EJ2 Aircraft from ‘Thunderbirds‘ created by Gerry Anderson
This large aircraft, or Helijet is featured in the episode ‘The Imposters’ where a gang of crooks masquerade as International Rescue, as a ruse to get into a secret underground bunker and steel military plans. An audacious plan to say the least.
International Rescue is a secret organisation with a strictly enforced ‘no photography’ policy for their personnel and machinery, but one of the crook’s ends up on the front page!
I like that if this this thing was described based on a n eyewitness account of a rescue it could be mistaken for ‘Thunderbird 2’. It is big, it is VTOL and the colouring and large tail section is similar to TB2. But it is a commercially available aircraft or Helijet - later in the episode Scott refers to some tyre tracks as being from an EJ2. As we only saw one aircraft at the ‘rescue’, we can deduce this is an EJ2.
This same type pf aircraft is used by another gang of crooks - or possibly the same ones - who are sabotaging the Fireflash airliners in ‘Operation Crash-Dive’. The saboteur we see in the wing, and earlier in the dinghy appears to be the same puppet as Imposter Jenkins (who we saw in the International Rescue uniform) at the start of ‘The Imposters’. Could this be some un-developed background continuity? We see the Aircraft coming in to land vertically. The jet pods at the end of each wing seem to rotate 90 degrees for horizontal or vertical flight.
This thing looks pretty big. maybe 1 foot long in 144 scale. The green plastic often used for tanks.
Most likely a Mike Trim design.