The Century of Flight — Season 1, Episode 19: Law Enforcement from the Air
Documentary • 50 min • 1 season, 26 episodes
Episode synopsis
Helicopter monitoring of a high speed car chase. How police monitor traffic and deter crime, including tracking down criminals. Use of Nitesun and other night vision aids. In criminal hands - light aircraft used from smuggling and how law enforcement agencies combat this and maritime smuggling. Use of Helicopters to spring prisoners from high security jails (1973 rescue of IRA prisoners from Dublin jail and other cases). The drugs war - how aircraft, civil and military, are used to combat the drugs traffic from Central America.
About The Century of Flight
This definitive history of manned flight has been compiled into 26 hour episodes, with access to some of the rarest archive film ever taken. Unprecedented co-operation has been extended by the world's leading aircraft manufacturers and leading archive libraries. Included in the footage are shots of rare prototype accidents and failures which contributed to the inevitable achievement and success of man in the air. Since Charles Lindbergh became the first lone aviator to cross the Atlantic in 1927, air transport has greatly accelerated , revolutionised by the giant Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet - and what might we see in the 21st century?