Fictional Aircraft from Movies, Games, etc.

[Triton]

Futuristic helicopter from the Russian urban fantasy/horror film Temnyy Mir (Dark World) (2010).

 

[covert_shores]

Hindelix?

 

[Grey Havoc]

A pre-emptive entry; The RQH-60M HELODRONE. Essentially an A.I. piloted Black Hawk helicopter used for inserting and extracting special forces.

From the computer game Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, set in an alternate post-apocalyptic 2007.

 

[ouroboros]

Hindelix?

Kamind? Hinov?

 

[dragon72]

Futuristic helicopter from the Russian urban fantasy/horror film Temnyy Mir (Dark World) (2010).

That is beautiful

 

[Creative]

Ferris Aircraft YF-32 from Green Lantern

 

[CiTrus90]

Gosh.

They butchered up an F-5...:'(

 

[airman]

Mig-31 Firefox (Fictional) ( real plane have same designation but codename is Foxhound)

 

[The Artist]

Don't forget the odd birds seen in Caprica.

Two of these images came from this blog. http://scifiendvrs.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-problem-with-bsg-aircraft-vipers.html

 

[The Artist]

One more to add, then I'll see what others come up with for this thread. A twin engine fighter from the Ace Combat game - the engines are stacked as with the E.E. Lightning but staggered with the lower engine a little more forward than the upper engine.

 

[DanCooper]

Don´t forget the movie stealth

with the F/-A 37 Talon and EDI

 

[Grey Havoc]

From the alternate history anime Konpeki no Kantai, a fictional seaplane version of the Ki-45 Toryu, the Raiyo.

Images via the ARAWASI blog.

 

[Grey Havoc]

AH88-J2 Kai Grey Ghost from the recent The Next Generation Patlabor: Shuto Kessen movie.

As you can see, despite it's designation, it's a totally different design from the Hellhound (the Next Generation series & movie is set in a different timeline from the various original anime incarnations; in this timeline the Babylon project was a failure and as a result Japan is still (2013AD at the opening of the series) in the midst of a bubble recession, with labors having become scarce due to this and other factors).

Image via the Culture LAB blog:

 

[yasotay]

How does one find this movie?

 

[Grey Havoc]

How does one find this movie?

It was released in Japan in May, I don't know when it will get an official english subbing and global release unfortunately.


EDIT: Here's a couple of trailers for it;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRB1RkNlPJ8&feature=player_embedded


EDIT2: Another pre-release trailer via Anime News Network;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzy5Xmv3cls&feature=player_embedded

 

[Stargazer]

Love the naval Toryu on floats!!

Ferris Aircraft YF-32 from Green Lantern

The pics don't do this one justice. It's absolutely beautiful in the movie (a sadly underrated one, by the way, one of the most faithful comic book adaptations I've seen).

 

[Grey Havoc]

AH88-J2 Kai Grey Ghost from the recent The Next Generation Patlabor: Shuto Kessen movie.

As you can see, despite it's designation, it's a totally different design from the Hellhound (the Next Generation series & movie is set in a different timeline from the various original anime incarnations; in this timeline the Babylon project was a failure and as a result Japan is still (2013AD at the opening of the series) in the midst of a bubble recession, with labors having become scarce due to this and other factors).

A couple of new images, including one of the cockpit interior, via Crunchyroll:

 

[Graham1973]

DC-10 with a modified tailplane (Not to dissimilar from the one on the Shuttle carrying 747s) from an unauthorised Chinese Star Wars adaptation.

 

[royabulgaf]

This is a suggestion to the administrator. How about a thread or threads of fictional TV and movie spacecraft and aircraft?

 

[Jemiba]

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 )

 

[hesham]

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 )

Who can forget this amazing fake aircraft.

 

[Graham1973]

And a couple more from Starflight: The Plane that couldn't land, or as I sometimes refer to it Airport'85

 

[Graham1973]

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 )

Indeed, it influenced all but two of the covers for the novel version (The original cover and the Anniversary Cover) there is a gallery of the different iterations linked below:

http://craigthomascompanion.co.uk/2firefox.html

 

[uk 75]

Perhaps this could be widened to include fictional aircraft.
In 1969 Adam Hall sent Quiller to investigate theStriker Portfolio. This involved West German British built Striker SK6 swing wing fighters

 

[royabulgaf]

Perhaps this could be widened to include fictional aircraft.
In 1969 Adam Hall sent Quiller to investigate theStriker Portfolio. This involved West German British built Striker SK6 swing wing fighters

So, the Soviets stole the plans for the F-111B and sold them to the Brits, and laughed their butts off all the way back to Moscow?

 

[Orionblamblam]

Airwolf.
Blue Thunder.
Whispercraft.
Manta Fighter.
F/A-37 Talon.
EDI.
Willis JA-3
B-3.
Batwing.
The Bat.
BV-38 fling wing.
F-117X Remora.
Quinjet.
X-Jet.
X-Jet Prototype.
Skyfleet S570.
Helicarrier.

