mounted on an extendable rear mounted boom were also fitted. Early model Trackers had an Electronic Support Measures (ESM) pod mounted dorsally just aft of the front seat overhead hatches and were also fitted with a smoke particle detector or "sniffer" for detecting exhaust particles from diesel-electric submarines running on snorkel. Later S-2s had the sniffer removed and had the ESM antennae moved to four rounded extensions on the wingtips. A 70-million-candlepower searchlight was mounted on the starboard wing. The engine nacelles carried JEZEBEL sonobuoys in the rear (16 in early marks, 32 in the S-2E/G). Early Trackers also carried 60 explosive charges, dispensed ventrally from the rear of the fuselage and used to create sound pulses for semi-active sonar (JULIE) with the AN/AQA-3 and later AQA-4 detection sets, whereas the introduction of active sonobuoys (pingers) and AN/AQA-7 with the S-2G conversion saw these removed. Smoke dispensers were mounted on the port ventral surface of the nacelles in groups of three each.

[woeismywaffle]

Wait there's straight up just a guy named 'Nacelle' in Transformers???

[zoskas]

mutuals do this w/ me

[mrfandomwars]

The Best Seeker

[asluna2sets]

24 with Dead End (Stunticon) and Nacelle (Red, White and Blue Seeker)

I'm gonna be honest these two didn't explicitly exist in As Luna 2 Sets before this ask but I looked at their tfwiki pages and now I am in love with the idea of these feral gremlins running around on Cybertron... Here lemme bang something out, this is happening sort at the same time as Whirl, Sunstorm, and Starscream having their

(To be clear: I have not consumed any media where these two are main characters. I am writing off the wiki. So, sorry if it's ooc?)

“Well done, civvie,” Nacelle praises with a whistle and an impressed upward flick of his red and white wings. “Where the pit did you even learn to fight like that?”

Dead End, despite his usual dejected apathy, perks at the comment a little bit. “Had a pretty rowdy crèche. Racers get pretty out of whack when we’re cooped up for too long.” He frowns at the energon on his hands and tries, ineffectively, to flick it off. When that doesn’t work, he tries scrubbing it off with his servos—so Nacelle can pretty safely assume he’s never gotten them dirty quite like this before.

“Oh, don’t bother,” Nacelle advises cheerfully, transforming away his blaster. There’s many reasons he doesn’t go for servo to servo, and this is a pretty big one. “That stuff doesn’t come off except with solvent. A rowdy crèche, huh. Speedsters get inertial sickness, too?”

The racer turns his attention back to the now offlined Enforcer—some valiant protector this aft turned out to be, resorting to opportunity attacks on poor, innocent civilians and their companions. Whatever happened to nobility and ethics and whatever other slag the Praetor and the Prime (the old one, not the new one that might be fake) was spewing before they got their helms popped. “What’s inertial sickness?”

“Correct name for flight withdrawal,” Nacelle explains. “Like, when you didn’t get to fly for too long, except Smokewave would glitch the frag out if you didn't use ‘accurate terminology’ and none of us really like being whipped, so.”

Dead End cycles his optics and then exvents. “Primus, dude. But yeah, we always called that road withdrawal.”

“Whack,” Nacelle replies. “Do you think we’re almost to the Decepticon camp?”

“Maybe,” Dead End says with a shrug. “It probably doesn’t matter, the whole planet’s gonna die soon anyways. We’re already doomed.”

“Aww, chin up,” Nacelle laughs. “At least we’ve got front row seats to the bonfire. I’ve been hoping for something like this since before I could shoot straight!”

The racer rolls his optics. "You still can't shoot straight."

"Oh, excuse me, you don't even have a blaster!"

[yonker-tonker]

wheele ramble/rant/some complaints; about the unused designs for ALM and a slight tangent on his spotlight

Thinking about how robbed tf is bc these designs didn't make the cut.

ESPECIALLY the one on the right. His name is WHEELIE and has only one wheel. Fucking brilliant, it fits. Also looks super slick along with his brim covering a portion of his face. Idk, man I really like it. Even though it wasn’t the chosen design, nice. 

And the color scheme? Tasty, I really like the full tangerine aesthetic he has and the red face. I don’t think many tfs have that vibrant color face, I can only recall a few (tfp breakdown, tracks, nacelle, armada screamy for one upgrade [feel free to tell me I'm wrong]). So, its a good variance to me.

The middle is also great with its three wheels (think its three). More revitalized version of his little space buggy car design. Also capitalized on the wheelie name a little bit (skewed somewhat to the left). If there is an official wheelie design that makes him a motorcycle, tell me.

