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That takes me back a lot of years, used to love a bit of Airwolf! That with a bit of Knightrider and Dukes of Hazard and my weekends were almost sorted as a kid! |
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Was watching it the other day, used to love watching it as a kid just before going to youth club with my friends , that along with A team, Knight rider etc.
The startup of the aircraft along with that iconic tune still make the hair stand on back of my neck 
Good old days eh
Apparently the very helicopter was sold off and was used as a sort of air medical craft, it crashed killing all onboard  |
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Airwolf was actually a commercial Bell 222 Twin the guns and rocket launcher where just bits ‘bolted’ on whenever they where needed in a shot, you never saw them deploy when it was flying. After the series ended it was sold to I think a German medivac organisation but was unfortunately destroyed in a crash a few years later. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love Airwolf, anyone else remember macgyver?"
He once made plastic explosives from the fibres of a sports jacket, and blew the bloody door off!
Macgyver was an effing Don!! |
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"Love Airwolf, anyone else remember macgyver?
He once made plastic explosives from the fibres of a sports jacket, and blew the bloody door off!
Macgyver was an effing Don!!"
Managed to pick up the dvd box set in Afghanistan of all places |
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"'Blue Thunder', great helicopter film. They actually built it for the movie too. It flew like a brick!"
Built it!!? F**k. And this is pre CGI, Hollywood was crazy in those days they must of had money to burn..
I mean they still do, but they're a bit more savy about how they spend it for blockbuster movies. |
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By *akie32 OP Man
over a year ago
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"'Blue Thunder', great helicopter film. They actually built it for the movie too. It flew like a brick!
Built it!!? F**k. And this is pre CGI, Hollywood was crazy in those days they must of had money to burn..
I mean they still do, but they're a bit more savy about how they spend it for blockbuster movies."
i worked on a film, rush was its name, and the money being spent was madness, amazed it made a profit, if it did, good film btw if you like car racing |
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"'Blue Thunder', great helicopter film. They actually built it for the movie too. It flew like a brick!
Built it!!? F**k. And this is pre CGI, Hollywood was crazy in those days they must of had money to burn..
I mean they still do, but they're a bit more savy about how they spend it for blockbuster movies."
It wasn't that hard. Took existing helicopters and did some bodywork, prop guns, dummy equipment etc. Although it looked like a mini Apache a lot of the gear in it was real. .....JAFO!..  |
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Bluethinder, everything behind the cockpit was a Gazelle but the cockpit was totally rebuilt so yeah it wouldn’t have been cheep but I don’t know if the ‘real’ Bluethunder was destroyed in the movie or if it was a mock up, common sense would say the real one would have been kept in case of a sequel movie |
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"Bluethinder, everything behind the cockpit was a Gazelle but the cockpit was totally rebuilt so yeah it wouldn’t have been cheep but I don’t know if the ‘real’ Bluethunder was destroyed in the movie or if it was a mock up, common sense would say the real one would have been kept in case of a sequel movie"
A mockup was destroyed. For a long time the front end of one, engine bays forward, was in private hands. It really looked the part. A lot of the flying sequences were RC Models....nerd alert |
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Strangely enough me and a work mate where talking about old TV shows just the other day and neither of us could remember if it was Roy Schneider in the series |
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"Strangely enough me and a work mate where talking about old TV shows just the other day and neither of us could remember if it was Roy Schneider in the series "
Nope. I'd of remembered. They kept the copter, the brilliant theme tune, but not the man. |
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I never watched the series. Would it ruin the film for me? I was flying Gazelles in the early 80's and bizarrely later flew in high-tech Police surveillance machines. No gatling gun though, dammit!....ours was called 'Blue Blunder'.. |
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"I used to love it. Where is it on now, or is it DVDs?"
You can get the whole series on DVD. I just watched a couple of youtube clips, but most of the flying was taken from the film, and the rest looks a bit cheesey, like Airwolf... |
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"I used to love it. Where is it on now, or is it DVDs?
