The messageboard thread I linked to has a (german edition) novel cover with Motionless Picture era uniforms and an SR-71 with TOS-style Bussard ramscoops on it. My German is really pathetic, but I can still tell that the title is something about "Intrigue", probably "A Taste for Intrigue" ... except that doesn't turn up much when I search on it and "star trek."
I'm pretty sure I did read thhe book, now - it wasn't a Starrfleet craft at all, but a privately owned 'project ship' of ... an ambassador or something? Someone who found it an interesting diversion to put it into stable orbit with a manually controlled burn on the impulse pack, I think, unless that's crossbleed from comments on one of the modified SR-71 plugins available for XPlane, with an added rocket booster. I'm relatively sure it was this book, though - the things I remmeber from XPlane were the grand-piano-as-lifting-body (surprisingly wrkable, apparently) and the green Arcadia nodeled as a zeppelin. And that you can only use the trim controls unless you register, which I didn't and don't have ready cash to do.
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
I'm pretty sure I did read thhe book, now - it wasn't a Starrfleet craft at all, but a privately owned 'project ship' of ... an ambassador or something? Someone who found it an interesting diversion to put it into stable orbit with a manually controlled burn on the impulse pack, I think, unless that's crossbleed from comments on one of the modified SR-71 plugins available for XPlane, with an added rocket booster. I'm relatively sure it was this book, though - the things I remmeber from XPlane were the grand-piano-as-lifting-body (surprisingly wrkable, apparently) and the green Arcadia nodeled as a zeppelin. And that you can only use the trim controls unless you register, which I didn't and don't have ready cash to do.
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows