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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Air police patrol

We looked at this in Tales of Future Past.  And now that Modern Mechanix gives us the whole story, it looks even more ludicrous. 

3 comments:

  1. At first, I thought I was looking some form of really agressive traffic control. If Hugo Gernsback backs it, you know it's on the way.

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  2. Or as we now call it Helicops. As with much thinking at the time the hardware wasn't up to the concept. Our local (South Wales) unit even tweets it's call-outs, very nice to know what's happening when it passes by.

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  3. They could have just employed a two-seater biplane to strafe gangsters, the rear gunner also engaging in some action. Simple and completely feasible for the time.

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