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Amen to that my friend!! And I'm 43 myself!😂 And as cliché as it's gonna sound, I'm gonna say it anyway by saying, "They just don't make shows like this anymore and it obviously shows!!". It's downright criminal what they've done to so many different shows & movies with all the God awful & soulless remakes that've been nothing more than shameless cashgrabs but, I guess what can you expect from hollyweird!!🤦😮💨 But I digress. I sincerely hope & pray to God that they NEVER try to "remake" this beloved piece of 80s nostalgia the way that recently, so many others have unfortunately been treated to and utterly destroyed in the process and all in the name of this God awful modern-day woke, racially motivated, and woefully politically biased idealism!! It's truly shameful what has been happening to all our beloved movies, stories, and TV shows in the last decade or so now and I hope and pray that maybe it's finally coming to an end!!🙏🙏🙏
@@thedude41780 All true!!!! When I heard that some of my favorite TV shows were going to be remade in movie form or TV Shows I almost had a stroke!!!!. The Man From Uncle, Wild, Wild West, Kolchak, X-Files, The Saint etc. Couldn't wait. TMFU wasn't too bad if you just realized that it had nothing to do with the series, not even the music score. WWW was close to be the worst movie I've ever seen. The X-Files became left leaning trash. Kolchak became a psychological mystery series (boring). The Saint changed the character completely just like they did in TMFU. If they remade Airwolf today they'd be battling the police to protect BLM and Antifa along with any other terrorist group out there.
@@tomskell9622yep, sadly you're probably 100% right!! Thank God for a sort of an alternative to the leftist Hollywood garbage beginning to emerge and maybe that's a sign that things are beginning to change and revert to more sensibility once again...HOPEFULLY!!🤞😖😂 It's been the same way with superheroes lately too, they've taken and practically ruined damn near all of them, with the exception of a few but, the overall majority have been totally bastardized and transformed fundamentally from what they originally started out as!! It's sad, infuriating, and so shameful that people would do this to things people love simply for money or to make a frivilous name for themselves for the sake of their own 15 secs of fame!!🤦😓😮💨 But I could not agree with you more and I desperately miss the old days when life was simpler, much more affordable, legitimately enjoyable, and when people actually interacted with each other on a regular basis, instead of being buried in screens 24/7 & 365 days a year!! I don't think there's anything wrong with wishing to go back to something like that because what we have today leaves us all with little anonymity, any thought of true privacy, personal property, and most importantly, COMMON SENSE to be desired and it's obvious that basically everyone is clearly much less happy or content with their lives than they were back then because today we no longer have ANY time to slow down and enjoy the "little" things in life that bring us all the joy we need to truly be content, healthy, happy, and productive and that's why our society/westernized society is on a rapid decline & circling the drain(if you ask me!)!!! Nice talking with you!! God bless you brother!!
WOW we have 2024 and there is nothing we have that was near as cool as AIRWOLF. What a genius Design, Music, Actors, Cameramen and Pilots flying. One of the best Things, stunning beautiful and cool, that was ever made
was just about to say that helicopter is around 40 years old and the design is still the best I have ever seen , not many other airplanes , cars or bikes can make that claim
@@travelsouthafrica5048 the noise it made (or the noise they put in the program, still the best howl/whine/ I don’t know what it was, but, like Knight rider, you could hear it without seeing the tv and know EXACTLY what was on.
A fantastic tribute to the series and of course the fantastic helicopter. I think this Bell 222 is the most beautiful helicopter ever. As a 59 year old I can enjoy it again.
I think it's worth pointing out the skill of the pilots who worked on this show. Not only the stunt pilots- but also the camera and chase aircraft involved in the filming. There was no CGI back then! Pretty incredible when you think about it.
The only "CGI" you had, was the firing rocket launchers. I think in hindsight, it would've been enough to see some smoke coming out of the launcher instead of a orange missile
Agreed, it's still a beautiful design after over 40 years old plus the stunt pilot said it flew better with the modifications than it did before the modifications. Unfortunately it was destroyed in an accident in Germany while being used an air ambulance but there is a nonflying exact copy that is owned by a private collector in California that was created using the same molds to make the modifications for the TV show.
Quite easily, one of the greatest theme songs of all time. When I was a kid and heard this coming from the living room, it was a full on scramble to the TV. The first season had more of a Cold War edge theme to it, and those are some of the best episodes of the bunch.
