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Fictional 'Black Jet' Toys, Models, and Video Games from the 1980s to Today
- adolph 6y agoAs a kid who made the Testors F-19 the later reality of the F-117 was so much wilder than fiction.
- protomyth 6y agoThe F-117 looked more like Testor's MIG Stealth model.
- dole 6y agoDefinitely, should’ve been included in the article and bears checking out: http://fantastic-plastic.com/TESTORS%20MIG%2037-B%20FERRETT%20PAGE.htm http://fantastic-plastic.com/TESTORS%20MIG%2037-B%20FERRETT%... I’d always liked the Testors F-19 over the others, almost forgot about the stealth MiG even though I built that one as well.
- sandworm101 6y agoMicroprose's F-19 Stealth Fighter. Version 2.0 was even called F-117.
- pram 6y agoI agree. I had the Monogram F-19 model based on the Loral mockup, along with an SR-71 model. I didn't know a whole lot about airplanes at the time so I didn't realize one of them was fake. It was very plausible, when it's sitting next to an SR-71. I never thought twice about it being a real thing.
- dingaling 6y agoHave Blue and the subsequent F-117 were of course the result of computational design limitations, rather than representing a particular school of LO design. Back in the late 80s I remember the rumour being that the USAF had tacitly leaked information about optimal LO shapes to obscure the fact that they couldn't yet manufacture them.
- Pxtl 6y agoHah, when I was a kid my favorite PC game was F29 Retaliator, which included both the familiar epynomous X29 inverted V jet fighter and a fictional "F-22" that looked like the "black jet" described in here, but with a pair of vertical tails instead of the inward-tilted twin. I also had that micromaster transformer - although a green autobot recolor called "Groundshaker". He came with a big ol' LAV to drive.
- disposekinetics 6y agoAnyone else have the website refuse to scroll at all in Safari?
- garyfirestorm 6y agoNope
- sueders101 6y agoDepending on where I clicked in mobile safari it wouldn’t scroll.
- c0nsumer 6y agoSeeing that Testors F-19 brings back some weird memories of it being one of my first memories where a lack of knowledge/ability caused me to ruin something I really cared about. I was assembling the model using cyanoacrylate glue because, at eight years old, I was excited and didn't like waiting for the traditional solvent adhesives to cure (dry). When placing the canopy it predictably fogged up, as cyanoacrylate fuming develops fingerprints [1]. I didn't know about this before, and all I knew what I'd ruined one of the most visible parts of the model and I was really, really upset. My dad cut one for me out of plastic from a soda bottle, doing a great job of shaping it so it'd fit perfectly, but to me it just wasn't the original and wasn't just... right... So I never finished the model. [1]: https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/forensics/For_supergluing.pdf https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/for...