It has a white and red paintjob, and has the SSSP logo in the right and left angle. The SSSP members usually piloted this jet when battling monsters or alien threats. The jet had been shot down and destroyed three times by Ragon, Antlar, and Gango but had also been seen made an emergency lading after being attacked by Alien Mefilas' saucer, Telesdon, and Gamakujira. At least four Jet VTOLs appeared in the series, codenamed S111, S115, 117 and 118.
Publication Information
- Ultraman : Jet VTOL
- Japanese : ジェットビートル
- Known as : Jet Beetle
- Type : Jet
- Length : 18.5 m
- Weight : 25 t
- Width : 13.8 m
- Seats up to : 6 members
- Max Speed : Mach 2
- Usage : Patrol & Combat Support
- Pilot : SSSP Team
- Season : Ultraman
- First appearance : Ultraman Episode 1 : Ultra Operation No.1
Space VTOL 117
- Space VTOL 117
- In Episode 16, after Alie Baltan II took over Dr. Mohri's ship, the Ohtori, Dr. Iwamoto built an armament on the Jet VTOL 117 by placing three hydrogen-rocket boosters that was powered by nuclear propulsion, naming it the Space VTOL in order to save Dr. Mohri before learning the latter had been possessed. It was later used when the Science Patrol had to investigate cases that took place in space (episodes 22, 33, 35).
- In Ultraman Mebius episode 42, Shingo Sakomizu remembered that back on his days as a SSSP member, being assigned to the Izanami, for test flights into FTL technology where he piloted the Space VTOL No. S217, now heavily enhanced into the Ikazuchi. During one of these flights he was attacked by a fleet of alien ships. All saucers were targeting him as Sakomizu ordered his friends on Inazami to hide underneath the shadow of Pluto. As several blasts were about to hit him, Zoffy appeared and rescue him.
The Jet VTOL was equipped with various weapons such as bombs and various multi-elastically mounted rocket launcher to the underside of the aircraft, defeating Gigass with an Extreme Drought Bomb, a bomb that destroys any signs of water on the object it touches in Episode 25. The jet had can slot any firearm weapon, such as QX Gun and Mars 133. It can also act as a carrier jet, used to transport Underground Tank Pelucidar and Special purpose submarine S.
Sub VTOL
- Ultraman : Sub VTOL
- Japanese : 小型ビートル
- Known as : Triangle VTOL
- Type : Space Jet
- Length : 15.5m
- Weight : 17 t
- Width : 10.5m
- Seats up to : 2 members
- Max Speed : Mach 1.5
- Usage : Patrol & Combat Support
- Pilot : SSSP Team
- Season : Ultraman
- First appearance : Ultraman Episode 1 : Ultra Operation No.1
A sort of lifting-body machine, powered by rocket engine, it can be remote-controlled from the SSSP HQ base, shown in episode 16 when it was used to escort the Venus-bond rocket "Phoenix", to over look the ignition of the two-stage rocket. Since it is not a VTOL machine, but rather a Short TakeOff and Landing machine (a STOL), it has to take-off and land at fairly steep angles. Hayata was piloting the Sub VTOL at the time of his collision with Ultraman's Travel Sphere.
Vehicles:
Underground Tank Pelucida
- Underground Tank Pelucida
- The Science Patrol's subterranean vehicle with a huge drill at the front. Similar to the Mole fromThunderbirds, it is named after the underground world from Edgar Rice Burroughs's At the Earth's Core. It appears to have its own incidental music when it is first used.
- S16 Submarine
- Submarines S16, S21 and S25, the Science Patrol's short-range, high crush-depth underwater submarines, all of which are airlifted by the Jet VTOL to lakes or other bodies of water one at a time
- Science Patrol Car
- Special Search-Party Private Car, a silver 1961 Chevrolet Corvair four-door sedan with the Science Patrol logo on the doors and roof.
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