Very cool. Very, very cool. Always loved the UFO saucer design, ever since i was a small boy. While saucer designs were in vogue at the time, there were two interesting twists with this design: the clear perspex top cover which gave the UFO in motion a somewhat vague 'alien' shape and the spinning action which was neat visually and gave the sense of some sort of real flight mechanism at work. Your interior design is excellent and 'realistic' in layout. Very well done.
The UFO series has always held my imagination since I was a kid and I’m now 63 years young❤the UFO plans you showed didn’t include a laser defence system? But thanks for unveiling the mystery of the UFO interior ❤❤❤
Nice work. Thanks for posting. Always wondered about the inside, and how they got inside. There was always a lot of mental gymnastics involved in trying to understand UFO.
It's likely that they were sending their small spaceships to other planets too. Due to the immense power needed to achieve faster than light travel, I'll speculate that it was only possible to propel small vessels at this speed.
I own the DVD collection , and after watching them I realized , this show need a reboot...the potential in the back story for a BAB 5 / x-men-esk plot line is fantastic.
I keep seeing web chatter about a reboot, buy nothing definite yet. The cynical premise of a secret military organisation fighting aliens and injecting amnesia drugs into humans who found out too much was way ahead of its time, and would be accepted without a quibble today. Secret human Moon bases, high tech interceptors... I'd set it in the present day, and have Ed Bishop do a cameo as the old, first head of S.H.A.D.O.
I heard the Ed Bishop passed away recently. But a blend of the original show with a touch of X-files would work well. some of the episodes hinted that earth had been infiltrated , by the Ufo's Masters ( the Triangle squared affair ) . The second season was ruined by the same sort of 60's wideness' as space 1999...which could have used better writers.
I always wondered how the aliens got in and out of the UFO. I was never shown in the TV series itself. I assumed they used some sort of "walk through the self sealing wall" technology as seen in their underwater base in one episode.
Nice one, Joan. I had considered this too! Good point. The transparent saucer and dome shaped hulls would provide extra protection against small spaceborne objects and anything travelling at a high velocity. However, this membrane would 'give way' under gentle/even pressure and then seal again once the Alien was through. However... since there is a gap between the upper and lower transparent hull, this may be necessary for gaining access.
Thats really lovely work ! On the actual efx models one of the fins was always " missing " . They left it out so as to make the core look like it was turning slower and in the opposite direction to the bottom strobe section and discs. They sometimes put a reflective sheet in the "gap" so when the studio light reflected on it as it turned, it looked like a flash. The discs were mounted random, in that they were two pointing up, one down or three down, two up ect, they also varied in size, from small and circular to large and plectrum shaped. On the larger models both the transparent domes stayed still while on the smaller ones only the top dome was held still while the complete lower hull spun. I hope to someday build an accurate ( hopefully ) copy of a studio model. Ill draw a plan of the model and put it on Utube soon.
Where is the control room? It seems the whole craft (which is strangely small), is dedicated to 4 acceleration tubes and fluid..... shouldn't there be more to it? How about the escape pod, which was shown dropping out of the bottom? I think the UFO should be a bit bigger, with control room, escape pod, and some sort of power / propulsion area. The dome on top seems to be an avionics or mission-purpose device, as it was illuminated during the time-stop episode. I'm just saying - this is a good start, but it leaves out some important stuff.
Todd P. Very good point. When I started to work out the UFO diameter by studying screen grabs of them next to houses and cars I was surprised at how small it actually was, with a habitable volume not much bigger than an Apollo capsule. The escape capsule seen in one episode, assuming that the alien was folded up tightly in the foetal position, would still make the UFO twice the size it appears to be in the few other episodes where there is any clue as to scale. And the problem of the exit/entry hatch seems practically insoluble. It seems to be a tradition in movies that flying saucers never make sense when examined too closely.
