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The primary fighter craft of the Earth Defense Directorate, as seen in
the 1979-1981 Glen A. Larson TV series. (The two-hour pilot was briefly
released in 1978 as a theatrical feature.) Used to defend Earth and attached to
the exploratory vessel Searcher.
The key to the nacelles is the “droid” cylinder. Unfortunately it’s not an
integer number of plates tall when it’s combined, which required some adjustment
on an axle core to match the fuselage and wings. The fins consist of SNOT
slopes instead of wing panels, because I couldn’t defise a way to attach them
without clunky adaptors; the ventral fins are mounted to the deltas with 1x2
hinges because there’s nowhere on the droid-cyls to do so.
I’m planning to print some decals to add cockpit windows to the 2x4x1 slopes,
plus EDD insignia. (Or maybe I’ll just mount 1x1 round plates in the droid-cyl
holes.)
Background:
The starfighter consists of a two-seat cockpit embedded within a
vertically-flattened fuselage, flanked catamaran-style by a pair of nacelles
housing the engines and weapons (two pairs of fixed, forward-firing “pulsar”
cannons). Attached to the nacelles are two pairs of aft fins: horizontal
delta-shaped surfaces, and ventral cranked dihedral fins. Landing gear is
tripod in style, consisting of the weight-bearing ventral fins and a single
retractable nose skid; the combination produces a nose-down posture. Secondary
equipment includes a tractor beam that can be focused forward, aft, or
ventrally. Cockpit access is by steps that fold down from either nacelle.
Typically painted white, with the the shield-shaped EDD insignia towards the
forward tip of each nacelle.
An variant model has side-by-side seating in a wider cockpit, and is painted a
sand-yellow color.
(And that’s about the most one can say about it. Disentangling the TECH of this
show, especially the second season, is a hopeless task.)
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