For 38 years, a police helicopter was a familiar sight in the skies above Topeka. … Patrol officers liked having the “eye in the sky,” saying its presence made them safer and aided them in finding lost children or people who were in danger. When it appeared in 1982 that a softball tournament at what is now Topeka’s Felker Park would have to be canceled because of wet field conditions, an officer flying the police copter hovered over the infields to blow them dry, enabling the games to go on.
Source: CJonline.com