I would love to see you do this in a 2x scale, where the UFO is of a more realistic size, and includes the escape pod and laser cannon. Please let me know if you ever do that! Thanks. BTW: Someone on UA-cam recently remade the Jupiter 2 from Lost In Space, changing the diameter scale from 30 feet to 30 meters; it was then able to accommodate the chariot, the space pod, and all the other equipment from the TV show, yet looked pretty much the same from the outside. ;-)
Yes, the plastic Apollo capsule (which came with the Dinky Sea King helicopter) was the perfect shape and size to be shot at by the Dinky UFO Interceptor!
Can I also suggest that, although not specified on screen, there may have been UFOs of different sizes - all relatively small, but newer, more advanced versions may have superseded the older ones and just maybe the UFO with the escape capsule is a bit bigger than usual.
I like the fact that they dont have the usual " force - field " and are actually very vunerable to attack. Also they overheat in the Earths atmosphere and disintegrate after a while - like jellyfish, a very nasty sting but very easy to kill in the atmosphere.
Excellent work, absolutely first class! UFO was a brilliant series, surely it deserved more than one series. I often wonder why someone doesn't pick up UFO and continue where the original left off. Having said that, I suppose they couldn't help but change the look of everything, they never seem able to leave well enough alone. Re. the size of the UFO which was mentioned in a previous comment: I thought about this one too, and as you say in a previous response, the episode in which a UFO had an escape capsule I concluded was a larger version of the standard vessel. I just couldn't figure out how the aliens could squeeze something that big into a vessel as small as what we normally see in the series. But what do I know, after all look at Doctor Who's TARDIS, maybe the aliens had technology capable of pulling off that same trick, the one in which the interior space was greater than the exterior dimensions. Anyway, really enjoyed your video, fantastic job mate!
OK, anyone remember when you could get cheap trinckets out of gumball-like machines? The container "egg" that the trincket was in was shaped almost exactly like a UFO. I used to shoot them with the missle from my Dinky Interceptor and, if you hit them just right, they split open! 😀
1. Where is the propulsion system AND the fuel kept? 2. Where's the weaponry -- in that Dalek-like dome up top? 3. Why do the semicircular outer plates/fins have to spin -- stabilization, heat dissipation, or what?
Excellent question! I imagine flying saucers having coils to generate EM or gravimetric fields for propulsion, split between the non-rotating and rotating parts of the saucer, a bit like common EM electric motor coils. I colour coded these on the model, visible in the cut-away views.The 16 fins are part of the propulsion field generator, but in some episodes they are also where the blast rays emanate from.
Brilliant!, I love UFO and these otherworldly craft have always intrigued me, to see such a convincing and detailed, albeit imagined interior layout is awesome, well done!.
Great work! But I remember there was one episode that shows an entrance hatch instead of the ladder. And if they take humans as hosts for transplantation, where would they put them in the UFO with that small size?
I remember watching UFO when I was a kid. I had crushes on all the women who wore the purple wigs. UFO was so popular that they came out with a lunch box. Too bad my parents couldn't buy me one. To me, just like the show, the lunch box was the coolest. Ufo wasmuch better than Space 1999. Loved the saucers, too. Hopefully, one day there will be a movie.
What does the translucent blue outer shell do? And the ' fins ' ? What's their function? Not bad at all, and I've been watching Gerry Anderson productions since 1965. Now, where's the walkthrough for Thunderbirds 1 and 2?
Thats nice, but I remember hearing somewhere that the saucer was about 35 ft in diameter. ...( could be wrong too ) also one of the fins is always missing - this was to make the spin more interesting - to break it up a bit, when the gap comes into view it reflects the studio light causing a " flash" effect, but it was for an optical effect rather than any supposed sci fi reason.
Warriorking1963 Haha, yes, I know what you mean, but the efx crew were not interested in where the occupants or the powerplant go, or even how they get in or out - only the optical effect was considered.
It's a fallacy about the missing fin. It simply fell off and it was this UFO that was photographed for some publicity shots. The UFO was roughly 18 feet in diameter.
It was cancelled so that they could do Space 1999 for the American market. Some of the unused UFO stories were rewritten for the Space 1999 series as well. The Sound Of Silence was one of my favorite episodes.
