Fictional Aircraft from Movies, Games, etc.

[riggerrob]

"Jumanji 3" includes a flight aboard an Antonov-2 biplane and a fight aboard a steam-punk zeppelin.

 

[Aubi]

Ah, Porco Rosso... There are several Macchis, like M.5 and M.7, Savoia-Marchetti SM.55, Some Fiats, probably CR.20, and even Curtiss C3R. Also some Austrian Hansa-Brandenburgs CC.

 

[Graham1973]

A few fictional SST (and faster) Airliners culled from various novels I've read.

Thomas Block, Orbit, 1982

StarStreak
Airliner (Hypersonic)

James Follett, Saber, 1997.

Saber
Sub-orbital Airliner

Donald G. Payne (Pen name: Donald Gordon), Star-Raker, 1962

Star-Raker Mk. I
Supersonic Airliner

 

[Brett Davidson]

For fans of the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series, modelmaker Martin Bower has a new book out on his career. A lot of work after working for them too of course. https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Bowers-World-Models-McClure/dp/1073487415

 

[skyboss]

The Flying Aces Club, for enthusiasts of rubber-powered model airplanes, actually has a class of models called Fiction Flyers. Many models were taken from pulp fiction stories, movie serials and comic books. Check www.flyingacesclub.com.

 

[RanulfC]

>snip<
F/A-37 Talon.
EDI.
>snip<

Ah yes, "Stealth" the movie which generated so many varied threads on how "awsome" the US Navy was going to be 'real-soon-now' because people saw the pictures and assumed it was real

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......

The who, the why, the say-what? I always got this one confused with a similar movie where the airliner has double engine failure and crashes into a pier that was supposd to be demolished a week previously so the investgator takes up another one to fly the route and simulates a failure only to have the other engine 'fail' and narrowly avoid crashinging in the same exact spot. IIRC correctly the airliner was a rather mundane prop aircraft (with metal fairings over the engine mounts) with two jet engines mounted directly on the horizontal tail planes.

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...!

Thanks for that one as I was just trying to recall what movie that was. The end scene where the M7 model in the desk is framed pointing upward through the window at the stars has always stuck with me but it's about the only thing I remember. Watched part of it again a few months ago and realized how much of an era of change that time really was. Along with things like most movies still refering to the Air Force as the "Army" or "Army Air Corps" all the other 'little' things like how the pilot and co-pilot carefully look out each window at the "engine" they are starting, (proper procedure... for a prop plane ) even though the engines are buried in the wings and they can't possibly see the exhaust just highlights how fast technology and the everyday procedures that went with it were changing.

Randy

 

[The Artist]

The 'similar movie' you talked about is the movie Fate Is The Hunter, which is loosely (very loosely) based on Ernest K. Gann's book of the same name.

>snip<

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......

The who, the why, the say-what? I always got this one confused with a similar movie where the airliner has double engine failure and crashes into a pier that was supposd to be demolished a week previously so the investgator takes up another one to fly the route and simulates a failure only to have the other engine 'fail' and narrowly avoid crashinging in the same exact spot. IIRC correctly the airliner was a rather mundane prop aircraft (with metal fairings over the engine mounts) with two jet engines mounted directly on the horizontal tail planes.



Randy

 

[RanulfC]

The 'similar movie' you talked about is the movie Fate Is The Hunter, which is loosely (very loosely) based on Ernest K. Gann's book of the same name.

>snip<

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......

The who, the why, the say-what? I always got this one confused with a similar movie where the airliner has double engine failure and crashes into a pier that was supposd to be demolished a week previously so the investgator takes up another one to fly the route and simulates a failure only to have the other engine 'fail' and narrowly avoid crashinging in the same exact spot. IIRC correctly the airliner was a rather mundane prop aircraft (with metal fairings over the engine mounts) with two jet engines mounted directly on the horizontal tail planes.



