Names of all the spacecrafts on the art by Philippe “Manchu" Bouchet

Question

I just saw @retroscifiart's tweet with a neat illustration with lots of spaceships from different movies. Art by Philippe “Manchu" Bouchet.

Some of the spaceships are familiar for me, but not all. I would like to know about all of them.

To make it simple, I've added numbers to the image.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 16 '19 at 15:05

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1: EVA pod from 2001, A Space Odyssey

2: the Space Ark from the 1951 movie When Worlds Collide

3: Lingan's ship from a 1938 Flash Gordon comic

5: Vorlon biotech ship from Babylon 5

6: Earth Alliance Starfury from Babylon 5

7: Millennium Falcon from Star Wars

8: Orion III spaceplane from 2001: A Space Odyssey

9: The Luna from the 1950 movie Destination Moon

11: Eagle transporter from Space 1999

12: Naboo starfighter from Star Wars

13: Narcissus (Nostromo's escape pod) from Alien

14: UFO from The Invaders

15: USS Enterprise-A from the Star Trek movies

16: X-Wing starfighter from Star Wars

17: Shadow "battlecrab" from Babylon 5

edited Nov 16 '19 at 15:05

bessarabov

answered Nov 16 '19 at 09:19

Cadence

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In keeping with previous "spot the character" questions such as this one, I've marked this answer "community wiki" so that anyone can edit in the answers that they know. – Cadence Nov 16 '19 at 09:20
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Is #10 Liberator from Blakes 7? Similar shape, but I think not exactly the same? It's hard to tell. I haven't edited it in. – Rand al'Thor Nov 16 '19 at 09:48
I've changed #4, I believe the Sulaco is a better match than the original proposal of an Earth Alliance Battlecruiser from B5. – Harry Johnston Nov 16 '19 at 10:02
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Perhaps #13 is the Narcissus from Alien? – Harry Johnston Nov 16 '19 at 10:07
#13 - The Ghost; https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost? – Valorum Nov 16 '19 at 11:02
#10 - Mk3 Thunderbolt Star Fury; https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/SA-32A_Mitchell-Hyundyne_Starfury?file=Thunderbolt.jpg – Valorum Nov 16 '19 at 11:04
#2 the space ark from When Worlds Collide. – Nov 16 '19 at 11:30
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The numberles one is, of course, the monolith from 2001. I don't know what #3 is, but its marking says 174, in case that rings a bell. – Mr Lister Nov 16 '19 at 14:00
Wow! Just several hours and all the ships are identified! Thank you for such an awesome work! – bessarabov Nov 16 '19 at 15:06
Presumably it’s specifically the monolith (“doubly inappropriately”) called Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 2 (TMA-2), the giant monolith found in Saturn orbit (retconned to Jupiter orbit in the movie and sequels). – rickster Nov 17 '19 at 05:40

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 16 '19 at 10:25

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No. 4 is the Sulaco from ALIENS.

From the Fandom Article on the USS Sulaco

edited Nov 16 '19 at 10:25

Shade

answered Nov 16 '19 at 10:01

algomeysa2

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#3 looks pretty Flash Gordon-y, maybe comic strip rather than 1930s serial or 1980 movie. – algomeysa2 Nov 16 '19 at 10:10
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That is a comment, not an answer. An try to support your answers. I.e., say why it is as you state. – Shade Nov 16 '19 at 10:21
Since you are new here you don't that we do not like single answers to a list ID question. We create a single answer that any contributor can edit to fill in the blanks. – Skooba Nov 16 '19 at 13:36
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Why has this been marked down? It answers the question and provides evidence and a link with further information. Looks good to me. – Paul Johnson Nov 16 '19 at 17:09

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '19 at 14:56

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Number 3 appears to be "Lingan's ship" from a 1938 Flash Gordon comic (scroll down to the 6th picture):

Illustration by Alex Raymond.

answered Nov 16 '19 at 14:56

Paul Johnson

Wow! How have you manged to find it out? – bessarabov Nov 16 '19 at 15:05
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Google Images "flash gordon spaceship comic" – Paul Johnson Nov 16 '19 at 17:08

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