Originally posted by Shane
What fighters did we see Hobbes fly? At least in WC2. I don't recall him being in a ferret or epee, but I'm not sure about the rest. He had to be able to fly anything in WC3, since whatever fighter you picked he flew the same.
Ah, one of my favorite topics, cockpit sizes, is brought up again
I'm pretty sure that the smallest craft we ever see Hobbes fly is the G variant of the Rapier II. That ship is 19 meters long, and I believe it's cockpit is roughly a 1,5m x 1,5m x 2m box. Not exactly a lot of room, not even for a human being, but the pilot might be positioned so that his legs are stretched forward along the floot of the cockpit. In this position, Hobbes would fit in the cockpit just fine.
There are still a couple of problems, though...
1- If you take the "ejected pilot" sprite from WC2 into consideration, the shape of the seat seems to indicate that the pilot does not sit with his legs stretched forward. This issue can easily be disconsidered, however, since for all we know, the ejecting seat may only fold to that shape after ejection, for whatever reason. Besides, most WC2 ships wouldn't fit an average human inside their cockpits unless they were indeed sitting with their legs stretched along the floor, not to mention that the "ejected pilot" sprite is too small to be taken seriously, anyway
2- In one of the SO1 missions, Hobbes is Blair's turret Gunner on a Crossbow bomber, IIRC. The Crossbow's turret is pretty cramped, even for a human. However, maybe Paladin and Blair simply squeezed Hobbes in there and told him to quit whining because he'd only have to stay there for a few hours
--Eder