 

[uk 75]

Perhaps this could be widened to include fictional aircraft.
In 1969 Adam Hall sent Quiller to investigate theStriker Portfolio. This involved West German British built Striker SK6 swing wing fighters

So, the Soviets stole the plans for the F-111B and sold them to the Brits, and laughed their butts off all the way back to Moscow?

The Brit edition I have simply has a pilot in a helmet photo. I got this one off Amatheft because of the Luftwaffe markings. In the book its more like MRCA Tornado

 

[Caravellarella]

Dear Boys & Girls, the Rutland Reindeer from the 1951 movie "No Highway in the Sky" based on the 1948 novel "No Highway" by Neville Shute......



Terry (Caravellarella)

 

[zebedee]

The Reindeer was built as a full size mockup for the film from a Handley Page Halifax/Halton, either G-AHDM or G-AJNW. The film is well worth seeking out as it has some loverly period footage of Farnborough.

Source: Key Forum

Zeb

 

[Hood]

Oh that tail design never fails to make me laugh.

Another good fictional airliner of the period is the 'Atlas Aviation Phoenix' from the the 1960 film Cone of Silence based on the 1959 novel by David Beatty. Beaty was an ex-military BOAC pilot with who became an expert on human error in aviation incidents and accidents and wrote The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents in 1969.

The 'Phoenix' was Avro Ashton WB493 with four Nenes and two Olympus so looking suitably futuristically over-engined.

 

[Archibald]

Gilbert XF-120 - actually Martin XB-51.

How about that F-117 look alike commando transport used by Steven Seagal in that shitty movie - Ultime decision, at least that was the French title. Must be in Orionblablam list somewhere.

Flight of the Phoenix aircraft that killed Paul Mantz, how ironic.

Rambo Mi-24s which actually were Puma choppers with prostetics.

Indiana Jones flying wing / w-wing with the propellers that chop the vilain into miced meat. Also Raiders of the lost ark aircraft - the Tiger moth with a turret and the fake 109s chasing the Jones, which actually are some kind of trainers, can't remember which type (Czech Avia things, or Zlins).

Shape of things to come and When world collides.

Bah bah sheep Boyington (RIP Robert Conrad) T-6s turned into fakes A6M.

 

[pathology_doc]

the 1959 novel by David Beatty.

I haven't seen the film, but when I read Macarthur Job's Air Disaster books it was hard not to see the similarities between the repeated accidents that occur to the Phoenix and the initial crashes that affected some of the Comets (aside from the metal fatigue disasters). In the book it's put down to a design flaw and a failure to fully inform the pilots of the correct take-off technique in marginal circumstances (which some of them had worked out for themselves, but the information was never promulgated to all the pilots).

IRL, some of the early Comets crashed on takeoff because captains who'd spent their lives in propeller aircraft weren't used to the fact that the lack of prop wash over the wings adversely affected the Comet if you rotated the nose too high, too soon.

 

[Brett Davidson]

A compilation of fictional MiGs here: https://hushkit.net/2020/02/06/fictional-mig-fighters-and-the-aircraft-that-inspired-them/

 

[Aubi]

"Tiger moth with a turret" was Stampe et Vertongen SV.4. The fake 109s were Pilatuses P-2.

 

[zebedee]

The Heathley M7 from The Net (1953), aka Project M7... Always reminds me of something that escaped from Saunders Roe... There was also tie-in Jetex model of this available...!

IMDB entry for The Net

Zeb

 

[zebedee]

"Tiger moth with a turret" was Stampe et Vertongen SV.4. The fake 109s were Pilatuses P-2.

Is it just me or, apart from a few DC3s, is almost every aircraft in the Indiana Jones films wrong...?

Zeb

 

[Aubi]

It was the eighties. Not that many flyable original aircraft they could choose from, no CGI, and anyway who (except ofr us) would notice?
By the way:

Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Internet Movie Plane Database

impdb.org

Waco - no problem, Solent - understandable, and you can't be wrong with DC-3.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - The Internet Movie Plane Database

impdb.org

Ford Trimotor - no problem.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - The Internet Movie Plane Database

impdb.org

Dakota - no problem, Stampe looks like Bücker enough.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - The Internet Movie Plane Database

impdb.org

DC-3 again, An-2 - big problem, as is An-12 (they couldn't CGI more appropriate machine?).

 

[zebedee]

Fair point... I forgot about the Waco and the Trimotor... but Crystal Skull has no excuse for those Antonovs...!

Zeb

 

[riggerrob]

The 2004 film "Sky Captain" portrays a whole bunch of fictional airplanes, zeppelins, flying aircraft carriers, etc.
Even the Curtiss P-40 has been modified to also operate underwater.

 

[riggerrob]

The Japanese anime "Porco Roso" contains a few historically realistic airplanes, but the biggest bad-guy airplane is definitely fictional.