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The Screaming Eagle was Geegaw Hackwrench's airplane used on a single flight for the Rescue Rangers. It was featured on Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers in the pilot episode "To the Rescue".

History[]

The Screaming Eagle was conceived and built by the Ultra-Flite Laboratories as an experimental device. It is unknown how it became Geegaw's property, but he used to be its long-time owner. His daughter Gadget used her technical skills to modify several things on the Eagle, and after she had lost her father, she still kept the plane. It was Monterey Jack's property since Geegaw had promised that his best friend should have it.

When Monty came back once again, this time with Chip, Dale, and Zipper, he originally wanted to ask Geegaw to fly them to Glacier Bay. However, since Geegaw wasn't there anymore, Gadget took over the part as the pilot and flew Monty and his new friendsā€”and her own new friends to beā€”to their destination. Unfortunately, this was the Screaming Eagle's last flight. Gadget had omitted to mount vats on the plane for touching down on ice, so the landing gear wheels ended in a crash.

Some parts of the destroyed Screaming Eagle were reused for building the Ice Breaker, and possibly also for the Ranger Plane.

Construction[]

Seemingly unusual for the animal society, the Screaming Eagle was a rather conventional mid-wing airplane and an almost industrial construction. None of its parts appeared like scavenged from humans. On each side of the cylindrical fuselage, a straight, trapezoid-shaped wing was attached. The wings contained the main gears while a nose gear was located in the fuselage, right behind the front motor compartment. All three gear legs were retractable and ended in a single wheel. These wheels did not only look like suction cups, they could be brought into a horizontal position and used as suction cups. To adapt the Screaming Eagle to different ground surfaces, at least a set of vats could be mounted.

Maybe the weirdest feature about the Eagle was its mode of power. It was equipped with two electric motors powering one propeller each. What made it so abnormal was that both motors sat inside the fuselageā€”one in the nose, one in the stern. This made building a single tail difficult, and so the Screaming Eagle had a twin tail.

The spacy cabin contained four seats, one of them for the pilot as the Eagle lacked a second set of controls for a co-pilot. A movable canopy made of large transparent surfaces between three formers closed it from the top and protected the passengers from external influences such as the weather. Its foremost part, one could call it the windscreen, was fixed and could be kept clean and dry with a wiper. The cockpit was quite close to that of a human aircraft. It had a real yoke (as opposed to the bottle caps used on the Ranger Plane and the Ranger Wing) and a set of miniature guages.

When not used, the Screaming Eagle was kept inside the bomber plane which was Geegaw and Gadget's home. However, getting it outside for a flight was time-consuming, and the bomber lacked space for a runway. So a ramp was erected in it to direct the Eagle upwards, and the aircraft itself was accelerated to take-off speed by using explosives as a means of propulsion. It is not proven that Geegaw had sufficient engineering skills, so it must be supposed that Gadget has developed this take-off aid.

According to her own words, she has also changed a few things about the Screaming Eagle itself. The canopy of the bomber could be opened with some electric drive, remote-controlled by a switch on the dashboard, left of the yoke, because Geegaw was left-handed. Another custom-made feature was the ejection mechanism for the pilot's seat. And though there is no proof for this, it is probable that the double plunger shooters on the wings weren't part of the original design either, also because they reflect Gadget's style more than anything else on the plane; however, they must have most likely been mounted when Geegaw was still there. The same applies to the suction cup-like wheels.


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Media
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Videography) ā€¢ Feature film (Soundtrack) ā€¢ Video Game ā€¢ Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 ā€¢ The Adventure in Nimnul's Castle ā€¢ The Legend of the Chaos God ā€¢ Disney Comics ā€¢ Boom! Studios ā€¢ The Big Cheese Caper ā€¢ The Mouse Watch
Characters
The Rangers: Chip and Dale ā€¢ Gadget Hackwrench ā€¢ Monterey Jack ā€¢ Zipper

