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X-men Jet

Started by GTX, June 03, 2006, 03:16:45 PM

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GTX

Hi folks,

Does anyone know if there is a kit available or even good 3-view drawings of the jet from the X-men movies?

Regards,

Greg
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

Chris707

#1
[comic geek mode]If you could find it, one of the _old_ Marvel Universe guides from back in the late 80s/early 90s had a full-page very techy write-up of the original X-Jet that I'm pretty sure had a 3-view.

Ah, they had the text online...

"The X-Men's primary aircraft, known as the Blackbird, is a projected design by Carence "Kelly" Johnson, former head of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation Projects Group (the "Skunk Works") prior to his retirement. The Skunk Works were responsible for the design and fabrication of the still- unequaled 1960's and 70's record-holding high performance strategic/reconnaissance craft the SR-71 , and its offensive version, the YF-12A. These craft are two seaters and the X-Men Blackbird (projected designation: RS-150) accommodates a flight crew of 3 and 4 passengers (that is: protected by escape gear; more loose passengersare possible). The RS-150 was never realized as part of the United States reconnaissance program, but in the early 70s SHIELD (Supreme Headquaters International Espionage and Law-Enforcement Devision) acquired the design and exotic tooling experience of this craft from Lockheed and produced an unspecified number of these highly classified aircraft. Only one survives today, the X-Men Blackbird. The rest apparently have been destroyed under unknown circumstances. "
www.marveldatabase.com/wiki/index.php/X-Men_Blackbird

They used to draw it semi-realistically as a "fat SR-71" - I didn't see the movie, so I don't know how it may have mutated(ouch!) since then...

Chris

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Chris707

#2
Aha, the graphic was online...
http://www.paratime.ca/v_and_v/pics/blackbird01.jpg

And if this is what it looked like in the movie, it's really a generic "Black Bird" than a straight SR-71 outgrowth....
http://www.mutanthigh.com/tech/blackbird1a.jpg

noxioux

I've been thinking seriously for some time now about converting the Testors 1/48 SR-71 into a version of the original X-jet.

To my knowledge, there isn't anything really good on the new movie version.  I've done some looking, too.

But it would be a fun build, whatever direction you were to go in.

B777LR

Someone should tell then that they design ugly planes! :P  B)

:cheers:  

GTX

#5
Chris,

Thanks for that, but I was really interested more in the version of the X-jet shown in the X-men movies:





I did find some production drawings of the X-jet via the x2-movie website but I haven'tbeen able to download them.

I can't believe it is so hard to find decent pics of this aircraft.

Regards,

Greg
All hail the God of Frustration!!!