They were in negotiations to sell it to the US networks to finance a second series. One network dropped out of the negotiations, and when the others heard they assumed the first one knew something they didn’t, so they dropped out too. The ideas for that second series were later reworked into “Space: 1999”. Which I felt wasn’t nearly as much fun...
MUY BUEN TRABAJO...TRATANDO DE ENTENDER COMO ERA EL MECANISMO INTERNO DE LA NAVE..EXTRATERRESTRE...POR SUPUESTO Q' EL CORONEL STRAKER...MMMM..LO SABIA...!!!
Interesting. Did you get the design by accumulating the clips which the show occasionally gave us of the inside of one of their flying saucers or is much of it from your creative imagination? Either way, it makes sense and is congruous with the show.
Views of the UFO entrance and interior were rare, brief and confusing, so much so that I think it must have been deliberate. In one episode there is a brief tightly cropped glimpse of an abductee being dragged up a short corrugated metal ramp into what must be the side of the UFO, but how that would work given the transparent domes and fins I cannot imagine and neither, I suspect, could Derek Meddings. In another episode Alexis Kanner is brought aboard and hypnotised by a pulsing light in a completely black void that has absolutely no visible features except for the light which seems about 20 feet away across a space that could not possibly fit into the ship. In another Paul Foster is abducted and as the aliens prepare him for acceleration back to their base/homeworld/mysterious point of origin behind his head there is a simple wall of illuminated square panels (although this turns out later to be a dream). Unlike his human built vehicles, which were always so well realised you wondered how long it would be before someone built them for real, his UFO was a total mystery. That was the challenge :-)
lugodoc Thanks for the interesting reply. You sound really enthusiastic about the show.. I love it, even with its anomalies and occasional corniness. I saw it as a very young boy when it first came out in 69/70 and enjoyed the subsequent repeats..
The two examples you give of people being taken onboard a UFO are from the same episode and are the same person - Jim Regan from 'The Cat With Ten Lives'. I think it's good that so little was explained about the UFOs, it helps them to maintain their mystique and we can all have our own ideas/theories about how they worked and how you got inside!
Floored. No way could those people get in or out of that object due to no way to crawl under it, there would have to have a side door + seats for them.
It's an educated guess based on watching episodes of the show and examining the alien suits and guns, and the humans' own speculation. Traditionally flying saucers are always mysterious on the inside.
I made the animation, so thanks :-) There were plans on the net of the outside of the UFO but nothing on the interior, which was never shown in the series
Sneaksie Taffer Plans of the exact exterior shape were easy to find, but I had to estimate size from the few scenes where a UFO is seen next to a car or a house. Most of the immediately obvious bulk is just vanes and plates, the solid volume available for a cabin and engines is tiny. There is also nowhere to put a hatch except in the base. Anderson was a genius for creating memorable machines that were utterly convincing while you were watching the show but fell apart under pedantic examination. Except Thunderbird 3. That could actually work.
@@lugodoc I know what you mean. The Space 1999 Eagle command module was interesting looking but it seemed to have a lot of wasted space. It reminded me of the Gemini space capsule used by NASA.
Good work. Nicely done... but unfortunately the interior of the UFO is clearly wrong as the craft could NOT have had an interior of the size you suggest. I would also be disinclined to imagine the kind of technology they have - computer banks, etc, - as these will probably be wide of the mark by a considerable margin. I would estimate the diameter of the UFO at roughly 18 feet.
The pilot doesn't sit, he stands suspended in one of the four tubes of the same oxygenated green fluid that fills his helmet and lungs, thus protecting him from the immense acceleration forces of space flight. His back pack connects into a socket at the back of the g-tube and he controls the UFO by means of a neural link (the aliens seem to be quite good at telepathy and other psi stuff). There is also a simple control panel for use when landed and standing up in the tiny cabin. I know it seems pretty cramped in there but careful study of several episodes has convinced me that the UFO can be no larger than 9 metres, which leaves an internal space with standing room only.
No. No. No. The Aliens were NOT suspended in tubes of green liquid. The helmets of their suits were filled with it so that it cushioned their lungs and nasal cavity against the pressure of high speed acceleration. It is most likely that they would lie on some kind of acceleration couch.
