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A small sampling of fast boats with their rotary-wing companions - usually deployed in the filming/photography role.
Have many more images of a similar nature which I might be able to drop into the thread over time.
Those of you who can reacll the 80's TV series 'Miami Vice' will doubtless remember one of the lead characters, Don Johnson. Johnson is a keen powerboater
(great fun by the way and if you haven't yet given it a go then I thoroughly recommend it) and used to employ an Agusta 109A Mk II to trail him during his competitions. The craft carried two rescue divers fully suited-up ready to be dropped in the water in the event that their fearless leader required assistance.
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