With a wingspan of 80 feet, a length of 115 feet and a top speed estimated at 15,000 mph, Thunderbird 1 is International Rescue’s vanguard aircraft, arriving first at the danger zone where the pilot, Scott Tracy, assesses the situation and forms a rescue plan.

Thunderbird 1’s well-concealed hangar is located adjacent to the Tracy Villa, and her launchpad is positioned directly beneath the Villa’s swimming pool, which slides aside to permit Thunderbird 1’s exit or entry. Thunderbird 1 is capable of vertical and horizontal flight, is equipped with booster rockets and a VTOL-capable gas turbine hover jet and wings that can expand or retract according to the situation.

Thunderbird 2 is International Rescue’s workhorse, an airborne freighter that transports equipment to the scene of any rescue zone. 250 feet long and 60 feet high with her wheels on the ground, Thunderbird 2 is housed in a hangar beneath the Tracy Villa, and exits via a concealed cliff-face hangar door.

With an interchangeable central pod section (there are six pods, each holding different types of rescue equipment), Thunderbird 2, piloted by Virgil Tracy, is capable of vertical take-off and landing, and can handle speeds of up to 5,000 mph.

A 287-foot space-going rocket with a maximum sustained acceleration of 6g, Thunderbird 3 is piloted alternately by both Alan and John Tracy and is housed in a silo hidden beneath the Tracy Villa’s ‘Roundhouse.’

Thunderbird 3 is capable of space rescues, but its primary role is to maintain a physical link between the International Rescue base and Thunderbird 5.

30-foot long Thunderbird 4, helmed by Gordon Tracy, might seem small in comparison to the other Thunderbird craft but her size makes her incredibly versatile. She has a maximum operating depth of 30,000 feet, is used for both surface and underwater rescues, and with an underwater top speed of 140 knots is reportedly one of the fastest submarine craft in existence.

Maintaining a geostationary orbit 22,400 miles above the Earth, International Rescue’s space station Thunderbird 5 provides communications vital to the operation of the organization. Manned on a one month on, one month off rotational basis by John and Alan Tracy (and occasionally other International Rescue personnel), the station is electronically cloaked to avoid detection from ground based radar or other spacecrafts’ sensor systems. Thunderbird 5 contains, in addition to highly sophisticated communications equipment, an astrodome for observation of space, a medical bay, and living/sleeping quarters for its duty personnel.

Lady Penelope’s ultra-sophisticated, distinctive and bulletproof pink Rolls Royce, FAB 1, is capable of speeds in excess of 200 mph on land – and, thanks to the incorporation of hydrofoils, 50 knots on water. From the car’s unique central driver’s seat design, her ladyship’s chauffeur Parker has at his fingertips a smorgasbord of hidden weaponry: two front and two rear mounted machine guns, one front mounted central machine cannon, 4 rear mounted harpoon launchers, a smokescreen canister, oil slick dispenser and two laser guns.