These things date back to the 1960s and look like they came from Dr. Zarkov's laboratory from Flash Gordon.

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The airstrip near Broadford was built in the 1970s and appears briefly in a scene from the 1980 film Flash Gordon.

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Or the journalist who asked the PM if he was Flash Gordon?

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Most of them resemble the ray guns of Flash Gordon.

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