Fictional Aircraft from Movies, Games, etc.

H.A.R.P. (High-Altitude Reconnaissance Plane)from Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Allegedly based on the SR-91 Aurora, but to me looks like a crossbreed between an SR-71 Blackbird and early 70s Stealth attempts like Teledyne Ryan's Model 268.
https://callofduty.fandom.com/wiki/H.A.R.P.
 

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A Meteor NF.14 under the cockades of a Fascist English Government to serve as an extra in the 1983 movie "The Aerodrome". T-33 were also used. Gloster Meteor NF.14 (Z-14, WS760) at Duxford use in TV film 'The Aerodrome' (17 October 1982).jpg
 
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Some pics of the twin-seat Su-37 "Terminator" from Stealth (2005).
They are armed with strange bigs R-13M.
Their bort are 22, 13 & 03 blue.
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An article on Hush Kit on aviation art of the Cold War.

https://hushkit.net/2023/05/29/cold-war-aviation-art/
The Analog cover with an SR-71-like plane is by Frank Kelly Freas. The premise of the story, 'Hawk Among the Sparrows' is that that a highly advanced modern fighter passes through a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey chrono-synclastic infundibulum into the skies over WWI France. Things do not go as simply as you might think.

The pilot's named his plane 'Pika-don', which is the Japanese name given to the nuclear explosion over Hiroshima - 'pika' means 'flash' and 'don' means 'boom'.

The book cover next to it is by Vincent di Fate.

https://www.librarything.com/work/757675
A better copy of the Freas art.
 

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A tilt rotor that appeared in the anime, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence. It has a strange, fully-articulated wing and is apparently pilotless but carries passengers in the cupola under its belly.
 

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Rhinocrates said:
A tilt rotor that appeared in the anime, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence. It has a strange, fully-articulated wing and is apparently pilotless but carries passengers in the cupola under its belly.
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That was such a weird wing...
 
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Mustang Mk.X said:
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.
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F/A-18F Super Hornets :) actually

cheers
 
The terrible comedy Hot Shots "The Navy" fighters (Folland Gnats)
 

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The last Indiana Jones film: “Dial of Doom” features interior shots of 3 different aircraft: Heinkel 111 bomber, Nord Pingoin and Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion. All are CGI with varying degrees of accuracy.
The He111 gets the most screen time both interior and exterior. It is a pretty good CGI except for the double rudders … more like a Whitley.

The NORD Pingoin (licensed version of Me.108 is the most accurate, so accurate that is difficult to distinguish from the original.

The audience only sees the cabin interior of the Sikorsky and a couple of brief glimpses of the exterior. This CGI closely matches my memories of clambering over CH-53 operated by HM-1?. But that was 40 years ago.

All in all, “Dial … “ is a rollicking series of car chases, train chases, motorcycle chases, fist-fights and Nazi-bashing to conclude the Indiana Jones series of films.
 
riggerrob said:
The last Indiana Jones film: “Dial of Doom” features interior shots of 3 different aircraft: Heinkel 111 bomber, Nord Pingoin and Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion. All are CGI with varying degrees of accuracy.
The He111 gets the most screen time both interior and exterior. It is a pretty good CGI except for the double rudders … more like a Whitley.

The NORD Pingoin (licensed version of Me.108 is the most accurate, so accurate that is difficult to distinguish from the original.

The audience only sees the cabin interior of the Sikorsky and a couple of brief glimpses of the exterior. This CGI closely matches my memories of clambering over CH-53 operated by HM-1?. But that was 40 years ago.

All in all, “Dial … “ is a rollicking series of car chases, train chases, motorcycle chases, fist-fights and Nazi-bashing to conclude the Indiana Jones series of films.
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The last short scene of Indy's clothesline makes me wonder whether a next generation spinoff is at least under consideration...
 
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Fill a lunar cave with air...the two engines with those Iron Man wrist turbine things....and **maybe**
 
SA-43 Hammerhead from Space: Above and Beyond at RAAF Base Williamtown:

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