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Blue
Thunder - Sophisticated, high-tech police helicopter
designed by the military used for urban surveillance on the police
drama BLUE THUNDER/ABC/1984.
Blue Thunder was a flying "Big Brother" with such as capabilities
as electronically eavesdropping from a height of 2 miles; whisper
modes to quiet its rotor blades and sail silently through the
skies; infrared night vision; bullet proof armor plating; heat
thermal/radar devises to see through walls; machine guns; and heat
seeking missiles.
Supervised by a team from the Justice Department, its crew
included pilot Frank Chaney (James Farentino); electronic whiz,
Clinton "Jafo" Wonderlove (Dana Carvey) and ground crew members
Lyman "Bubba" Kelsey (Bubba Smith) and Richard "Ski" Butowski
(Dick Butkus) who monitored Blue Thunder's progress via a mobile
van.
In the 1983 movie Blue Thunder, on which the series is loosely
based, Roy Scheider starred as a concerned police helicopter pilot
who destroyed an experimental helicopter Blue Thunder (placed in
the path of freight train) when he feared its advanced weaponry
and hi-tech snooping capabilities would support politicians with
totalitarian agendas.
Blue Thunder surveys the city for signs of trouble
Cast of Blue Thunder
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