BOOV ........ seen it advertised as the star of a show, "Sit inside a REAL Police Helicopter".
I will 'plead' to that. Wearing another hat, and it worked very well... unfortunately though Cabair failed to send it on day two of the weekend and the queue had nothing to ride on! Expectations not realised.
Its a bit like police open days the public love to play with all the 'tits n bells' in the cars and this transposes to such as clearly identifyable police helicopters. And all the advertising shots used were the real thing from my flights in her a decade ago [no one sussed out the lack of hemets!].
The comment on the 'first' rotary .... it was June 1932 at the Epsom Derby and the craft was a Cierva Autogiro.
The World first police use of a helicopter was Norfolk [they who have yet to get to 24/7 operations] using a Westland owned Sikorsky S51 flown by [the] Alan Bristow .... June 1947...