The Flintstone Flyer (known as the Barney-copter and also the Two-Person Helicopter) is a flying machine and a recurring, but two-time vehicle of the episode of the same name featured in the first season and "Fred's New Job" featured in the third season of the original series, The Flintstones.
Background[]
Built by Bedrock inventor and resident Barney Rubble, it is the first two-person flying machine that flies in the air.
Physical Description[]
It is a two-person flying machine with variously colored wooden planks (including brown from "The Flintstone Flyer" and purple from "Fred's New Job"), wooden gears, bike-like grips and pedal crank-arms (including brown and pink) and an egg beater-like spinning fan with two or four blades and also four sandbags attached to the wood.
Role in the episodes[]
"The Flintstone Flyer"[]
One Sunday morning, when Fred was trying to have a sleep in his hammock, Barney was fixing something that looked to him like a giant egg beater, his machine, which he was originally going to name the "Barney-copter". At first, Fred was skeptical, thinking it wouldn't work. Later, Barney began using the machine to fly leisurely. Fred, excited, decided to take ownership of the machine, and named it the "Flintstone Flyer".
Sometime later, when their wives went to the opera, Fred and Barney, the former pretending to be "sick" and the latter "nursing" him, used the Flintstone Flyer to get to the bowling alley and back. But the opera house they were supposed to go to was a few feet away from the bowling alley, so when Wilma and Betty went there after the opera to call Fred and Barney, the husbands panicked, and disguised themselves using a broom to make fake mustaches to wear to fool the wives into thinking they were someone else.
When they headed home, Fred and Barney used the Flintstone Flyer again to beat them there. When the women came home, Barney accidentally blew their cover, and so Fred and Barney rode around in the air for six hours, hoping to get away from both of their wives, only resulting in them being angry.
"Fred's New Job"[]
The flyer was then flown by Mr. Slate and his son, Eddie after Fred as a circus peformer (known as "The Birdman of Razzamataz") was flying around in the air with a parrotsaurus suit on.
Gallery[]
Appearances[]
- "The Flintstone Flyer" (first animated appearance)
- "Fred's New Job" (second and last animated appearance)
- "The Flintstone Flyer" (The Flintstones (Archie Comics), only comic appearance)