Glen Kenny, president of the New Zealand Air Line Pilots' Association, explained the inflatable shark actually had very little bite. 'The engine probably wouldn't stop, but it would do a bit of damage,' he said. 'Helium is an inert gas, so there's no issue in that regard. The biggest hazard would be startling the pilot.'
The bizarre sighting was just one of a string of unusual flying shark sightings across New Zealand, thanks to the popular Christmas gift known as Air Swimmers - remote-controlled helium fish. Police were bombarded with reports of the inflatable sharks spotted 'swimming' across the sky in areas such as Auckland and Riverton in Southland.
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The Air Swimmer toy, which measures 1.44-metres in length, is remote-controlled with a radio receiver attached underneath the toy, helping with steering the body, making it the ultimate prank machine for any youngster. The toy fish can be operated from 15m away, reaching great distances.
3 comments:
I got one of these for my son for xmas. They are as cool as they sound.
If the toy shark had swallowed half of a toy sonic screwdriver there would be no trouble getting it back down.
But seriously what sort of idiot would use one of these outdoors?
We lost ours in Florida on x-mas day as we were loading it in the car. I wonder if by chance it was ours!
-Jimmy Solari
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