• yumpsuit@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    An unsecured cockpit flag unfurling across a pilot’s visor and controls would be a pretty incredible way to lose an airframe

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Don’t worry, that’s the pilots old lucky cumrag. Stiff as a board, it won’t unfurl any time soon

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      It might be a removable cover for an avionics bay. That would make it a lot easier to paint on an easel or flatter surface.

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      3 days ago

      checks WP

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes

      Hermes’s epithet Argeïphontes (Ancient Greek: Ἀργειφόντης; Latin: Argicida), meaning “slayer of Argus”,[75][76] recalls the slaying of the hundred-eyed giant Argus Panoptes by the messenger god. Argus was watching over the heifer-nymph Io in the sanctuary of Queen Hera, herself in Argos. Hermes placed a charm on Argus’s eyes with the caduceus to cause the giant to sleep, after which he slew the giant with a harpe.[14]

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      4 days ago

      That was before they broke into his house and killed his dog. Now he yeets Sidewinders.

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      4 days ago

      Hermes the type of guy to gift you with insanity drown you with wine then ride your corpse like a surf board.

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      3 days ago

      Why no Artemis? I would think they would have an affinity for the hunt.

      Even Apollo with his bow and arrows.

      I dig Kratos instead of Aries. And as much I love Athena, the blunt force combat side of war seems more appropriate for these guys.

      HOWEVER. If there is a female pilot, her call sign should be Athena and she should have Zeus on her plane, so whenever she gets out she’d be emerging as a fully formed warrior from his head.