Best looking fictional military aircraft

[Pat Flannery]

This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
You know, stuff like this:
The MiG-31 from "Firefox"
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The Swordfish: http://renax.club.fr/sharkit/espadon/espadon.htm
Spectrum's Angel interceptor: Loading Image...
It's sort of military...the X-Mens X Jet:
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Sky 1 from UFO: Loading Image...
Alpha/Beta class aerial battleship from "The Mysterians":
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Royal Navy submersible fighters from "Sky Captain":
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SHIELD Helicarrier: http://www.iconian.com/fury/heli.html
The F/A-37 Talon from "Stealth":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178643/posts
The UCAV EDI from the same movie:
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What's everyone's fave? :-)

Pat

[Rob Arndt]

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
The MiG-31 from "Firefox"http://www.jimbrooks.org/web/aviation/full/firefox2.jpg
The Swordfish:http://renax.club.fr/sharkit/espadon/espadon.htm
Spectrum's Angel interceptor:http://www.axeman3d.com/thumbnails/angel.jpg
It's sort of military...the X-Mens X Jet:http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9350/fx6611460160050gi.jpg
Sky 1 from UFO:http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/ga/OT-MODEL/ds-sky1-1.jpg
Alpha/Beta class aerial battleship from "The Mysterians":Loading Image...
Royal Navy submersible fighters from "Sky Captain":http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/041104/111916__sky_l.jpg
SHIELD Helicarrier:http://www.iconian.com/fury/heli.html
The F/A-37 Talon from "Stealth":http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178643/posts
The UCAV EDI from the same movie:http://movies.about.com/library/graphics/stealthpubl.jpg
What's everyone's fave? :-)
Pat

What, no BSG Colonial Vipers Mks.II, VII, and stealth Viper Mk.XII
Blackbird? No Cylon Raiders? No Hammerheads from "Space Above and
Beyond"? No "Rodger Young" from "Starship Troopers"? No Romulan
Warbirds or Reman Scimitar from "ST Nemesis"?

Rob

[Rob Arndt]

Post by Rob Arndt

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
The MiG-31 from "Firefox"http://www.jimbrooks.org/web/aviation/full/firefox2.jpg
The Swordfish:http://renax.club.fr/sharkit/espadon/espadon.htm
Spectrum's Angel interceptor:http://www.axeman3d.com/thumbnails/angel.jpg
It's sort of military...the X-Mens X Jet:http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9350/fx6611460160050gi.jpg
Sky 1 from UFO:http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/ga/OT-MODEL/ds-sky1-1.jpg
Alpha/Beta class aerial battleship from "The Mysterians":http://www.tohokingdom.com/images/aliens_sdf/alpha57_01.jpghttp://www...
Royal Navy submersible fighters from "Sky Captain":http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/041104/111916__sky_l.jpg
SHIELD Helicarrier:http://www.iconian.com/fury/heli.html
The F/A-37 Talon from "Stealth":http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178643/posts
The UCAV EDI from the same movie:http://movies.about.com/library/graphics/stealthpubl.jpg
What's everyone's fave? :-)
Pat

What, no BSG Colonial Vipers Mks.II, VII, and stealth Viper Mk.XII
Blackbird? No Cylon Raiders? No Hammerheads from "Space Above and
Beyond"? No "Rodger Young" from "Starship Troopers"? No Romulan
Warbirds or Reman Scimitar from "ST Nemesis"?
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What about this thing?
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Rob

[Rob Arndt]

Post by Rob Arndt

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
The MiG-31 from "Firefox"http://www.jimbrooks.org/web/aviation/full/firefox2.jpg
The Swordfish:http://renax.club.fr/sharkit/espadon/espadon.htm
Spectrum's Angel interceptor:http://www.axeman3d.com/thumbnails/angel.jpg
It's sort of military...the X-Mens X Jet:http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9350/fx6611460160050gi.jpg
Sky 1 from UFO:http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/ga/OT-MODEL/ds-sky1-1.jpg
Alpha/Beta class aerial battleship from "The Mysterians":http://www.tohokingdom.com/images/aliens_sdf/alpha57_01.jpghttp://www...
Royal Navy submersible fighters from "Sky Captain":http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/041104/111916__sky_l.jpg
SHIELD Helicarrier:http://www.iconian.com/fury/heli.html
The F/A-37 Talon from "Stealth":http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178643/posts
The UCAV EDI from the same movie:http://movies.about.com/library/graphics/stealthpubl.jpg
What's everyone's fave? :-)
Pat

