Model number:Â FXA-00
Code name:Â Flying Armor
Unit type:Â sub-flight system
Manufacturer:Â Anaheim Electronics
Operator:Â AEUG (Anti-Earth Union Group)
First deployment:Â May UC 0087
Accommodation:Â none
Dimensions:Â unknown
Weight:Â unknown
Armor materials:Â unknown
Powerplant:Â unknown
Propulsion:Â unknown
Equipment and design features:Â unknown
Fixed armaments:Â none
The FXA-00 Flying Armor was a custom sub-flight system created by Anaheim Electronics for the AEUG’s RX-178 Gundam Mk-II. Its shape was based on the waverider mode created by Mk-II pilot Kamille Bidan in his conceptual design for the MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam. Aside from functioning as a sub-flight system for Earth-based flight, the Flying Armor also doubled as an atmospheric re-entry system. In May UC 0087, Kamille used the Flying Armor as part of the AEUG’s large-scale operation to attack the Titans’ Jaburo base on Earth. The Flying Armor was still in service when Elle Vianno took over as the Mk-II’s pilot in UC 0088 during the First Neo Zeon War.
First appearance: Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Director:
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Writer(s):
Hiroshi Ohnogi
Yumiko Suzuki
Tomoko Kawasaki
Yasushi Hirano
Akinori Endo
Miho Maruo
Minoru Onoya
Mechanical Designer(s):
Kazumi Fujita
Mamoru Nagano
Kunio Okawara
Makoto Kobayashi
Kazuhisa Kondo
Hideo Okamoto
Character Designer:
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Musical Composer:
Shigeaki Saegusa
Format:
50 episodes; 3 compilation movies
Airdates:
Japan 03.02.1985 – 02.22.1986
Theatrical Release:
Japan 05.28.2005 – 03.04.2006
MAHQ is now officially on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mahqdotnet.bsky.social.
Our future on this cursed app is unclear, but expect more posts over there.
Cutaway diagram of the VF-1J Valkyrie Fighter Mode from “This is Animation Special: Macross Plus”(1995). Larger versions on my DA profile:
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-detailed-973372931
https://www.deviantart.com/marchly/art/Macross-VF-1J-Valkyrie-Cutaway-Diagram-clean-973371729
Art by Kiyomi Tanaka. Original concept by unknown Macross fan. Image built by me
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