Category talk:Fictional aircraft

Opening comments

Obviously, it would be very difficult and perhaps impossible to provide a complete list of fictional aircraft. However, this list of fictional aircraft seems to be limited mostly to recent examples. There were many fictional airplanes in the pulp literature of the 1930's. For example, the Smilin' Jack stories had a number of rather famous fictional airplanes. Here is one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Jack00.jpg Then there are the Bill Barnes stories from Air Trails. Here's an Air Trails cover: http://www.easybuiltmodels.com/pd02-07.jpg A version of this aircraft, the "Lancer" appears on page 11 in the April 1937 issue of Air Trails* and of course in many other places, but I happen to have this issue on hand. more of them: http://www.philsp.com/mags/air_trails.html There were many other fictional airplanes from the Bill Barnes series.

I could give many references to the old Bill Barnes and Smilin Jack aircraft that appeared later in the Flying Aces Club News**, but that's such an obscure publication that I don't know if it counts as being published! If it does count, that would be opening Pandora's box, because it has a number of its own fictional aircraft, such as the Westland Whynotte which appears on cover of the Mar./April 2007 issue, and in a story within the issue by Bob Rogers and Dave Stott.

More recently, the list does not include the famous Phoenix from Flight of the Phoenix, originally a novel and then two movies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_phoenix The first movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_the_Phoenix_%281965_film%29 I think it would be nitpicking to disqualify the Phoenix as a non fictional airplane, merely because an actual aircraft was created for the first movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallmantz_Phoenix_P-1

• Air Trails, April 1937, Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 79 7th Avenue, New York, NY

• • http://www.flyingacesclub.com/FACnewsletter.html

Rnlocn (talk) 21:31, 4 June 2013 (UTC)