yeah, especially when The Lady is in Combat Mode and showing her fangs

"The Lady" never ceases to amaze me.

The orchestra still sits in place waiting for next lift off. If you know the spot in the desert, you can still find them.

No can't top the best like Elvis was top of the world best of the best and Air Wolf is on top best of the best and I salute Jan-Michael Vincent aka stringfellow hawke he made this show what it is would not be any good with out him and after he left the show well y'all know the rest

The sight of Airwolf in action against enemy targets, including MiGs, puts a smile on my face.

my favorite synth music besides john carpenter

lsIam will dominate USA anyway

Oh yeah nothing in this world can't stop the Lady!

Ah yes. Back when Dom didn't rust Michael at all and was REALLY snarky with him.

What is the name of the episode?

@@darrylb5451 "Echoes from the Past" is the name of the episode

That Drag-Chute thing was ridiculous. The rotors would've cut the strings to pieces!

Why didn’t it just hover

@@dcdrew3 Right!!!!

@@troycollett8540 er because the rotor blades weren't spinning as it left the Hercules?

chembleton I meant once it got near the water

wolfje is er

Yes but...........rotors............makes no sense.

@@picallo1 dont think to hard about it....lol \

I think they slowed down the rotors but still that would still kill them if they are turbo boosting at Mach 1+ which they did fairly consistently on this show.

@@picallo1according to the pilot episode, the rotor system would disengage when the turbo’s were activated. Just gotta believe in the fantasy.

@@JeremyGSU2011 I get that but in no world could the rotors even spin a little without catching the parachute lines. Its IMPOSSIBLE.

That last part was hilarious alright, and earlier Archangel kept begging Dom to know where the Lady's Lair was, smart move on Dom's part to still keep it classified!

Lynn Tooley and they lost the helicopter too. the fourth season should never have been made! It was horrible!

i agree on the fourth season wasnt the same without hawke and dom

Lynn Tooley yes it was beyond terrible.

Lynn Tooley indeed, That season was pure bullshit. It soiled Airwolf's name, in a very...Very worst and Cringy way possible. I mean come on Canada, you had one job.....One..Job >:(

it was awful. replacing string and dom was the worst thing they could have done.

I liked this fight, the one from Daddy's Gone A Hunting, the one from Bite of the Jackal, and the one from Mind Games, as well as the original pilot movie. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jt2iqreSlc7HkWw.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a59nY6d4mt_XZo0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJiYnbp5m5aagY0.html

HX-1 fight is pretty cool too

Adrenaline at its BEST 🚁

The music is amazing!

Oliver Dale What happend....

look up Michelle Nicastro on imdb, breast cancer sadly, aged 50

@@chembleton That's sad, died too young

It is sad. She died young, Airwolf crashed in a storm not many years after the show, Dom died a long time ago and String recently. So now they are all gone including the helicopter. This life is short but God has prepared a place for His children. "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."

They were trying to escape quickly, there was no time to look for a spare helmet. Remember, Hawk had been captured and held prisoner by foreign agents who were trying to take not only him but Airwolf back to their home country. They captured him by giving false information about his missing brother. The papers were laced with a short acting sedative, as he flew away he passed out and his chopper crashed. This Allowed his captors to grab him and put him in the ambulance that they had following them. From there, he was rushed to a hospital, treated for his wounds whilst under strict security. After Hawk had began to regain his senses, he noticed irregularities; for example Accident investigators hadn't made contact for an initial statement, a woman doctor being a bit touchy feely, stroking his hair etc.

She had Hair Helmet on.

Well the Migs were trying to blow them up, so you know...

Same here, I also had a crush on that nurse.

BEST OF THE BEST!!!!!!!!

what was the name of this episode ??

@@blogger2k179 Echoes From The Past - 1st Season (1984)

I had a huge crush on that nurse! 😂

they would ruin it for us true fans with some politically correct nonsense....better left alone.

You're absolutely right.

hallelujah!!!!!

@@workingshlub8861 very much like 1980's//// only first 3-4 seasons any good because audience was family oriented and did not want to tune in for violence and intrigue.

BREATHTAKING 🕊

Maybe the level/intensity could be controlled

I didn't even know he was dead. The Legend is gone!

