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aircraftAn aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...
, including fixed wing, rotary wing, and lighter-than-air vehicles. These vehicles are either the subject of a notable work of fiction, or else are important elements of a notable work of fiction. Vehicles in this list are intended to operate in an atmosphere.
Military
- Peacemaker UAV - Autonomous Jet fighter featured in the 1983 film, Deal of the Century
Deal of the Century is a 1983 American comedy film directed by William Friedkin and starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, and Sigourney Weaver.The film follows the adventures of several arms dealers that compete to sell weapons to a South American dictator....
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- Arwing - Jet fighter - video game(s) Star Fox (series)
- XF-34A DreamStar - thought controlled, forward swept wing fighter, Day of the Cheetah by Dale Brown
Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
- MiG 31 Firefox - supersonic
Supersonic speed is a rate of travel of an object that exceeds the speed of sound . For objects traveling in dry air of a temperature of 20 °C this speed is approximately 343 m/s, 1,125 ft/s, 768 mph or 1,235 km/h. Speeds greater than five times the speed of sound are often...
fighter using thought control - films & novels FirefoxFirefox is a thriller novel written by Craig Thomas and published in 1977. The Cold War plot involves an attempt by the CIA and MI5 to steal a highly advanced experimental Soviet fighter aircraft. The chief protagonist is fighter pilot turned spy Mitchell Gant...
and Firefox Down. Its designation is shared with the real MiG-31 Foxhound.
- F-19 Ghostrider - stealth jet in Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising
Red Storm Rising is a 1986 techno-thriller novel by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond about a Third World War in Europe between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, set around the mid-1980s...
, & Testors kit
- Gilbert XF-120 - X-jet (camouflaged XB-51) - Toward the Unknown
Toward the Unknown is a 1956 movie about the dawn of supersonic flight filmed on location at Edwards Air Force Base. Starring William Holden, Lloyd Nolan and Virginia Leith, the film features the screen debut of James Garner. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and written by Beirne Lay, Jr...
, 1956
- B7-A Silhouette - nuclear, VTOL, fighter-bomber -Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
- Jackal Fighter - A digital age fighter similar to an F-35 Lightning II
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability...
, appearing in Empire EarthEmpire Earth, also known as EE, is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and released on November 23, 2001. It is the first game in the Empire Earth series...
- Nazi Flying Wing - As seen in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
- Twin prop, bent wings. Inspired by a range of WW2 era German flying wing aircraft projects.
- Nazi Zeppelin LZ-138 in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...
, the same model as the Hindenburg but with a fighter plane attachment piece similar to 1930s American dirigibles
- MiG-28 in Top Gun
Top Gun may refer to:* Top Gun is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise.**Top Gun , soundtrack to the movie**Top Gun , a number of games based on the movie...
, basically F-5 Tiger-IIs in Soviet markings/paint
- MiG-37 Ferret-E - stealth fighter, Testors kit
- RAF AmphibFighter HB - single-place 1939 twin-prop, with a delta tail & straight wings near the aft, in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 American pulp adventure science-fiction film written and directed by Kerry Conran in his directorial debut. The film is set in an alternative 1939 and follows the adventures of Polly Perkins , a newspaper reporter, and Harry Joseph "Joe" Sullivan ,...
- F/A-37 Talon - near-future, single-seat, hypersonic
In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that is highly supersonic. Since the 1970s, the term has generally been assumed to refer to speeds of Mach 5 and above...
mach-4 Navy fighter, with variable forward wing sweep. Operational test-stage - StealthStealth is a 2005 American science fiction action film starring Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx, and Sam Shepard. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, director of The Fast and the Furious and xXx....
2005
- VF-0 Phoenix - from the Macross Zero
is an anime prequel OVA to The Super Dimension Fortress Macross released for the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Macross franchise during 2002 in Japan...
animeis the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
science fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
series.
- Willis JA-3 - rocket/jet 1400 mph X-plane - Chain Lightning
Chain Lightning is a 1950 American aviation film based on the story "These Many Years" by black-listed writer Lester Cole ; the screenplay was written by Liam O'Brien and Vincent B. Evans. During World War II, Evans had been the bombardier on the B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle...
