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The Top Five Fictional Airplanes We Wish Were Real

August 1, 2011 at 10:50 AM | by | Comments (3)

Ever since Airbus started chatting about the membrane-ceilinged futureplane they're working on for the year 2050, we've had crazy flying machines on our minds. Okay—we always have crazy flying machines on our minds—but this time we're specifically focusing on place concepts that never came to be, and were never meant to be.

Our Top 5 Fictional Planes We Wish Were Real:

5. Snoop Dogg's "Soul Plane"
Confession: we went to see this movie on opening night in the theaters. Why? Umm, because Snoop Dogg is the pilot of a stubby, Barney-purple 747 and surely that would be hilarious. Wrong. It was a seriously disappointing movie, and they didn't show the plane itself (rather, the CGI of it) nearly enough. Still, we can't help loving a plane with spinners on its landing gear and flight attendants sporting retro-inspired short skirts.

4. James Bond villain Scaramanga's AMC 1974 Matador Coupe-plane
He's "The Man With the Golden Gun," but Francisco Scaramanga is also the owner of a car that can fly. The auto—a goldenrod yellow 1974 AMC Matador Coupe—has mounted wings and sits parked on Scaramanga's private island (evil hideout) in the Caribbean. It's not the greatest-looking thing, but it's from a Bond film and thus has major cool cache.

3. Wonder Woman's Invisible Plane
Comic book superheroes have their fair share of suped-up modes of transportation, but since Wonder Woman is without her own powers of flight, she relies on an airplane to travel quickly and stealthily. The thing is—it's invisible. The type of plane is closer to a military fighter, although drawings of it vary over the decades of Wonder Woman's illustrious crime-fighting career.

2. The Pan Am Clipper Orion, from 2001: A Space Odyssey
We know it's difficult to imagine civilized space travel let alone civilized terrestrial travel, but back in the late 1960s, Stanley Kurbrick envisioned a new sort of Pan Am plane (and flight attendant). The Pan Am Clipper Orion wasn't phased by Earth's atmosphere and it was a slick thing to behold. Virgin Galactic may be coming close with their SpaceShips, but they'll still never be Pan Am.


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1. Austin Power's Shagadelic Boeing 747
Does this plane make you horny—does it?! Yeah, baby, yeah. (Sorry, we had to do it). Austin's groovy Boeing 747 whisks the "International Man of Mystery" around the world on his zany missions, but we're sure he gets plenty of rest (ahhem) on the round rotating bed and gets plenty of work done in the conference room. Powers' shagadelic plane is basically Air Force One's rebellious older brother. And don't you just know it probably has a "playroom" way in the back.

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I will watch every movie with Snoop Dogg

I have to admit that Snoop is one of the coolest guys I know. My favorite comment is the classic: "You don't love me. You just love my Doggystyle". Soul Plane was not the greatest movie of all time, but Snoop made it a classic. All the best <a href="http://badebasseng.net/">Badebasseng</a>

What about Tony Stark's plane?

Or am I missing something?

Stark Enterprises 737-200, *slightly* modified!

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