If you are old enought to remember this show, you now make noises when you sit down. As a ten year old, this was the coolest truck on TV, the trailer would split open from the top and there was a helicopter hidden inside.
The base of this creation is a pushback tug used in the airport. They adapted it for trailers.
l loved this show lol That, and Airwolf!
Helicopters were the business in the 1980s.
haha yeah, and I also remember the movie Blue Thunder
Damn, I missed that show but for some reason this makes me think of a live action version of the cartoon M.A.S.K.
I bought M.A.S.K. on streaming to share it with my kids. It did not live up to my memories.
Sadly, most 80s cartoons sucked, but the toys were, and are still, outstanding. That’s probably why we attach such good memories to watching the show along with our buddies Sly Rax and Hondo McLean.
The shows were just 30 minute adverts for the toys. Some of my greatest playtime as a kid was when Cobra Commander teamed up with Darth Vader but was eventually defeated by G.I. Joes and R2D2.
I remember! The driver was played by Sam Jones, who also played Flash in Flash Gordon (1980).
At first I thought it was weird that he prepped the chopper by lifting his steering wheel off and screwing a joystick in its place, but I came to love that sequence. Shit was getting real when that happened.
