This Speak To Any All-Star Squadron Fans?

[URL="https://worldwarwings.com/somehow-xp-55-ascenders-freakish-design-actually-worked/"]Ring any bells?[/URL]

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yep this was the plane that inspired the All Star Special which was the All Stars' fighter plane that debuted in #38

[img]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/HavOTC3ZF7RKtjmWWz7EQx_YQS7xrWQ4JTxOCy5jVPnlX4LKGWh6k3n_MlrnhNPndemp3TjFAPqp=s0[/img]

[QUOTE=Elmo;5003792]yep this was the plane that inspired the All Star Special which was the All Stars' fighter plane that debuted in #38

[img]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/HavOTC3ZF7RKtjmWWz7EQx_YQS7xrWQ4JTxOCy5jVPnlX4LKGWh6k3n_MlrnhNPndemp3TjFAPqp=s0[/img][/QUOTE]

Made me smile when the article popped up on my feed.

As I think about it, Roy Thomas was also involved in the debut of another iconic vehicle: The Quinjet

Asked about it here - [url]https://community.cbr.com/showthread.php?120016-All-Star-Squadron-Appreciation-2019&p=4502244&viewfull=1#post4502244[/url]


[QUOTE=Güicho]
Love that the Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender prototype fighter, was retroactively made the Squadrons official transport- aka the "All-Star Special"

[video=youtube_share;ybEDawKLvjE]https://youtu.be/ybEDawKLvjE[/video]
I wish DC would put out some kind of merch celabrating it (and of course the BlackHawk's Grumman XF5-F-1), either as a Hot Wheels scale to go with the many bat-vehicles, and others, something (small 80s)GI Joe/Superpowers scale, or an Eaglmoss type statue figurine, ...something! .

Thinking of buying a model of the XP-55 and repainting it with All-Star colors!

Curious how are people reading the color of [B]All-Star-Special[/B], as White or as Silver?[/QUOTE]

Sadly they close all these threads, so never followed up.

Here is the model in glorious silver, with some All-Star Special markings.
Parked before Trylon and Perisphereat at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park Queens, New York

[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/CP92AdV.jpg[/IMG]

Reviving this short thread to ask if anybody remembers this Quality Aircraft.

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[QUOTE=DrNewGod;5085904]Reviving this short thread to ask if anybody remembers this Quality Aircraft.

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I see what you're doing, fun!

And that's the XF5-F-1 type used by the BlackHawk Squadron

Hopefully Spielberg finally gets that movie into production.

[IMG]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/5/50/Military_Comics_Vol_1_42.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110310221101[/IMG]

another model
[IMG]https://www.ourworlds.net/blackhawk/models/blackhawk_f5f-1.jpg[/IMG]

Is Spy Smasher's Gyrosub next!? (although I doubt we had a real world equivalent, the Northrop N-1M or that German "flying-wing" seen in Indiana Jones, none were going under water ;-) )

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[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/I8Ah5u3.jpg[/IMG]

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[QUOTE=Güicho;5085910]And that's the XF5-F-1 type used by the BlackHawk Squadron

Hopefully Speilberg finally gets that movie into production.

[IMG]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/5/50/Military_Comics_Vol_1_42.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110310221101[/IMG]

another model
[IMG]https://www.ourworlds.net/blackhawk/models/blackhawk_f5f-1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I always loved that wings forward design. :D

[IMG]https://i.imgflip.com/4ay5hm.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]https://i.imgflip.com/4axzan.gif[/IMG]

Yeah hopefully if Speilberg's Blackhawks film ever comes to fruition he uses the XF5-F-1 type planes.

[QUOTE=Güicho;5085910]I see what you're doing, fun!

And that's the XF5-F-1 type used by the BlackHawk Squadron

Hopefully Spielberg finally gets that movie into production.
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/milita10.jpg[/img]

another model
[IMG]https://www.ourworlds.net/blackhawk/models/blackhawk_f5f-1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE][img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/blackh16.jpg[/img][SIZE=1]
from [B][I]Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. II[/I][/B] (April 1985)[/SIZE]