Rocket Fighter (Last Exile - Fam, the Silver Wing)

 

Pilot Dyan is preparing for take off.
Rocket Fighters are only piloted by women.

Here you can see a tiny bit of control sticks as well as some of the markings that are all over the aircraft.
I do not know that it says. A lot of the text in the anime is English but with greek letters.
The letters on Glacies Rocket Fighters are much different. Doesn't look like English text with different letters.
 

Some chipping around the edges. 

Rocket fighters are launched with help of booster rockets and a ramp 

Launch.
The Rocket Fighter reminds me of the aircraft used or planned by Germany in late WWII, to quickly gain height and shoot down Allied bombers like the Natter was supposed to do or the Me-262 with the heavy gun on its nose. 

 

 

 

Glacies Squadron engaging the enemy from above. 

Part between the wings reminds a bit of a radial engine.
The measurements described in the wiki don't seem to be correct. Length in scale would be as around 16,69cm but using the ruler together with the Mi-28 this does not seem to fit very well.
Maybe meaurements in the wiki, which must be from the artbook seem to describe the aircraft without its gun.
 

The Rocket fighter utilizes some kind of camera system that projects the images to the inside of the cockpit, much like the "CoFFIn System" from the Ace Combat series.
It also sounds very different from all the other vanships in the Series, more like a modern fighter jet.
They too are manned by two people. A Pilot and a Navi, who is also responsible for reloading the weapons.

Glacies does not use big airships like other nations.
Their air units only compose of several squadrons of Rocket Fighters which are extremely fast and are very capable of shooting down large airships. They will intercept and shoot down aircraft that cross into their airspace as they do not tolerate any visitors.

The markings on the aircraft seem to be Futhark runes, but until now I could not find out that they mean. 

Filling some empty spaces 

Had to cut her nose. 

 

Building the 50mm gun. 

Building the 50mm gun. 

Building the 50mm gun.
Metal struts are not very clean. I hope to fix this without breaking them. 

Canopy modified. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here you can see the radiators as well as the Claudia engine, and the box wings.