interceptors

I would hate to be an interseptor pilot. Knowing that I've got one
shot and if I missed I could be toast. Looks like they would have had
another type of weapon to use in case the missile missed.
However,the interseptors are very cool.

--- "dorzaks <dorzaks@y...>" <dorzaks@y...> wrote:
> I would hate to be an interseptor pilot. Knowing that I've got one
> shot and if I missed I could be toast. Looks like they would have
> had another type of weapon to use in case the missile missed. ...

In a story (The Snatch: Foster is abducted to the alien homeworld and
steals a UFO and flies himself back) that I novelized from a
Countdown comic issue, I accept this need and wrote this:-

> ... The UFO did not go on to Earth, and he [= Foster] wondered why.
> It ran ahead of him, shimmering against the remote stars, a little
> too far away for his Interceptor's auxiliary weapons to be any use.

The auxiliary weapons would be use to demolish any escape pods, even
if they were not much use against fullsized UFO's. Or if some other
Earth organization's spacecraft nosed around and saw things, the
auxiliary weapons could help to enforce an order to "follow me to my
base" so the trespasser's crew could be interrogated and amnesia-
dosed.

--- <dorzaks@y...> wrote:
> I would hate to be an interceptor pilot. Knowing that I've got one
> shot and if I missed I could be toast. Looks like they would have
> had another type of weapon to use in case the missile missed. ...

Auxiliary weapons and reproducing the effects of firing them would
have been more work for the prop-making department. With only the
missile as a weapon, it is easy: for example, blow up one UFO model
and film it and copies of that footage serve for all UFO
destructions. But any other weapon effect would have to be filmed
separately, and that is likely why we never see Sky 1 disabling a
nosy human jet fighter that goes up to intercept it when Sky 1
registers on radar manned by some nation's airforce men who have not
been told about SHADO.

I was watching the episode 'Destruction' on DVD today and noticed an
audio drop occurs and I was wondering if anybody else has the same problem
with their disc.

In the scene where Straker, Lake and Foster are discussing the Interceptor
pilot who is temporarily disabled by a signal from Bosenquet's telescope,
Straker says the word telescope, and on my disc the last syllable "scope"
and probably the word that follows it is dropped.

Ron

I noticed the same thing. Weird, huh?

Brian

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I was watching the episode 'Destruction' on DVD today and noticed an
audio drop occurs and I was wondering if anybody else has the same problem
with their disc.

In the scene where Straker, Lake and Foster are discussing the Interceptor
pilot who is temporarily disabled by a signal from Bosenquet's telescope,
Straker says the word telescope, and on my disc the last syllable "scope"
and probably the word that follows it is dropped.

Ron





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derek rutherford wrote:
>
> Atttention,,,,, are there any Shado members whom are comic book artist,interested in doing a new SHADO story....if so please contact me direct...( [hidden email]) thank you

You know, I have it on good authority that a fully licensed UFO Comic
book series is going to go on sale in May...
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