[Pinkie Pie] Oh. My. GOSH! She's so fast and Cyute I'm gonna DIE! [/Pinkie Pie]

God I love this pony.  Give her love, people! (and some allegra.)

Ok. To everyone who didn't read this story: READ IT. Why?

1. It's Awesome.

2. It's Awesome.

3. It's a product of SpaceBattles Forum Insanity.

4. It's Awe... Wait... I said that Already. Ah, DD is one of few OC's you will like.

SO... Just read it.

Glad to see this story finally up on FIMfiction. It really does deserve all the attention it can get. Though, I must say, Act II's tittle does raise a few eyebrows. Is that intentional?

Oh. My. Friggin'. GOD.

This... This was... I, I can't even... MY GOD.

*Collapses from the sheer awesomeness*

Please tell me there are more stories for Dainty incoming. Or at least stories of this level of awesomness. This was just... WOW.

Best OC pony.

I still can't believe that this wasn't approved on EqD. Anyway, you've heard it many times before but DD is freaking awesome. Approximately at least three times more awesome than regular awesome.

>>5079050790

The author has stated that he's not planning on making any more of his own, though she is free for anyone who thinks they can pull off writing her to use in any story you wish.  So, if you want to borrow her, go ahead.    

Dainty is INDEED awesome, there. An SR-71 in pony form. :D

oh god, the 3+ is because she can fly at MACH 3+, isn't it

Very cool.

Effing amazing.

Also, I couldn't stop thinking of  this song throughout all of the epilogue.  Good God, I almost cried when I put it on while reading.

I'm wondering why the story status says incomplete. It seems pretty complete to me, or is there more to come?

Wow

Falling Leaves On the ground! Wait wut wrong place

Very nice story, would be awesome to see more of this. also dainty dish is best pony.

Just, No words

um, i think something's wrong with the formatting, the last part after where twilight just sat there looking confused underlaps with the comment part of the page and is unreadable

:rainbowdetermined:

This part?

“Beats me,” Applejack shook her head.  “But from what I done seen, she ain’t lyin’.”

Twilight turned her head back to the door, a perplexed look on her face.

Might be your page loading incorrectly.  I see no issues.

My little Blackbird, My little Blackbird

Ahh ahh ahh ahhh…

(My Little Blackbird)

I used to wonder what Lockheed could be

(My Little Blackbird)

Until it shared it’s Jet Engines with me

Big adventure

Tons of speed

A beautiful plane

Powerful and strong

Ruling Airspace

It's an easy feat

And Blackbird makes it all complete

You have my little Blackbird

Do you know you're the very best plaaaaane.

Made it m'self

>>5181751817

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>>5190651906

Typical Ad Crawler.  Just alert an admin.

    You guys want the track I spliced up to be Dainty's Climbing BGM?  Huh?  Do you?  

  Of course they do.

  YIPPEE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BwpXuk9L9o

Now you can play it from the moment twilight spots Rainbow Dash leaving the dust cloud to chase Dainty, and FEEL it in masterful Dolby Digital 6.1 surround sound.

>>5194451944

K, I will if you haven't already.

BTW, what did you think of my bad (and I mean bad) redo of the Theme song for the SR-71 for this story?

That music you linked was absolutely freaking PERFECT for this. It set the mood for the entire chapter. Excellent choice of tunes. Really got this sense of awe as Dainty Dish was climbing with the music playing in the background. MAJOR major thumbs up to you.

SO...AWESOME! This was a fantastic story. This is probably one of my favorite stories, and I can say with almost absolute sincerity that the music for Dainty's climb was what really kicked it in for me. I am so impressed. This was magnificently done. I'm stunned beyond words that aren't synonyms of what I've already said.  

VERY well done. As well as being a brony, I'm a bit of an aviation fanboy, and DD's characterization does an excellent job of depicting the strengths and weaknesses of the SR-71, as well as being completely adorable!

Her paint scheme...

Red stripes, jet black tail and wings... She's an SR-71 down to the tee. And her cutie mark's based on the patch the pilots wear. I love it.