1950, with Humphrey BogartHumphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
- Titan Bomber - Nuclear bomber of the digital age, Empire Earth
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- Fi-170 Tuman - prototype stealth bomber, Lithuanian built, super-critical wing - Night of the Hawk by Dale Brown
Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
- Yak-12 - Soviet jet (painted T-33) - Jet Pilot
Jet Pilot is a 1957 Cold War romantic comedy film starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. Written by Jules Furthman, the Technicolor movie went through several directorial changes. Josef von Sternberg directed between October, 1949 and February, 1950...
w/ John Wayne, 1957 - The Yakovlev Yak-12The Yakovlev Yak-12 is a light multirole STOL aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force, Soviet civilian aviation and other countries from 1947 onwards.-Design and development:...
does exist, but is a light piston-engined multi-role STOL aircraft.
- K-212 - large jet transports in the novel and film Seven Days in May
Seven Days in May is an American political thriller novel written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and published in 1962. It was made into a motion picture and released in February 1964, with a screenplay by Rod Serling, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk...
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- AV-14 Attack VTOL - A UNSC airborne attack vehicle, also Known as the Hornet Halo
Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
- SA-2 Samson - ducted-fan twin-rotor utility assault transport - The film Avatar
- AT-99 Scorpion - ducted-fan twin-rotor AH-64 Apache
The Boeing AH-64 Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. The Apache was developed as Model 77 by Hughes Helicopters for the United States Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program to replace the...
-like gunship - The film Avatar
- C-21 Dragon - VTOL four-post ducted-fan VTOL assault gunship and transport - The film Avatar
- ADF-01A/F FALKEN - a fictitious, thought-controlled superfighter from the Ace Combat series
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
, armed with a devastating Tactical Laser System pod housed underneath the cockpit; developed by the fictional Gründer Industries.
- R-101/102/103 Delphinus: of the Ace Combat series
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
, mind-controlled supersonic and one of the most advanced aircraft in the Ace Combat world serving Neucom Inc.
- X-02 Wyvern, of the Ace Combat series
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
and is the most advanced plane in Erusia's military.
- ADFX-01/02 Morgan, of the Ace Combat series
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
, and the experimental version of the Falken, the 02 was shot down by Cipher at the end of the Belkan War. The destruction of the plane led to the development of the Falken.
- CFA-44 Nosferatu of the Ace Combat series
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
, this was Estovokia's most advanced plane, with a delta wing and thrust vectoring nozzles, but low stability, and was shot down by Emmerian ace Talisman (Garuda 1).
- GAF-1 Varcolac of the Ace Combat Series
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
, an advanced fighter designed for the mercenary Varcolac squadron of the Golden Axe plan which is very versatile, being able to be developed into any configuration.
- Fenrir of the Ace Combat Series
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
, the superfighter of the Leasath military, equipped with an experimental cloaking device and a microwave radiation weapon.
- C709 Longsword-class Interceptor - the UNSC main fighter-bomber in the Halo
Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
game series.
- VB-02 Vertibird - the main Enclave transport in the Fallout
Fallout or nuclear fallout is the residual radiation hazard from a nuclear explosion.Fallout may also refer to:*Fallout , a 1997 post-apocalyptic computer role-playing game released by Interplay Entertainment...
game series.
- Vic Viper - The main and protagonist jet fighter in video game Gradius
The Gradius games, first introduced in 1985, make up a series of scrolling shooter video games published by Konami for a variety of portable, console and arcade platforms. In many games in the series, the player controls a ship known as the Vic Viper...
. It is a high-performance jet fighter, capable of variable attacks.
