Tornado (Sonic Boom)

The Tornado is a vehicle that appears in the Sonic Boom series. It is a uniquely designed blue biplane built by the Ancients, but was eventually abandoned. About a millennia later, it was uncovered and later used by Team Sonic, with Tails serving as its primary pilot.

Appearance
The Tornado is a reasonably medium-sized blue aircraft. Like other biplanes, it has two main wings stacked one above the other, but are so close together that they have smaller distance between them that the Tornado's airframe. Between the middle of the wings on each side it has a propeller, but without a propeller on the nose. The nose rim and the wings' sides of the Tornado are yellow, the tip of the wings are each adorned with a light blue light, and it possesses a raise and wide empennage. The Tornado also possesses two open cockpits with windshields, but instead of them being aligned along the airframe, they are placed side-by-side.

Features and Abilities
The Tornado possesses two propellers for momentum with retractable energy blades. When active, the propellers leave a helix-shaped contrail. When stationary, the Tornado is capable of hovering slightly above ground, allowing for quick take-off.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Created by the civilization known as the Ancients, the Tornado eventually ended up being buried (presumed to be due to crashing or an avalanche) at what would become Cliff's Excavation Site.

About a thousand years later, the Tornado was discovered by Cliff and his workers who began to excavate it. During their visit, Team Sonic stumbled upon the Tornado, which Tails was confident he could fly.

Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
In Shattered Crystal the Tornado is first seen on the top 3DS/2DS screen when on the icon for the game flying around the title with Tails and Knuckles sitting in the seats Sonic wing-walking and Amy and Sticks sitting the rear rudders. In game the Tornado is seen sitting besides Tails' house. An Identical plane is later used by the team after Volcanic Crater to escape and reach Lyric's base in the sky with the team in the same spots as in the pre-game splash minus Amy.

TV series
While Sonic was facing Burnbot, Tails flew into the fray in the Tornado and helped Sonic attack Burnbot by having Sonic swing into the robot with an Enerbeam hanging from him in the Tornado. However, the Tornado's wing was clipped by Burnbot as it recovered, and with the Tornado's ejector seat having failed, Tails crashed with his biplane. Tails later patched the Tornado together and used it to race after Dr. Eggman and Burnbot when they competed to be Sonic's new sidekick, but it was damaged by Burnbot again and crashed in a frozen lake with Tails where it sunk.