Could’ve had this instead of the spotlight, smh. 

Since now that I am thinking about it; in Spotlight Wheelie, he does lose an arm-- which I feel should have stayed off b/c it is literally grey lifeless rotting from necrosis and he just plunks it back on. not even that it-- still works! as an arm! It is infuriating. (this is a huge flag that I am a one arm wheelie truther, if I haven’t made that clear.) Like? no disease, either? It hurts him to transform (which... why put it back on if it hurts to have?!)

Entirely a personal gripe though, as the whole comic is perfectly...

Serviceable. He is pick last in war (which is so sad that it wraps around to being funny), loses hope in the world, saves an alien, kills Reflector [:( ], proves he’s a “good autobot”, and then lives fuckall with his survivalist alien friend while learning his rhyming gimmick-- end of spotlight. (later on his alien friend dies but i dont remember how and that is way out of the spotlight.) Rife with Fruman’s writerisms. 

[kaontic]

G1 Decepticon holoforms/human forms part 4: Some notable Seekers

This is gonna get into headcanon territory, cuz for one, most of these guys don’t appear in the G1 show, and two, if they did, it was for one episode. That’s pretty crazy considering some of their unique and useful abilities, but we’ll save that for another post. I based their appearances off of the (unfortunately) little information given about them on the TFwiki.

Well, except for Slipstream. She’s appeared a lot. Just not in the 80s.

Acid Storm

Nova Storm

Ion Storm

Nacelle

Avia

Blazewake

That’s it, I’m doing some Autobots next (watch me find more people who match the appearances in my head of the other Seekers lol).

[skyfire85]

-A speculative scale model showing an operational F-15N. | Photo: volzj

Flightline: 50 - McDonnell Douglas F-15N Seagle

-A full view of the F-15N Sea Eagle model. | Photo: volzj

Grumman’s F-14 was the endpoint of a long, torturous path to equip the Navy’s aircraft carriers with a high-speed, long range interceptor to defend against Russian bombers and their anti-carrier missiles. Initially planned to be the General Dynamics/Grumman F-111B, the failure of that airplane forced the Navy to request new submissions. Grumman’s submission to the new TFX program also included swing wings, but was an entirely new design. Grumman made the decision to incorporate as many technologies developed for the SeaPig as possible into the F-14, and that included the TF-30 engines, which proved to be inappropriate for a fighter. Though powerful enough to propel the F-14 to Mach 2.3, the TF-30 were sensitive to rapid throttle movement, and prone to compressor stalls at high angle of attack, which could send the fighter into an upright or inverted spin, both of which were deadly. The engines were also prone to failures of the turbine blades, which led to Grumman having to reinforce the engine nacelles to limit damage. Still, fully 28% of F-14 accidents could be traced to the engines.

-Line drawing of the proposed F-15N-PHX Sea Eagle. | Illustration: McDonnell Douglas/Boeing

With this in mind, in 1971 McDonnell Douglas offered a “navalized” version of its new F-15 air superiority fighter, still under development, to the USN. Modifications for the F-15N included a wing hinge, proper arresting hook and strengthened landing gear. Even with the weight imposed by these changes, the F-15N was expected to still be able to outmaneuver the F-14. What the initial proposal did not include were the AIM-54 Phoenix missiles or the AN/AWG-9 radar needed to aim and fire them. A study by the US Navy included adding the radar and AIM-54s, but the resulting aircraft would have weighed 10,000lbs more than a standard F-15A, erasing any advantage the Sea Eagle might have had. McDonnell Douglas, along with Hughes Aircraft, maker of the AIM-54 and the radar, worked up a proposal to modify the F-15s AN/APG-63 radar to interface with the AIM-54.

-Scale model of the F-15N-PHX showing AIM-54 mounts. | Photo: McDonnell Douglas

A Senate subcommittee began to study the proposal in 1973, and was later expanded to include a stripped F-14 variant and an upgraded F-4. A fly-off between the F-14A and F-15N was brought up, but was never held.

-Part of the Sea Eagle concept study involved integrating Harpoon anti-ship missiles. | Photo: McDonnell Douglas

The Navy ultimately stuck with the F-14, and with time and upgrades, including new GE F110 engines, the F-14A+ (later F-14B) and F-14D proved that the Tomcat was a capable aircraft. The Senate hearings did lead to the formation of Navy Fighter Study Group IV, which, through the second VFAX program, birthed the F/A-18 Hornet.