What If's in Fiction

[Weaver]

I love the modified Victors in the original Gamera movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1EQ89CnOU

Not to mention the interceptor: is that Draken wings on an F-106 fuselage?

[The Rat]

I love the modified Victors in the original Gamera movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1EQ89CnOU

Not to mention the interceptor: is that Draken wings on an F-106 fuselage?

Could be, I was wondering about those too. Either one would be cool!

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Fighter modified X-15 from Matthew Reilly's "Scarecrow", Indiana Jones's BV-38

[rickshaw]

I love the modified Victors in the original Gamera movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1EQ89CnOU

Not to mention the interceptor: is that Draken wings on an F-106 fuselage?

The original Godzilla movie had prototype Vulcans using underwing pods as well IIRC.

Has anybody mentioned the MiG-31 Firefox?

[Kerrillc]

In Stuart Slade's Lion Resurgent the following are mentioned: RN Sea Mirage F2, Argentinean Ciclone fighter bombers, as well as F8 Super Crusaders.

[GTX]

[RussC]

Then there are the fictional planes from animated films, some that immediately spring to mind are from-

The Sky Crawlers
El Porco Rosso
Area 88
Macross
Thunderbirds
Stingray
Howl's Moving Castle

Lots more if you count in shorts' and features.
 
And a coming project from Pixar- http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-trailer-of-disneys-planes.html

[Radish]

Woreth examining....

http://francejohn.pagesperso-orange.fr/cwe_johns.htm

And , of course, various comic sites, such as....

http://www.coverbrowser.com/

Which will take DAYS to explore....

[Mossie]

An unusual one I can think of is the Avro Ashton prototype that was used in the film Cone of Silence.

Airwolf had several, The Lady herself & Red Wolf of course, but they used a Sikorsky S-76 has the HX1 & IIRC the Rutan ARES made an appearance as an advacned prototype.

No-one mentioned the MiG-28 yet???

An older one, but Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines had lots of replicas of pioneering aeroplanes standing in for the stars aircraft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_their_Flying_Machines

As always, Wiki has a useful ist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_aircraft

Internet Movie Plane Database is a good place to look:
http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=The_Internet_Movie_Plane_Database

As is the Internet Movie Car Database for all stuff wheely:
http://www.imcdb.org/

[rickshaw]

Greg, where does the "XF-120" come from?

[andrewj]

There's the "Prometheus" in the film " The Sound Barrier " , a very thinly disguised Supermarine type 535 VV119.

[jcf]

The XB-51 starred as the Gilbert XF-120 in the film Toward the Unknown.

Which, for folks in the US, is going to be on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) on November 12:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/93724/Toward-the-Unknown/

The DVR is already programmed. 

[Weaver]

Comics-wise, Ken Steacy's Tempus Fugitive features a few whiffs, such as some swing-wing cloaking fighters from the future, an experimental Israeli FSW fighter, an awesome 1950s B-36-style uber-bomber with Vigilante parasite planes (yes, really), and the Hard Corps' de-winged jet dragsters which inspired my Pirate GB build last year.

The future fighters: http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=585689&gsub=106704

You can just about see the big bomber in the middle of this spread:

[zenrat]

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

Seemed like the best place for this.
A model Rutland Reindeer built by Fred Harris.
Rutland Reindeer MA#98 05 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Pic is from a magazine article in issue 98 of Modelart Australia.  I have scanned the whole thing, put it on flickr and you can read it in full by clicking on the following links.
https://flic.kr/p/J3sADY
https://flic.kr/p/267pzGW
https://flic.kr/p/24PgBpn
https://flic.kr/p/26bcbEx

[NARSES2]

Thank you kindly, sir