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Fan Racer
Fan Racer profile schematic
Hikaru landing his Fan Racer at South Ataria Airfield
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Fan Racer
Equipment Type: light fan jet racer
Government: privately owned
Accommodation: pilot only (cargo space behind pilot seat)
Dimensions: approx. length 5.2 meters or 5.9 meters (*see note below)
Power Plant: ceramic rotary engine, H-O 2,000hp (660 horsepower, Macross Chronicle 2E SDF Macross Mechanic Sheet Citizen 01A)
Mass: 650 kg
Propulsion: double-fan jet
Performance: maximum cruising speed 720 km/h; with rocket booster: +1,080 km/h for short periods
Design Features: 6 x rocket boosters (sealed inside drop-away nozzle caps); emergency ration pack
Armament none
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The fan racer is a small, single-pilot aircraft often used in flight contests or for recreational flying. Built for speed, the fan racer features a ceramic rotary engine and a double-fan jet propulsion system. For additional speed and rapid bursts of acceleration, the fan racer has a series of six rocket boosters positioned around the aft fan exhaust. At the time he visited South Ataria Island in February 2009, then civilian pilot Hikaru Ichijo owned and operated a fan racer as part of an organized flight team. Upon arrival, Hikaru in his fan racer carelessly interrupted the "Angel Birds" flight demonstration of the VF-1 Valkyrie, being presented to a crowd by Hikaru's sempai Roy Focker. When Roy berated Hikaru over the radio for his meddling, Hikaru performed a daring boost rollover, breaking up the Angel Bird's formation, dazzling the audience and showing up Roy (a maneuver taught to Hikaru by his sempai). With this fan racer, Hikaru won the Amateur Pilot Competition seven times.
*The Fan Racer has never been assigned any physical dimensions in any written trivia, but the Macross Chronicle 2E SDFM Mechanic Sheet Citizen 01A does include a silhouette size chart which compares VF-1 Valkyrie to the Fan Racer, indicating an approximate length of 5.2 meters. When analyzing the Fan Racer cockpit compared to the size of an average human male, the craft is roughly 5.9 meters in length.
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Debut: Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Episode 1
Pilot(s): Hikaru Ichijo
Other Appearances: none
Original mechanical designer: Kazutaka Miyatake |
Information Courtesy of the Macross Compendium: www.macross.anime.net/wiki/Main_Page
Images From - Macross Perfect Memory and other macross books
C. Wilson - Writer, Editor and Colorist
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