So beautiful. I really want to read more about Dainty Dish but at the same time it is wrapped up so nicely. {I am definitely gonna be watching you and if anything more about dainty dish comes up it's gonna get another 5 star rating from me.

OH! OH! OH!  More music!

  Well out with it Sugarcube.

Okay!

If you read the appendix, you know Dainty has a generic BGM as well.  It's based off the nursery rhyme tune her name comes from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nZXJTV-ORs

I have to admit, I am impressed. Try as I might, I can't find anything wrong with this story without sounding like a nit picky jerk. Descriptions are nice, it flows like a faucet, and Dainty Dish is brilliant. I'm not a plane/jet expert and am only a mediocre writer in my opinion, but I could tell right away that there was a hard to detect layer of realism in the character you made the second I heard how fast she made that trip despite her fragility. It was in the way you presented her that made it stick out to me. It was so different from other situations like this. I find what you did here to be a lot better than simply slapping an OC together. You gave her a hoof in our world that made her easy to relate to, ever if that was unintentional.

This vehicle based pony created a nice change of pace to the beaten down down trope of 'fast character meets faster character.' As opposed to her being weak and having some kooky magic trick, there a believable layer of science that makes it make so much sense. That was the most satisfying part; there are absolutely no questions, small or otherwise. In most other stories, I'd probably be asking why Dainty would be going so high. But you gave a logical and understandable reason. It fits together like a puzzle if only you are willing to put the pieces together.

On another note, Dainty relates to me personally. The fact that she didn't understand that she was fast in an issue I've had to deal with regularly. Up until I was sixteen, I didn't understand that my I.Q. was really high and I couldn't figure out why other kids kept saying I was trying to sound smarter than them or make them look bad. Imagine how stupid I felt when I found out I was smart. I'd like to extend a personal thanks for making a character that deals with the problem of being good at something and not knowing it.

So...is there fanart of Dainty Dish yet?

If not, somepony PLEASE contact one of the drawfriends because DD is too awesome not to have fanart~

As an aviation fanatic, I can't help but throw out the best praise for this story. Not only does it come as a wonderful bonus for me (in fact, I was wondering if you were going to throw in a reference to wing loading regarding Dainty and Dash's wing profile, thereby explaining one of the reasons Dash can pull snap turns), but everyone's character was well maintained and stayed within relevance. I commented in an earlier chapter about recognizing the distinctive color scheme and cutie mark, and I love how she carried around the Blackbird's recon sensor suite as her job. Honestly, I like how it does a good job of explaining how ponies special abilities along make up for their schizo-tech world. Who needs a MAch 3 jet when a pony does the job?

I loved this story. It's unlikely due to my hectic schedule and a few other stories elsewhere I'm working on, but if I may one day, someday, I'd like to write her her own story. I think she deserves it.

Well done.

And as an addendum; you used an Ace Combat song to personify Dish's climb...

Dude, all my internets to you.

Ooohh, Dainty Dish comes from Song of Sixpence...

brilliant. awesome allusion

all my internets to the person who gets the drawfriends to draw some fanart of dainty dish

You must submit this to Equestria Daily if you haven't yet.  You must!  You MUST!

Also, I just noticed this, I thought Dainty Dish's cutie mark was the picture for the story, but your profile pic and the one in the Appendix have a different one.  Which one is it?  I want it as my Black Ops emblem, but not the wrong one.

Dainty Dish is best pony indeed!

A friend linked me here and I have to say I'm impressed.  This may sound like faint praise, but the fact that you did not press heavy on the angst pedal with the character, when it would have been incredibly easy to do so, says good things about you as an author.  Characterizations are solid and prose is good.  Pinkie was slightly heavy-handed, but she's pretty difficult anyhow so I can hardly fault you for that.  On the other hand, the bit with Twilight and Spike and "it knows!" was tremendously funny.

(though I might suggest putting Twi's imagine spot in all italics or something similar)

SR-71 is best plane.

>>5316253162

He already did that, weeks ago, and it was rejected, along with several other highly praised Spacebattles stories. It's caused some people on the forum to go a little, uh, paranoid about the Mainstream Pony Media.

