F/A-37 Talon - Fictional Stealth Aircraft

<div style="text-align: justify;">In modern day film making, special effects alone can accomplish what the likes of George Lucas and Clint Eastwood achieved, through a combination of models and clever photography, in Star Wars and Firefox.  But close-up shots demand accuracy and even today the only way to achieve authenticity is through the use of full size replica aircraft, assuming the real thing doesn't exist or isn't available. One of the example is F/A - 37 Talon for the 2005 movie Stealth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDZIDZlJyghfU_WoobjNR0a44STqxtIQ9UybfZlpLkaP1Z5NxIcKYAedd8PkKqL-BaaRB0yUrbgv6NldHNFy9sEfe0NAPUUPo2DbxrxAVMWGL-7NtTUigLRgeVDanUwBxYb4Wd5oHkwY/s1600/talon-5-800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDZIDZlJyghfU_WoobjNR0a44STqxtIQ9UybfZlpLkaP1Z5NxIcKYAedd8PkKqL-BaaRB0yUrbgv6NldHNFy9sEfe0NAPUUPo2DbxrxAVMWGL-7NtTUigLRgeVDanUwBxYb4Wd5oHkwY/s640/talon-5-800.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The F/A-37 Talon is a near-future, single-seat fighter aircraft of the U.S. Navy in the 2005 film Stealth. In the movie's fictional world, the only 37s are operating as a three-plane flight for field evaluation, from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (although actually filmed on the USS Carl Vinson)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BRnfhM7RlWd6DQC9-upEeA3vYsOX9XZfLHHjvwLYDygkhcNiSIdinSnFCDWKUFJVLHf0vAOI_TuTfYhiFBy9lxwzxKKQKDQHoFJHDesd1QcKWRVNbgCh9lSYArzfs30AeULrEDKmbso/s1600/F-A-37-Talon-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BRnfhM7RlWd6DQC9-upEeA3vYsOX9XZfLHHjvwLYDygkhcNiSIdinSnFCDWKUFJVLHf0vAOI_TuTfYhiFBy9lxwzxKKQKDQHoFJHDesd1QcKWRVNbgCh9lSYArzfs30AeULrEDKmbso/s640/F-A-37-Talon-2.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Talon is capable of hypersonic flight with two combined Pulse Detonation/Scramjet engines. As the movie's title suggests, the Talon has stealth capability, along with movable, forward sweep, switchblade wings, an internal cannon for close-in fights, and an internal rotary launcher with a wide variety of ordnance, including GAU-12 Equalizer, AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, AGM-88 HARM anti-radiation missiles, AGM-130C air-to-surface missiles (called "Blue Ferret" in the movie), FAEs, or fuel air explosives, of an unknown variety, and Truncheon implosion bombs.<br><br></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/08/fa-37-talon-fictional-stealth-aircraft.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

F/A-37 Talon - Fictional Stealth Aircraft

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