EAgle grab arm

[Steve Gerard]

Nice image.
The "Exile" capsule had a one episode appearance.

[gattispilot]

Ok. Maybe someone can help here. I wonder why the eagle didn't have a fuel tank in the pod? I guess they ejected it or it took off without full pods?

Here is something we are working on. A modified buggy to carry the fuel to an eagle.

[Steve Gerard]

It really seemed strange that Eagles have a nuclear reactor[that would not have to be refueled until many years of use based on today's nuclear reactors] in their aft engineering section, so why would they need to be refueled at all? But the landing gear pods refueling port must be for refueling only the chemical maneuvering rockets on the four landing pods. Extra red refueling canisters could have been carried on board each Eagle for the crew to spacewalk and refuel themselves. All this being said it was all for the story element of needing to be refueled, not to make sense.

Your moonbuggy is functional.

[gattispilot]

I guess that makes sense that the red tanks are for the chemical engines.

[Steve Gerard]

Originally Posted by gattispilot

I guess that makes sense that the red tanks are for the chemical engines.

I definitely think that is what it is, the nuclear reactor powers the aft engineering section four main engine motors only.

[gattispilot]

I might add a frame around the red tank that moves it up and down the hole.

Saw this which gives me a length of the arm.

[Steve Gerard]

Good idea on the red tank. Smart gattispilot, that screencap gives you the right length.

[gattispilot]

here is a modified buggy in the hangar ready to fuel up a rescue eagle



Here is the eagle. You can see the tank elevated up on one pod and the pad where a tank will be placed. The other pods have tanks in them.

[SteveDix]

Originally Posted by Steve Gerard

It really seemed strange that Eagles have a nuclear reactor[that would not have to be refueled until many years of use based on today's nuclear reactors] in their aft engineering section, so why would they need to be refueled at all? But the landing gear pods refueling port must be for refueling only the chemical maneuvering rockets on the four landing pods. Extra red refueling canisters could have been carried on board each Eagle for the crew to spacewalk and refuel themselves. All this being said it was all for the story element of needing to be refueled, not to make sense.

Your moonbuggy is functional.

Well, a nuclear reactor is all very well, but most types of propulsion would require some form of additional reaction mass, such as an ion drive. Even if you're talking NERVA nuclear rocketry.

I've always thought the Eagle is running some form of high-powered ion drive, basically because ion rockets need considerably less in the way of bulky fuel, using electromagnetic fields to obtain a high specific impulse from an inert gas such as argon or xenon. The Russians have been using ion-drive for position-holding jets for years, and high-power ion drives such as VASIMR can, in theory, when coupled with a nuclear reactor, produce enough thrust to get to Mars in two months.

The only problem with Eagles using an Ion drive is that an ion drive requires a vaccuum to operate, which means no landings on a planet with an atmosphere... but then when did Gerry let the facts get in the way of a good story?

[gattispilot]

From the Continuity Guide about the Eagles
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m...e/umeagle.html

[Steve Gerard]

Originally Posted by gattispilot

From the Continuity Guide about the Eagles
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m...e/umeagle.html

Good link on the Eagle to help answer these questions.

gattispilot, your images of the Eagle in the hangar and in space look good.

[gattispilot]

Thanks. Looking at the transcript of Space Warp. Looking at the script of Space Warp: At the bottom the eagle that comes is referred as Refueling Eagle

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m...ipt/z40sw.html

at the bottom it makes a reference to tow the derelict. So I guess it has a tractor beam or something

209.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig & Tony smile at each other ((following not in "Cosmic Princess"))
PILOT (VO): "Refuelling complete, Commander."
KOENIG: "Right, thank you. I want you to tow the derelict back to Alpha."
PILOT (VO): "Yes, sir."



205.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
ALAN: "How come you've got the derelict in tow?"

[Steve Gerard]

Originally Posted by gattispilot

Thanks. Looking at the transcript of Space Warp. Looking at the script of Space Warp: At the bottom the eagle that comes is referred as Refueling Eagle

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m...ipt/z40sw.html

at the bottom it makes a reference to tow the derelict. So I guess it has a tractor beam or something

209.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig & Tony smile at each other ((following not in "Cosmic Princess"))
PILOT (VO): "Refuelling complete, Commander."
KOENIG: "Right, thank you. I want you to tow the derelict back to Alpha."
PILOT (VO): "Yes, sir."



205.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
ALAN: "How come you've got the derelict in tow?"

I think Alan mentioning Koenig&Tony's Eagle having the derelict in "tow" defines it as docked to the Eagle so that Koenig wants the Refueling Eagle to dock to the derelict to "tow" it back to Alpha under the Eagle's propulsion. It is much the way that the NASA Apollo CS Module would dock to the Lunar Module and "tow" it to the moon.

[gattispilot]

from these images. It looks it is towed on the side.
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m.../spsw03227.jpg

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m...w/spsw0329.jpg

[Steve Gerard]

Originally Posted by gattispilot

from these images. It looks it is towed on the side.
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m.../spsw03227.jpg

http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/m...w/spsw0329.jpg

In this photo the only connection between the Eagle and the derelict is the Eagle's port hatch is docked[connected].
The Eagle docks with the derelict via the Eagle's passenger pod hatch and then "tows"[connected only by the hatch door docked] the docked derelict. The Eagle docking was used in other episodes to "tow", i.e., bring the other craft along by using the Eagle's propulsion.

[SteveDix]

Thinking about it, they must have had a pile of alien technology that they had salvaged from wreckage on the Moon's surface, as well as from "Crash" Carter's written-off Eagles.

There would be the Satazius and it's opposing number, what was left of Gwent, and, extending it a little, the "Dragon's Domain" junkyard and the Swift from "Brian the Brain", as well as the "Space Warp" ship.

[Steve Gerard]

Originally Posted by SteveDix

Thinking about it, they must have had a pile of alien technology that they had salvaged from wreckage on the Moon's surface, as well as from "Crash" Carter's written-off Eagles.

There would be the Satazius and it's opposing number, what was left of Gwent, and, extending it a little, the "Dragon's Domain" junkyard and the Swift from "Brian the Brain", as well as the "Space Warp" ship.

You are right, there must be a junkyard of spaceships on the lunar surface.

[gattispilot]

Here is something for Orbiter that someone else is working on:




interior of cockpit:

[Steve Gerard]

Nice Swift images.