Randy

Thanks

 

[taalismn]

The ‘X-RV’ lifting body shuttlecraft from Marooned(1969)


I figure it makes it as an aircraft because it’s based almost to the exact same scale as the real M2F2 lifting body test articles it resembles, rather than the manned X-24A.

 

[DanielStarseer]

The A-12 / SR-71 knock-off from that one X-Men movie, designed by the Beast (? Henry/Hank?)
yet somehow had not just VTOL capability, but also a central passenger compartment....

 

[Deltafan]

There is too the Willis JA-3, from the movie Chain Lightning :

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/willis-ja-3-jet-rocket-chain-lightning.8837/

It was built from a P-39 frame

 

[Mark Nankivil]

The 'similar movie' you talked about is the movie Fate Is The Hunter, which is loosely (very loosely) based on Ernest K. Gann's book of the same name.

>snip<

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......

The who, the why, the say-what? I always got this one confused with a similar movie where the airliner has double engine failure and crashes into a pier that was supposd to be demolished a week previously so the investgator takes up another one to fly the route and simulates a failure only to have the other engine 'fail' and narrowly avoid crashinging in the same exact spot. IIRC correctly the airliner was a rather mundane prop aircraft (with metal fairings over the engine mounts) with two jet engines mounted directly on the horizontal tail planes.



Randy

The airframe is a DC-6 suitably covered up to look like something else. I remember seeing this movie as a kid and thinking "what?!?!" Suzanne Pleshette was damn good looking too!

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[RavenOne]

Got a few here

Agency (1980 , Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors ) has a USAF BAe 125 (Decade later USAF used them for Airfield calibration).

Magnum P.I Season 3 ‘Did You See the Sun Rise’ : USMC H369 and Bell 206 which TC flies as reservist. But in reality USMC students and instructors fly the Bell TH-57C Sea Ranger and USN Test Pilot School at Pax River used to fly the 369 designated TH-6B anyhow.

the A-Team Season 4 ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Murdoch is kidnapped by rogue CIA agents need him to steal Russian gunship supposedly from Central America (Bell Huey in Russia. camouflage and markings But its actually on an us army base lcoally and said helo is to be used as tool in robbing Vegas casino. late 8ps US Army OPFOr units used Bell JUH-1B/H for OPFOR painted eith red stars, and camouflage as well as hard points to simulate weapons with MILES.

cheers and more to follow

 

[RavenOne]

Billion Dollar Brain: RAF Canberras depicted as Russian bomber at the end of this classic Michael Caine spy thriller

SKyjacked (1972): See Russian air force jets as F-100 Sabres escorting the hijacked airliner

Superman II: An AS350B Astar is dolled up in US Army markings as a gunship to take out General Zod: Funnily enough the Astar was looked as a trainer by the US Army in the early 90s. contract went to Bell with the TH-67 Creek.

Firefox: Think the societ Hinds were, drones , and also the close up cockpit shots of the Soviet crew are taken from the modified Gazelle used in Blue THunder

Raise The Titanic : KGB agent Prevlov is transported by a Russian Bell 204 , (changes to Bell 205) when he leaves the Titanic. Like I said in my above post US Army OPFOR used both the JUH-1B and JUH-1H with Red star and camou.

James Bond Octopussy : SA365C2 Dauphin in Soviet colors, (provided by one of my previous employers) laughingly now the Russian Helicopters KA-62 Orca has fenestron. Also few RAF assets such as 32 Squadron Whirlwind helicopter plus a Canberra bomber flying over head are depicted as Cuban air force assets in the opening.

James Bond A View To A Kill: Soviet gunship at beginning is MBB BO105

The Fourth Protocol: SA365C2 as a Soviet helo and the RAF Sikorsky S-76A (provided by Bristow Helicopters) carrying the SAS team. In late 90s, UK government albeit Her Majesty uses the Sikorsky -S76 as Royal Flight.


James Bond: The Living Daylights, thanks to the Royal Moroccan Air Force that provided an airbase to mimick a Soviet base in Afghanistan with C-130E , Fougar Magister, OV-10 Bronco painted with red stars and of course there was the Rockwell Aero Commander that came into land and 'collided' with fuel truck.