What, no BSG Colonial Vipers Mks.II, VII, and stealth Viper Mk.XII
Blackbird? No Cylon Raiders? No Hammerheads from "Space Above and
Beyond"? No "Rodger Young" from "Starship Troopers"? No Romulan
Warbirds or Reman Scimitar from "ST Nemesis"?
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What about this thing?http://www.fsplanet.com/images5/miniaj.jpg
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Colonial Viper Mk.II:
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Colonial Viper Mk.VII:
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Stealth Viper Mk.XII Blackbird:
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Cylon Raider:
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SA-43 Hammerhead:
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D'Deridex Romular Warbird:
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Romulan Warbird Valdore:
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Scimitar:
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Comparison of all ships in Nemesis:
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(Note neither NX-01 or any NCC-1701 Enterprise model is a warship)
Klingon Bird of Prey:
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Aliens, Colonial Marines Drop Ship:
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Starship Troopers Rodger Young:
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Starship Troopers TAC Fighter:
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The Last Starfighter:
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Rob

[frank]

MiG-31 Firefox, IMO. You left out Blue Thunder & Airwolf! BT is #1 in
my book for the helo side.

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
The MiG-31 from "Firefox"http://www.jimbrooks.org/web/aviation/full/firefox2.jpg
The Swordfish:http://renax.club.fr/sharkit/espadon/espadon.htm
Spectrum's Angel interceptor:http://www.axeman3d.com/thumbnails/angel.jpg
It's sort of military...the X-Mens X Jet:http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9350/fx6611460160050gi.jpg
Sky 1 from UFO:http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/ga/OT-MODEL/ds-sky1-1.jpg
Alpha/Beta class aerial battleship from "The Mysterians":http://www.tohokingdom.com/images/aliens_sdf/alpha57_01.jpghttp://www.tohokingdom.com/images/aliens_sdf/beta_01.jpg
Royal Navy submersible fighters from "Sky Captain":http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/041104/111916__sky_l.jpg
SHIELD Helicarrier:http://www.iconian.com/fury/heli.html
The F/A-37 Talon from "Stealth":http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178643/posts
The UCAV EDI from the same movie:http://movies.about.com/library/graphics/stealthpubl.jpg
What's everyone's fave? :-)
Pat

[Rob Arndt]

Post by frank
MiG-31 Firefox, IMO. You left out Blue Thunder & Airwolf! BT is #1 in
my book for the helo side.

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
The MiG-31 from "Firefox"http://www.jimbrooks.org/web/aviation/full/firefox2.jpg
The Swordfish:http://renax.club.fr/sharkit/espadon/espadon.htm
Spectrum's Angel interceptor:http://www.axeman3d.com/thumbnails/angel.jpg
It's sort of military...the X-Mens X Jet:http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9350/fx6611460160050gi.jpg
Sky 1 from UFO:http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/ga/OT-MODEL/ds-sky1-1.jpg
Alpha/Beta class aerial battleship from "The Mysterians":http://www.tohokingdom.com/images/aliens_sdf/alpha57_01.jpghttp://www...
Royal Navy submersible fighters from "Sky Captain":http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/041104/111916__sky_l.jpg
SHIELD Helicarrier:http://www.iconian.com/fury/heli.html
The F/A-37 Talon from "Stealth":http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1178643/posts
The UCAV EDI from the same movie:http://movies.about.com/library/graphics/stealthpubl.jpg
What's everyone's fave? :-)
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Forgot about Blue Thunder already?
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... "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"

Rob

[Pat Flannery]

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[frank]

It also looks similar to the MiG 701. ISTR Eastwood
consulted a number of aeronautical engineers & aircraft manufacturers
on the design after it was decided to not use an existing a/c type. (I
have seen somewhere that he considered a SAAB Viggen but the Swedes
wouldn't go along with it). There was an issue of Cinifex magazine
back then that showed pics of a dozen or so Firefox models & they
ranged from fairly conventional to almost cartoonish to like something
from Macross, IIRC. I think he did well as is & really wish he had
followed it with "Firefox Down".

