The SC-97 Space General-Purpose Transport Aircraft or Cosmo Seagull, also sometimes called simply Seagull, is a transatmospheric space transport plane used by the United Nations Cosmo Force.
Armaments and Technical Specifications[]
A Seagull tilting its engines during landing
The Cosmo Seagull has a large central nacelle and twin booms with intakes and bottom thrusters. The booms are connected by a high tailplane. It has short complex geometry tiltwings which diverge at the half span. The outer section is angled down. Two engine pods are mounted in-between. There are pods at the end of the wings. The tiltwings give it VTOL capability. Stealth features have been given to the wing trailing ends. At the end of the nacelle is an open cargo bay which can mout a variety of mission containers or equipment or machinery like Analyzer's mech. The main landing gear is invert kneeling and can be steered. It can carry an assortment of mission containers or equipment compatible with its open bay.[4][5]
The container has two operator stations. It can carry hyperspace sonar buoy which can be dispensed through ten tubes on the bottom.[6] It can relay target information similar to a FAC for contact designation and engagements.[1]
The cockpit has stations for two pilots and two passengers on wall mounted fold seats. Two more passengers can be transported in the aft section on wall mounted fold seats.[1] The container can hold up to 24 Space Cavalrymen or 30 Yamato crewmates.[4]
History[]
99-502 during the Encounter with the Garmillas Dimensional Submarine
Two Cosmo Seagulls were assigned to the UNCF battleship Yamato en route to Iscandar with registrations 99-501 and 99-502. On February 13, 2199,[7] 99-501 was used by Lieutenants Kodai Susumu and Mori Yuki, nurse Harada Makoto and Yamato's independent subcomputer to locate the origin of an SOS signal on Saturn 's moon Enceladus. 99-501 was destroyed by a Garmillas heavy tank during a skirmish.[1] 99-502 continued to operate in various ways, such as searching for the whereabouts of the Dimensional Submarine UX-01, looking for supplies on Beemela 4, and reconnaissance on the Leptapoda before it finally crashed and was destroyed.[6][8][9] From 2202 to 2205, two Cosmo Seagulls were stationed on Yamato.[10][11]
On December 24, 2202,[12] during the Yamato revolt, at least seven Cosmo Seagulls were used by the UNCF to deploy the Emergency Deployment Unit.[13] Another Seagull, under the United Nations Cosmo Marines, was used during the Battle of the eleventh planet to rescue Admiral Ryu Hijikata.[14][15] In June 2203,[12] a Cosmo Seagull with the registration Seagull x-ray02 was used to pick up the injured Captain Osamu Yamanami from Yamato.[16] In 2205, at least two Cosmo Seagulls were placed on the modified Dreadnought-class battle carrier Hyuga.[11]
Known craft[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Gravestone on a Frozen Field"
- ↑ Departure to the Unknown!
- ↑ Official Space Battleship Yamato 2199 website ship data
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Model Sheet Design Collection EARTH p.138
- ↑ "A Choice for the Future"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "The Wolf from Another Dimension"
- ↑ Day count at the end of "Escape from the Jupiter Sphere"
- ↑ "A Choice for the Future"
- ↑ "Prison Planet 17"
- ↑ Yamato 2202 Mecha data
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Yamato 2205 Mecha data
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "The Era of Space Battleship Yamato: Choice of 2202"
- ↑ Departure to the Unknown!
- ↑ "The Beam of Light Flashes! / Radiance of the Wave Motion Gun"
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Complete Works Vol.1 p.17
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "The Fated Showdown!"
Japanese language information[]
- 空間汎用輸送機 SC97 Kūkan han'yō yusō-ki SC 97 (SC-97 Space General-Purpose Transport Aircraft)
- コスモシーガル Kosumoshīgaru (Cosmo Seagull)