Launchpad McQuack is a character created by the Walt Disney Company who first appeared as Scrooge McDuck's pilot on DuckTales, and later in the series Darkwing Duck as Darkwing's sidekick. He was a brave, good-hearted, if somewhat naive pilot with a spectacular history of crashing. As one of his mottos went: "If it's got wings, I can crash it!" He was voiced by Terry McGovern. He sometimes appears in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Disney's Animal Kingdom for meet-and-greets. Image File history File links LaunchpadIntro. ... This article is on the animated series. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to first comic book to feature a character. ... Treasure of the Golden Suns is a five-episode serial that comprises the series premiere of the Disney animated series DuckTales. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Terence Terry McGovern Terence Terry McGovern was born May 11, 1942, and is an American film actor, television broadcaster, radio personality, voice-over specialist, and acting instructor. ... Alternate meanings: Disney (disambiguation) The Walt Disney Company (also known as Disney Enterprises, Inc. ... Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge is a fictional Scottish-born anthropomorphic duck created by Carl Barks that first appeared in Four Color Comics #178, Christmas on Bear Mountain, published by Dell Comics in December, 1947. ... This article is on the animated series. ... Darkwing Duck is an Emmy-nominated American animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991-1995 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on ABC. It featured an eponymous superhero anthropomorphic duck with the alter ego of Drake Mallard (voiced... Naïve is Industrial rock group KMFDMs fourth album, released in 1990. ... Terence Terry McGovern Terence Terry McGovern was born May 11, 1942, and is an American film actor, television broadcaster, radio personality, voice-over specialist, and acting instructor. ... Cinderella Castle, at the center of the Magic Kingdom, is Walt Disney World Resorts most recognizable icon Introduction Owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company, the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, USA is home to four theme parks, two water parks, several resort hotels and golf courses... The Magic Kingdom is a theme park within the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, near Orlando. ... The entrance to Animal Kingdom Disneys Animal Kingdom is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. ...

Launchpad in DuckTales

Through the course of the DuckTales series, Launchpad's character was fairly well developed. As revealed in the episode "Top Duck", he came from a family of barn-storming stunt pilots known as the Flying McQuacks, but he left home when he was a teenager because he felt his constant crashing was too much of an embarrassment to the family name. This article is on the animated series. ...

Not long after setting out on his own, he met Scrooge McDuck (or, as Launchpad usually addresses him, "Mr. McDee"), when Scrooge came to the airfield looking for a cheap pilot. The plane from Scrooge and Launchpad's first adventure was a rickety bi-plane Launchpad built called 'The Sunchaser' which ultimately ended up in an aviation museum for being the first plane to fly through the Earth. The account of this adventure (since Launchpad was drawn as a skinny teenager) places his series age in the mid-20's.

In the episode Launchpad's Civil War, it is learned he is of direct lineage to the (in)famous American Civil War General Rhubarb McQuack (who bore a striking resemblance to Launchpad, although the General had a bushy handlebar moustache) who Launchpad, for much of his life, believed to have been the hero of the Battle of Duckridge. This illusion was shattered during a recreation of the battle when he encountered surviving Civil War soldiers who informed him that "that lousy, rotten, bungling, polecat McQuack lost us the Battle of Duckridge." He subsequently helped the Civil War survivors get even with the townspeople for making fun of them for so long. Launchpads Civil War is the sixtieth episode of the Disney animated television series DuckTales. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... Example of a handlebar moustache A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy, often graspable, extremities. ...

Launchpad also tangled with the forces of F.O.W.L. (a criminal organization that would later carry over into the universe of Darkwing Duck, as would Launchpad himself). Launchpad thwarted a F.O.W.L. plot to destroy the world's money supply after the D.I.A. (Duckburg Intelligence Agency) and Scrooge McDuck persuaded him to impersonate an enemy agent who was his exact double. This is shown in the episode Double-O-Duck. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Darkwing Duck is an Emmy-nominated American animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991-1995 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on ABC. It featured an eponymous superhero anthropomorphic duck with the alter ego of Drake Mallard (voiced... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Double-O-Duck is the forty-first episode of the Disney animated television series DuckTales. ...

In the episode Armstrong, Launchpad is pitted against a robot in an air-race. The announcer refers to Launchpad as a famous adventurer. In some other episodes, the public seems to know him by this description, totally unaware that his achievements were only possible through his dimwittedness, such as getting his scarf tangled on a wing propeller, thus causing his plane to loop and swerve in what seemed like an incredible stunt. See Top Duck. Armstrong is the sixth episode of the Disney animated television series DuckTales. ... Top Duck is the sixteenth episode of the Disney animated television series DuckTales. ...

Launchpad has also served as a youth baseball coach and a scout master for the Junior Woodchucks. Launchpad holds this organization's record for earning merit badges. In Disneys fictional Scrooge McDuck universe, The Junior Woodchucks are the Boy Scout-like youth organization to which Donald Ducks nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, belong. ... The following is a list of modern Boy Scouts of America merit badges. ...

