Colonial Raptor flight manual

Joe Beaudoin Jr. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:06:21 +0000

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.

The Colonial Raptor flight manual's front page.

Raptor concept designs

Joe Beaudoin Jr. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:01:46 +0000

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.

Sketch with the open side hatch and, near the bottom right hand corner, a different aft design.

The near-final design of the Raptor, although the front of the raptor is less busy with external equipment.

The forward intake / RCS housing of the Raptor, which is considered “space filler”.

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

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Colonial Raptor flight manual

Raptor concept designs