Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder is a 1983 American action thriller film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Gordon Carroll, Phil Feldman, and Andrew Fogelson and directed by John Badham. The Blue Thunder helicopter itself did exist as two copies of modified French Aérospatiale Gazelles, on which the cockpits were installed in the style of AH-64. A spin-off television series, also called Blue Thunder, ran for 11 episodes in 1984. Plot Frank Murphy is a Metropolitan Police Department air support division pilot and troubled Vietnam War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). His newly assigned observer is novice Richard Lymangood. The two patrol Los Angeles at night and give assistance to police forces on the ground.