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The helicopters used for Blue Thunder were French built Aérospatiale SA341G Gazelles. The two helicopters were purchased fr om Aérospatiale by Columbia Pictures for $190,000 each and flown to Cinema Air in Carlsbad, California wh ere they were heavily modified for the film with bolt-on cosmetics and an Apache-style front end.  Since the DCS SA342 doesn't have the same cosmetic enhancements, some liberties were taken with the markings.

This is a fictional skin pack of SA342L/M/Mistral Gazelles with OH-17A Blue Thunder markings.  We may not have Los Angeles to fly in, but Las Vegas should be a sufficient urban environment.  Note: this skin pack is distributed as an EXE installer.

This is a Skin for KA-50 Shark 3 in honor of the BLUE THUNDER series
This was one of those series that had a fleeting passage on our televisions, but even so, many still remember it both in Portugal and in Brazil, where there are those who remember it with nostalgia. Blue Thunder was derived fr om a film of the same name, had only 11 episodes and one season that did not have the same success as the film.

The film Blue Thunder premiered in 1983 and had Roy Scheider as the main star, who had some success with his story and action scenes and ABC then decided to launch a series using the helicopter with it and thus capitalize on the buzz of the film.

The helicopter used in the film was an Aeropatiale SA-341G Gazelle, modified with an Apache-style canopy. Two helicopters were purchased by Columbia Pictures (one was kept on the ground as a reserve for filming), wh ere it was heavily modified for the film by Hughes.
INSTALLATION :

C:\Users\***\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Liveries\Ka-50_3

Fictional skin with new aircrew skins