The Blue Lights GB - General Discussion

[Nick]

Inspired by PR19s RNLI Air Wing idea, I've been wandering down the path of the drone. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53600780

Westland Sharpeye http://helimuseum.com/heli.php?ident=sharpeye
Or the bigger manned version? http://helimuseum.com/heli.php?ident=wg33  Put a blue light on top of the rotor 

Giving high-speed chase in this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RotorWay_Scorpion

[Old Wombat]

Giving high-speed chase in this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RotorWay_Scorpion

High speed chase, huh?

Performance
    Cruise speed: 78 knots (90 mph, 145 km/h)

[AeroplaneDriver]

Giving high-speed chase in this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RotorWay_Scorpion

There was one of these based at the airport where I learned to fly in the mid-late 80s. Based on what I saw back then I would not want to be over water in one of those things. 
High speed chase, huh?

Performance
    Cruise speed: 78 knots (90 mph, 145 km/h)

[kitbasher]

Inspired by PR19s RNLI Air Wing idea, I've been wandering down the path of the drone. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53600780

Westland Sharpeye http://helimuseum.com/heli.php?ident=sharpeye
Or the bigger manned version? http://helimuseum.com/heli.php?ident=wg33  Put a blue light on top of the rotor 

Giving high-speed chase in this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RotorWay_Scorpion

Mix of autonomous and remotely piloted there, Nick.  Have been thinking the same for my entry/entries.

[PR19_Kit]

Or the bigger manned version? http://helimuseum.com/heli.php?ident=wg33  Put a blue light on top of the rotor 

The WG33 is a total HOOT! 

I'm expecting A Model, Mikro-Mir or AMP to bring a kit of one out soon. Probably just as our Blue Light GB ends......

[scooter]

If you're doing an American emergency vehicle, here's a handy reference on what's legal by state.

[Mossie]

Mind boggling.  . Nice and easy on this side of the pond, all emergency vehicles have blue lights.  Red lights may be used to indicate to a driver they need to stop.
Commercial vehicles & construction vehicles have amber flashing lights (sometimes green lights to show the driver is using a seatbelt).  These are purely hazard warning lights.
Doctors use green lights, these don't give them the same ability to disregard  road laws like blue lights.

[AeroplaneDriver]

Just a heads up for anyone looking to source decals, there is a chap selling on facebook under the name Plastigraphix with quite a range of custom made  general and specific police/fire/rescue decals. 

[NARSES2]

Cheers 

[Nick]

I feel like a trip to Italy is coming on   
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/mantua-firefighters-gallery-mantova-museo-urbano-diffuso/gAJSt0JkC8RxLg?hl=en

[loupgarou]

I feel like a trip to Italy is coming on   
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/mantua-firefighters-gallery-mantova-museo-urbano-diffuso/gAJSt0JkC8RxLg?hl=en

Very nice. Even I didn't know of it. And a lot more to see in northern Italy.
But you'd better wait till after COVID: At the moment everything is closed down.

[Old Wombat]

I feel like a trip to Italy is coming on   
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/mantua-firefighters-gallery-mantova-museo-urbano-diffuso/gAJSt0JkC8RxLg?hl=en

A Schwimmwagen AND a DUKW!

[scooter]

I feel like a trip to Italy is coming on   
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/mantua-firefighters-gallery-mantova-museo-urbano-diffuso/gAJSt0JkC8RxLg?hl=en

A Schwimmwagen AND a DUKW!

And a Bell 47 with full patient pods.

[PR19_Kit]

And a pair of firefighting BICYCLES! 

[jcf]

Post-WWII the Italian State Police used the "Metropolitana" version of the AS.42 as police and security
vehicles, those used by the XI Reparto Mobile retained their 20mm Breda cannon and Breda 37 MGs.
The "Metropolitana" had storage lockers in place of the jerry can rack.
They were painted overall Amaranth Red.




Rome, October 12th 1954, AS42 "Metropolitana" of the 20° Reparto Mobile