Fictional Aircraft from TV and Movies

[Graham1973]

From an obscure Russian movie 'Charged With Death' about some guys who bust out of a gulag, steal a boat and find themselves running from, the crooks who owned the drugs on the boat, the Russian Border Patrol and the US Coast Guard...

Because the filmmakers could not get their hands on an American helicopter they slapped USCG markings on a Mi-24 Hind

https://aviationhumor.net/mi-24-hind-us-coast-guard-colors/

 

[galgot]

From an obscure Russian movie 'Charged With Death' about some guys who bust out of a gulag, steal a boat and find themselves running from, the crooks who owned the drugs on the boat, the Russian Border Patrol and the US Coast Guard...

Because the filmmakers could not get their hands on an American helicopter they slapped USCG markings on a Mi-24 Hind



https://aviationhumor.net/mi-24-hind-us-coast-guard-colors/

Nice. For a rare to see in films machine:
The Beast : An Israeli SA 321 Super Frelon is "playing" as a Russian helo (Mi-8 ?). Film was shot in Israel.

 

[The Artist]

Whatever was used in Airplane! It looked like a 707, but it had piston engines.

As I remember, the model had the jet engines, but every time we saw the ecterior in flight, they used the sound of piston engines. On opening day, my friends and I were, it seemed, the only ones in the theater who got it - at least, we were the only ones who laughed at the gag.

 

[Rhinocrates]

Whatever was used in Airplane! It looked like a 707, but it had piston engines.

As I remember, the model had the jet engines, but every time we saw the ecterior in flight, they used the sound of piston engines. On opening day, my friends and I were, it seemed, the only ones in the theater who got it - at least, we were the only ones who laughed at the gag.

Yes, I know. It's hard to be deadpan in text. IIRC, Zucker, Zucker and Abrahams had bought the script for a totally serious old aviation disaster movie, Zero Hour (?) and stuffed it full of gags. The original was piston-engined and they wanted to keep it for their film, but the studio overruled them - so they kept the sound effect anyway.

 

[Graham1973]

Courtesy of Hazegreyart, something from the worlds of Gerry Anderson

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx1iluQsJdE


And the music they could not use due to the 'copyright police' on YouTube.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyBgWubXaqU

 

[Bounce]

There was a cop/detective show I used to watch in the late 90s, no idea what it was but I assume it was reruns from the late 80s.

Long story short there was a scene where he had to break into a top secret hanger, there was a full scale B-2 style mockup not CGI (flying wing, curvy stealth plane)

There was a fight scene on it, I always wondered if it was the "B-2" they build for the Honda commercial.

 

[sienar]

Nick Carter Master Detective

An OK B movie from just before WW2. The plot concerns foreign spies, heavily implied to be German, trying to steal the plans for a new fighter plane with a variable thickness wing.



Besides the working wing the aircraft looks like a modified seversky.

 

[piginapoke]

Wonderwoman 84 invisible jet is a Tornado with side by side seating. Picture of a model of it shows it best.

Maybe it's me but the Quinjet at the end of Black Widow looks smaller and less bulky than the usual Quinjets in Marvel films.

 

[Justo Miranda]

"Things to come"

 

[pathology_doc]

And a couple more from Starflight: The Plane that couldn't land,

Thomas Block, Orbit, 1982

StarStreak
Airliner (Hypersonic)

The general concept of both film and book is practically identical, even though the characters and plots are completely different.

 

[royabulgaf]

Nick Carter Master Detective

An OK B movie from just before WW2. The plot concerns foreign spies, heavily implied to be German, trying to steal the plans for a new fighter plane with a variable thickness wing.
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Besides the working wing the aircraft looks like a modified seversky.
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Interesting. For a B movie, the variable wing thickness and the example looks pretty high tech. I've never heard of a concept like this, but it seems reasonable. BTW, it that a P-35?

 

[The K2]

Many of the vehicles from the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson shows back in the 1960s were designed by Derek Meddings, Brian Johnson, and Mike Trim.

An artist on the Eagle Transporter Forum by the name of Jonathan E. created color drawings of many of these vehicles. With her permission, I went back and updated some of them using material in my collection. One of my favorites is the lifting body used in the film "Journey To The Far Side of the Sun."

 

[The K2]

How about the VF-1 fighters from the anime series "SDF-1 Macross."
This particular one is a plastic model kit of the VF-1S outfitted for space flight.

 

[GTX]

Resources that can assist with this thread:

List of fictional aircraft - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Internet Movie Plane Database Wiki

impdb.fandom.com

 

[The K2]

In the same vein as the lifting body drawing from the film "Journey To The Far Side of the Sun", three aircraft from the TV series "UFO," two from "Thunderbirds" and one from "Captain Scarlet." All of them were designed by Derek Meddings. These drawings were updated from the originals by Jonathan E on the ETF using screencaps and photographs of the FX filming models.

