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Artist: Busted
Song: Thunderbirds Are Go

Spring breaks come around and there’s no hero’s to be found
There’s something major’s going down on Tracy island, island.

Weapons underground who mean the planets safe and sound
If someone evils coming round he should be frightened (frightened)
Cause now the boys are back in town. No strings to hold them down down.

[Chorus]

Don’t be mad please, stop the hating just be glad that they’ll be waiting,
Friends we have are ever changing
No not no little battle no when the thunderbirds are go.

Kids are learning fast they no their team birds kick some ***
Be sure that there’s no coming last cause your on there side (there side)

You always look so cool when spaceships come out of the pool
You no that you’d just be a fool to be a bad guy (bad guy)

Cause now the boys are back in town no strings to hold them down down.

[Chorus]

Don’t be mad man please, stop the hating just be glad that they’ll be waiting,
Friends we have are ever changing
No not no little battle no when the thunderbirds are go.

Thunderbirds are go,

[Chorus]

Don’t be mad man please stop the hating just be glad that they’ll be waiting,
Friends we have are ever changing.
No not no little battle no when the thunderbirds are go.

Thunderbirds are, Thunderbirds are go

Thunderbirds are, Thunderbirds are go

Thunderbirds are, Thunderbirds are go

Thunderbirds are, Thunderbirds are go.

FIVE! FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE! THUNDERBIDS ARE GO!

I always heard that caption everytime the Thunderbirds series starts. It sounds very cool tht time. Even until today, I still like how it sounds. Hehehe. I’ve been watching Thunderbirds ever since I was a small kid aged 8. My Abah ask me to switch on the television tht morning because there’s an interesting cartoon going to be aired. I on the tv and watched tv2 as far i could recall. And tht’s how I was introduced to Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds came from Britsh back in 1960s. It’s a very very old series.

The original logo in 1960s. Very very antique.

The new logo launched in 2004 for the new movie, Thunderbirds(2004). This time it looks much more modern and futuristic. Of all the Thunderbirds, I like Thunderbrid 2. It was the most biggest Thunderbirds of all. This gigantic transporter aircraft has a maximum speed of 5,000 miles per hour. Its purpose is to deliver specialized equipment to the scene of a disaster. Pilotted by Virgil Tracy.

Whoa! Thunderbird 2 lands at London Airport! Postcard image courtesy Jimmy Aitken

Thunderbird 2 Specification

Pilot
Virgil Tracy, third son of Jeff Tracy. Virgil has an artistic temperament, is a competent pianist and also paints.
Hangar
Secret cavern behind the cliff face below the cliff house, which also has Brains’ workshops and maintenance machinery and the equipment pod conveyor belt.
Access
Virgil leans against a full-length rocket painting in the main house, which tips him onto a slide-chute car that takes him via TB1’s hangar and an extending boarding tube to the flightdeck of TB2, where hitting the footplate causes his pilot seat to unfold and lock down. A separate passenger lift descends directly from the main house kitchen, arriving after preflight checks.
Launch Sequence
The artificial cliff face retracts below ground, a ramp folds down over the gap and TB2 rolls out onto the island’s small airstrip. To accommodate TB2’s huge wingspan, the palm trees lining the strip swing over in their buckets and TB2 proceeds to the end of the strip, where a ramp raises it to 30° and a blast-deflector rises behind the main engines. TB2 blasts off with rocket assist.
Power Plant
Nuclear reactor for main power, situated aft. Lateral turbine engines, with bled off vectored thrust nozzles under the main body fore and aft, for low-level loitering, hover and VTOL capability. Tail boom ramjet array for high altitude speed cruising, when the airframe of TB2 functions like a lifting-body. Rocket assisted rear boost, and VTOL boost, for takeoff.
Equipment
Six pods, carried centrally, containing various machines. Dorsal hatch with air-to-air rescue equipment and retracting missile launcher. Ventral hatch with medium grapple. Forward ventral retracting nose cannon. Lateral observation windows with magnetic limpet guns. One pod has a ventral hatch and large grapple for retrieving larger tracked vehicles.

Thunderbird – The Series(1965)

Thunderbirds are go(1966)

Thunderbirds(2004)