Aerobatics

A flat electro-mechanical airborne pinball playfield, photographed whole in a wooden cabinet with chrome side rails and a bare scuffed aluminium apron in front. The art is a bright cartoon-painted aviation scene: pale blue sky with white clouds fills the lower half, a rainbow arcs across the top-left corner, and the field is bordered by a yellow-gold frame with orange-and-white candy stripes at the bottom. Two round pop bumpers with pink-and-white sunburst rings and a big red '2' on each cap sit side by side in the upper middle, framed by a black-and-yellow checkered band reading 'FLASH BUMPERS'. Red jets with orange noses and 'AEROS' lettering fly at the top right and top left, with a checkered-fin rocket in a blue circle on the left rail. The centre carries a dark-haired man's head in a flying helmet and goggles, set in a yellow starburst above 'BUMPER SCORE VALUE 150,000 POINTS'. Down the middle is a fan of five red jets with score rings (80,000, 50,000, 20,000, 10,000) and a 'WHEN LIT / BONUS SCORE VALUE X10' disc. Flanking the lower field are two yellow inlanes decorated with Union Jack roundels and 'SPECIAL WHEN FLASHING 100,000 POINTS' panels, plus 'ADVANCE BONUS' arrow signs.

Illuminated square backglass bordered by a yellow-gold wooden frame, art in bold comic-book style with heavy black outlines and flat saturated colour. A wide horizontal score window sits across the upper third, backed cream-pale pink, showing rolling digits '10,16 8 5,1 0 0'. Below and to the right of it, the title AEROBATICS curves upward in chunky slanted capital letters, yellow with a red outline and a black drop shadow. The background is sky blue with stylised cream and white cloud swirls, overlaid by broad sweeping arcs of orange, olive-green, white and red ribbon that curve across the whole panel. Six aircraft fill the sky: two red jets with roundels at upper right, a large red jet with a white-ringed blue roundel at mid-left, a slim red jet at centre, a green and yellow camo jet low centre, a dark grey-black swept-wing jet, and a mottled orange-yellow camouflaged plane at top centre. Lower right is a pilot in a bubble helmet with a red stripe, yellow-tinted goggles and a corrugated oxygen hose, seated in a green cockpit with a headrest, his right hand raised with one finger pointing up. A curved bronze-brown cockpit canopy frame sweeps up the right side. Lower left shows pale blue radar screens and gauges; a white starburst reads BONUS BALL.

Illuminated backglass behind a light wooden outer frame, dominated by a painted aerial-combat scene. Across the upper third, five swept-wing military jets fly diagonally from lower left to upper right: a large red/orange jet with roundels at lower left, a second red jet centre, two slender red/orange jets receding at upper right, and a long green twin-boomed jet with a bulbous nose below the title. The main title reads AEROBATICS in large arched block capitals, red with yellow-to-green gradient faces and a white drop shadow, slanting upward to the right. A rectangular illuminated score window sits at top centre showing white mechanical number reels reading 4,153,300. The lower right holds a cockpit cutaway: a pilot in a yellow flight helmet with green-tinted goggles, blue ribbed oxygen mask, blue overalls and orange life vest, gloved hands gripping a control stick and raising one index finger, seated in a green ejection seat. A white starburst on the left reads BONUS BALL. A red banner strip along the bottom carries BALLS TO PLAY and RED ARROWS above a lit GAME OVER window. Blue-grey clouds fill the background.