Oh no not another fake Ferrari
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Now what I would like to know, is would Airwolf and BlueThunder been any good, beatin up the Argies, back when we had the Falklands War?
There was an episode about a racing driver and based around a circuit and it did have cars that looked like Porsche 956s in it. I don't know enough about them to say whether they were real or fake, but the "crash" was a shot of the car heading toward a wall, shot through the screen of approaching wall, then a big bang. I don't think you ever saw the car hit the wall.
They "crashed" a Learjet in a similar way, you saw the plane heading toward the water, then an explosion on the water, but never the plane hitting the water.
They "crashed" a Learjet in a similar way, you saw the plane heading toward the water, then an explosion on the water, but never the plane hitting the water.
Here's the Porsche earlier in the episode. Judge for yourself whether it's real or not, I've no idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJiJl8G_hO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJiJl8G_hO4
http://www.autofiends.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/...
I think relying on Wikipedia can be dodgy.
Ah yeah, the S8 in Ronin, a massively overrated film IMO, had the Quattro bits chopped about so RWD only. I guess Ronin is quite good fun for playing the game of 'oh look there's that car again that was in the background just now'.
I think relying on Wikipedia can be dodgy.
Ah yeah, the S8 in Ronin, a massively overrated film IMO, had the Quattro bits chopped about so RWD only. I guess Ronin is quite good fun for playing the game of 'oh look there's that car again that was in the background just now'.
The Hypno-Toad said:
I remember reading a story a few years ago that with all the weight they stacked onto Blue Thunder, it seriously buggered up the CofG and the thing could only just take off and handled like a dog.
Any truth in this?
Not sure about that. More than likely that it's a case of "if the weapons and equipment were real, it would have buggered up the flight characteristics". You can take far more liberties with a rotary winged platform with regards to airframe and aerodynamics than you can with a fixed wing aircraft. Seeing as the 'load-out' was probably made out of lightweight materials by the props dept, and that there was also a fair amount of modification rearward of CofG, I reckon it would have degraded the helicopter's performance across the board. Unless the external mods weigh more than three people, it shouldn't have had that great an effect.Any truth in this?
The British Gazelle fleet have operated as unarmed utility/recce assets, with the weapons platform developed on the Lynx family of helicopters. It's worth noting that the Gazelle in it's earlier SA341 guise held a number of helicopter air speed records.
Originally a French design, they have often used the Gazelle as a weapons platform, principally with HOT or TOW wired guided missiles or 20mm cannon. As these images show, in "real life" the weapons mounting pylon is almost directly in line with the rotor head, aft of the cabin
ETA: Them shorts are a bit 'YMCA' don't you think??
Yours, if you want one, from $250,000 (second-hand and without weapons) http://www.robinsonhelicoptershop.com/id57.htm
French Gazelles are currently operating in Mali, I believe, despite the fact that they were/are due to be phased out in the armed role in favour of the Eurocopter Tiger (Tigre).
"British soldiers unload a British C17 cargo aircraft while a French Gazelle helicopter takes off at the Mali air force base near Bamako January 18, 2013".
This completes the circle, as it were, as the Tiger was itself a film star, appearing extensively in the film Goldeneye (James Bond) as seen below
Before the Apache was selected for the British Army in 1995, I recall seeing it fly 'against' it's competition at airshows. From memory the companies bidding were:
Boeing (Augusta/Westland) - AH64 Apache (in service)
Agusta - A129 Mangusta (in service)
Bell - AH-1W SuperCobra (in service)
Eurocopter - Tiger (in service)
another helicopter was de-selected at the shortlist stage, as it was yet to fly:
Boeing/Sikorsky - RAH-66 Comanche (project cancelled in 2004 at prototype stage, having cost nearly US$7 billion)
Edited by yellowjack on Tuesday 29th January 17:09
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