Hiller Aviation Museum is recreating “WKRP” turkey drop, with a key difference

If you’re of a certain age, you may remember a classic 1978 episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati” that featured the radio station’s Thanksgiving promotion of dropping turkeys from a helicopter into a shopping center parking lot.

The only problem was that domestic turkeys can’t fly.

The ensuing chaos, with birds plummeting from the sky was breathlessly reported, a la the Hindenburg disaster, by intrepid newsman Les Nessman, played by Richard Sanders.

One of the soft foam turkeys that will dropped by a helicopter on Wednesday, Nov. 27, at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos in 2022. The stunt is a tribute to a famed 1978 episode of
One of the soft foam turkeys that will dropped by a helicopter on Wednesday, Nov. 27, at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos in 2022. The stunt is a tribute to a famed 1978 episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati.” (Photo courtesy Hiller Aviation Museum) 

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