Burn wrote:Black Hat wrote:Quick jet nerd aside- Slingshot's actual alt mode (a Harrier) was much slower than the aircraft the rest of the team transformed into. The Concorde, Eagle, Falcon and Phantom could all go supersonic, which the Harrier can't. So technically, one of Superion's limbs will always be late to the party, regardless of whether it's Slingshot or Alpha Bravo.
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Well FWIW a Harrier is still a lot faster than any helicopter; it's just that it's still slower than the other four members of the team, at least with G1 altmodes (though out of the CW versions, it's still the slowest actual jet). The CW Aerialbots seem to be made of a Harrier (or two), a Hornet, a Tomcat and what looks less like a Concorde and more, ironically enough, like the Tupolev Tu-144 "Concordski", which had canards like the CW Silverbolt. I say ironically because the Concordski was a complete mess of a plane with glaring flaws (possibly through sabotage) which had a nasty habit of crashing. So G1 gives you four fast planes and one slightly slower one, and CW gives you two fast planes, a slower plane, a helicopter and a really, really craptacular plane.
If any member of the Aerialbots needs a jet mode change, though, I'd argue it's Silverbolt himself, for being the only civilian jet on a team of military aircraft (not to mention that the Concorde is tough to make a robot out of, let alone a combiner torso, due to being so bloody flat). I would argue the TSR-2 would make a good altmode for him, though my Britishness does bias me in that regard.
Bigger than a regular jet? Check. White (albeit because it never exited the prototype stage)? Check. Fast? You bet. Bulky enough to be combiner-capable without excessive undercarriage junk? Definitely.
Alternatively, for something more mainstream and less obscure, how about an F-111?
IIRC these were still in use in Australia until very recently, incidentally.
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