- UH-144 Falcon - A troop transport used by the UNSC defense force in the Halo
Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
- Dropship 77-Troop Carrier - Also known as the Pelican, is an extremely versatile craft used by the UNSC, mainly for the transportation, insertion and pickup of personnel, vehicles and equipment. Occasionally used as a support gunship.Halo
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- XA-20 Razorback - The United States Joint Strike Force main support fighter in EndWar
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- Eurofighter Hailstorm - The European Federation Enforcer Corps main support fighter in EndWar
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- Su-38 Slamhound - The Russian Spetsnaz Guard Brigade main support fighter in EndWar
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- AH/G-24 Banshee - Terran assault rotorcraft from StarCraft II
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, capable of temporarily cloaking into a state of near-InvisibilityInvisibility is the state of an object that cannot be seen. An object in this state is said to be invisible . The term is usually used as a fantasy/science fiction term, where objects are literally made unseeable by magical or technological means; however, its effects can also be seen in the real...
to the naked eye. Its rotorcraft configuration is a coupling of ducted fanA ducted fan is a propulsion arrangement whereby a fan, which is a type of propeller, is mounted within a cylindrical shroud or duct. The duct reduces losses in thrust from the tip vortices of the fan, and varying the cross-section of the duct allows the designer to advantageously affect the...
transverse rotorsTransverse rotor rotorcraft have two large horizontal rotor assemblies mounted side by side.Single rotor helicopters need a tail rotor to neutralize the twisting moment produced by the single large rotor. Tandem rotor helicopters, however, use counter-rotating rotors, with each canceling out the...
and a single tail rotorThe tail rotor, or anti-torque rotor, is a smaller rotor mounted so that it rotates vertically or near-vertically at the end of the tail of a traditional single-rotor helicopter. The tail rotor's position and distance from the center of gravity allow it to develop thrust in the same direction as...
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Special Ops
- Airwolf
Airwolf is the helicopter from the 1980s American television series of the same name. The aircraft itself was a modified Bell 222 twin-engined light helicopter built by Bell Helicopter and owned by JetCopters Inc.-Bell 222:...
& Airwolf II (Redwolf)- Bell Textron 222The Bell 222 is a twin-engined light helicopter built by Bell Helicopter. The Bell 230 is an improved development with different engines and other minor changes. A cosmetically modified version of the 222 was used as the titular aircraft in the US television series Airwolf.-Development:In the late...
twin-engined light helicopter, from the television series AirwolfAirwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme....
- Albatross - New Captain Scarlet
- AmphibiCopter - 21st century submersible two-seater - AI: Artificial Intelligence 2002
- Angel Intercepter - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill...
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- Batcopter
The Batcopter is the fictional personal helicopter of comic book superhero Batman.-Wayne Aerospace:The military aviation branch designs and manufactures jet fighters and helicopters for the U.S. military. The most notable models of these are the W-4 Wraith fighter and the Kestrel attack...
and BatplaneThe Batplane, later known as the Batwing, is the fictional aircraft for the comic book superhero Batman. The vehicle was introduced in "Batman Versus The Vampire, I", published in Detective Comics #31 in 1939, a story which saw Batman travel to continental Europe...
- aircraft used by BatmanBatman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
- Backpack helicopter
A backpack helicopter is a helicopter motor and rotor and controls assembly that can be strapped to a person's back, so that he can walk about on the ground wearing it, and can use it to fly. Its harness, like a parachute harness, should have a strap between the legs, so that the pilot does not...
- Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 feature film that features a high-tech helicopter of the same name. The movie was directed by John Badham and stars Roy Scheider...
- Helicopter from the film and television series of the same name.
- Flying Sub FS-1 - excursion vehicle from the USOS Seaview
Seaview, a fictitious privately owned nuclear submarine, was the setting for the 1961 motion picture Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, starring Walter Pidgeon, and later for the 1964 – 1968 ABC television series of the same title....
Voyage series
- Harkonnen Ornithopter - flapping-wing craft - Dune
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by Frank Herbert
- Incom T-47 Snowspeeder - military modified civilian T-24 airspeeder Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
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- Invisible plane
The Invisible Plane is the fictional DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman's venerable, though now seldom-used, mode of transport. It first appeared in Sensation Comics #1 The Invisible Plane (sometimes referred to as the Invisible Jetplane, Invisible Jet, and Robot Plane) is the fictional DC Comics...