I didn't even cry reading My Little Dashie! Why is this making me cry? It's just so...beautiful!

Still crying by the way!

>>5319553195

The image posted on the title is correct.  The image containing the SR-71 with Dainty was concept art pulled from The Pony Generator (FULL version) using an actual SR-71 flight patch.  It's older, and meant as concept art until some talented artist designs a Dainty Dish to live up to her.

I never thought I'd say this, but Cold War-era reconnaissance aircraft are adorable.

Best thing about this story? It flows like an actual episode of FiM.

good facts on the blackbird its my favorit plane. two other facts i know about it is that 1 the nose would heat up and change shape so when it landed the ground crew had to iorn the nose back to its original shape and 2 vary rarily ( and by rarily i meen rarily it only happend a couple of times ) one of the engens would reverse so one engein would be going fords and the other full reverse this would make the plane spin fall and crash

You... just... wow. I love Dainty. You convey words like I've rarely seen. I felt a wonderful sense of soaring during the epilogue. I may draw inspiration from her to further develop my OC; though he's faster the closer he is to the ground.

*thmp-whump*

  What was?

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>>5359853598 ... *Squee*

Wow! Great Story! And I could really emphasize with Dainty Dish and her sneeze attacks, mines usually leave me with a bloody nose.

Did Pinkie just make a joke about how in cartoons, stuff will get broken only to inexplicably appear fixed minutes later in the episode as if it was never broken, just because the writers didn't care to remember it?

Poor 4th wall, never stood a chance. :(

Pinkie Pie crits 4th wall for 1000 damage (10000000000000 overkill)

4th wall has been slain!

wow, that was an awesome read, while I had my doubt during the first 2 chapters, the ascension part actually kept me on edge the whole time. The finale was awesomely written and I can only commend you for this high quality fic. Here, accept all my internets.

>>5359853598

I was wondering if I could borrow DD for a fic project of my own?  I'll be sure to credit you for the character.

I propose the next story be about Mikoyan, a pegasus from Stalliongrad who try as he might just can't quite catch Dainty when she flies overhead.  The one time he was about to, his wings actually started to catch fire and he had to drop speed to put them out.

His full name is, of course, Mikoyan Gurevich the 25th, but since many of the previous holders of the name Mikoyan Gurevich are still around most people call him Foxbat, after his flying fox cutie mark.

Just re-read the epilogue with E.S.Posthumus' "Cuzco" playing in the background... *jawdrop* is all I can manage.

That whole last scene with Danity climbing higher and higher was just beautiful and EPIC! The music was...I can't even express how this music went with this scene. It was perfect! Reading that scene with the music made my heart race and get chills all over my body. Wow.

>>5513755137

This?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YykKmQSU3j0

That fits quite well actually.

This captured the feeling of the tales that have been told by the pilots exceedingly well!  The choice in song was perfect!

Two non-FiM stories that must be linked to: The Slowest Blackbird and "I loved that jet."

Dainty Dish is the best pony, hooves down.

The only thing that could make this better if she were to meet an anthropomorphic U-2...

>>5734057340 I know right? E.S.Posthumus makes excellent inspirational music. Should check them out if you haven't already.

Also, "I wuv cassoos!" is the most adorable line ever uttered by an OC.

Someone started a tropes page:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/HigherFlierORMyLittleBlackBird

I don't trope my own work, conflict of interest and all that.

So fill'er-up.

You deserve a Tropes page. Admittedly after I read the story I went looking to see if there was one.

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Only 32 were built, and here  

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Only 32 were built, and here  

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Only 32 were built, and here  

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Cold air makes it easier because the speed of sound is lower? I can't see denser air being easier for a pegasus to achieve high speeds through. It would improve the oxygenation some but the extra drag wouldn't seem to be worth it.

SPOILER ALERT!!!

Unfortunately, as Applejack noted on her way in, it had a slow creeping infestation of black mold taking over.

-Would this be the one that RD destroys in one of the episodes?

“You just tell me when you want it down, and you can consider it as good as destroyed.”

-I guess so!

