Having just recently arrived...
..and not having seen or located a lot of what's been mentioned...
..I'm soooo.... torn!
Cargo work.. pretty small hold, but toothy: X-Shuttle
Fun while it lasted HF: Voigtland Crow, but the afterburners/cruise engines in follow mode were blinding!!!
And for Sundays.. Slipstream, altho on my pitiful 500Mhz laptop, it seemed so squirrely that I'd be turned around twice before the lag caught up...
But...
Then Just_Josh led me to Omega 15... (Damn you, JJ, damn you!)
So now.. (since I'm visually-oriented..)
The Crow has become the Raven's Claw;
The Slipstream has become a Death Scythe;
..but I just couldn't bear to part w/ the X-Shuttle cuz it reminds me of that great exchange in the final battle of "Buckaroo Banzai":
Buckaroo: "This thing drives like a truck!"
Friendly Lectroid: "Good! ....What is a truck??"
Very little cockpit time in the Claw and none in the Scythe, but I get the feeling I'll be satisfied. for a while.
Wind at your backs!
(Hopefully not self-inflicted..)
Doug
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