Post by Pat Flannery

Post by frank
MiG-31 Firefox, IMO. You left out Blue Thunder & Airwolf! BT is #1 in
my book for the helo side.

I couldn't get them all by any means, there are hundreds of them out
there, going back to stuff like Black Hawk comics in the 1930s.
the scene I always liked in Firefox was when it went into the climb and
the canards swept back. That was a nice touch.
You know, this MiG somewhat resembles it:http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/mig-142.pl
The other thing about the Firefox is that it a had faceted stealth
design, particularly at the front... and this was a lot of years before
anyone ever saw a F-117.
Lockheed must have shit bricks when they saw that movie.
Still haven't figured out how the engine set-up on it was supposed to work.
Intakes on the top..._and_ bottom?
I really like that X-Men jet. That is really sharp looking in X-2.
I also love those RN submersible fighters in Sky Captain also.
Whoever designed those even got the camouflage and marking styles right.
And no women has the right to look half that sexy in an eyepatch and
bubble-domed pressure suit. :-)
(Someone has got to come up with a emoticon for lust.)
Pat

[Pat Flannery]

Post by frank
It also looks similar to the MiG 701. ISTR Eastwood
consulted a number of aeronautical engineers & aircraft manufacturers
on the design after it was decided to not use an existing a/c type. (I
have seen somewhere that he considered a SAAB Viggen but the Swedes
wouldn't go along with it). There was an issue of Cinifex magazine
back then that showed pics of a dozen or so Firefox models & they
ranged from fairly conventional to almost cartoonish to like something
from Macross, IIRC. I think he did well as is & really wish he had
followed it with "Firefox Down".

There was supposed to be some British advanced fighter concept design
that influenced the front end, but I've never seen a drawing of it.
It would be interesting to see if it used the faceted stealth design, as
that wasn't our concept alone as the MBB Lampyridae
showed:http://www.f-104.de/exponates/english/exp_lampyridae_eng.html

Pat

[Rob Arndt]

Post by Pat Flannery

Post by frank
It also looks similar to the MiG 701. ISTR Eastwood
consulted a number of aeronautical engineers & aircraft manufacturers
on the design after it was decided to not use an existing a/c type. (I
have seen somewhere that he considered a SAAB Viggen but the Swedes
wouldn't go along with it). There was an issue of Cinifex magazine
back then that showed pics of a dozen or so Firefox models & they
ranged from fairly conventional to almost cartoonish to like something
from Macross, IIRC. I think he did well as is & really wish he had
followed it with "Firefox Down".

There was supposed to be some British advanced fighter concept design
that influenced the front end, but I've never seen a drawing of it.
It would be interesting to see if it used the faceted stealth design, as
that wasn't our concept alone as the MBB Lampyridae
showed:http://www.f-104.de/exponates/english/exp_lampyridae_eng.html
Pat

The F-117 stealth concept wasn't really ours anyway- we got it from
the declassification by the Soviets of their Professor Ufimtsev's book
on radar diffraction using geometric shapes. Prior to this, the US
tried RAM on a Windecker Eagle IIRC in 1972 and THAT was it. You can
count the U-2 Ironball anti-radar paint derived from the WW2 German
Schornsteinfeger application and maybe the Northrop flying wings as
that configuration possesses some inherent steath qualities. The
Hortens just made it better with their Ho-IX/Go-229 by making it
largely of wood and filling it with a mixture of sawdust, charcoal,
and other things to absorb radar. While the Northrops flew and were
cancelled the US leaned towards the latter Horten designs. So prior to
the Windecker, US stealth was German-based to a large extent.

