(04-14-2015, 01:10 PM)Zelmanov Wrote: The midair thing was in reference was this scene here http://i.imgur.com/3ptCSA2.png?1
to here http://i.imgur.com/OBUuSYm.png?1
which looked like to me as a straight leap up then a sudden change of angle of attack upon the big bad dragon.Â
I'm willing to debate the veracity or lack of.
And yes, I thought that first scene was first the Dragoon tagging the dragon and the dragon killers doing their job afterwards because those looked like explosions rather than say, landing dragoons.
That's the change in profile I was discussing. Each and every reaction has a reaction. You cannot simply turn about and hurl something that large like that while midair and not lose airspeed, not increase the effect of drag (which is a weird combination of gravity and airflow that can inadequately be described as "the opposite of the combination of lift and thrust"), and not suddenly drop. The action, you'll note, is downward. It's an arrest of forward momentum followed or coincided with a drop. This sort of thing happens all the time with slope-soaring gliders: if you suddenly change a glider's attitude and either nosedive or spin it into a nosedive, you're going to fall rather quickly.
This is far different from a midair change in direction that, say, takes you from traveling northward to eastward on the horizontal plane.
But enough about realism. Most folks seem to want the anime take.
#bows out
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