My motorcycle helmet has that dark drop down visor, and every time I hit the button for it to engage, I always think of this show. Of course, most times I’m headed to the store or a movie, and not taking on some international baddie.
First season was the best. I'm still unhappy about what they did in later seasons. Was executives meddling yet again, just like they later did with SeaQuest DSV after its first season.
I saw this bird at a air show in 1989. I stood with the military police and "guarded" this beast. Joined the military to be a helicopter crew chief after that experience. Did 23 years and loved every second of it. Still the best helicopter ever made in my opinion. Hell I named my dogs Hawkeye and Airwolf.
Was in my 20s watching this show tv today has no heart whereas we had airwolf knight rider magnum pi fall guy Miami Vice and so many more today mostly crap so-called reality TV.
The shows of today are crap! They are all about gender, race, politics, etc. None have anything to do with family values, but those that DO...like "Last man standing", get cancelled! Why? Because they are "trying" to impose family values and that's something the networks DON'T want!! So sad....
So grateful this show was a part of my childhood and that it wasn’t made today. If it had been, it would have been some horrible cgi and we would have never had the privilege of witnessing the real and amazing maneuvers this aircraft and it’s pilots performed. So sad it crashed in real life. RIP JMV, EB and the real Bell helicopter used as Airwolf.
According to the stunt-pilots, the A56-7W modifications actually made it fly * better * than a stock 222c. Goes to show that the designers knew what they were doing.
Some of the scenes of Airwolf hovering just above the ground show just how good the pilot was for that show. Those are some of the most difficult maneuvers in a helicopter. Simply incredible.
2:18 That is perfect control, or a very good use of a miniature. I do recall that a lot of the footage we see is sped up (undercranked), but the effect is wonderfull.
There was one episode where the Lady did a slalom course through orange posts on the deck at slow speed, perhaps as part of training or evaluation? The pilot made it look easy.. silky smooth and masterful control of his bird.
Hell yeah! I was in 5th grade and use to take my toy air wolf to school and in recess I would go to the sandbox dig a hole and pretend air wolf was coming out! Memories. Circa 1988, SoCal
This theme has been my ringtone for over two decades now and depends on life, will stay the same for many more years to come no matter how many phones I change! 🥁🥁🎶🎶🕺🕺
Good choice, I have been trying different 80s/90s themes of late, must getting nostalgic with age LOL 🤣 The V8 full throttle at the beginning of Hardcastle & McCormick is equally awesome 👍
Watching this little tribute actually made me realize how insanely pricey production must have been for the series. Helicopters are not cheap, even rentals. Great show, one of my favorites growing up.
@mandellorian Yeah I noticed the difference in season 4. The quality of the show really went downhill and looked similar to those early morning cartoon shows on a cheap budget.
The vehicles and situations represented in Airwolf and Knight Rider were essentially what many boy's daydream about while bored in the classroom. A big reason why these shows were so popular. 😁
There were some very good maneuvers through the series. I am thinking of what happened when the movie star that thought he could fly just by watching String do it.
I remember In the late 80's when I was a child, Airwolf and MacGyver were the most popular episodes in Taiwan and I can't wait to watch them with my family every weekend. My dad passed away five years ago, however hearing the Airwolf theme music sounds still reminds me those good old times with him, thanks for upload!
I felt this bro...one of many memories growing sitting in living room watching this with my dad. After that I would see a coastguard Hilo And remember this show as well as seeing it with my dad been almost two years since I lost him do to covid
Now **THIS** is a testament to the imagination and creative versatility of all those developers and dreamers who made TV in the 80's ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!
Man, the composer of this theme song is truly a genius. He managed to incorporate the sound of spinning rotor blades into this awesome masterpiece. Listen carefully to the first 9 sec starting @ 0:30
"I can't believe you people! You haul my butt outta bed after midnight; fly me off to God knows where, to see some lousy helicopter and there's no cream cheese..." "It's not a lousy helicopter, senator. It's Airwolf."
Thank you for uploading this. I am in tears as I am typing this. This was my childhood, some of my fondest memories ever. I wish I could hit that like button a million times.
"No matter how many times I see her, she still takes my breath away." What an amazing machine... I don't care that the music is so 80s techno... if you have that tune in your blood, it's simply sweet music. I wish this show was still streaming somewhere... it was fun.