- Dragonhawk
DragonHawk was a video game for the Commodore 64 that was released in 1983 by Creative Software. It was developed by Mark A. Van Alstine and Steve Penners of United Microware....
used by G.I Joe
- Spider's Wing in Dick Tracy
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- Mecha Floater - 40th century shape-changing cube vehicle, carrying Mecha researchers over a frozen NYC and Earth - AI: Artificial Intelligence
- P-40 Warhawk h-11o-d - a 1939 two-place, submersible, 5000 hp version of a P-40N Flying Tigers
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Warhawk, in Sky Captain and the World of TomorrowSky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 American pulp adventure science-fiction film written and directed by Kerry Conran in his directorial debut. The film is set in an alternative 1939 and follows the adventures of Polly Perkins , a newspaper reporter, and Harry Joseph "Joe" Sullivan ,...
2004
- Sky One, part of SkyDiver from UFO
UFO is a 1970-1971 British television science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth, created by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson with Reg Hill, and produced by the Andersons and Lew Grade's Century 21 Productions for Grade's ITC Entertainment company.UFO first aired in the UK and Canada...
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- Spaceplane
A spaceplane is a vehicle that operates as an aircraft in Earth's atmosphere, as well as a spacecraft when it is in space. It combines features of an aircraft and a spacecraft, which can be thought of as an aircraft that can endure and maneuver in the vacuum of space or likewise a spacecraft that...
- The STSST (Shirt Tales
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SuperSonic TransportA supersonic transport is a civilian supersonic aircraft designed to transport passengers at speeds greater than the speed of sound. The only SSTs to see regular service to date have been Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144. The last passenger flight of the Tu-144 was in June 1978 with its last ever...
) - a multifunction vehicle that was not just a jet, but also a car, boat, submarine, or any other kind of vehicle required of the team. 1982
- The Wing - protagonist ' Lightning 's air vehicle in The Fighting Devil Dogs
The Fighting Devil Dogs is a 12-chapter Republic movie serial starring Lee Powell and Herman Brix, the latter better known by his later stage name, Bruce Bennett. It was directed by William Witney and John English...
1938 serial
- Thunderbirds
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- X-Jet Blackbird - X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...
modified SR-71 with VTOL, forward swept wings, & water capabilities
- Valiant is the airborne aircraft carrier
Airborne aircraft carriers are aircraft which can launch other aircraft. These typically are large aircraft that launch fighter-interceptor planes.-Dirigible aircraft carriers:...
in the Sci-Fi series Doctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
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- Vampire - New Captain Scarlet
- White Falcon New Captain Scarlet
- Turbo Kat - in Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron
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Commercial
- Atlas Aviation Phoenix - early jet airliner in Cone of Silence
Cone of Silence is a film about the investigation into a series of crashes involving the fictional "Atlas Aviation Phoenix" jetliner. In the United States, the film was released under the title Trouble in the Sky...
. Represented as an Avro Ashton|-References:NotesBibliography* Jackson, A.J. Avro Aircraft since 1908. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books, 2000 . ISBN 0-85177-797-X.* Winchester, Jim. X-Planes and Prototypes. London: Amber Books Ltd., 2005. ISBN 1-904687-40-7....
with two additional engines.
- AutogyroCopter - carrying passengers in 2036 - HG Wells' Things to Come
Things to Come is a British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come and his 1931 non-fiction work, The Work, Wealth and Happiness...
1936
- Antonov 225 (with only four engines) - an Antonov An-124
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that is mistaken for the An-225 by one of the game's characters in Battlefield: Bad Company 2Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by the Swedish firm EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS and Mac OS X systems. It is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company and is part of the...
- Antonov 500 - in the film 2012
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(2009)
- Boeing 765 - Boeing
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airliner in Airplane!Airplane! is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures...
- Boeing 987 - Boeing
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airliner in LostLost is an American television series that originally aired on ABC from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island...