James Bond: Goldeneye : the Pilatus PC-6 at beginning with Soviet markings

more to follow

cheers

 

[galgot]

About the "Raiders of The Lost Ark" flying wing ("Gotha GO-216"), it was designed by Ron Cobb.
Here a page from his site with lot of cool concepts :

Ron Cobb - "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK"

Ron Cobb, Cartoonist, Film Designer, 300 cartoons, 40 films, Artwork and Design!

roncobb.net

Note the original flying wing concept was to be bigger and have five or four engines, but the production asked S.Speilberg to cut cost a bit.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Note the original flying wing concept was to be bigger and have five or four engines, but the production asked S.Speilberg to cut cost a bit.

I remember hearing about that.

 

[Brett Davidson]

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

 

[galgot]

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

I think they used a 707 (a repainted TWA) for the exterior scenes. Can't remember of a prop plane...
Also either a Convair 990 or DC-8 was used for the cabin scenes :
"The seating arrangement in the film is incorrect for a Boeing 707 (the aircraft used for all the exterior shots). The coach section of the 707 has 3 seats on each side for each row, yet the seating arrangement shown has 3 seats on the right side and 2 seats on the left for each row, similar to the arrangement for either a Convair 990 or a Douglas DC-9."
from here:

Airplane! (1980) - Goofs - IMDb

Airplane! (1980) - Goofs on IMDb - bloopers, mistakes, errors in continuity, plot holes, anachronisms, spoilers and more.

m.imdb.com

 

[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.

 

[Brett Davidson]

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.

 

[Grey Havoc]

P-1117 Kingfisher VTOL used primarily by the Royal Air Force and the British Army in the Resistance: Fall of Man games universe, set in an alternate late 20th Century (primary PODs include there being no Spanish-American War, a Tunguska Event with rather a different outcome and a pretty different Great War and aftermath). Incidentally the design is derived from work originally done on VTOL aircraft for the American government in this alternate timeline carried out by none other than a certain Nikola Tesla.

P-1117 Kingfisher

The P-1117 Kingfisher is a VTOL aircraft used by the British Army. The P-1117 Kingfisher was made by the United States Armed Forces that was derived from an early iteration of the U/AV-17 Hawk. Its design was exclusively sold to the United European Defence.[1] By the time of the Chimeran War...

resistance.fandom.com

 

[Grey Havoc]

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.

Via the Russian version of the Far Cry wiki:

 

[X-39]

1- Hovercraft featured in The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and The Hunger Games, Mockingjay.
These come in two variants, the high tech ones from the Capitol, and a reverse engineered version used by District 13 rebels, only with ducted fans replacing the blueish power source. Armaments include dumb bombs and bunker buster bombs,

2- Fort Zancudo UFO from GTA V(Grand Theft Auto V).
A manmade lenticular UFO, with resemblances of the VZ-9 Avrocar, B-2 Spirit and F-117 Nighthawk. With several eyeball cameras at the ,and two counterrotating turbines help it stay airbone, meaning is no true antigravity vehicle. Funnily enough, there is a roughly modeled cockpit interior that got scrapped.

3- X-49 Night Raven in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere

The X-49 Night Raven (X-49 ナイトレーベン) was an experimental demonstrator aircraft created by General Resource.

"An aircraft which had been undergoing research and development by General Resource in the past. Due to the complexity of the unique design and changes in governmental state of affairs, research was halted, and it was believed the experimental craft was destroyed.Detailed data is highly classified, and detailed performance figures of the craft are shrouded in mystery." ― Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere - Namco Official Guide Book

Max Speed

• Japanese Release: 5,068 km/h
• International Release: 4,693 km/

Despite it's wacky appearance, when compared to real configuration studies like the Busemann Biplane, the idea of a near Hypersonic unconventional fighter like this doesn't seem too crazy anymore:

 

[rooster]

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.

 

[UpForce]

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.

 

[publiusr]

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

 

[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."