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 Thunderbirds - Rescue organization (a.k.a. "International
Rescue") seen on the puppet series THUNDERBIRDS/SYN/1964-66.
The Thunderbirds is a worldwide rescue team operated by the
Jeff Tracy, a former astronaut and his grown sons. With a
fleet of sophisticated air rescue vehicles and a space
monitoring station, the Tracy family based on a remote Pacific
atoll, accepted a variety of difficult and often dangerous
rescue missions. The Thunderbird fleet included Thunderbird I
(piloted by Scott Tracy), a scout craft that takes off
vertically and travels to speeds of 7000 mph; Thunderbird II
(piloted by Virgil Tracy), a slow moving air-cargo ship;
Thunderbird III (piloted by Alan Tracy), an aircraft with
laser radio scanners that can fly into outer space;
Thunderbird IV (piloted by Gordon Tracy), a submersible
vehicle stored in Thunderbird II; and Thunderbird V (piloted
by John Tracy), an orbiting satellite station for global
communications. Assisting I.R. is the lovely London-based
agent Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward. Her 200 mph pink Rolls
Royce is filled with all sorts of gadgets (machine gun, bullet
proof glass, a la James Bond). The organization's nemesis is
"The Hood." THE THUNDERBIRDS was created by Gerry and Sylvia
Anderson. 
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