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The accompanying text says:
When the order for 'Launch Angels Two and Three' is given, the girls take up their positions in their seats behind a sliding glass-panelled door. The seats are then raised up a glass shute and carry the pilots to the interior of their planes ready for take off.
Angel One is already manned, so I suppose there is a switch over mechanism that takes the seat to that part of the deck when they're changing over.
Alternatively, perhaps they just walk up the stairs?
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I think Symphony leads them in Flight To Atlantica, Place Of The Angels and The Launching.
Also in Attack on Cloudbase when Scarlet takes off in the angel interceptor, there are 3 interceptors on the flight deck yet Lieutenant Green gives the command "Scarlet one , immediate launch"!
Yet Colonel White gives the command "Launch angel two"!
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Mind you, it does stretch credulity somewhat to think that the five of them are sufficient to cover aerial defence on a 24-hour basis. There must be other Angels that we never saw onscreen. Same with the captains - even bearing in mind that Black, Brown and Indigo were all removed from active duty by the Mysterons, 8 colour captains seems a rather small number for an organisation with a world-wide remit.
This is one of the beauties of fan fiction, of course. As long as it doesn't violate canon or usurp the canon characters, you can introduce new characters, or invent working practices, to your heart's content.
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Trying to work out a rota that covers what little we know about their working patterns is a nightmare. I've tried.
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That said, I think 'Angel 1' - or Scarlet 1 for that matter - merely refers to the plane and the pilot on duty in it.
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Marion wrote:That said, I think 'Angel 1' - or Scarlet 1 for that matter - merely refers to the plane and the pilot on duty in it.
I agree with you, Marion. I'd also say that it's the plane that's being referred to here and not the pilot. As for "Scarlet One"... well, you have to remember that the only time that Captain Scarlet took a turn in an Angel jet was during a dream...
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Besides, as I have already suggested, there is a fundamental barrier to any of the Captains being Angels...
(Natural Selection)Captain Black circulated round the room, answering questions from the various men, and as he approached, Blue hailed him, requesting further information about the Interceptor and asking how soon they would get to use the equipment.
“The Angel Interceptors will not be available to the officers, Blue,” Captain Black explained rather stiffly. “They will be reserved for the Angel pilots’ squad.”
“Then I volunteer to be one of them,” Blue said quickly.
“That might be difficult – and you might come to regret volunteering…” Black said, smothering a smile. “You see, the Angel pilots are all female…”
“Female!”
Scarlet sniggered. “I think he wants to retract his previous offer to volunteer,” he said, as Black lost his battle to keep a straight face.
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Marion
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Women tend to be (on average) smaller than men, with a slighter frame - this is why men and women don't compete against one another in (to my knowledge, though I didn't watch every event) the Olympics. Would I be right in thinking that perhaps the Angel pilots are all young, slender women for this reason?
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Not to say that a man wouldn't fit in there... It might find it a bit... cramped...
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chrisbishop wrote:So they might not like 'Angel duty' that much (Talking about our colour-coded Captains, who are all, or near all, six-footers...)
To say nothing of being broad and muscular!
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From what you see of the Angels in the cockpits during the show it doesn't look to me as if they're that small - even for the standard small-boned, size 0 females who fly them. I think that they'd have to be 'unisex' size as it's unlikely that even the Powers That Be would not be able to imagine a situation or a time when a male might have to fly one.
I don't know if the specs for being a fighter pilot mean that a chap has to be pocket-sized so as not to be squashed in the cockpit? Blue was a test pilot before he joined Spectrum and he's the tallest and heaviest of the captains at 6 foot 3 and 196 pounds, so presumably he could fit in a standard cockpit?
* It certainly crops up in the first of the 'audio adventures' when White explains to the somewhat bemused military top brass that the Angels are all female pilots.
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