Forever 😢

So your calling my boy strong a murderer? Ok let's break this down. String fellow Hawke was a hardened war veteran who has unknown multiple kills from the Veitnam war. If you watched the show and studied the character you would notice String was very reluctant to fight but once he was forced into one, well you know what would always happen. Ok this particular episode " sweet britches " was introducing Jean Bruce Scott, who was a incredible addition to the show. This was the 2nd season opener and if you noticed the show kind of changed from the cold war era to more family friendly type action where it was the good guy always wins thing. Ok the sheriff kills Strings friend who did call string for help. String shows up in Pope county's bar and almost immediately gets arrested by the sheriff for no legal reason. If you remember the sheriff was corrupt. He was going to kill string as nd string knew it. The sheriff locked up Caitlin for no reason and had his men try to rape/ rough her up the sheriff gets his men to hunt string and murder him. Ok here is a question. How would string get the sheriff arrested? String was being shot at running for his life, running to Airwolf where he knew he would be safe. He had to save Caitlin and he knew with Airwolf, he could. String gave the sheriff a chance. He didn't want to kill him, but the sheriff wasn't going to budge. String had no choice. The missle I admit was a bit on the overkill side. The show had a formula whenever the combat theme was playing and it started to build and build they would always end the climax with a missle. It seemed to work. I dont believe string is a murderer, like I said he gave the sheriff a chance to surrender. Airwolf was made in the era where the good guy has to win in the end, it may not be perfect but he won. Airwolf was made in a non politically correct era and I miss those days very much. A show like Airwolf couldn't be made today, the technology and politics are so diffrent.

@@jasonduke3608 If I remember right (and I think I do) didn't the corrupt and murderous sheriff draw his gun and continue blasting holes in Caitline's copter glass trying to kill her and String said "don't make me do it" and it was obvious 100% the sheriff was going to keep firing on her until he killed her? String waited as long as he could before finally ending the murderous lawless depraved Sheriff. He had to be forcefully stopped but maybe not with a missile. The chain guns could have done the job. Other times String tried not to blow people up unless there was no other way to stop them and keep from being killed himself and talked the woman who's father was murderred not to kill the murderer when she had the chance at the end. Yes the show could never be made today because the show was patriotic and String & Dom loved America and were opposed to communism

@@digitalmagicAR Yes you remembered right. Aldo your right about string useing just the chain guns to finish the sheriff. But given the severity of the situation string wanted to be sure, plus once the theme music starts to build it always ends with the missile at the climax. God I miss the 80's. Your also right about a show like this could never be made today. I dont want to get political about it but this is a whole diffrent U.S.A. from when I was a kid. Thanks for your reply!

The sheriff? Do you remember what he did to Moffett? He blowed up real good!

@@gravis2000 With Moffet it was personal.

He did a masterful job indeed! My favorite music of any show. Especially starting at 1:08 in this ep when the Lady finally recovers from the fall and soars above the glimmering water the music takes your breath away

@@digitalmagicAR yeah, better musical choreography and editing than you'll see in most action movies. I wish that back in the day, they'd given out Emmy's for musical choreography and editing, because these people would've been contenders. I'm not sure what other music Sylvester LeVay composed, but to me this was his best work ever.

@@manofsan Yes indeed! I would LOVE to see footage of him directing the symphony as they recorded the tracks for the show. Too bad it doesn't exist

@@digitalmagicAR I just searched KZfaq to see what other music Sylvester Levay had done, and I was delighted to find the soundtrack for the movie Mannequin, which I always loved: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7iElraIrrHcqmg.html You can hear some great emotional notes in this soundtrack too.

@@manofsan Thank you. I just listened to some of that. 1987 was probably right after he quit scoring Airwolf. Looks like he did music for these shows : "Fly, Robin, Fly" (1975) Get Up and Boogie (1976) Scarface OST (as arranger) (1983) Flashdance soundtrack collaboration with Giorgio Moroder Where the Boys Are '84 (1984) Invitation to Hell (1984) Creator (1985) My Man Adam (1986) Airwolf (1984-1986) Bambi Cobra (1986) Mannequin (1987) Werewolf (TV series) (1987-88) Probe (TV series) (1988) Navy SEALs (1990) Stone Cold (1991) Hot Shots! (1991) Medicopter 117 (1998-2006) Hexen, Hexen (musical) (1990) Elisabeth (Musical) (1992) Mozart! (musical) (1999) Rebecca (musical) (2006) Marie Antoinette (musical) (2006)

yeah it could be but it wouldnt be the same without the orignal characters

Or the original Bell 220A. The Lady went down in a thunderstorm in 1992, IIRC. Killed: Pilot, medics and patient being airlifted to hospital.

Dan Trigona with all do respect, the little girl made it to the hospital. They were on the way back. They thought pilot error and possibly metal fatigue was the answer. (One report said that).

Dan Marinucci www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Airwolf-DHHSD.htm According to this, I am correct. All passengers aboard the Lady were killed. There's a picture of the lady's final resting place...It's difficult to look at.

Didn't mean to insult you, I've always heard that one story. 51 years on the clock isn't really doing me any favors 😞

Eternally 😢🕊🙏

That's Airwolf for you!😊

What is the name of this episode and what season, please 🙏 thank you?

