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Great to see on it TV again.
Brilliant review here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RijrBeMSl0
Summary: The show could never be remade now as the stunts and overall awesomeness of the flying would never be allowed.
Brilliant review here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RijrBeMSl0
Summary: The show could never be remade now as the stunts and overall awesomeness of the flying would never be allowed.
cologne2792 said:
Summary: The show could never be remade now as the stunts and overall awesomeness of the flying would never be allowed.
Enter CGI helicopter (mixed in with some stock footage), if a guy on a PC with Blender installed can do this by himself, then a TV/streaming company can do it x1000Loved Airwolf as a kid (and Knight Rider, and Street Hawk, and...). Airwolf was a spin off from Magnum P.I., which got a reboot recently...
ajprice said:
Enter CGI helicopter (mixed in with some stock footage), if a guy on a PC with Blender installed can do this by himself, then a TV/streaming company can do it x1000
Loved Airwolf as a kid (and Knight Rider, and Street Hawk, and...). Airwolf was a spin off from Magnum P.I., which got a reboot recently...
That is hugely impressive!Loved Airwolf as a kid (and Knight Rider, and Street Hawk, and...). Airwolf was a spin off from Magnum P.I., which got a reboot recently...
But what made Airwolf so cool is that even allowing for the speeded-up bits, most of what we saw was real.
The episode where they nearly decapitated Doug McLure and the times Airwolf banked at 100 knots with the rotor tips about 10 feet off the ground. I didn't appreciate that as 13 year old but it really was incredible stuff.
CGI, though admittedly amazing, would just make it too sanitised.
“After the show was canceled, the modifications were removed; the helicopter was repainted and eventually sold to the German helicopter charter company, Hubschrauber-Sonder-Dienst (aka HSD Luftrettung and Blue Helicopter Alliance), and given the registration number D-HHSD. While operating as an air ambulance, the helicopter crashed on June 6, 1992. (Destroyed on a mountain in fog, all three aboard dead)
A new, full-size replica of the Airwolf helicopter was created by Steven W. Stull, for display in the Helicopter Headquarters museum located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, using a non-flying Bell 222 with molds taken directly from the originals used in the show. After the Helicopter Headquarters closed, the replica was put on loaned, for display at the Tennessee Museum of Aviation located in Sevierville, Tennessee, between 2007–2015. The owner of the Airwolf replica sold the Bell 222 to a private collector in California. The replica is now on top of a $250 million mansion in Bel Air, California.”
A new, full-size replica of the Airwolf helicopter was created by Steven W. Stull, for display in the Helicopter Headquarters museum located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, using a non-flying Bell 222 with molds taken directly from the originals used in the show. After the Helicopter Headquarters closed, the replica was put on loaned, for display at the Tennessee Museum of Aviation located in Sevierville, Tennessee, between 2007–2015. The owner of the Airwolf replica sold the Bell 222 to a private collector in California. The replica is now on top of a $250 million mansion in Bel Air, California.”
normalbloke said:
No idea what that means, buth that was some pretty cool flying!Silver Smudger said:
normalbloke said:
No idea what that means, but that was some pretty cool flying!normalbloke said:
Well, those forward ‘bunts’ where he pushes forward on the stick over the tops of the trees, in something with a teetering head like a Jetranger, would have cut the tail boom clean off. It’s why the Bolkow( with a rigid rotor head) is quite aerobatic and can easily be inverted/looped.
It was a great show at the time as was Blue Thunder in a different way.
But I recall many years ago watching tv late at night and Vincent was in some awful low budget porn!! He was paid hugely for doing Airwolf apparently and blew most of it as most do, and it fell to this awfulness.
And I found out he was a very unhappy man, such a shame
But I recall many years ago watching tv late at night and Vincent was in some awful low budget porn!! He was paid hugely for doing Airwolf apparently and blew most of it as most do, and it fell to this awfulness.
And I found out he was a very unhappy man, such a shame
pidsy said:
Had the theme tune as my ringtone for years when I was at college.
Not sure it’ll be as good 30 years after I last watched it.
I'm expecting the pilot telly film to be rather good, and the first series to be fairly good. I think it went downhill quickly from second series onward. Not sure it’ll be as good 30 years after I last watched it.
I'm looking forward to it. When I watched Magnum on some channel a few years ago, I was pleasantly surprised at it's quality and I stuck with it.
LukeBrown66 said:
It was a great show at the time as was Blue Thunder in a different way.
But I recall many years ago watching tv late at night and Vincent was in some awful low budget porn!! He was paid hugely for doing Airwolf apparently and blew most of it as most do, and it fell to this awfulness.
And I found out he was a very unhappy man, such a shame
He developed a big drug and alcohol problem IINM.But I recall many years ago watching tv late at night and Vincent was in some awful low budget porn!! He was paid hugely for doing Airwolf apparently and blew most of it as most do, and it fell to this awfulness.
And I found out he was a very unhappy man, such a shame
And I may be very much mistaken, but I think he had a limb amputated….?
Muzzer79 said:
He developed a big drug and alcohol problem IINM.
And I may be very much mistaken, but I think he had a limb amputated….?
Big time with the cocaine and alcohol, and he got fighty in bars and with his wives and girlfriends. The leg amputation was from an infection, before that he had been in car crashes, one of them broke his neck and he had damaged vocal chords And I may be very much mistaken, but I think he had a limb amputated….?
afterwards from the medical procedure. He died 2 years ago of cardiac arrest, 74.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Michael_Vincent
Largechris said:
“After the show was canceled, the modifications were removed; the helicopter was repainted and eventually sold to the German helicopter charter company, Hubschrauber-Sonder-Dienst (aka HSD Luftrettung and Blue Helicopter Alliance), and given the registration number D-HHSD. While operating as an air ambulance, the helicopter crashed on June 6, 1992. (Destroyed on a mountain in fog, all three aboard dead)
A new, full-size replica of the Airwolf helicopter was created by Steven W. Stull, for display in the Helicopter Headquarters museum located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, using a non-flying Bell 222 with molds taken directly from the originals used in the show. After the Helicopter Headquarters closed, the replica was put on loaned, for display at the Tennessee Museum of Aviation located in Sevierville, Tennessee, between 2007–2015. The owner of the Airwolf replica sold the Bell 222 to a private collector in California. The replica is now on top of a $250 million mansion in Bel Air, California.”
Very interesting that A new, full-size replica of the Airwolf helicopter was created by Steven W. Stull, for display in the Helicopter Headquarters museum located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, using a non-flying Bell 222 with molds taken directly from the originals used in the show. After the Helicopter Headquarters closed, the replica was put on loaned, for display at the Tennessee Museum of Aviation located in Sevierville, Tennessee, between 2007–2015. The owner of the Airwolf replica sold the Bell 222 to a private collector in California. The replica is now on top of a $250 million mansion in Bel Air, California.”
Loved it as a kid & still have a soft spot for it now. Saturday afternoons ITV (channel 3 in our house !) at 1:30, after Saint & Greavsie.
The explosions & the strafing runs probably cost a bit as these were reused many times. The underslung “ADF pod” was capable of launching a Bullpup missile apparently, all 800kg & 13ft of it ! … ;-) start up sequence on YouTube is great !
https://youtu.be/rcCUR2384ms
The explosions & the strafing runs probably cost a bit as these were reused many times. The underslung “ADF pod” was capable of launching a Bullpup missile apparently, all 800kg & 13ft of it ! … ;-) start up sequence on YouTube is great !
https://youtu.be/rcCUR2384ms
Edited by andySC on Saturday 20th November 18:03
Edited by andySC on Saturday 20th November 18:06
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