Fiat Aviazione may have called its 7002 a medium-size, general-purpose helicopter, but we think 'The Flying Cocktail Cabinet' is a better description.
Honestly, install an ice bucket alongside a few oversize bottles of Cinzano or Campari and the look is complete.
Produced in 1960, in response to an Italian government contract, the 7002's fuselage was actually built of aluminium rather than walnut, and powered by a "turbo-generator" driving compressed air to jets at the rotor tips.
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Designed to be flexible, it could carry, i) a pilot and six passengers, ii) a pilot, an assistant and two stretchers, or iii) a pilot and 2500 litres of freight.
Sadly, the project never really got off the ground, with only one prototype being built before the cabinet was filed away.
But check out its big brother, the 7500, billed as "The Flying Train". Plenty of room for extra champagne, vodka and cranberry juice in that bad boy.
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Funky or frightening? What do you make of the Fiat 7002? Tell us in the comments below.