“Good,” Rainbow Dash nodded.  “ That confirms she’s okay.”

-That seems like a bit of a conclusion jump...

“But I simply do not deal with this kind of equipment to actually know anyone who would be able to repair it.”

-I take it Equestria doesn't have a yellow-pages?

Rarity turned and started levitating several of her materials.

-Well, she can probably manage something on the level of a HEPPA filter. Don't know about a charcoal filter.

I think she might have something that helps protect clothing.”

-Protects it from what? Snot?

“Who’s ready to PAAAARTAY?!”

-It actually took me to this point to figure out that Rarity WASN'T trying to design an anti-allergy mask, but rather a set of sneeze-proof cloths.

Standard Pinkie Logic was a bit odd to follow at times, but it always made sense in weird ways.

-Well, I guess that "party" includes "wedding reception" and people generally want good photos there.

including one that made dainty accidentally flap her wings,

-Capitalize "dainty".

“But nobody remembers those kind of details anyway...”

-Nice one...

SPOILER ALERT!!!

With weather managed by the local Pegasus team, and Celestia carefully managing just how much sunshine Equestria gets, it was almost ALWAYS perfect for any outdoor activity one could imagine.

-Twilight from "The Ticket Master" would disagree... although Rainbow Dash MIGHT have used her authority as captain of the weather team to over-ride the usual procedures, but I don't think she would abuse a trust like that (She is Loyalty after all).

“Oh, I bet was priceless to watch.”

-“Oh, I bet that was priceless to watch.”

Sorry for the very small segment of critique, but I am very tired and need to go to bed, and I don't want to risk losing this.

i have to say, this is the most successful fanfic that ponyfies any type of aircraft or human.......object at all. so, good job! also, i was hoping i could mention Dainty Dish briefly in my story, um, if that's okay with you....*squeak*

Dainty Dish is probably one of the top original characters in the entire fandom.  Quite an achievement.

What's the pony code for Generalzoi?

i credited you in my story. i only mentioned her very briefly, as comparison in speed.

Okay, good rules there. I shall remember them. Thank you! :D

This might sound a bit odd, but I'd like to go over it with you to make sure that I'm not deviating from character: If she were to have seen something very unusual, say, during a recon run, something that would have "tactical" implications, would it behest her to perform a wide radius turn in the stratosphere to investigate with her camera? That is, would it be strange for her to forgo on her assigned run if she saw something really out of the ordinary to take pictures?

Additionally, I know that she has her HYCON, but it always sort of struck me that she might also have excellent eyes herself, kind of akin to a personification of the Blackbird's recon suite. I'm not saying that she'd have eyes that would rival her camera, but much like a high-performance pilot, perhaps a fighter pilot, would require, she would have very perceptive vision. Would this be too-farfetched to use?

>>8305583055

I would say 'no' on the first question.  Real blackbird missions were practically choreographed dances and everything was almost ALWAYS planned out long before hand on the ground.  At most, if she spotted something odd, She'd snap her camera on it and get the best shot she could get without having to make a deviation.   Then later she'd make a trip to that target.  Chances are, anything short-term worthy of her notice isn't going anywhere fast enough to know to get the heck up out of the way and hide when she's taking photos.

As for having good eyes.  I would give her 20x20 vision.  But nothing too fancy.  At 17 miles high, there's not much she can look at that's very meaningful to her.  Especially not when it's there, then gone so fast.  Apply her photographic memory (like when she listed the Hycon's values in story after hearing it only once) to whatever she sees.

Cool. Appreciate the rapid response.

Very, very good story. As usual, didn't care much for the typical Mane Six stuff, but the aerial stuff, especially here at the end, was really great.

Well there we have it, a brilliant story, and impressive use of musical accompaniment.

More importantly this is an example of successfully breaking one of the 'cardinal rules' of fan-fiction, making an OC that is better at something then a cannon character’s specialty. Because Dainty Dish is so specialized, she does not occupy the same space as Rainbow Dash and cause problems. Of course, the fact there is solid characterization, and a well rounded and developed (for the length) character to work with in Dainty Dish is what makes this work in the end. But it is a rare example of breaking the rules with an OC done right, and for that I salute you.