The USAF also had NO IDEA that West Germany/MBB had the Lampyridae
until they visited Germany in 1981 and saw the mock-up which
infuriated them. How did the Germans arrive at the same conclusions at
the same time regarding faceting? Did they have Ufimtsev's book? No.
Did the US share their secret? No. So how is it possible that their
version was not only superior from the frontal aspect, but was also
armed and was to be an interceptor?

I suspect they knew because they retained WW2 knowledge of a project
with DFS that may or may not have been the RLM 8-468 alotted to DFS.
DFS already was working on a disc Mistel project with numbers 8-360
for the disc and 8-464 for the future jet bomber that was to carry it.
But in late 1944 GEMA (which was the foundation of German radar and
sonar tech) asked DFS to convert a sailplane over to a faceted
crystalline aircraft. DFS could not fill the order so Messerschmitt
supposedly took it up in seclusion somewhere in the Schwarzwald.
Meanwhile, after the tests were finished, DFS was in the process of
trying to construct a diamond-shaped fighter mock-up but could not as
time simply ran out. GEMA also fell to the Soviets. So the "Black
Diamond" was never constructed. Some believe Messerschmitt (part of
MBB) retained that knowledge and put it to use with the Firefly. But
the US pressured W Germany to drop the project and by 1989 it was
"officially" cancelled. Yet eye witness reports state that two of the
craft flew over the RSA at the Overberg Test Range. A NATO Firefly II
is claimed to exist under EADS since the early 2000s.

Rob

[Scott Lowther]

Post by Rob Arndt

Post by Pat Flannery

Post by frank
It also looks similar to the MiG 701. ISTR Eastwood
consulted a number of aeronautical engineers & aircraft manufacturers
on the design after it was decided to not use an existing a/c type. (I
have seen somewhere that he considered a SAAB Viggen but the Swedes
wouldn't go along with it). There was an issue of Cinifex magazine
back then that showed pics of a dozen or so Firefox models & they
ranged from fairly conventional to almost cartoonish to like something
from Macross, IIRC. I think he did well as is & really wish he had
followed it with "Firefox Down".

There was supposed to be some British advanced fighter concept design
that influenced the front end, but I've never seen a drawing of it.
It would be interesting to see if it used the faceted stealth design, as
that wasn't our concept alone as the MBB Lampyridae
showed:http://www.f-104.de/exponates/english/exp_lampyridae_eng.html
Pat

The F-117 stealth concept wasn't really ours anyway- we got it from
the declassification by the Soviets of their Professor Ufimtsev's book
on radar diffraction using geometric shapes. Prior to this, the US
tried RAM on a Windecker Eagle IIRC in 1972 and THAT was it.

You seem to have forgotten the Boeing "Quiet Bird" stealthy attack
aircraft from '62. Aircraft not built, but a half-scale RCS pole-model
demonstrator using the same materials and shaping *was*. Turned out
reasonably stealthy. And there was also the leading edge design for the
SR-71 and Convair Fish/Kingfish.

Post by Rob Arndt
I suspect they knew because they retained WW2 knowledge of a project
with DFS that may or may not have been the RLM 8-468 alotted to DFS.
DFS already was working on a disc Mistel project with numbers 8-360
for the disc and 8-464 for the future jet bomber that was to carry it.
But in late 1944 GEMA (which was the foundation of German radar and
sonar tech) asked DFS to convert a sailplane over to a faceted
crystalline aircraft. DFS could not fill the order so Messerschmitt
supposedly took it up in seclusion somewhere in the Schwarzwald.
Meanwhile, after the tests were finished, DFS was in the process of
trying to construct a diamond-shaped fighter mock-up but could not as
time simply ran out. GEMA also fell to the Soviets. So the "Black
Diamond" was never constructed. Some believe Messerschmitt (part of
MBB) retained that knowledge and put it to use with the Firefly. But
the US pressured W Germany to drop the project and by 1989 it was
"officially" cancelled. Yet eye witness reports state that two of the
craft flew over the RSA at the Overberg Test Range. A NATO Firefly II
is claimed to exist under EADS since the early 2000s.

