Fictional Aircraft from Movies, Games, etc.

[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 | Den of Geek

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]

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

Allegedly they built a remote control jet for the movie but I'll be damned if i can find any pics.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Weq0QSt-U


"... and so we built a master and made a set of tooling and pulled several fuselages from that, including some very very thin ones that ended up being flown, with RC controls", says a gentleman in that video.

No word in this clip whether any footage of those flights ended up in the movie. Sort of impressive they got something flyable in that day and age out of that; probably some bulky analog radio stuff and a shape better suited for flights of fancy than real, stable aerodynamics.

Concerning the RC Firefox:

The Hangar (Firefox Stuff)

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[The K2]

Astonishing…same guys who gave us Star Trek: The Motion Picture…

Apogee, Inc.

Apogee Productions, Inc., originally known as Apogee, Inc., was a full service visual effects (VFX, at the time still called "special effects") company and one of the two main companies responsible for the VFX of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, after Robert Abel & Associates was let go from the...

memory-alpha.fandom.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...

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[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.

 

[Deltafan]

In the French comic serie Lefranc, issue 33, the Payen Pa. 22 seems to be an inspiration for the TJ Arès

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Lefranc T33 - Le Scandale Arès (Édition Collector Canal BD)

Assis dans la brasserie Lipp à Paris, Lefranc et Bruno, son directeur éditorial, écoutent le récit de Marlène. Une jeune Allemande qui vient de retrouver les récits de guerre de son père. Celui-ci, Karl von Lieds a vu en juin 1940 sa colonne de chars détruites par deux mystérieux avions. Seul...

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The Ares Scandal

Sitting in the Lipp brasserie in Paris, Lefranc and Bruno, its editorial director, listen to Marlène's story. A young German who has just found her father's war stories. This one, Karl von Lieds saw in June 1940 his column of tanks destroyed by two mysterious planes. The only survivor of the attack, the officer was transferred to the Eastern Front where he died a few months later.
No investigation revealed anything about the two planes. The German hierarchy having wanted to hush up the affair. But now that the young woman has discovered her father's letters, she is determined to shed light on this affair.

 

[isayyo2]

Halo's Longsword fighter. 64 meters long and 75 meters wide, its the size of a small frigate armed with a 110mm rotary cannon and nuclear missiles.

 

[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.

 

[riggerrob]

Not exactly fictional, but not exactly real at the moment:

Pegasus Vertical Business Jet: VTOL with Turboshaft cruise – Pegasus Universal Aerospace

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Appears in “The Lost City”. PS: save yourself the $20.

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A mildly amusing remake of the "Romancing the Stone" theme with a few surprising plot twists.

 

[Graham1973]

From a Turkish film about spy Elyesa Bazna who gave the Germans a lot of valuable information that they didn't act on. What I can only describe as a bizarre mashup, four engined HE-111s in what look like pre-WWII USAAF markings.

Note: Initially I posted images from a video discussing the use of He-111s in film. I've subsequently located a copy of the film ('Cicero' (2019)) online and was able to get clearer screencaps, the sequence in which these 'frankenplanes' (Which someone else online guessed are meant to be B-17Ds.) make their appearance runs between 00:48:27 - 00:48:43

 

[riggerrob]

Screengrab from Top Gun: Mavericks secret X-plane (SR72?).
just seen in Lady Gaga's videoclip for the movie theme.


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Yes, "Top Gun: Maverick" contains some excellent CGI of this ficticious SR72 plus additional CGI footage of Sukhoi 57 and F-14 Tomcat. Sukhoi 57 are too new and too few to fight in Ukraine, while I doubt if the Iranian Air Force is willing to rent out any of their few remaining airworthy F-14 Tomcats.
All the rest of the flying footage is easier to believe than TG1, with many shots of actors pulling Gs in real F-18D cockpits.
Hard to believe, but TGM is even better than the original. When TG1 debuted, I was wrenching on CF-18A Hornets at CFB Baden-Solingen, West Germany.

 

[Orionblamblam]

four engined HE-111s in what look like pre-WWII USAAF markings

What in the actual frak...

 

[Graham1973]

four engined HE-111s in what look like pre-WWII USAAF markings

What in the actual frak...

I know, it looks like a cross between an He-111 and a B-17, but why?

It's not as if no one knows what the B-17 looks like. Rather sadly, this sequence has not been excerpted from the film ('Cicero' (2019)) and posted to YouTube, although one of the commentors on the He-111 video did say they were thinking of modelling the 'frankenplane'.

 

[Graham1973]

The Hero's airship makes me think of the 'Hyperion' from the 1974 live action Walt Disney film 'The Island at the Top of the World'...

 

[Armin Derer]

a bunch of false flag flyers

The A-Team: Long Ranger as North Vietnamese helo


Bell 204/205 as Sowjet helo w/ fantasy inscription



Bell 212 w/ GDR roundel
The roundel itself is false. It’s the regular state insignia. The air force insignia was diamond shaped.


East German Mil Mi-2 (unclear if military or civilian) as West German (Bundeswehr) helicopter (from a GDR TV series about Gladio)


from Airwolf: Hughes 500 pretending to be Sowjet


Lama of Heliswiss as Sowjet helo


Westland Wessex as Sowjet helo in The Fourth War (1990)


from the movie Dreamscape (1984): Jet Ranger acting as Marine One


… and finally the mother of all false flag movie and TV helos, the Bell 47 w/ Swastika on the stabilizer, from Where Eagles Dare (1968)

 

[TsrJoe]

The Fourth War (1990)

Roy Scheider in The Fourth War (1990)

m.imdb.com

 

[Charlesferdinand]

a bunch of false flag flyers




Bell 204/205 as Sowjet helo w/ fantasy inscription

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They left out the 'ae' of Aeroflot???

 

[Armin Derer]

They left out the 'ae' of Aeroflot???

They did indeed

 

[Orionblamblam]

a bunch of false flag flyers




Bell 204/205 as Sowjet helo w/ fantasy inscription

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They left out the 'ae' of Aeroflot???

Wonder if that might have been a "copyright" sort of thing.

 

[Armin Derer]

a bunch of false flag flyers




Bell 204/205 as Sowjet helo w/ fantasy inscription

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They left out the 'ae' of Aeroflot???

Wonder if that might have been a "copyright" sort of thing.

Maybe a copyright violation would have been a thing if they tried to pretend to be Aeroflot, which they didn’t. The helo in the epidsode is supposed to be a Soviet military helicopter. So why put Aeroflot on it in the first place, and then not put it on for copyright concerns.

They could have used any number of combinations of Cyrillic letters that don’t make any sense.

My guess: efficient thinking in the props department. Here is a easily obtainable combination of Cyrillic letters. Cut off two in front and you have a perfect looking Cyrillic word that doesn’t make any sense. Stencil it on (use red paint).

Don’t forget this was before desktop publishing and MacBooks. The guy responsible for the paint job probably copied it out of a newspaper or an aviation book.