- Carreidas 160 - prototype 10-seat, supersonic business jet - Flight 714
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, The Adventures of Tintin
- Elgin E-474 similar to the Airbus A380
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- used in the film FlightplanFlightplan is a 2005 thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Kate Beahan, Greta Scacchi, and Sean Bean. It was released in North America on September 23, 2005...
- Fireflash - hypersonic transport
- Harrier Citation - VTOL
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off and land vertically. This classification includes fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters and other aircraft with powered rotors, such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and tiltrotors...
business jet, HarrierThe Harrier, informally referred to as the Jump Jet, is a family of British-designed military jet aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations...
wings/engines, ContactContact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact....
1997, by Carl SaganCarl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books...
- Hindenburg III - upgraded dirigible over 1939 NY in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
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- Reindeer - a commercial airliner in Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-...
's novel No HighwayNo Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute. It later formed the basis of the 1951 film No Highway in the Sky. The novel contains many of the ingredients that made Shute popular as a novelist, and, like several other of Shute's later novels, includes an element of the supernatural.Nevil Shute...
(1948), later made into the film No Highway in the SkyNo Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich...
(1951). The Reindeer had a design flaw that could cause it to crash. The book and film both anticipated the de Havilland CometThe de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at the Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom headquarters, it first flew in 1949 and was a landmark in aeronautical design...
disasters a few years later.
- Scott Furlong Sovereign - airliner in the 1960s British television series The Plane Makers
The Plane Makers is a British television series made by ATV for ITV between 1963 and 1965.The series focused on the power struggles between the trades union and the management on the shop floor of an aircraft factory, Scott Furlong Ltd, as well as the political in-fighting between the management...
- Skyfleet S570 - A "prototype" plane featured in Casino Royale
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, actually a Boeing 747-200 originally used by British Airways as "G-BDXJ", but retired after flying for AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines. It was refitted with two mock-up engines on each inner pylon and external fuel tanks on the outer pylons, somewhat anachronistically resembling a B-52 Stratofortress, 2006.
- Spectrum Passenger Jet (SPJ) - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill...
- Starflight - hypersonic transport - Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land is a 1983 television movie starring Lee Majors and Hal Linden...
, made for television, 1983
- Volée Air Flight 180 - A Boeing 747-200 aircraft in the film Final Destination
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, based on the real life crash of TWA Flight 800Trans World Airlines Flight 800 , a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20:31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, killing all 230 persons on board. At the time, it was the second-deadliest U.S...
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- A heavily customized 747-200 for the fictional airline in Soul Plane
Soul Plane is a 2004 comedy film starring Kevin Hart, Method Man, Tom Arnold, D.L. Hughley, Mo'Nique, Loni Love, K.D. Aubert, Godfrey, and Snoop Dogg.-Plot:...
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- I500-F – A very large strategic cargo airlifter that could carry a whole Airbus A380 fuselage, or an Antonov An-225 fuselage. Used in the spy novels called The International Secret Intelligence Agency.
- A fictional Zeppelin, LZ-131, "Luxemburg", is destroyed over Los Angeles
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in the climax of the 1991 Walt Disney Productions film The RocketeerThe Rocketeer is a 1991 period superhero adventure film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and based on the character of the same name created by comic book writer/artist Dave Stevens. Directed by Joe Johnston, the film stars Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino...
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Civilian
- Albatross - 19th century large propellered airship in the novel Robur the Conqueror
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aka Clipper of the Clouds by Jules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
, and in the film versionMaster of the World is a 1961 science fiction film based upon the Jules Verne novels Robur the Conqueror and Master of the World. The movie stars Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, and Henry Hull, was written by Richard Matheson, and directed by William Witney.The film was an attempt by American...
of Verne's The Master of the World
- Budgie the Little Helicopter
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- Drake Bullet - an air racer flown by Clark Gable in Test Pilot
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. A Seversky P-35 was used in the film.
