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Thunderbird 1 - Fast Response Craft

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"Thunderbird One, sleek, first and fast"
- Jeff Tracy -

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I'm trying to make a mix up from the original Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series Thunderbirds, and the Thunderbirds (2004 Movie).
And this is the result.
Adding an ACE COMBAT style technology, like COnnection For Flight INterface, commonly abbreviated and referred to as COFFIN. The system consists of a cockpit covered with a completely sealed steel canopy, separating the pilot from the exterior. Vision is achieved through a series of CCTV cameras installed on the outer fuselage (Nose section, wing tips, and tail section) that relay information to the user in real-time, projecting them in a honeycomb patterned screen.

Thunderbird One is International Rescue's fast action-response vehicle. A sleek, variable geometry (swing wing) hypersonic hybrid variable-cycle gas turbine and booster rocket plane used for fast response, rescue zone reconnaissance, and as a mobile control base. It is usually the first to arrive at the danger zone and is piloted by Scott Tracy, however it can be piloted by Alan Tracy.  Although its take-off from Tracy Island is most often vertical, Thunderbird 1 is endowed with VTOL capabilities which are demonstrated in many episodes.

Specification (Thunderbird 1):

Crew: One crew (Pilot)
Powerplant: 4 x Hybrid variable-cycle gas turbine and booster rocket engines, with thrust-vectored nozzles (vertical thrusters) and nacelles (horizontal thrusters).
Combined with 3 x variable-mode engine operating as a high-performance sustainer rocket for launch or boost or as a variable-cycle gas turbine engine in flight, and 1 x vertical take-off variable-mode engine operating as a rocket or variable-cycle gas turbine hover jet.
Power Source: Atomic fusion reactor
Maximum speed: 15,000 mph (Mach 22.6)
Range: Classified
Service ceiling: >150,000 feet
Length: 40 meters
Weight: 140 tonnes

Guns:
1 × underside-internal mounted International Engineering Ltd TBM6 20 mm swivel machine cannon.

Bomb and Missiles:
None

Internal Bays:
Equipped with wide variety of special ordnance for rescue missions.

Others:
Variable geometry wings.
Automatic Camera Detector
Electromagnetic beam used to wipe a forbidden photo or video of the ship.
Remote-Control Hover Camera.
Electronic countermeasures (ECM) pods.
Laser targeting pod.
Megaphone.
Multi Deflector Shields pods.
Magnetic grapple connected to a hawser cable.
High-velocity spears/javelins.
Sonar tracking system
Advanced On-Board Oxygen Generation (OBOGS) system.
Multi function Advanced Data Link (MADL) communication system
Advanced mission and avionics computers.
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The green and red navigation lights are on the wrong side. Green is starboard and red is port-side.