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New Age Valkyries

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[link] Yeah Imma New Age Valkyrie, deal with it! ;P

I have yet to name my new prototype fighting heli, but figured since it was pretty well made and pretty much finished, I'd drop it in a scene which I've wanted to make for quite some time now.

It's no secret that I'm something of a romantic for blimps and airships, and with that in mind I decided to properly illustrate that by rendering my period correct 1918 vintage Super Zeppelin LZ-120 with her existing escort in the form of Angel-1 my EC-155B in white, along side her newest escort, my storm cloud gray X-72 that is still nameless and typeless.

Angel-1 is mostly a civil craft, doubling as defensive escort when armed, but being a civil craft she is not well suited for the roll, hence my new ship, which at this time I will dub, Valkyrie, comes in.

Val is my prototype or experimental near future combat helicopter based upon Sikorsky's X2 technology demonstrator, as well as resurrecting their shelved Comanche design by using similar looks. She is a compound heli, much like earlier 1970's Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne project. Like Cheyenne, Valkyrie uses a propeller in the tail to provide forward thrust to achieve speeds much higher than a conventional chopper could attain in level flight, but UNLIKE Cheyenne, Val uses a coaxial rotor system with one grouping of blades stacked on top of the other, spinning in the opposite direction. This gives Val far better ride and handling at high speeds even in excess of that the Cheyenne achieved in development, putting Val in a class all her own save for other compound helicopters in the past which used similar principles such as propellers or jets to fly faster.

So now all of you know why I've built a fighting heli... to make this art!! XDD I suppose I could have totally Mary Sue'd out and used either AirWolf, from the TV show of the same name, or I could have used BlueThunder, but then I wouldn't have had an excuse to make my own super chopper! XDDDD

I kind of like the name Valkyrie, and I might just use it as my prototype's earned name, but that's still up in the air... much more so than my Zeppelin and my helis at the moment. XDDD

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Zeppelins are brought to you, courtesy of Count Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin

Heli designs are those of EuroCopter and Sikorsky of America

Prototype Valkyrie is entirely mine! XD

All models made in :iconsketchupplz: by moi. =3
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medevac001's avatar
did you uploaded the ec 155