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04-25-2023, 10:19 PM | #1 |
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We all can remember the 1990 G.I. Joe Sky Patrol aircraft toys that used a scientifically advanced, radar reflective protectant represented with the use of chrome metalized parts.
Three years later, the U.S. government was experimenting in the summer of 1993 with something very similar to the Sky Patrol idea, and according to the book "Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter" by Paul F. Crickmore, a project attempted to reduce visible, infrared signatures using a reflective mirror coating technology by covering the surfaces on an F-117, code-named SENIOR SPUD. It certainly does look like the Sky Patrol deco.
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04-25-2023, 11:49 PM | #2 |
Crimson Guard
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That's very interesting, thanks for sharing. There's toys that preceeded the Sky-Patrol using the reflective covering on the plastic so it could be pure coincidence, let's see if some other people here have something useful that proves this one way or the other.
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04-26-2023, 10:43 AM | #3 |
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Back when the G.I. Joe team at Hasbro was coming-up with new ideas. Not that they were always good ideas. Most of the subteams were crap. The only ones I think are OK are Sky Patrol and Nightforce.
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04-27-2023, 07:30 AM | #4 |
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not surprised. there were quite a few vehicles that were experimental designs from our military/airforce. one off the top of my head being the skystorm xwing chopper.
rather than it being a straight up vehicle they did, they took the idea of the technology and used that instead. i love the sky patrol vehicles. i still remember getting my first skyhawk at woolworths before it shut down. |
04-27-2023, 08:09 AM | #5 |
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not surprised. there were quite a few vehicles that were experimental designs from our military/airforce. one off the top of my head being the skystorm xwing chopper.
rather than it being a straight up vehicle they did, they took the idea of the technology and used that instead. i love the sky patrol vehicles. i still remember getting my first skyhawk at woolworths before it shut down. For many years, I thought of the vacuum metalizing on these toys as more of a play feature gimmick, and not as a serious military development. Until I learn otherwise, I will still consider it a happy coincidence that the black and chrome sections of the aircraft on the toys match the black and chrome sections of the military test experiments. As to the Skystorm X-Wing Chopper you mentioned, I have enjoyed viewing the videos of the government tests on that prototype vehicle. When Larry Hama wrote the file card for the pilot, Windmill, he added "Consider this - helicopters don't have ejection seats. If you make a mistake, you ride down with it!" He hadn't seen the videos of successful ejection seat tests for that prototype vehicle which we know as the Skystorm X-Wing Chopper. He couldn't have, because there was no internet or computer video files in 1987 when he wrote that.
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