I AM VERY GLAD THAT PEOPLE STILL REMEMBER THIS SERIES SINCE THIS YEAR IS THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UFO CLASSIC SERIES!
The sound of the UFO haunts me till today.
I use it as my mobile phone sound.
I have been doing that for the last few years... no-one younger than 40 would ever know what that sound is .... Muah ahahahah.
Loved UFO as a kid and can't forget that UFO sound.UFO was something special!
Indeed.
Where did you download the sound from? I'd love to get that!
Redbaron863 nothing like the tv series...lol..its crap sound
Now if only I could buy a model kit of this for less than ONE MEEELION DOLLARS.
Amazing, beautiful, wonderful imagining of the interior.
Very cool. Very, very cool. Always loved the UFO saucer design, ever since i was a small boy. While saucer designs were in vogue at the time, there were two interesting twists with this design: the clear perspex top cover which gave the UFO in motion a somewhat vague 'alien' shape and the spinning action which was neat visually and gave the sense of some sort of real flight mechanism at work.
Your interior design is excellent and 'realistic' in layout. Very well done.
The UFO series has always held my imagination since I was a kid and I’m now 63 years young❤the UFO plans you showed didn’t include a laser defence system? But thanks for unveiling the mystery of the UFO interior ❤❤❤
Great work. Even SHADO doesn't have this much info on UFOs
Nice work. Thanks for posting. Always wondered about the inside, and how they got inside. There was always a lot of mental gymnastics involved in trying to understand UFO.
It's likely that they were sending their small spaceships to other planets too. Due to the immense power needed to achieve faster than light travel, I'll speculate that it was only possible to propel small vessels at this speed.
It just looked good (thanks to Sylvia Anderson). Just turn off your brain and enjoy the eye candy (both human and machine).
I own the DVD collection , and after watching them I realized , this show need a reboot...the potential in the back story for a BAB 5 / x-men-esk plot line is fantastic.
I keep seeing web chatter about a reboot, buy nothing definite yet. The cynical premise of a secret military organisation fighting aliens and injecting amnesia drugs into humans who found out too much was way ahead of its time, and would be accepted without a quibble today. Secret human Moon bases, high tech interceptors... I'd set it in the present day, and have Ed Bishop do a cameo as the old, first head of S.H.A.D.O.
I heard the Ed Bishop passed away recently. But a blend of the original show with a touch of X-files would work well. some of the episodes hinted that earth had been infiltrated , by the Ufo's Masters ( the Triangle squared affair ) . The second season was ruined by the same sort of 60's wideness' as space 1999...which could have used better writers.
+michael maloney Damn, you're right. I forgot he died in 2005. I hope they buried him in that wig.
LOl not sure but he was very good ...but there are some of the cast still around The Lady who play liz Is I believe.
I always wondered how the aliens got in and out of the UFO. I was never shown in the TV series itself. I assumed they used some sort of "walk through the self sealing wall" technology as seen in their underwater base in one episode.
Nice one, Joan. I had considered this too! Good point. The transparent saucer and dome shaped hulls would provide extra protection against small spaceborne objects and anything travelling at a high velocity. However, this membrane would 'give way' under gentle/even pressure and then seal again once the Alien was through. However... since there is a gap between the upper and lower transparent hull, this may be necessary for gaining access.
In the episode "the cat with 10 lives ", Regan and his wife are carried up a ramp into the UFO
Thats really lovely work !
On the actual efx models one of the fins was always " missing " . They left it out so as to make the core look like it was turning slower and in the opposite direction to the bottom strobe section and discs. They sometimes put a reflective sheet in the "gap" so when the studio light reflected on it as it turned, it looked like a flash. The discs were mounted random, in that they were two pointing up, one down or three down, two up ect, they also varied in size, from small and circular to large and plectrum shaped. On the larger models both the transparent domes stayed still while on the smaller ones only the top dome was held still while the complete lower hull spun.
I hope to someday build an accurate ( hopefully ) copy of a studio model. Ill draw a plan of the model and put it on Utube soon.
