Pegaus Helmet horse or unicorn

[mrmovieprop]

Is the Pegasus Helmet crest a flying horse or a flying unicorn with horn?
Anyone have any good pictures of this.


http://byyourcommand.net/photogallery/B ... iperHelmet
http://www.yourprops.com/view_item.php?movie_prop=4738
http://byyourcommand.net/photogallery/a ... lmet_Front pegasus horse

is all I could find.

[Cylon-Knight]

Good question, with such little screen time it is a tricky thing to spot!

Pegasus is taken from the Greek - Pegasus the winged horse, not a Unicorn. The first link you posted has the full head showing on the helmet - you can see the mane. I can see how it is a bit horn shaped, but it is a mane - not a horn.

[daggitgirl]

You can see the pegasus helmet made for my daggits at http://www.mydaggit.com/Page24.html

[GoldCylon]

I was shown the model box lid that the horse model came from. I believe from memory it is a Pegasus flying winged horse. If I recall the neck was cut off, and then the wings clued to the side of the neck area.

[cybertrooper]

At the risk of veering off topic, the comments on the meaning of Pegusus had me recalling a song from 1974 'I am Pegasus', (my name means horse). Whilst preceeding the original Galactica by four years I don't have to stretch my mind to have the words apply to Battlestar Pegasus and its crew - the is even a reference to Sagittarius!

If you are curious you can listen to the song on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFXYjp_Mlb8
A nice example of Aussie music from the '70s

Now to get the thread back on track here is something I found on Wikipedia: 'Viper pilots from the Pegasus' Silver Spar Squadron, wore a helmet design that bore a 'flying horse' unlike the Galactica's Blue and Red Squadron pilots falcon/eagle crest Viper helmets, due to the Pegasus' own namesake'.

[GoldCylon]

One of the original designs that I have posted a photo in the gallery, just I don't recall the location at the moment to post the link is a Viper (aka snake) attached to the helmet in place of the bird.

[daggitgirl]

i am now working on crewing up the pegasus (daggit pegasus of course), wondering what ship should i do next? mrmovieprop said there was like an atlantia battlestar? we arent sure what the helmets/patches should have on them. Got any suggestions?

[cybertrooper]

I believe that Atlantia's patch was somewhat visible in the original episode where the fleet is wiped out.
I am fairly confident that the only viper helmets seen on the screen belonged to Pegasus and Galactica. So you can probably go with your own interpretation there.