in my personal opinion i'm glad they put the pulse concept ship design of icaras in HD 'cause in pure/pulse the design it's just wrong for , of the 4 appereance the better are wo3 and HD

i haven't read entire thread, just a couple of posts, for respond at a couple of mates here:

swift killer, triakis is the name of the family of the tiger sharks , and means also three times in greek
i don't know for what of the 2 reason ( maybe both...) SL had choose the name, but remenber the tiger-shark thing seems to fit in what a sort of tiger-themed name tradition SL at some point has started ; tigron: a cross between a male tiger and a female lion ; harimau: malayan tiger

mdhay, you mean the cockpit of the one hull ships, because the twin hull ships has it always in the rear, from a realistic point of view thing upon what is the better position of view for a pilot inside a cockpit...

i'm all for the most lean ,aerodinamic and sleek design, and i wish the ships could be the longer possible and the cockpits the rear possible but if you want to mantain a certain credible, convincing, and realistic profile in the design...