>>5775957759

first i just wanna say as the story goes its great! but theres just one fact you got messed up that messes the whole story up for me....

and that is the speed at which a sonic rainboom happens is way different than when a sonic boom happens..... one shatters sound the other light..... i'm not sure if you seen the video on youtube or not but it mathematically proves RD has to do over MACH 5 just to even do the sonic rainboom so already faster than..........blackbird

here i'll just send you link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVfidujxRg

but again as a story goes its great

Hi there!

First off, this was a very good story, and I look forward to seeing more of your work.   I really liked how you were able to transform the SR-71 Blackbird into Dainty Dish.  As an OC, DD was believable, relatable, and her interactions with the mane cast were very well done.  I loved it!

I just had some questions about the techincal details that you mentioned in your explanation here.  Please note that I'm not an expert at this; my mind is sort of a grab-bag of facts that I struggle to piece together properly. Furthermore, I apologize for being more than 2 weeks late here; I just got around to reading this, and seeing your detailed explanation got me thinking.  Which is usually a bad thing.  

First off, I had some concerns about how Dainty is able to breath while crusing at that altitude.  As you probably know, ponies (and humans) have have a minimum requirement for the partial pressure of oxygen (pp O2) in the air that they breathe.  While this requirement is satisfied at ground level, as one goes higher, the air pressure drops (as you mentioned) and the pp O2 drops proportionally.  pp O2 is important in calculating the time of useful consciousness--without oxygen, one functions slower and will eventually lose consciousness.  I took a brief look at Wikipedia's article on TUC; although the numbers are for humans, I believe that they'll serve as ballpark estimates for ponies.  Wikipedia listed the TUC for a human at rest at 50000 feet to be only 6-9 seconds.  Now add in that 1) Dainty is likely flying far higher than that (the SR-71 Blackbird routinely flies at 80,000 feet, with a service ceiling of 85,000), and 2) Dainty is actually physically exerting herself to power her flight, and I find it far more likely that Dainty would simply lose consciousness and fall/crash long before she reaches her cruising altitude/speed.  Furthermore, while airplanes can be designed for such conditions, ponies cannot (unless we decide to handwave this with magic), and so I find it hard to believe that Dainty has some special lung system that exists solely to allow her to fly at these altitudes.  (I considered the effect that flying at those speeds would have at pressurizing the air within her lungs, but it still wouldn't be enough to allow useful periods of consciousness.)  Did you have some rationalization for this?

Second off, I had some concerns about your statement that "The higher you go, the less junk is in the air.  For a pony that’s allergic to ‘everything’ as was shown in the story, going up higher and higher takes her clear of allergens, allowing her to escape the misery."  While this is true to some extent, I believe that it no longer applies at the altitudes that Dainty would be cruising at.  80,000 feet puts her firmly within the mesosphere.  The mesosphere is far above the altitudes at which normal weather processes (which would clear the air of particulates through effects such as cloud formation & rain) occur.  In addition, at this altitude the air is stratified by temperature; mixing of the air layers would be fairly uncommon.  Furthermore, the mesosphere is where meteors usually ablate, disintegrating into particulates and ions. (For example, the sodium layer, a layer of uncharged & unbound sodium atoms, usually exists at altitudes between 80 and 105 km.)  Granted, I'm not entirely sure about the effects of the particulates that exist at these altitudes on an equine respiratory system, but I don't believe the statement of "the higher you go, the less junk is in the air" is so clean-cut at the altitudes that Dainty would be cruising at.  Did you have some justification for this?

But I'm just nitpicking at details here.  I really liked the story as a whole and Dainty as a character!  Bravo, and as I said earlier, I look forward to seeing more of your work!

Woah, that was a long ramble.  tl;dr: Great story! Look forward to more!

>>8835288352

Mach 6.2 is the calculation based off the Mach Cone if I recall from memory.  However, that math is inherently flawed on principle.  Because the show is animated, the instance of the 'mach cone' is not based on technical fact, but on style.  It's used to show someone 'yes, we're going REALLY fast right now', but not actually based on anything of usable fact.  

