Airwolf vs Blue Thunder

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Which helicopter was best.

Which TV show was best.

― Pete, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't Blue Thunder a galaxie 500 song?

― katie, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go Knight Boat.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue Thunder had the coolest gun but Airwolf wins for a)being stored in a mountain and b)having actual real-life mentalist Jan Michael Vincent pilot it.

― Jonnie, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jonnie = otm

but...... Blue Thunder had rolling thunder too.

― chris, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rolling thunder? The Ride tune? Wow, now that would be cool.

― Jonnie, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Airwolf! All the way yo! Airwolf = the flying equivalent of KIT!

― jel --, Friday, 5 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Airwolf was so boring. Didn't Blue Thunder have Bubba Smith? Is this even a question?

― Kris, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't remember Blue Thunder. Perhaps I am too young. Airwolf wins. I dream of pushing buttons and having them light up.

― Ally C, Saturday, 6 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Airwolf was definitely the best it was a cool helicopter with visions of the future.

― Vincent Garvey, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked both, but I'd have to go with Airwolf. It's good ol' Bellasario cheese. Blue Thunder with Roy Schider was cool. But I like the original CBS Airwolf over ABC Blue Thunder. Why?

1. "Hey, String." Jan Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Hawk) and Ernest Borgnine(Dominic Santini): two hardlivin' leftovers from my favorite age in film. I've admired both actors after seeing them in Hooper and The Wild Bunch.

2. Airwolf could bank upside-down. Of course it was a camera trick, but it was cool. Remember how it roared?

3. Gotta appreciate Archangel at the Firm. One of the best patch- eyed TV characters ever.

4. So what if Airwolf could outfly missiles. It's hangar was in a mountain. Like the Autobots. It's an action show, not reality.

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― bryan, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If Blue Thunder was a TV show then which one was a Roy Schiender movie where he blows the thing up at the end?

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"airwolf" was never a galaxie 500 song = "airwolf" is the best.

AIRWOLF!!

― geeta, Saturday, 27 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Airwolf was the best because of Katlin!!!

I also liked that Airwolf was armored better and that it could reach mach speeds.

You also gotta love the chaffs and copperheads.

― Dave Smith, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If Blue Thunder was a TV show then which one was a Roy Schiender movie where he blows the thing up at the end?

Jaws. Smile, you son of a bitch.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue Thunder was a film with Roy Schieder in 1983. Warren Oates was in it too. It was the same director as Short Circuit and Saturday Night Fever. Much better than the TV program of course.

― bryan, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

blue thunder had stearable gattling gun which was cool but airwolf would easily kick blue thunders ass !!!

― martin spooks, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

which was best AIRWOLF or BLUETHUNDER well thereis only one winner and that is AIRWOLF.

― nigel.john townsend-cardew, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did anyone notice that both Ernest Borgnine from "Airwolf" and Warren Oates from the "Blue Thunder" movie were both in "The Wild Bunch". I smell an interdepartmental government conspiracy keeping these helicopters from getting in the ring.... anyway, pretty, sleek Airwolf with that sensitive cellist, Hawk at the controls vs. nasty, ugly brute Blue Thunder, piloted by Vietnam-vet-on-the-rampage, Murphy? Blue Thunder would kick ass.

― Paddy, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Well you know Blue thunder had that ability to do a loop. But Aif Wolf had the computers and advanced compass. They were pretty much mathced in fire power. NOt sure witch is better. I'll have to lean more towards blue thunder. Look faster.

― Specter Noone, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just got me a a grate new sign-off tag.

Look faster.

― mark s, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue Thunder was a more realistic design than Airwolf. Plus, no chopper, that I know of, can even achieve Mach 1. I think the fastest chopper can go over 300mph. It's a specially modified Bell with two enormous jet engines. Anyway, if Airwolf really existed I guess it would have the edge with speed and firepower.

― eddie duca, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

gotta agree with Eddie on realism grounds, Blue Thunder was in fact modelled on the (then prototype, now operational) AH-64 attack Helicopter, the Apache.