Characters: Spunky ā€¢ Cheddarhead Charlie and Camembert Kate ā€¢ Tammy ā€¢ Mrs. Booby ā€¢ Baby Booby ā€¢ Conrad Cockatoo ā€¢ Sergeant Spinelli ā€¢ Officer Kirby and Officer Muldoon ā€¢ Donald Drake and Plato ā€¢ Flash the Wonder Dog ā€¢ Clyde Cosgrove ā€¢ Mr. Gribbish ā€¢ Colonel ā€¢ Professor ā€¢ Foxglove ā€¢ Midge ā€¢ Humphrey the Bear ā€¢ Kookoo and Boots ā€¢ Sparky ā€¢ Nemo ā€¢ Spirit of the Lamp ā€¢ Bric, Brac, and DTZ ā€¢ Pepto Gizmo ā€¢ Harry ā€¢ Harriet ā€¢ Hiram the Mummy ā€¢ Sir Colby ā€¢ Tom ā€¢ Butch the Bulldog ā€¢ Darby Spree ā€¢ Cassandra ā€¢ Queenie ā€¢ The Pi-Rats ā€¢ Captain Colonel ā€¢ Elliott ā€¢ Ting-a-Ling & Ming-Ting ā€¢ Bruin ā€¢ Heebee & Jeebee ā€¢ Roger ā€¢ MacDuff ā€¢ Steggy ā€¢ Chirp Sing ā€¢ Myron ā€¢ Canina La Fur
Villains: Fat Cat ā€¢ Fat Cat's Gang ā€¢ The Siamese Twin Gang ā€¢ Maltese de Sade ā€¢ Le Sewer and Ratatouille ā€¢ Professor Norton Nimnul ā€¢ Robot Dogs ā€¢ Aldrin Klordane ā€¢ Percy ā€¢ Juice-Lee ā€¢ Billy the Squid ā€¢ Sewernose de Bergerac ā€¢ Banshee ā€¢ Rat Capone ā€¢ Arnold Mousenegger and Sugar Ray Lizard ā€¢ Spy Rats ā€¢ The Greatest Spy in the World ā€¢ Lahwhinie ā€¢ Captain Finn ā€¢ All Hands and Mr. Starfish ā€¢ Louie the Mountain Lion ā€¢ Tick-Tock the Crocodile ā€¢ El Emenopio ā€¢ Winifred ā€¢ Bud ā€¢ Lou ā€¢ Mrs. Sweeney ā€¢ Todd ā€¢ Jack and Nickels ā€¢ Desiree D'Allure ā€¢ Erol ā€¢ Baby Thaddeus ā€¢ Monrovia and Pomona ā€¢ Kismet ā€¢ Dr. Piltdown ā€¢ Bubbles ā€¢ Irwina Allen ā€¢ Quigley and Abba-Dabba ā€¢ Lord Howie ā€¢ Su Lin ā€¢ Heinrich Von Sugarbottom ā€¢ Wexler ā€¢ Ratso Ratzkiwatzki ā€¢ Moose and Rocco ā€¢ Buffy Ratzkiwatzki ā€¢ Zsa Zsa Labrador
Film Characters: Ellie Steckler ā€¢ Sweet Pete ā€¢ Bob the Dwarf ā€¢ Jimmy the Polar Bear ā€¢ Captain Putty ā€¢ Millie ā€¢ Bjornson the Cheesemonger ā€¢ DJ Herzogenaurach ā€¢ List of cameos ā€¢ Insurance Sheep ā€¢ Ugly Sonic

Episodes
Season One: "Catteries Not Included" ā€¢ "Piratsy Under the Seas" ā€¢ "Dale Beside Himself" ā€¢ "Flash the Wonder Dog" ā€¢ "Out to Launch" ā€¢ "Kiwi's Big Adventure" ā€¢ "Adventures in Squirrelsitting" ā€¢ "Pound of the Baskervilles" ā€¢ "Risky Beesness" ā€¢ "Three Men and a Booby" ā€¢ "The Carpetsnaggers" ā€¢ "Bearing Up Baby" ā€¢ "Parental Discretion Retired"

Season Two: "To the Rescue" ā€¢ "A Lad in a Lamp" ā€¢ "The Luck Stops Here" ā€¢ "Battle of the Bulge" ā€¢ "Ghost of a Chance" ā€¢ "An Elephant Never Suspects" ā€¢ "Fake Me to Your Leader" ā€¢ "Last Train to Cashville" ā€¢ "A Case of Stage Blight" ā€¢ "The Case of the Cola Cult" ā€¢ "Throw Mummy from the Train" ā€¢ "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing" ā€¢ "Robocat" ā€¢ "Does Pavlov Ring a Bell?" ā€¢ "Prehysterical Pet" ā€¢ "A Creep in the Deep" ā€¢ "Normie's Science Project" ā€¢ "Seer No Evil" ā€¢ "Chipwrecked Shipmunks" ā€¢ "When Mice Were Men" ā€¢ "Chocolate Chips" ā€¢ "The Last Leprechaun" ā€¢ "Weather or Not" ā€¢ "One-Upsman-Chip" ā€¢ "Shell Shocked" ā€¢ "Love is a Many Splintered Thing" ā€¢ "Song of the Night 'n Dale" ā€¢ "Double 'O Chipmunk" ā€¢ "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" ā€¢ "It's a Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale!" ā€¢ "Short Order Crooks" ā€¢ "Mind Your Cheese and Q's" ā€¢ "Out of Scale" ā€¢ "Dirty Rotten Diapers" ā€¢ "Good Times, Bat Times" ā€¢ "Pie in the Sky" ā€¢ "Le Purrfect Crime" ā€¢ "When You Fish Upon a Star" ā€¢ "Rest Home Rangers" ā€¢ "A Lean on the Property" ā€¢ "The Pied Piper Power Play" ā€¢ "Gorilla My Dreams" ā€¢ "The S.S. Drainpipe"
Season Three: "Zipper Come Home" ā€¢ "Puffed Rangers" ā€¢ "A Fly in the Ointment" ā€¢ "A Chorus Crime" ā€¢ "They Shoot Dogs, Don't They"

Objects
Ranger Wing ā€¢ Ranger Plane ā€¢ Screaming Eagle ā€¢ Gyrotank ā€¢ Meal-O-Matic ā€¢ Steggy's Spacecraft ā€¢ Coo-Coo Cola ā€¢ Gigantico Raygun
Songs
Rescue Rangers Theme ā€¢ Fat Cat Stomp ā€¢ The Best of Everything ā€¢ You're the Best Bee for Me ā€¢ The Coo Coo Cola Song
See also
Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour ā€¢ Let's Go to Disneyland Paris ā€¢ Gadget's Go Coaster
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