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When the Batplane is stolen and triplicated by smugglers in Batman #61, Batman and Robin upgrade the Batplane to jet propulsion, adding at least "100 miles per hour" to its maximum speed. In terms of design, it shares features with the Grumman F9F Cougar and McDonnell F-101 Voodoo. The 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises also adapted the Batplane to film, however, this time the vehicle was referred to as The Bat.īatplane II was a retooled needle-nosed Wayne Aerospace W4 Wraith fighter that married style with substance. Previously in Batman #300 the name Batwing was used in reference to a spacecraft. With the launch of the Tim Burton directed Batman film of 1989, the Batplane became known as the Batwing, a name which was carried over into the comics. The Batplane has undergone constant revision since its first appearance, and has even been depicted as having the capability to traverse underwater. The vehicle was now based on a fixed wing airplane rather than a helicopter, with a propeller at the front, although a bat motif was still attached to the nose-cone. The Batgyro was soon replaced by the Batplane, which debuted in Batman #1, and initially featured a machine gun. The writers gave the Batgyro the ability to be "parked" in the air by Batman, hovering in such a way as to maintain its position and allow Batman to return.

Initially based upon either an autogyro or helicopter, with a rotor, the Batgyro featured a bat motif at the front. In this issue it was referred to as the "Batgyro", and according to Les Daniels was "apparently inspired by Igor Sikorsky's first successful helicopter flight" of the same year. The vehicle was introduced in "Batman Versus The Vampire, I", published in Detective Comics #31 in 1939, a story which saw Batman travel to continental Europe. The Batplane, Batwing, Batjet or Batgyro is the fictional aircraft for the DC Comics superhero Batman.

Batman and his Batwing (Batplane) as they appeared on the variant cover of Detective Comics #989 (September 2018).