A forum member asked if I had updated a drawing of the SHADO executive jet, which I did. This one was designed by Mike Trim. Rather than add another post, it was best to add it to this post (03/05/22).

A friend of mine sent me more photos of the nose of the last drawing, which I corrected and uploaded (03/10/22). My apologies to those members who downloaded the earlier version of the Seagull SST.

 

[The K2]

The FFR-41 MR "Mave" fighter from the anime series "Sentou Yousei Yukikaze."

 

[The K2]

The Skyfleet S570 from the 007 film “Casino Royale.” Look at the size of the model for this sequence. It should be noted that many of the FX artists who were trained and worked with the late Derek Meddings reunited for this film. Meddings was known as the master of miniature effects.

This photo came from the MI6community forum.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Douglas DC-7 modified

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_Is_the_Hunter_(film)

 

[The K2]

The Moonlight SY-3 spacecraft from the Godzilla film “Destroy All Monsters.” It is also capable of flying in the atmosphere.

Sadly, the large scale filming model has not survived, but here is a scale replica by Daimos and a screengrab from the movie of it being attacked by the Kilaaks (the bad guys).

 

[publiusr]

Many of the vehicles from the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson shows back in the 1960s were designed by Derek Meddings, Brian Johnson, and Mike Trim.

An artist on the Eagle Transporter Forum by the name of Jonathan E. created color drawings of many of these vehicles. With her permission, I went back and updated some of them using material in my collection. One of my favorites is the lifting body used in the film "Journey To The Far Side of the Sun."

Mr. Merriman did one, IIRC.

 

[The K2]

Futurist and designer Syd Mead created this space/atmospheric fighter for the anime series "Yamato 2520." The multiview drawing is from the website Spacecruiseryamato.com. The screencaps are from the video: the first one is a fighter in flight, the second one is in the launch bay of the space battleship Yamato. Mead was responsible for the design of the hardware seen in the series.

 

[The K2]

The Hyperion from the film “The Island At The Top of The World” and the Albatross from the film “Master of The World.”

 

[The K2]

There was a cop/detective show I used to watch in the late 90s, no idea what it was but I assume it was reruns from the late 80s.

Long story short there was a scene where he had to break into a top secret hanger, there was a full scale B-2 style mockup not CGI (flying wing, curvy stealth plane)

There was a fight scene on it, I always wondered if it was the "B-2" they build for the Honda commercial.

This sounds vaguely familiar. I tried searching the web and came up zero. I did find a fictional VTOL flying wing in the 1992 TV series “Human Target” starring Rick Springfield. Excuse the poor quality, someone posted the series on YouTube from VHS.

 

[Bounce]

There was a cop/detective show I used to watch in the late 90s, no idea what it was but I assume it was reruns from the late 80s.

Long story short there was a scene where he had to break into a top secret hanger, there was a full scale B-2 style mockup not CGI (flying wing, curvy stealth plane)

There was a fight scene on it, I always wondered if it was the "B-2" they build for the Honda commercial.

This sounds vaguely familiar. I tried searching the web and came up zero. I did find a fictional VTOL flying wing in the 1992 TV series “Human Target” starring Rick Springfield. Excuse the poor quality, someone posted the series on YouTube from VHS.

I've spent years trying to find it! And it's so crystal clear in my head!

I also remember an episode of Sliders had a VTOL C-17? The engines swiveled upwards.

 

[Graham1973]

Some of the vismodded choppers in Rambo III. One is clearly meant to be an Mi-24, as to the other, who knows...

 

[Hicks]

"Patlabor 2" anime movie featured some nifty designs by Kawamori Shoji, F-15 Kai Eagle Plus & F-16 Kai Night Falcon.

I already posted materials about them at :
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...kai-night-falcon-from-patlabor-2-movie.37626/

There is also an FSX derivative but i haven't found good artwork for it.

 

[Hood]

One is clearly meant to be an Mi-24, as to the other, who knows...

I always assumed that the Gazelle was meant to be representing a 'Hokum' or 'Havoc' (both of which were known about at that time but only from super-grainy photos and artists impressions).

 

[The K2]

There was a cop/detective show I used to watch in the late 90s, no idea what it was but I assume it was reruns from the late 80s.

Long story short there was a scene where he had to break into a top secret hanger, there was a full scale B-2 style mockup not CGI (flying wing, curvy stealth plane)

There was a fight scene on it, I always wondered if it was the "B-2" they build for the Honda commercial.