Nice sci-fi story there.

[Pat Flannery]

Post by Scott Lowther
You seem to have forgotten the Boeing "Quiet Bird" stealthy attack
aircraft from '62. Aircraft not built, but a half-scale RCS pole-model
demonstrator using the same materials and shaping *was*. Turned out
reasonably stealthy. And there was also the leading edge design for
the SR-71 and Convair Fish/Kingfish.

Lockheed's "Gusto 2" projected subsonic U-2 replacement had a
flying-wing shape for stealth.
There's also supposed to have been a Lockheed design for a stealth
aircraft (unless this is a reference to Gusto 2) that would be
transparent to radar by being entirely built of plastics and composites.
The problem was the engine and cockpit.
That may have gotten to prototype concept demonstrator stage.
Gusto 2 really did look like it had a lot of German flying wing design
input to its design.

Pat

[Jeremy Thomson]

On Jun 16, 6:39 am, Pat Flannery <***@daktel.com> wrote:
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Post by Pat Flannery
The other thing about the Firefox is that it a had faceted stealth
design, particularly at the front... and this was a lot of years before
anyone ever saw a F-117.
Lockheed must have shit bricks when they saw that movie.

...

Post by Pat Flannery
And no women has the right to look half that sexy in an eyepatch and
bubble-domed pressure suit. :-)
(Someone has got to come up with a emoticon for lust.)
Pat

I believe the faceted design of Firefox was necessitated by the limits
of roto-scoping technolgy in the movies back then. I remember reading
about firefox and the modeler was saying they couldnt use a bubble
canopy because theat would muck up the SFX. When you look at special
effects craft from the late seventies till '80s you dont see many
curves. By "The Return of the Jedi" ILM were doing the first digital
compositing & could deal with rounded models, thus the freaky curves
of the "Callimasan" (?) destroyers.

8-P~ (Emoticon for Lust, Bugged eyes, tongue out & drooling)

[Pat Flannery]

Post by Jeremy Thomson
I believe the faceted design of Firefox was necessitated by the limits
of roto-scoping technolgy in the movies back then. I remember reading
about firefox and the modeler was saying they couldnt use a bubble
canopy because theat would muck up the SFX. When you look at special
effects craft from the late seventies till '80s you dont see many
curves. By "The Return of the Jedi" ILM were doing the first digital
compositing & could deal with rounded models, thus the freaky curves
of the "Callimasan" (?) destroyers.

I had assumed it was to simplify the building of the full-size prop
aircraft.

Pat

[Rob Arndt]

Post by Pat Flannery

Post by Jeremy Thomson
I believe the faceted design of Firefox was necessitated by the limits
of roto-scoping technolgy in the movies back then. I remember reading
about firefox and the modeler was saying they couldnt use a bubble
canopy because theat would muck up the SFX. When you look at special
effects craft from the late seventies till '80s you dont see many
curves. By "The Return of the Jedi" ILM were doing the first digital
compositing & could deal with rounded models, thus the freaky curves
of the "Callimasan" (?) destroyers.

I had assumed it was to simplify the building of the full-size prop
aircraft.
Pat

The ships were Mon Calamari: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/mcc.html

Remember Admiral Ackbar?

Rob

[Typhoon502]

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
What's everyone's fave? :-)

The Hughes Bloodhawk from Crimson Skies.
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Fast, agile, carries a decent armament (it's no gunboat but I have one
with a pair of .30s and a .70cal cannon plus three rocket racks), so
you can basically dance around an adversary hitting him with AP .30cal
and flak rockets to strip his armor down, then post up and whale on
him with the big seventy. It's a slinky little thing too...paint it
black and you can roam around at night with impunity.

