F116 - Experimental Flight Division
From Gerry Anderson’s ‘Joe 90’
The F116 featured in the episode ‘Test Flight’. It is one of the most meorable of the many ‘guest aircraft’ to appear on the show. A tremendous design by Mike Trim, the series VFX Art Director.
The model also apeared in the episode ‘Operation MacLaine’ as a commercail airliner, albeit with some variations . The model was customized again and appared in a n early 1970s episode of ‘Dr Who’. I believe the model was originally created as the F116, but as the Dr Who ship looks more like the F116 than the airliner,
I think the F116 may itself have been a customization of the airliner. Please write to me at matteline67@gmail.com if you have any more information.
This model kit would be over a foot long, and would surely have to be produced in orange plastic!
Designed by Mike Trim
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