Eagle 1

Intro

Year One

• "Breakaway" (Y1): VIP pod. Capt. Carter takes up the Eagle Commissioner Simmonds arrived in, to observe from high orbit as the Area Two pile is broken up. He becomes direct witness (probably the only one) to the actual Breakaway explosion. He keeps pace and catches up with the Moon, landing back on Alpha.
• "Black Sun": Piloted by Mike Ryan. Normal pod? Pulled part by gravitational forces near a black sun (black hole), with one verifiable fatality. Destroyed.
• RATM: Last Eagle mission sent to Triton. Normal module (?). John, Alan, Pierce Quinton, and three other guards on board. Alan remains with Eagle. All four guards go with Koenig. All successfully escape sphere's destruction.
• "Earthbound": sent to initially intercept the incoming Kaldorian spacecraft. Piloted by Alan and a co-pilot. Standard-shaped pod with red/orange stripes (rescue pod?).
• "Missing Link": normal pod. Returning empty-handed from an exploration of what appears to be a dead world they later find out is inhabited and called Zenno. The Eagle loses power (?) and control and crashes with John, Alan, Victor, and Sandra aboard. All are knocked unconscious, and some are more severely injured, mainly Sandra and, most critically, John. The Eagle's pilot section has to be separated from the rest of it, by explosive bolts, and hauled away by a Cargo Eagle. It is not clear if the Eagle can be repaired or is totalled.
• "Collision Course": piloted by Alan, suffering from main booster problem, damaged in nuclear blast against asteroid.
• DOD: The mission to Ultima Thule with John, Helena, Victor, and Alan on board.
• "The Full Circle": standard transporter pod; sent on further exploration mission of five people (at same time as Eagle 2) after Eagle 6 is brought back without the first landing party. Piloted by Commander Koenig; co-pilot is ????.
• "Space Brain": doing reconnaisance with two pilots on board: Wayland, Cousteau; it and the pilots are crushed by the Space Brain. Destroyed.
• "Dragon's Domain": (Unverified:) Tony Cellini attempts and fails to steal Eagle 1 while it sits on Launch Pad 4 at the time; Koenig blocks this by giving an order which leaves the docking tube attached to the Eagle. Later, several people take him on a mission to the spaceship graveyard, where he eventually stole the Eagle (its final fate unclear). See Tony Cellini Steals Eagle 1 regarding the latter situation.
• TOA: main exploration of Arkadia. Team of eight: John, Alan, Helena, Victor, Luke, Anna, Quinton, another guard (who?).

Year Two

• "The Metamorph": standard pod; captured by Mentor, destroyed with Psychon with no one on board any longer. See Psychon Destroys Eagle 1 for why the Editor considers this a verifiable loss.
• "The Exiles": "Eagle Mission 1" (is this same as Eagle 1?), defensive response, but recalled when alien missiles went into lunar orbit.
• "Brian the Brain": Piloted by Bill during the initial Evacuation phases. When the Swift is detected, Eagles 1 and 2 divert to intercept, then escort the Swift to Alpha.
• "Rules of Luton": John, Tony, Maya. Eagle develops fault in Oxygen system just prior to landing. John decides they should land so he and Maya can explore while Tony returns to Alpha to pick up another Eagle.
• MOA: John and Maya flying a survey mission, runs into meteor storm. Standard pod. Laser equipped, using it to destroy at least one meteor.
• "Brian the Brain": Flown by Bill and Tony with directional guidance by Maya over computer interference. Lands on Planet D ahead of the Swift. Tony and Maya leave and meet up with John in the mothership. John (carrying Maya/mouse) returns to the Swift, Tony back to Eagle 1, which later docks with the Swift to pick up John, Helena, and Maya.
• NANE: normal transporter pod. Alan attempts a rescue flight to New Earth, but though engines fire, no liftoff occurs. Alan later attempts a launch after extra vertical booster units were attached, but this fails as well, and it is shown that Magus is fighting, from New Earth, and with some strain on his part, against the launch.
• "AB Chrysalis": One of the numerous Eagles which evacuate Alpha ahead of a predicted shockwave and hide behind the protection of the other side of the Moon. Normal transporter pod. Piloted by Alan, who is sitting in the starboard seat.
• "AB Chrysalis": Mission to the planet and moons which are found to be the origin of the shockwaves. John, Alan, and Maya aboard. Normal transporter pod again. Stairs are seen on portside at one point.
• "Seed of Destruction": Tony and Maya steal the Eagle, in order to check out asteroid over doubts of Koenig's words and identity. They find the real Koenig there and rescue him. He takes the Eagle back to Alpha while they try to destroy the Heart of Kalthon (unsuccessfully).
• "Matter of Balance": first mission to Sunim?
• "Matter of Balance": hijacked by Shermeen after she uses plant vapors to put Bill Fraser into a trance state and forces him to fly the Eagle and her to the planet. Verify: Later flown back to Alpha by Tony, with Bill (not yet recovered) and Maya on board.
• "Seance Spectre": Damaged during a crash exploring of Tora, with John and Maya aboard, after the Tora mutineers damage a computer link back on Alpha. Has to be brought back remotely.

Comments

• So far in analysis, seems to be the most common Eagle designation.
• The Eagle which Alan pilots is often Eagle 1.
• Several Eagles bearing this designation are destroyed through the series. The designation is clearly reused, either by renumbering other Eagles to be Eagle 1, or if new ones are being manufactured on Alpha.