#eagle transporter

[chernobog13]

Head-on with an Eagle from Space: 1999.

[nocternalrandomness]

Eagle Transporter landing at Moonbase Alpha

[all-action-all-picture]

1975 ad for Dinky Toys.

Model 671 - MK1 Corvette. As it states in the ad this model was based on the Vosper Thornycroft Mk1 Corvette.

Models 359 and 360 - Eagle Transporter and Eagle Freighter from Space: 1999. I think the Transporter carried the rectangular box underneath while the Freighter carried the yellow cylinders.

Model 625 - 6 Pounder Anti-Tank Gun.

[krjpalmer]

ST-Log June 1987

This issue's content on programming led off with a editorial from Douglas Weir saying that while "it's anybody's guess that hardware will look like ten years from now," "if you want to you'll be able to program in BASIC on it. Or Pascal, or C, or FORTRAN," even if "what kind of BASIC" was uncertain with the way operating systems were developing. One look at games influenced by "the Orient" noted that "Black silk dressing gowns, oriental pictographic symbols on T-shirts, and a surfeit of dragons, gigantic robots and karate-wielding ninjas characterized the 'orient-ation' of the culture vultures." A letter complained that Atari "simply goofed in choosing the microprocessor for the STs" and should have picked "National Semiconductor's 32016 or 32032," which "would have outgunned the Amiga and IBM PC AT (with floating-point option)"; the editorial response was that "until recently" those chips had only existed "on paper." One article noted how well the ST was doing in West Germany.

[jwood718]

From the "Now I'm just showing off" files:

I turned around and realized that I had got all the parts together and I had done a thing: a model of the Eagle transporter from Space: 1999.

In a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the episode "Dragon's Domain," I thought I'd do a set of covers for the Halloween special editions of Inter-Galactic--which meant I needed an Eagle; consequently I sprang for the big 22" model.

Referencing a screen-matched 44" Eagle that was auctioned by Propstore back in 2021:

I was pleased to see how much the kit resembled the model from the TV production. Honestly, I wasn't crazy about some of the "fit" between pieces, but I managed.

Looking at the images that Propstore shot (and there are a lot of photos!) and looking at the pieces for the kit, I finally realized just how much gak there is on the transporter that barely showed on the television; the Eagles were shot on film and then broadcast way before hi-definition--much of the detail would have gone unobserved by the usual viewer.

I was also pleasantly surprised how the decals mimicked the details from the original model. As I'm pretty sure was done on the original, many of the smaller lining details are literally just penciled on. It really beats what I remember of the much smaller model I put together in 1975. All that stuff inside the tubular scaffolding? I had no idea.

What I've done here isn't meant to be a truly faithful reproduction of the original; rather, it's a "generic" transporter, one which, once photographed, can be detailed further "in post" to suit the illustrations I have in mind. Hence, there are no Alpha Moonbase labels, and the variations of gray/white present on the original are absent; such things I can add later to make each as-illustrated Eagle a little more individual. This isn't meant to go to a convention where fans will pour over every detail, it's just a shooting model.

'cause I could, I did add some lights inside the cockpit, just in case I wanted a shot that would show a pilot or two:

as happened in-episode from time to time. They're tiny LEDs of course, with batteries and switch buried inside the just-aft compartment:

There's just room enough for a double-AAA pack inside the box; the door panel pops back on with a tiny magnet.

I mean, sure, it'd be nice to have a 44" version, but I've no place to put it, much less room enough to back up to take photos of it. As it is, I need to build a box to stow this one in so it doesn't get too dusty.

Yes, I built the stun gun and commlock models, too; having characters in the Alpha Moonbase universe without their stun gun and commlock wouldn't be cricket.

R. Jake Wood.

Propstore auction page.

[this-is-cool]

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[vintage1981]

Space: 1999 Stars Barbara Bain & Nick Tate Goes Board Documentary About Sci-Fi Show’s Legendary Spacecraft

Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.

Bain will appear in The Eagle Has Landed as will Nick Tate, her cast mate from Space: 1999. The documentary includes the participation of several other notable figures: Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George (Blade Runner, Star Trek), and Brian Johnson, the VFX artist on Space: 1999 whose work is said to have influenced Star Wars. The film is being directed and produced by Jeffrey Morris, who also hosts the documentary. 

The Eagle Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel” in the series that also starred Martin Landau. According to a press release, the film “showcases never-before-seen archival footage” and will be released in time for the 50th anniversary of Space: 1999’s debut, in 2025.

“Space: 1999 appeared on TV a few short years after the world watched Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon,” Morris noted in a statement. “The show’s unforgettable Eagle inspired a generation to envision a future in space and is still doing so decades later. The question we explore is ‘why?’ What is it about this imaginary craft that has captured and held imaginations for nearly 50 years?

Morris’s FutureDude Entertainment is producing the documentary in partnership with Zero Point Zero Production Inc. Anne Marie Gillen is a producer on the project, along with Morris. The film is written by Morris and Fredrick Haugen. Morris is represented by Espada Entertainment.

Space: 1999 ran for a total of 48 episodes, with Bain and Landau in all of them as, respectively, Dr. Helena Russell and Commander John Koenig (the actors were married to each other at the time; they had previously co-starred together in Mission: Impossible).

The show revolved around the denizens of Moonbase Alpha, scientific researchers living on the moon whose existence was threatened by a nuclear explosion, which rocketed the moon out of Earth’s orbit. Tate, an Australian-born actor, played pilot Alan Carter on 42 of the show’s 48 episodes. Originally, his character was to be killed off in the premiere episode, a casualty of the nuclear explosion, but producers Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson liked his work and expanded his role.

“Hovering above the Moon in one of Alpha’s Eagle spacecraft, Alan Carter is an observer to this holocaust, watching helplessly as the Moon spins out into space,” according to a synopsis published by the Catacombs.Space1999.net website. “Sacrificing his only chance to return home, Carter decides to give chase to the runaway Moon, joining his friends on the endless intergalactic journey.”

Tate told the website, “I didn’t have to dig too deeply with this character. Alan Carter was all the things I was as a young man: friendly, happy-go-lucky, someone who loved adventure and accepted a challenge.”

Ian McShane, Joan Collins, and Leo McKern were among actors who appeared in single episodes of Space: 1999.

[bearwildered]

I have so many fond childhood memories of Space 1999 and the Eagle Transporter. As an adult I can afford to buy myself a limited edition