Airwolf was total nonsense in aeronautical terms but kicked ass coz of Jan Michael and ofcourse Archangel...

― Joey Fish, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry Joey, 'Blue Thunder' was in fact a heavily modified 1973 - 1977 Aerospatiale SA341 Gazelle helicopter, not a prototype anything. Most of the exterior of the aircraft was fabricated from the rotor forward, including the glass canopy. Nothing on it worked. The guns, microphones, even the intercoolers on the sides of the rotor mounts (labeled '02') were not functional. Check out www.airliners.net for interesting photos of an 'stock' Gazelle.

― Christopher Wood, Monday, 1 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

look quit being silly everyone knows that airwolf was the best tv show ever made and that bluethunder was a crapy helicopter whith a crappy gun it couldnt even pierce airwolf armour let alone catch up whith up bluethnders poxy little turbo that ran out of fuel in 2 mins

all bow down to the true god AIRWOLF

― david robertson, Monday, 11 November 2002 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

blue thunder the movie wins here.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Airworlf was a tease; she promised much, but coyly stayed hidden in that sekrit canyon, only coming out when she felt like it.

Memo to people seeking Jan Michael Vincent - why did you not follow him, as he would lead you to the hiding place of the super-duper-copter. Or follow Santini. Simple.

New FITE!

Steethawk vs KIT

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You are all wasting your time.

― Plunging Hen, Monday, 11 November 2002 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Goto www.gregdonner.org/blue_thunder/blue_thunder.html to see a trailer pitting the Lady against Blue Thunder. BTW, Blue Thunder the movie kicks ass. Especially for an early 80s action movie. It out performs crap like XXX or even Keanu's magnum opus, Speed.

― Airshark, Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Both Joey and Chris are part correct.Chris is right in that the Blue Thunder helicopter was a modified Gazelle,but Joey has actually got the right idea when he references the formidable Apache.The modifications to the original Gazelle were carried out by the Hughes Helicopter company(soon to be bought out by McDonnell-Douglas and later absorbed into Boeing),who were at the time producing the prototype to what we now know as the AH-64 Apache.They were assisted by Cinema Air,who advised on the fitting of all the 'gadgets' such as the surv mikes and trick instrumentation.
Thunder lovers will be pleased to know that two Gazelles were converted,and one still exists today,albeit in a pretty poor state,in the MGM/Universal studios lot.The other was sold as salvage and was eventually broken up.
As for Airwolf,it was a poor imitation and not worthy of BT's crown of Hardest Copter!But then I'd rather drive a Hummer than a Ferrari!

― Eugene Speed, Saturday, 28 December 2002 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

A similar title to this was used by that cunning Welsh virus writer as an email heading.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 28 December 2002 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I caught a bit of Airwolf the other day and was shocked to find that Jan Michael Vincent had been replaced by Barry Van Dyck. It turns out that in 1987 they tried to resurrect the series - here's the blurb from IMDB:

The series has been revamped with an all new cast. The brother that Stringfellow Hawke had been looking for during the original series has finally been found and is now the new pilot of the high tech helicopter. Dominic Santini's niece, Jo is also part of the team. Jason Lock is the new contact at the agency. And Mike Rivers is a hotshot pilot. In it after finding Hawke, they decide to continue the deal that Stringfellow Hawke had with the agency; they will keep Airwolf location a secret and they will go on missions for the agency.

Has anyone else seen this abomination?

― Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 3 February 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Airwolf was great. Street Hawk was also a good series as far as these "smart vehicle" TV programmes go.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 9 February 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

So which theme song can you still hum?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 02:54 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway it was all about this guy:

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/airwolf-arch.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 March 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone who believes Airwolf would beat Blue Thunder probably also thinks Justin Timberlake could kick Chuck Lidell's ass.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 16 March 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'M A WERE~~AIR~~WOLF!!!!

― kv_nol, Friday, 16 March 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

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