A lot of what you say is not at all true.
Great work. Loved the series.
Very nice raphics of the UFO. THANKS
Great design of interior, i loved drawing those ufo's & ed strakers car ,as a kid loved it my fav prog'
..why didnt it rum longer than a yr or so???
Where is the control room? It seems the whole craft (which is strangely small), is dedicated to 4 acceleration tubes and fluid..... shouldn't there be more to it? How about the escape pod, which was shown dropping out of the bottom? I think the UFO should be a bit bigger, with control room, escape pod, and some sort of power / propulsion area. The dome on top seems to be an avionics or mission-purpose device, as it was illuminated during the time-stop episode. I'm just saying - this is a good start, but it leaves out some important stuff.
Todd P. Very good point. When I started to work out the UFO diameter by studying screen grabs of them next to houses and cars I was surprised at how small it actually was, with a habitable volume not much bigger than an Apollo capsule. The escape capsule seen in one episode, assuming that the alien was folded up tightly in the foetal position, would still make the UFO twice the size it appears to be in the few other episodes where there is any clue as to scale. And the problem of the exit/entry hatch seems practically insoluble. It seems to be a tradition in movies that flying saucers never make sense when examined too closely.
I would love to see you do this in a 2x scale, where the UFO is of a more realistic size, and includes the escape pod and laser cannon. Please let me know if you ever do that! Thanks. BTW: Someone on UA-cam recently remade the Jupiter 2 from Lost In Space, changing the diameter scale from 30 feet to 30 meters; it was then able to accommodate the chariot, the space pod, and all the other equipment from the TV show, yet looked pretty much the same from the outside. ;-)
Yes, the plastic Apollo capsule (which came with the Dinky Sea King helicopter) was the perfect shape and size to be shot at by the Dinky UFO Interceptor!
Can I also suggest that, although not specified on screen, there may have been UFOs of different sizes - all relatively small, but newer, more advanced versions may have superseded the older ones and just maybe the UFO with the escape capsule is a bit bigger than usual.
maybe its operated by a computer and the alien is just a passenger in his pod
Good video. A long way to come though to get spare parts. The aliens health insurance premiums must have been sky high.
They would have been astronomical !
I like the fact that they dont have the usual " force - field " and are actually very vunerable to attack. Also they overheat in the Earths atmosphere and disintegrate after a while - like jellyfish, a very nasty sting but very easy to kill in the atmosphere.
Well imagined and very interesting. Thanks.
Excellent work, absolutely first class!
UFO was a brilliant series, surely it deserved more than one series. I often wonder why someone doesn't pick up UFO and continue where the original left off.
Having said that, I suppose they couldn't help but change the look of everything, they never seem able to leave well enough alone.
Re. the size of the UFO which was mentioned in a previous comment: I thought about this one too, and as you say in a previous response, the episode in which a UFO had an escape capsule I concluded was a larger version of the standard vessel. I just couldn't figure out how the aliens could squeeze something that big into a vessel as small as what we normally see in the series. But what do I know, after all look at Doctor Who's TARDIS, maybe the aliens had technology capable of pulling off that same trick, the one in which the interior space was greater than the exterior dimensions.
Anyway, really enjoyed your video, fantastic job mate!
OK, anyone remember when you could get cheap trinckets out of gumball-like machines? The container "egg" that the trincket was in was shaped almost exactly like a UFO. I used to shoot them with the missle from my Dinky Interceptor and, if you hit them just right, they split open! 😀
Interesting!
Very good presentation.
1. Where is the propulsion system AND the fuel kept? 2. Where's the weaponry -- in that Dalek-like dome up top? 3. Why do the semicircular outer plates/fins have to spin -- stabilization, heat dissipation, or what?
Excellent question! I imagine flying saucers having coils to generate EM or gravimetric fields for propulsion, split between the non-rotating and rotating parts of the saucer, a bit like common EM electric motor coils. I colour coded these on the model, visible in the cut-away views.The 16 fins are part of the propulsion field generator, but in some episodes they are also where the blast rays emanate from.
