Yeah, while diverting military assets for 'personal use' is against regulations I understand, couldn't 'the brass' observe it was a festive period, the chopper crew did great community service, and they didn't exceed normal operating parameters of the aircraft.
It's not like they took a heavy bomber and did aerobatics…

Disturbing the quiet?

It's the sound of FREEDOM!

That thing looks like it could be the A-10's daddy. Albeit without the monster Gatling cannon.

Kind of like a real "Blue Thunder"! Pity it got cancelled at the last minute.

The Ontos definitely looks incredibly terrifying to anyone it aims its 6x main guns at!

It's easy to say this with our modern perspective but back in the day no one had ever been confronted with such steel beasts before. That raises the fear factor big time!

Totally agree. Nothing like a insectoid death machine bristing with Hellfire missiles + superb night fighting ability to ruin a (prospective) aggressor's morale!

Ditto for the A-10 in daylight.

Ahh the famous helicopter attack scene! No worries I can remember that clear as day. I was hoping for a GTA recording, indeed!

Hahahaha!

"They're attacking with fries!"
"Deploy ketchup dispensers!"

Damn, would really like to watch the video, but it says "video not available" now.

Looking more closely, you can notice the windows on the front of the flight deck are all rectangle too!

I'd imagine such a cute thing can be made into some sort of dangerous little unmanned parasite fighter or interceptor, given today's advances in lifting body aerodynamics, and drone tech.

On the sides of the cockpit/flight deck. If those seals fail bad things can happen to the whole plane, seeing as its a thin metal tube going several hundred mph.

Can you imagine an entire wing of, idk, 50 of those?

Just buzz around bad guy territory till they all wave white flags.

It kind of looks weird but with modern lifting body physics and drone tech, the concept of parasite fighters could be useful sometime in the far future. It seems to be Dale Brown's favorite territory for some time, what with using modified bombers as UCAV carriers.

In all fairness it did fly, just that it had control problems and could not land safely. I wonder why :)

I have a blast building Ca.60 replicas in a number of physics sandbox games that provide plane parts.

Hahahaha man rated multi-copter!

There is a jet version that looked far safer. Except any accidents would cause one to become sizzling, flaming bacon.

I got rather interested in the inflatoplane from reading all the comments.

One question in my mind is - how does he keep the rubber from 'going bad'? Doesn't rubber tend to get brittle during long term storage?

With modern autopilots those things could be made very safe indeed.
They could even make a man-rated hexacopter or something.