Hmm strikes a chord,
where have i seen this before, ah yes, it was the early 80's
anyone remember blue thunder?!
modified gazelles all round then!
in all seriousness, in that fictional show the pilot often went into aerial combat with the 'baddies' etc, what is to say chaingun failures apart (jamming on and straifing the houses of parliment?) , that in the heat of the moment your average 355 or 135 pilot wouldnt do the same?