Using it to determine anything 'hard' is worthless.  It is also inconsistent, as in a dead-vertical dive, assuming Cloudsdale in 'Sonic Rainboom' was at eight thousand feet to ten thousand feet (A comfortable temperature and pressure altitude), Rainbow Dash would have covered the distance between the arena and the ground in under a second and hit the ground with the force a little under half her weight in TNT.  On top of this, her 'shown' speed is far less than mach 6.2  (Mach six point two is around or a little above 2 miles per second.  11,000 feet would be about two miles high.)

In order to be consistent, she would have to be much, MUCH higher than possible in that scene. (

330,000 feet, well above breathable atmosphere.)

Since the logical math between her mach cone, her time to cover distance, and her displayed onscreen speed are all in conflict, I can only toss them out and go with what was obviously intended by the sonic (rain)boom.  And that is that the event is her passage of the Mach One eveleope, not Mach Six.  As there is no special transition effects when someone goes hypersonic.

Trust me, if Dash did anything even CLOSE to mach 3, let alone mach 6, in a dead vertical dive like that she'd cover the distance so fast we wouldn't have time to make it a dramatic scene.

>>8840188401

To answer your queries/questions/nitpicks.

On breathing.  Dainty breathes VIA 'Ram Air'.  If it's enough oxygen to keep the afterburners of the Blackbird Lit, it's enough for her to breathe.  Beyond that, I'm not going to overthink it.

On the allergies vs altitude bit, same deal.  I'm not going to try and overthink the situation.

Because in all honesty, I looked over it.  And we're looking at a show in which anvils can be dropped on character's heads witout killing them, the sun and moon are controlled by animals, and a pegasus can hit mach one.  Try and take the science too hard and you end up trying to rationalize everything.

So I don't. The science I apply is more as a guideline than hard-science.  It allows for consistency, but I stop short of actually sitting down with a calculator and calculating the Lift/Drag ratio, or thinking about the fact that at Mach 3, Dainty's nose wouldn't be heatblasted, but rather the flesh would be melted right off her bones (which would then incinerate)  

So the rationality is: 'It's a kids show in a looney-toons-esque world.  Science is considered, but only enough to keep things consistent.'

Woo! Toy Story!

I'm reading this again.

You turned a plane... into a character. And it was awesome. How... What? I don't even...

Sir, (or ma'am actually I don't really know if you're a dude) You're my internet hero for the month.

Absolutely amazing.  I am utterly lost for words after how epically you painted this.  I could see the whole thing play out in my head, and I could feel every whipcrack wingbeat.

Ace Combat music helps.

Ace Combat music helps a lot of things, really.

Absolutely loved it! I totally want to give Dainty a hug!

*Quivers in anticipation.*

Brilliant, brilliant story. Just need to introduce an A12 pony now

this aint gonna end well

Excellent story!  Now you've got me thinking about how to turn the military aircraft I work on into a pony.

i know theres a lot of holes in the cartoon and much of what you said is true and i agree but the fact is.........

its cannon so therefore legit

>>9394993949

Not seeing any point in which 'mach 6 rainbow dash' is declared cannon.  All I've seen is that physics presentation and that the guy got some toys for doing such an entertaining and bang up job. So pardon me if I don't take your word on it.  

Allow me to correct myself: E.S. Posthumus' Lepcis Magna is a far superior representation of Dainty Dish's flight than Cuzco was. The rough, hard-drum opening represents the turbulence she must suffer, and just as one believes it is about to explode, the song settles instantly into a smooth, flowing piece, reminding me of her initial transcension through the Mach barrier.

I probably over-think this. I just love Dainty Dish too much She will forever hold the place as my #1 favorite pony.

I'm sorry, but Dainty just seems a little too Sue-ish for my tastes.

>>9566595665

*Shrug*

No worries.  She's modelled after an airplane that is in itself, almost sueish.  Kinda' unavoidable.

>>9567995679

The appendix really helped to clear things up.  Glad I finished the story.