@@darrylb5451 Echoes From the Past

saint john!!!! i miss you

What was supposedly happening was the copter dropped out in reverse, deployed the chute and then started the rotors using the turbos to aid in momentum until they could get control. When the scale helicopter goes out the back the rotors are not spinning but since the rest of the footage was the real helicopter they had to have the rotors spinning for it to be able to fly. So they cheated the scene and the rotors are immediately spinning full speed. Nonetheless even the story of what they were supposed to be doing was impossible as there was not enough time to get the rotors up to speed. But of course, Airwolf was supposed to disengage it's rotors above a certain speed (500knots?) and fly using the turbos according to the show. Fun stuff. Got to love it and the great music too :)

And yeah I was thinking the same thing watching this as an adult but not a kid, they would have been thrown all over the place inside the cabin. Dom strains to reach the control but without restraints none of them would even be seated haha

Rob- you can...it would have to be a very quick helicopter such as a sikorski or a military type attack helicopter like the cobra....think if it as this way....the Blue angles C5 i believe it is the cargo version that flies around has side thrusters on the plane, they can put that on a helicopter like Airwolf which is a Bell 222 model back in the day...having said that...when you drop cargo such as helicopter and expect it to take off you need to start the turbines right before it gets dropped then get the rotors going - then kick in the thrusters or "turbos" to get it to propel forward once its clear of the cargo...it is going to need about 15,000 feet to gain altitude as in this version of Airwolf...but its TV but I think its possible...I did fly a few Cessna 172s but I think a helicopter would be more capable of such a stunt...

@@michaelloder5150 well sir, you know your stuff, I applaud you. Fully respect don't get me wrong please. But I learned. The rotors blades gave the sky lift. Like a helicopter losing its engine. It doesn't drop from the the sky. The natural blade rotation give you just enough lift. I think it is possible. To start up an helicopter from a plane. But it will be really close! But in airwolf. We had scenes without parachute. Before. But still we should try it. For the dare men.

We should try it! Start up an giant. Helicopter. Dropping out off a plane at 33.000 feet. Let's try if it's possible. I wonder who is brave enough! Only stringfellow hawk. But that was a tv show! Who wants to try. That's why I still love airwolf. I need reruns badly. No remakes. Original!!!

To answer your question bro.. No, it is NOT possible. I am an actual chopper pilot... Rotors do not spool up that fast... there is no turbo boost.. The helicopter would not be falling level which means when they do try to reach any sort of high rpm you would experience mast bumping and break the main rotor shaft....We won't even get into "Vortex ring state" or "Settling with power" which is exactly what you'll find yourself in if you're trying to pull hard collective to arrest your high rate of descent... That's ofcourse if your blades are still there.. So the wind up is, no.. Everybody on that chopper would be dead.

@@doctorbrown2313 Okey thanks for your answer, but what ? If you had turbo and parachute to slow the fall down? Still this show was all done without the green screens. That's why they are better!

I'm with ya there, they shouldn't of done Season 4 like they did!

Hawke, Dom, Archangel: "What season 4?"

It was awful. The actual Helicopter was gone at that point. All the footage was old, also explained why they had normal headphones and not Airwolfs black helmet. I always thought that was stupid.

You mean lame, that's probably why they asked Barry vandyke's dad for a guest shot. (A true gentleman like him).

agreed....it was ridiculous

I guess they couldn't bear the thought of getting blown to bits by "The Lady". (Just saying.)

I believe the company that made the original Airwolf, Jetcopters, is still in business so maybe if they can find a blueprint then a new Airwolf could be possible.

Yeah, season 1 dogfights used a lot of stock footage for the enemy aircraft, but in season2 and 3 they moved away from stock footage fights and brought in other aircraft. So you see them both in the frame and passing by. The camera crew was fantastic

The late Michelle Nicastro

for soviets they wanted quantity over quality//very much like sherman army tank vs. nazi tiger tank

That's because they used RC models for that.

@@saschabach3285 that episode it was Cuban air force. Airwolf was being smuggled out of the US in a cargo transport that intended to go to Cuba. East Germany is nowhere near the continental United States. Archangel even said they'd received word of MiGs being scrambled out of Cuba.

The aerial footage they used in this episode of Airwolf, was from *the old 1950s movie, "The Hunters", with Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, & Mai Britt.*

The episode is called "echoes from the past" if you're wondering.

This episode was from the first season, so the show was still pretty fresh. I liked season 1 music and plotlines more, before they went too Hollywood. The cringiest was when they had a mentally challenged boy in the cockpit using a lightpen to draw the bad guys, and then using the "search...identify" feature to find the bad guys. Now that was super cringey.

It's airwolf

Who cares, it Rocked!!!!!!!

Sorry for answering a yr old comment but you got the reason for the drag chute wrong , it was not deployed to slow his decent because the distance and time saved by it would have been lost in the first 3 second turbo burst, not the chute was deployed to stop the freefall tumbling it cause Airwolf to go nose down without any more crazy rolls allowing the turbos to be used to create a controlled dive like a missile flys giving Hawke the use of the mach flight controls for steering, also mach flight would boost rotor spin on the chopper blades getting them to flight speed , restoring full manuvering control.

LOUSY? The thing is armed to the teeth and can fly Mach 1+ and go up to 85,000 feet. YOU TELL ME how that makes Airwolf a "lousy helicopter"

@@troykearney9516 lol .. that's what the lady says before they're released from the back of the C 130