Heck, all of the Crimson Skies planes are cool.
http://firedrake.org/roger/crimsonskies/equivalency.html

[Paul Elliot]

Post by Typhoon502

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
What's everyone's fave? :-)

The Hughes Bloodhawk from Crimson Skies.
http://firedrake.org/roger/crimsonskies/planes/plane_BloodHawk.jpg
Fast, agile, carries a decent armament (it's no gunboat but I have one
with a pair of .30s and a .70cal cannon plus three rocket racks), so
you can basically dance around an adversary hitting him with AP .30cal
and flak rockets to strip his armor down, then post up and whale on
him with the big seventy. It's a slinky little thing too...paint it
black and you can roam around at night with impunity.
Heck, all of the Crimson Skies planes are cool.
http://firedrake.org/roger/crimsonskies/equivalency.html

Nope, has to be the XP-55 Ascender.

http://www.swannysmodels.com/XP55.html

[cdr]

Post by Paul Elliot

Post by Typhoon502

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games, etc.)?
What's everyone's fave? :-)

The Hughes Bloodhawk from Crimson Skies.
http://firedrake.org/roger/crimsonskies/planes/plane_BloodHawk.jpg
Fast, agile, carries a decent armament (it's no gunboat but I have one
with a pair of .30s and a .70cal cannon plus three rocket racks), so
you can basically dance around an adversary hitting him with AP .30cal
and flak rockets to strip his armor down, then post up and whale on
him with the big seventy. It's a slinky little thing too...paint it
black and you can roam around at night with impunity.
Heck, all of the Crimson Skies planes are cool.
http://firedrake.org/roger/crimsonskies/equivalency.html

Nope, has to be the XP-55 Ascender.
http://www.swannysmodels.com/XP55.html

The Curtiss XP-55 wasn't a fictional aircraft - it's first flight occurred
in July 1943.

[Rob Arndt]

Post by Pat Flannery

Post by Paul Elliot

Post by Typhoon502

Post by Pat Flannery
This could be kind of fun; what was the best looking fictional military
aircraft to show up in popular culture (Movies, TV, Comics, Games,

etc.)?

Post by Paul Elliot

Post by Typhoon502

Post by Pat Flannery
What's everyone's fave? :-)

The Hughes Bloodhawk from Crimson Skies.
http://firedrake.org/roger/crimsonskies/planes/plane_BloodHawk.jpg
Fast, agile, carries a decent armament (it's no gunboat but I have one
with a pair of .30s and a .70cal cannon plus three rocket racks), so
you can basically dance around an adversary hitting him with AP .30cal
and flak rockets to strip his armor down, then post up and whale on
him with the big seventy. It's a slinky little thing too...paint it
black and you can roam around at night with impunity.
Heck, all of the Crimson Skies planes are cool.
http://firedrake.org/roger/crimsonskies/equivalency.html

Nope, has to be the XP-55 Ascender.
http://www.swannysmodels.com/XP55.html

The Curtiss XP-55 wasn't a fictional aircraft - it's first flight occurred
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How about all these faked/fictional Axis Aircraft:

Fw-500:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Focke.htm
German VTOL:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/German%20VTOL.htm
German-Japanese Sun Blosson sucide nuke jet:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/sunblossom.htm
Fw-380:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/FOCKEWULF%20FW.htm
Me-168 Geire:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/MESSERSCHMITT%20M1.htm
Fi-203 Adlerskralle:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Fieseler%20Fi.htm
Eimann Fluggerat:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Einmann.htm
Japanese Faked Me-262/309 Hybrid:
http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/Japanese%20Faked%20Me.htm

Rob

[Pat Flannery]

Post by Paul Elliot
Nope, has to be the XP-55 Ascender.
http://www.swannysmodels.com/XP55.html

Yeah, but that was a real aircraft, not a fictional one.

Pat

[Pat Flannery]

Post by Typhoon502
The Hughes Bloodhawk from Crimson Skies.
http://firedrake.org/roger/crimsonskies/planes/plane_BloodHawk.jpg

That looks a lot like this:
http://www.luft46.com/henschel/hsp75.html


Pat