I am quite sure it is Gatchaman for me, I remembered following it for a long time ..
I was in kindergarten and I remembered they have this plane that can become a fire bird ..
It was before they got their no.2 guy .. I remembered I didn't like their no.2 guy when he came about ..
Later they change to this triangle plane which is combined together with a bunch of smaller crafts and the hero had a sword where he will be standing on outside of the plane before the special power thing that will destroy the bad guys ..
While I think it is cool with the sword and all .. it pretty dumb for me even for a little boy that someone got to stand on the outside of the plane .. not wonder it was killing him later ..

I remebered being really sad when it was over..
It was dubbed so it was not in Japanese