Unlikely that they have onboard weaponry as we would know it.
I want my phone to sound like that!
Brilliant!, I love UFO and these otherworldly craft have always intrigued me, to see such a convincing and detailed, albeit imagined interior layout is awesome, well done!.
excellent work mate!
Great work! But I remember there was one episode that shows an entrance hatch instead of the ladder. And if they take humans as hosts for transplantation, where would they put them in the UFO with that small size?
Nice work!!!
I remember watching UFO when I was a kid. I had crushes on all the women who wore the purple wigs. UFO was so popular that they came out with a lunch box. Too bad my parents couldn't buy me one. To me, just like the show, the lunch box was the coolest. Ufo wasmuch better than Space 1999. Loved the saucers, too. Hopefully, one day there will be a movie.
What does the translucent blue outer shell do? And the ' fins ' ? What's their function? Not bad at all, and I've been watching Gerry Anderson productions since 1965. Now, where's the walkthrough for Thunderbirds 1 and 2?
Thats nice, but I remember hearing somewhere that the saucer was about 35 ft in diameter. ...( could be wrong too ) also one of the fins is always missing - this was to make the spin more interesting - to break it up a bit, when the gap comes into view it reflects the studio light causing a " flash" effect, but it was for an optical effect rather than any supposed sci fi reason.
Jack Silver Eh?? You mean an advanced alien race design their ships to look cool on TV? :O)
Warriorking1963 Haha, yes, I know what you mean, but the efx crew were not interested in where the occupants or the powerplant go, or even how they get in or out - only the optical effect was considered.
+Warriorking1963 No, it was no alien race. Actually it was the SFX designer.
It's a fallacy about the missing fin. It simply fell off and it was this UFO that was photographed for some publicity shots. The UFO was roughly 18 feet in diameter.
Very cool, but where is the interstellar propulsion system? Is it all in the spinning and the fins?
I remember making clay models of the UFO when I was a boy at the time the show was made
Where did they get that unique sound for the UFO's from?
I read years ago that Barry Gray found that electronic sound at a futuristic music exhibit at the 1968 world's fair in New York, and sampled it.
Loved this prog' didnt run for long enuff tho :( such a shame!
It was cancelled so that they could do Space 1999 for the American market. Some of the unused UFO stories were rewritten for the Space 1999 series as well. The Sound Of Silence was one of my favorite episodes.
They were in negotiations to sell it to the US networks to finance a second series. One network dropped out of the negotiations, and when the others heard they assumed the first one knew something they didn’t, so they dropped out too.
The ideas for that second series were later reworked into “Space: 1999”. Which I felt wasn’t nearly as much fun...
Like every Vehicle shown in the Series, the UFO was an Impractical Design
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How did they create the sound of the UFO?
It was an old electronic organ, its on Wiki. Also used to create the moon buggy sound.
Somewhat tedious to get in and out of UFO ship with so narrow ladder. Why the designer never thought of using elevator or teleportation.
Interesting. Did you get the design by accumulating the clips which the show occasionally gave us of the inside of one of their flying saucers or is much of it from your creative imagination? Either way, it makes sense and is congruous with the show.
Views of the UFO entrance and interior were rare, brief and confusing, so much so that I think it must have been deliberate. In one episode there is a brief tightly cropped glimpse of an abductee being dragged up a short corrugated metal ramp into what must be the side of the UFO, but how that would work given the transparent domes and fins I cannot imagine and neither, I suspect, could Derek Meddings. In another episode Alexis Kanner is brought aboard and hypnotised by a pulsing light in a completely black void that has absolutely no visible features except for the light which seems about 20 feet away across a space that could not possibly fit into the ship. In another Paul Foster is abducted and as the aliens prepare him for acceleration back to their base/homeworld/mysterious point of origin behind his head there is a simple wall of illuminated square panels (although this turns out later to be a dream).
Unlike his human built vehicles, which were always so well realised you wondered how long it would be before someone built them for real, his UFO was a total mystery. That was the challenge :-)
lugodoc Thanks for the interesting reply. You sound really enthusiastic about the show.. I love it, even with its anomalies and occasional corniness. I saw it as a very young boy when it first came out in 69/70 and enjoyed the subsequent repeats..
