28 Needlenoses

[lunatron]

Bring it.

1. Naughty Needlenose - claimed by sapphirebreeze
2. Happy Needlenose
3. Silly Needlenose - claimed by sapphirebreeze
4. Angsty Needlenose
5. On-Vacation Needlenose - claimed by sapphirebreeze
6. Horny Needlenose - claimed by dualistic
7. Transforming Needlenose
8. Excited Needlenose
9. Book-Reading Needlenose - claimed by raisedbymoogles
10. Dancing Needlenose - claimed by koilungfish, with his Nebulans
11. Jealous Needlenose - claimed by beckyh2112
12. Turned-On Needlenose - claimed by koilungfish, with a Mayhem who isn't Spinister
13. Caring Needlenose - claimed by ravenclaw_devi, con Spinister
14. On-His-Knees Needlenose - claimed by dualistic
15. Obedient Needlenose
16. Dominant Needlenose - claimed by koilungfish, y un otro Mayhem
17. Naive Needlenose
18. Drinking-Energon Needlenose - claimed by dualistic
19. Greedy Needlenose
20. Daring Needlenose
21. Exploring Needlenose
22. At The Beach Needlenose - claimed by dualistic, avec Sunbeam
23. Bath-Time Needlenose
24. Disheveled Needlenose
25. Exhausted Needlenose
26. Well-Shagged Needlenose - claimed by beckyh2112, ala Spinister
27. Kick-Ass Needlenose - claimed by sapphirebreeze
28. Playing With Kids Needlenose - claimed by beckyh2112

Comments

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

You can't run jet engines off it, for one thing. Maybe it's only compatible with a few people. Maybe it's hard to maintain.

You can get a blade rotating with the tip moving faster than the speed of sound. It just makes a horrible noise and, yes, will snap due to materials defects.

[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

And they explode. That said, Megadeath was odd in having his with a transparent front, the nit. Odd combination of characters - Megadeath, Shockwave, Needlenose. Why should they have reactors and nobody else? :: ponders::

So possibly the TFs have overcome the materials problem and made rotorblades that don't snap? Or at least don't snap often enough to be useable?

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

Thunderwing worked for Megadeath. Needlenose worked for Thunderwing. Possibly reactors were a regional thing?

It's not just an issue of snapping. There are also noise and vibration issues. Possibly also issues with how much lift you can get. I don't know all the factors. They don't teach us helicopters. -_-

[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

Megadeath *was* seriously nuclear explosions and so on, so it makes sense he'd have a funky reactor. Given that Megadeath worked in Stanix, which seems to have been the back of beyond even before he blew it up, it seems unlikely Needlenose would be there. Insufficiently metropolitian for him, yes.

Does Spinister have a reactor of some sort? He carries fusion bombs and a nuclear-powered flamethrower. Doublecross, Cindersaur and Dogfight all have similar fusion-powered flamethrowers ...

Noise issues would make life interesting for a stealthcopter, yes. Also make his Nebulans deaf.

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

Megadeath might not be from Stanix, though. Maybe they're all Vosian.

Spinister isn't powered by a reactor, but man, his weapons glow in the dark. ;)

I'm assuming that Spinister is a magic helicopter. Or he uses antisound.

[koilungfish.livejournal.com]

No way to tell, really.

Thereby making it easier for Needlenose to find him in the bedroom?

Or he has uberleet Cybertronian metalwork. Or it's something to do with the weird kinks in his rotors.

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

Somedays, Spinister just cannot be found. Then Needlenose has to be happy with his hand.

No, no. Nothing to do with any of that. He just breaks the laws of physics.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

So use a single-crystal blade, or alter the properties of the air it's travelling through. Induced-vacuum supercavitation could do it. Heck, it's entirely possible that the blades are actually parts of a subspace construct which sticks out into realspace and isn't made of a shatterable substance.

Transformers: Physics Happens To Other People.

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

There's been work done with single-crystal blades. There are other physical constraints. Alas, I'm not entirely sure what they are, just that people who have been in the field way, way longer than I am have done lots of calculations and come up with a helicopter maximum top speed.