okay digimon made another airplane one so i feel the need to rant about why i HATE airplane-shaped monsters like latias/latios, sparrowmon, and now maneuvermon.
and before people bitch at me for not liking their faves- you are free to like whatever just like i am, and you aren't going to change my mind any better than i will change yours cuz this is about personal taste and there are no rules for that. i like shit that makes enough physical/practical sense that it feels like it could theoretically exist in real life. if that doesn't matter to you, good for you, i don't care.
those static airplane wings ONLY work to keep a thing airborne if that thing is moving at SPEED. they CAN'T hover! if these monsters stopped moving forward, they would literally stall and fall out of the sky! vtols only work by having jets that can change direction to push downward instead of back. their wings are mostly optional and just make flying easier/cost less fuel. none of these plane digimon have mobile jets like that(that i can see), and even if they did, it would mean flattening/burning everything underneath them (and deafening on-lookers) when they hovered. it would not be safe to hang out with them on the ground!
not to mention how these guys need to be able to actually REST and can't do that if they are constantly spending energy fighting gravity. even if they mainly move by flying, they need some means of touching down and taking off again (feet).
an airplane monster that actually works? pteranomon (x antibody)