When DuckTales spun off into its own comic book in 1988, Launchpad made the jump to comics along with it. His first comic appearances lay in the form of stories produced by the Walt Disney Studios, featured in Gladstone Publishing's DuckTales comic book. But Launchpad was written weakly in these stories, to the point that one reader wrote that in them, "the pilot resembles a weak carbon copy of Donald rather than a character in his own right." In the same comic book, however, a more characteristic Launchpad starred in stories written and illustrated by William Van Horn. This article is on the animated series. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. ... This article is on the animated series. ... Donald Duck is an animated cartoon and comic-book character from Walt Disney Productions. ... William Van Horn (born February 15, 1939) has been a Disney comics artist since 1988. ...

Launchpad also has a dubious distiction of always crashlanding his plane.

Launchpad in Darkwing Duck

Launchpad's character was altered somewhat for Darkwing Duck, falling out of the role of independent hero/jack-of-all-trades, to that of a more comical sidekick. Many of the heroic qualities he displayed in Ducktales became generally muted, whereas other features, such as his clumsiness or lack of intelligence, were made stronger. His physical appearance also changed, being re-drawn with a much larger beak and a more muscular torso. At times he is seen without his aviator's cap, and as in Ducktales, his appearance without it varies, from having short, red hair that matches his signature forelock, to being drawn with the forelock as his only hair and the rest of his head covered with feathers (in the fashion of other Disney ducks). Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ...

In the series premiere, "Darkly Dawns the Duck," Launchpad and Darkwing meet after Darkwing bodily crashes through the roof of an airplane hangar during his pursuit of Taurus Bulba and surprises Launchpad, who is there working on his bi-plane. Upon learning Launchpad is a pilot, Darkwing demands he fly him up after Taurus Bulba's henchmen. Launchpad obliges, claiming to be Darkwing's biggest fan. Launchpad then volunteers his services as a sidekick, but Darkwing refuses, insisting that he works alone (and annoyed because he failed to catch Bulba's henchmen). Launchpad continues to offer his help, even bailing Darkwing out of jail to prove how handy he can be. Eventually, his persistence pays off and he wins the caped crimefighter over, perhaps sealing the deal by unveiling the Thunderquack, a high-tech airplane he built specifically for Darkwing. Taurus Bulba is a fictional character created for the animated television series Darkwing Duck. ...

Although Darkwing has a secret identity (Drake Mallard), Launchpad is always called Launchpad, and has no crimefighter disguise, except on rare occasions where he serves as a decoy for Darkwing. Following their initial adventure, Launchpad appears to live with Drake. Throughout the series he was occasionally reunited with fellow DuckTales character (and rival to Darkwing), GizmoDuck. For other uses of this term, please see Secret identity (disambiguation). ... Fenton Crackshell Fenton Crackshell is a fictional character created by the Walt Disney company and voiced by Hamilton Camp. ...

Launchpad remained a regular player in Darkwing's life in the animated series as well as the comic stories based on the series, most of which were published in Disney Adventures. Although the DuckTales comic book had been cancelled around the time Darkwing Duck premiered, Launchpad still showed up in new DuckTales stories published in Disney Adventures, even occasionally mentioning Darkwing to his old co-stars. The first issue of Disney Adventures, which featured an interview with Rick Moranis. ...

Although no products bearing Launchpad's likeness can currently be found at Disney Stores, the character turned up again in new stories written for the Disney Comics published by Gemstone Publishing. These new comic books have also occasionally reprinted Van Horn stories starring Launchpad. Disney Store is an international chain of specialty stores, selling Disney-branded items, many of them exclusive. ... Gemstone Publishing (logo) Gemstone Publishing is a U.S. company that is the current publisher of licensed Disney comic books, starting in June 2003. ...

Foreign translations of Launchpad's name

Launchpad is known as Turbo McQuack in some European translations. In other European translations, he is known by a plethora of names:

• Czech: Rampa McKvák
• Danish: Max Motor
• Dutch: Turbo McKwek
• Finnish: Heimo Huima ("huima" could be translated as "greatly daring" or "amazing")
• French: Flagada Jones
• German: Quack der Bruchpilot (Quack the Crashlander), alluding to the classic movie Quax, der Bruchpilot
• Greek: Βολίδας ΜακΚουάκ
• Hungarian: Kvákk kapitány
• Italian: Jet McQuack
• Icelandic: Loftur Þotönd
• Polish: Śmigacz McKwak (Flitter McQuack)
• Portuguese: Capitão Boeing
• Norwegian: Rotor McKvakk
• Russian: Зигзаг МакКряк (Zig-Zag McCryak)
• Spanish: Joe McQuack
• Slovak: Tryskáč McKač
• Swedish: Sigge McKvack

External links

• Launchpad's profile on the Disney HooZoo
• Virtual journey in Launchpad's house

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