Colonial Raptor flight manual

Here’s a pretty cool prop that you’ve never seen on screen, or at least up close—or in whole. It’s a Colonial Raptor flight manual that was created in the Miniseries. Below is a photo of the cover for the small handbook.

And for the more astute fan, you’ll note that after the attack in the Miniseries, Boomer asks Helo to tear pages from her flight manual. This is the untorn version, obviously.

Raptor concept designs

Since you’ve seen the Raptor in yesterday’s post on the Cylon basestar interior, we may as well continue on that tangent.

With the Raptor being the mainstay military transport and support vehicle available to Galactica and, later, Pegasus, the ship is modeled after real world military helicopters, namely the Apache.

These designs show a more complicated model of Raptor, however it is very close to the final product that we get to see on screen both in CGI and the physical, full-scale models used on the show.

These are pencil drawn and shaded designs by Ken Rahebl (familiar with that name yet, folks?) on vellum, and said originals will be available in the auction.

And the final product, that you get to see in every episode…