The Joe-Code

[JollyRoger]

now begins my monthly look into the design and ideas behind the toy line which served Americas boys and Girls for over two decades.

 

This Month we Explore...

 

The Phantom X-19

 

altho i never had one as a kid, i managed to pick one up once i got

heavly into collecting, it had always had a impact on me from the first

time i saw it. The Foremost being the "stealthy" design, but it wasnt the only

thing that made this plane unique. The Interesting Part was that this

toy, was inspiried by a Aircraft only mentioned by conspiricists and Government

Officals. The Aircraft im reffering to is whats known as "The Aurora Project"

based upon the earliest of design sketches of belived appearences, it was a

stunning model of what this craft was rumored to look like. Even the small details, two crew operation, Purpulsion Thrust vectoring -- somthing to which is still unkown if

it is being used currently -- Purpulsion Thrust basically reffers to small Hydrogen blasts

being controlled to create super Thrust with the low costs of not using fossil Fuel, and

possibly the ability to pilot the craft into and back from Space.

not to be confused by the Prototype X-19 which was a Strike Stealth Fighter.

 

The Aurora in its sea of secrets, has undergone many different visual changes

so as the newly "seen" version has changed dramatically over the last ten years.

but to think a toy which you held in your hand was a accurate dipiction of a

Craft so secretive its still unknow if its exsists, is amazing in yourself, makes u wonder just how far those toy designers went to get a militiristic vcehicle to thier line.

So to anyone thinking, how could Hasbro do that and not get in trouble?

That my friends is simple, "it doesnt exsist" its Just a toy....

 

 

or is it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

see ya next month!

[Crimson Twins]

That's weird. I always thought the X-19 was the least realistic looking of the early planes. I had it, but it was no where near my favorite. It was somewhere down the line behind the Night Raven, Rattler, Conquest, and Sky Striker.

 

Nice little insight.

 

If it's true.

 

Or is it all an illusion.

[The Superfly]

Thanks for the info! The X-19 just might be my fav Joe aircraft, one of the best designed toys in the line IMO. Go figure.

[Brian Langlois]

The information is accurate to the extent that it can be. The Aurora plane, also rumored to be the F-19, is a total mystery and may not even exist. Several model kits were released in the late 80's for an "F-19" but they were all speculative, including the G.I. Joe Phantom X-19. Many people say that theAurora project evolved into the F-117 Stealth Fighter program and that there is no conspiracy or cover up. There are those who disagree however....