You can get the whole series on DVD. I just watched a couple of youtube clips, but most of the flying was taken from the film, and the rest looks a bit cheesey, like Airwolf..."
Thank you, I liked it but wouldn't buy the box set or anything.
I've got The Professionals and the Musketeers though  |
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All the stars from the cast also long gone.
It was a great show. But to add to the roster of great shows from that era that has also been mentioned, surely The A Team has to be up there too! |
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Funny how my youthful mind papered over the obvious budgetary constraints in SFX quality for Airwolf, and others. Like the constant recycling of particular camera shots. |
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"Funny how my youthful mind papered over the obvious budgetary constraints in SFX quality for Airwolf, and others. Like the constant recycling of particular camera shots."
I think that we now look back at a lot of our old favourite shows and films and think..'yeah, actually that was shit'..but it was so cool back then. |
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By *rab74Man
over a year ago
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As much as Airwolf looks cheesy today, it was a step ahead of the others back then. For all the rest, no-one was allowed to die. The A-Team never killed anyone ever, and Knight Rider mostly didn't either. As cool as some of the stunts were, it was still recognisably kid stuff.
Airwolf upped the stakes by being perfectly willing to blow the crap out of the bad guys and then beat on the wreckage until it bounced. And not only that, they regularly killed off friendlies too (even making it a thing that Hawke didn't want a girlfriend because they all got killed). You never ever felt that the A-Team or Michael Knight were really at risk, nor even the minor characters. For Airwolf, you honestly didn't know who was going to live to the end of the episode.
The Blue Thunder pilot film was definitely not aimed at kids though. There's an initial sequence of them using a surveillance helicopter to perv a pretty girl undressing, which is very much not PG! |
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Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.
Other shows
Magnum pi
Chips
The bionic woman
The fall guy
Wonder woman
Simon and Simon
Blue thunder
Street hawk
Highwayman
Battlesbridge galactic
Stingray
Siz billion dollar man
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"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.
Other shows
Magnum pi
Chips
The bionic woman
The fall guy
Wonder woman
Simon and Simon
Blue thunder
Street hawk
Highwayman
Battlesbridge galactic
Stingray
Siz billion dollar man
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Wonder woman...Lynda Carter, man it did my heart no end of good seeing her cameo in Wonder woman '84 |
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"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.
Other shows
Magnum pi
Chips
The bionic woman
The fall guy
Wonder woman
Simon and Simon
Blue thunder
Street hawk
Highwayman
Battlesbridge galactic
Stingray
Siz billion dollar man
"
Surely not many people remember Highwayman, that was a weird show! I used to watch it every Saturday night at around midnight |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.
Other shows
Magnum pi
Chips
The bionic woman
The fall guy
Wonder woman
Simon and Simon
Blue thunder
Street hawk
Highwayman
Battlesbridge galactic
Stingray
Siz billion dollar man
Surely not many people remember Highwayman, that was a weird show! I used to watch it every Saturday night at around midnight "
Yep. Staring Mr Flash Gordon himself if I remember |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.
Other shows
Magnum pi
Chips
The bionic woman
The fall guy
Wonder woman
Simon and Simon
Blue thunder
Street hawk
Highwayman
Battlesbridge galactic
Stingray
Siz billion dollar man
Surely not many people remember Highwayman, that was a weird show! I used to watch it every Saturday night at around midnight "
Ya it was always on at a weird time |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Airwolf my fav TV show. Managed to get season 1 on dvd.
Other shows
Magnum pi
Chips
The bionic woman
The fall guy
Wonder woman
Simon and Simon
Blue thunder
Street hawk
Highwayman
Battlesbridge galactic
Stingray
Siz billion dollar man
Surely not many people remember Highwayman, that was a weird show! I used to watch it every Saturday night at around midnight
Yep. Staring Mr Flash Gordon himself if I remember"
Your right just looked that up, he was in Ted and Ted 2 also |
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