This sounds vaguely familiar. I tried searching the web and came up zero. I did find a fictional VTOL flying wing in the 1992 TV series “Human Target” starring Rick Springfield. Excuse the poor quality, someone posted the series on YouTube from VHS.

I've spent years trying to find it! And it's so crystal clear in my head!

I also remember an episode of Sliders had a VTOL C-17? The engines swiveled upwards.

The 1992 version of “Human Target” was never officially released on video. Someone on YouTube taped it when it was first broadcast. At least we get to see the flying wing again. And it was called Blackwing.

 

[The K2]

"Patlabor 2" anime movie featured some nifty designs by Kawamori Shoji, F-15 Kai Eagle Plus & F-16 Kai Night Falcon.

I already posted materials about them at :
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...kai-night-falcon-from-patlabor-2-movie.37626/

There is also an FSX derivative but i haven't found good artwork for it.

Shoji Kawamori - the man’s name is synonymous with transformable mecha.

The VF-1 Valkyrie: A Truly Iconic Mecha Design

As seen in Macross, Robotech and Transformers, the Valkyrie is one of the greatest mecha designs of all time.

www.denofgeek.com

Shoji Kawamori Patlabor Aircraft Designs

www.macrossworld.com

 

[The K2]

Well, could be a way to handle questions like "Is this a real design ? No, it's from the Movie XYZ".

So let's start this thread with the MiG "Firefox" from the 1982 movie with Clint Eastwood:
(screenshot via https://simotron.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/screen-shot-2013-05-03-at-6-53-35-pm.png )

If you are interested in the Firefox, I recommend this thread from the Replica Prop Forum:

Firefox MIG-31 movie aircraft

Hi all, Been a lurker here for a while, created a new account as couldn't remember my old one! Always loved the Firefox plane after seeing the movie at age 14 in '82, thinking someone has got to do a kit of it, but it never happened. I picked up a Studio 2 kit many years later, but it was...

www.therpf.com

 

[sferrin]

The Gilbert XF-120 from Toward the Unknown

 

[robunos]

The Gilbert XF-120 from Toward the Unknown

Does this really count, as it's an 'Imposter', the Martin XB-51 pretending to be the 'Gilbert-XF-120', rather than a completely fictional design ?
Should there be a sub-category for 'Imposters' like this ?

cheers,
Robin.

 

[sferrin]

The Gilbert XF-120 from Toward the Unknown

Does this really count, as it's an 'Imposter', the Martin XB-51 pretending to be the 'Gilbert-XF-120', rather than a completely fictional design ?
Should there be a sub-category for 'Imposters' like this ?

cheers,
Robin.

I guess that would be similar to the "MiG-28s" in Top Gun (F-5s.). Saw the US Coast Guard Mi-24 up the page and figured it was fair game.

 

[TsrJoe]

Still counts under the title of the album (and saves creating multiple threads and adding confusion)

 

[robunos]

Still counts under the title of the album (and saves creating multiple threads and adding confusion)

Understood . . .

cheers,
Robin.

 

[aliensporebomb]

The Spaceplane in Marooned?

The Supersonic Suburbanite in The Jetsons?

 

[Armin Derer]

Bunch of legit helicopters pretending to be other legit helicopters in movies and TV, among them

various types of US helos trying to pass as Soviet (like Bell UH-1 as Hind-like in The A-Team)
a Heliswiss Alouette III trying to pass as Soviet
a Westland Wessex trying to pass as Soviet (The Fourth War)
of course Rambo II and III (same SA 330 Puma were used in Red Dawn 4 yrs earlier, also as Mi-24)
East German army (NVA) Mi-2 pretending to be West German army (Bundeswehr) in a GDR TV production
Soviet Mi-4 as US Navy helo (image attached)
a fake Marine One (Bell 206 Jet Ranger)
various fake Police helos
and of course the very first false flag movie helo, the Bell 47 as a Nazi helicopter in Where Eagles Dare w/ Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood

https://helikopterhysteriezwo.blogspot.com/search/label/False flag?view=magazine

 

[uk 75]

A whole thread on an early 60s British TV series with two fictional aircraft designs.

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/the-plane-makers.8958/#post-305481

 

[thefrecklepuny]

Can we include 'Iron Eagle' and 'Iron Eagle 2' where we saw Kfir's as MiG-23's in both films and F-4 Phantom's as MiG-29's in the latter?

 

[Archibald]

The Six Million Dollar Man

And of course the very Six million dollar man credits crash was a real life wreck - Bruce Peterson 1967 truly horrible crash of a NASA M2F lifting body. Where he lost an eye and gained no cyborg powers (although some people asked he actually had been turned into a cyborg).

Also Papy Boyington Jap Zero foes actually being modified T-6s.