The two examples you give of people being taken onboard a UFO are from the same episode and are the same person - Jim Regan from 'The Cat With Ten Lives'. I think it's good that so little was explained about the UFOs, it helps them to maintain their mystique and we can all have our own ideas/theories about how they worked and how you got inside!
How cool was THAT.
So the only way to get in and out is to land on a tilt?
Maybe the spinning is to flick off space debris during mega high speed interstellar flight?
A kind of navigational deflector?
Floored. No way could those people get in or out of that object due to no way to crawl under it, there would have to have a side door + seats for them.
What's the name of the CAD package you've used? I think it's Google something, I tried to teach myself it a while back as well as Prezi
What is a wetware programme?
Is this model confirmed with the actual producers?I think this is just an actual guess.
It's an educated guess based on watching episodes of the show and examining the alien suits and guns, and the humans' own speculation. Traditionally flying saucers are always mysterious on the inside.
Sensacional
What about navigation system?
this is a great animation who made it and when? Were there design plans to work to?
I made the animation, so thanks :-) There were plans on the net of the outside of the UFO but nothing on the interior, which was never shown in the series
Karl Gallagher thank you for your reply Karl, do you still have the plans?
Looks mighty cramped in there. ..LOL.
Sneaksie Taffer Plans of the exact exterior shape were easy to find, but I had to estimate size from the few scenes where a UFO is seen next to a car or a house. Most of the immediately obvious bulk is just vanes and plates, the solid volume available for a cabin and engines is tiny. There is also nowhere to put a hatch except in the base. Anderson was a genius for creating memorable machines that were utterly convincing while you were watching the show but fell apart under pedantic examination. Except Thunderbird 3. That could actually work.
@@lugodoc I know what you mean. The Space 1999 Eagle command module was interesting looking but it seemed to have a lot of wasted space. It reminded me of the Gemini space capsule used by NASA.
Good work. Nicely done... but unfortunately the interior of the UFO is clearly wrong as the craft could NOT have had an interior of the size you suggest. I would also be disinclined to imagine the kind of technology they have - computer banks, etc, - as these will probably be wide of the mark by a considerable margin. I would estimate the diameter of the UFO at roughly 18 feet.
Seemed a bit small in there to me.
OK I give up, where did the pilot sit?
The pilot doesn't sit, he stands suspended in one of the four tubes of the same oxygenated green fluid that fills his helmet and lungs, thus protecting him from the immense acceleration forces of space flight. His back pack connects into a socket at the back of the g-tube and he controls the UFO by means of a neural link (the aliens seem to be quite good at telepathy and other psi stuff). There is also a simple control panel for use when landed and standing up in the tiny cabin.
I know it seems pretty cramped in there but careful study of several episodes has convinced me that the UFO can be no larger than 9 metres, which leaves an internal space with standing room only.
lugodoc Ah..I always wondered about that, thanks!
No. No. No. The Aliens were NOT suspended in tubes of green liquid. The helmets of their suits were filled with it so that it cushioned their lungs and nasal cavity against the pressure of high speed acceleration. It is most likely that they would lie on some kind of acceleration couch.
Wow, the aliens have many on board toilets and showers!
MrOrlica It's always important to use the toilet before invading another world.
How does he get in to that hole crawl limbo roll dosent make sense he'd have to be a bout a foot tall
OK, wheres the loo???!
No food supplies
Wheres the mini ufo
It's a little inaccurate but impressive.
Where's the microwave and the toilet ?
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The UFO l seen made no sound.
weak!
They should do remake of this series. And this time drop those stupid purple wigs. lol
But keep the cat suits... LOL
NWViewer1 sure...if you're into that. HA!! Lmao!!!
i thought the wigs had some thing to do with radiation block. sure i read it some where.
and what do the guys wear to protect them from the Radiation?? Their super-duper Radiation shield jock-strap protectors. Lmao!!
Trent Timoy They don't need to shield their Brains. They can think with different organs....