- Hyperion airship
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, from The Island at the Top of the World
- Jay Jay the Jet Plane
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- Flying Wing WT34 - 1970 ' Wings Over The World ' single seat w/ front propeller - Things to Come
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- T-16 Skyhopper - Luke
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's TatooineTatooine is a fictional planet and setting for many key scenes in the Star Wars saga, appearing in every Star Wars film except The Empire Strikes Back, although it is mentioned at the end of the movie...
canyon flyer - Star Wars: A New HopeStar Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 American epic space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the...
- Space Shuttle - The fictional space shuttle Daedelus carries four geriatric astronauts into space in the 2000 film Space Cowboys
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- The Terror - 19th century land, sea and air craft invented by Robur the Conqueror
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featured in Verne's novel The Master of the World
- Volor
- A fictional two seat Bell X-2
-Popular culture:* The 1956 film Toward the Unknown starred the X-2, William Holden, Lloyd Nolan and Virginia Leith. A brainwashed former POW tries to return to test flying; co-starring the Martin XB-51 and the Edwards AFB flight line....
is depicted in the 2000 film Space CowboysSpace Cowboys is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood also stars in the film alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older "ex-test pilots" who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite...
being tested at Edwards Air Force BaseEdwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located on the border of Kern County, Los Angeles County, and San Bernardino County, California, in the Antelope Valley. It is southwest of the central business district of North Edwards, California and due east of Rosamond.It is named in...
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Unmanned
- UCAV EDI - Extreme Deep Invader - armed, quantum circuitry, hypersonic V/STOL
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mach-4 Navy test Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle, or UCAV - Callsign is Tinman - seen in StealthStealth is a 2005 American science fiction action film starring Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx, and Sam Shepard. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, director of The Fast and the Furious and xXx....
2005
- Camelhump 9 - unmanned extreme altitude dirigible tanker - Stealth
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2005
Airborne aircraft carriers
- Helicarrier
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- Nick FuryColonel Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Fury is a fictional World War II army hero and present-day super-spy in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee, Fury first appeared in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #1 , a World War II combat series that portrayed the...
/S.H.I.E.L.D.S.H.I.E.L.D. is a fictional espionage and a secret military law-enforcement agency in the Marvel Comics Universe. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Strange Tales #135 , it often deals with superhuman threats....
- Cloudbase
Cloudbase is the fictional skyborne headquarters of international security organisation Spectrum, from Gerry Anderson's science fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons .-Appearance in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons:...
- Captain Scarlet and the MysteronsCaptain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill...
- Skybase - Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet
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- Iron Vulture - Airship captained by the Air Pirate leader Don Karnage in Disney's TaleSpin
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- Valiant - Doctor Who
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- Royal Navy flying aircraft carriers – Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
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- XB-0 Hresvelgr of the Ace Combat series
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- P-1112 Aigaion Aerial Aircraft Carrier of the Ace Combat series
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- UI-4053 Sphryna Mobile command and control airbone aircraft carrier in the Ace Combat series
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
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- Air Carrier Justice of the Ring Raiders
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- Protoss Carrier of StarCraft
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- Scrin Planetary Assault Carrier of Command & Conquer 3.
- Holy Britannian Empire's HMS Avalon, Caerleon Class, Logres Class, and Black Knights' Ikaruga of Code Geass Series.
- Goliath Rocket powered carrier - Aero Fighters Assault
- Saints Row: The Third- Flying STAG Aircraft Carrier
See also
- Fictional military aircraft
Fictional military aircraft are imagined aircraft which are used in fiction, in its various media, but do not exist in the real world. These aircraft may be conjectured variants of real-world aircraft or they may be completely fabricated by the author....
- List of fictional vehicles
- List of fictional spacecraft
- Aircraft in fiction
Numerous real-world aircraft have appeared in fiction over the decades, including in books, films, toys, TV programs, video games and other media. These appearances spotlight the popularity of different models of aircraft, and showcase the different models for the general public.The years between...
- Fictional submarine aircraft carriers
The following is a list of submarine aircraft carriers that have only appeared in various fiction media.-Anime:* The OVA series Macross Zero featured the submarine aircraft carrier Auerstädt as the principal support vessel for Anti-UN forces operating around Mayan Island...