So many things done right... the volcano... the black visor for combat mode... the startup seq, the music, the use of RC and real life flying skillz, keeping story simple ... Such great memories of my childhood from the early 90s!
Nice tribute. I watched this avidly back in the 80’s. Yeah it had lots of recycled shots, but goddamn what an awesome show. Most episodes hold up today, particularly the pilot. Real shame though, All the stars of this show are gone now. Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine and of course our lady Airwolf.
@@TheDogofTin That's why in later seasons you can see the obvious switch for the RC helicopter in a lot of the exterior action flight scenes. Sad, but obvious cut in production money.
Props to the cameraman, stunt pilots and camera crew pilots to be able to pull off superb flight stunts and sequences. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear Airwolf's howl just like the Imperial Tie Fighters when they screamed past you on the screen. Really miss all that type of innovation in movies and TV that made them so memorable and iconic.
2 things I remember best about this phenomenal series when I was a kid. 1.: The Music... when the Music kicks in the adrenalin rush is abnormal just pure beast 2.: The "SCREACHING" of Airwolf when engaging in combat and doing these insane turns, that sound was haunting and dangerous and beautiful at the same time. Best Series ever!
Yeah, I loved to hear the 'wolf howling in combat and snarling too sometimes! It's very similar to the howl from a Vulcan bomber, another of my favourite aircraft! Search on CZcams for "Vulcan howl" and you'll see a few examples.
Yeah I kinda know what they mean. Although I kinda get the feeling these two, String and Dom ain’t been laid in a while? Maybe String’s still cut up about Archangel’s first dolly bird 🦢 assistant who died at the hands of Moffet , Airwolf’s creator and is the reason String’s such a moody git. 🤣 Her name won’t come to me right now 🥸😒🤬🙄 (thanks again useless brain 🧠) unless it was Gabrielle ? The one he got before Marella. 🥵🥵😍😉😉🤓. Don’t get me wrong 😑. The Bell 33 or whatever it’s called (the helicopter 🚁 Airwolf is based on is a beautiful thing but it’s just a helicopter. It’s like neither of the guys have seen a woman in their lives. I know it’s a while before Caitlin O’Shaugnesy comes along and joins the party but I think they need a hobby or something because fixing planes and aircraft for a living isn’t doing it for them ; hence the aircraft fetish. 🤔🤨😁
I loved this show when I was a kid. The theme song was so epic and the Airwolf startup sequence music was the coolest thing I had heard in my young life at the time.
back on those decade, on the Usa did the most greatest tv series, not only Airwolf, but also Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Magnum PI, Automan, Otherworld, Riptide, A-Team, Miami Vice, Visitors, The Robinson, Mac Gyver, Family Ties, The greatest american hero, Manimal, and many, many more. The series which air today, doesn matter if from tv or streaming, are just rubbish.
This is amazing, amazing, amazing. The only thing missing, and I feel horrible even mentioning it (because this is so incredibly well done) is a sound bite or two of the blood-curdling noises the chopper made on the show. Both that eerie whistling sound she made at low speed, and that shrieking sound on acceleration always sent the chills up my spine.
@@davelewthwaite That’ll be a double thrill, my mother is from Aberaeron and we used to go for hikes and picnics in the country often enough to encounter jets doing practice runs. I’ll definitely look it up.
feeling glad that i have seen all airwolf episodes as a kid.!! :-) I grew up watching Air wolf, Knight rider, CHiPs, small wonder and Full house,..and my teen age started watching fresh Prince of belair..!! Great memories of childhood.
This is a show that could be brought back! Newly designed interior same exterior. The “company” could recruit new pilots for a top secret mission maybe former military. If done right it could be amazing
None of the reboots of 80's tv series like Battlestar Galactica, Magnum, Macguyver or Knight Rider have been any good though. I would love to see a remake of Air Wolf but fear it would be just as bad and I think they would probably change it to the stealth hawk that was used to crash Bin Laden's party!
@@B-A-L what are you talking about. The BSG rebooot was fantastic. One of the best shows on TV. Hawaii 5-O and Magnum are decent shows.... though I agree with you to a point. While good shows they don’t have the chemistry and charm of the original. The KnightRider reboot on the other hand was a complete nightmare. That show was off the rails terrible. They way it ended I think it tried to reboot itself a bit and had potential. I’m afraid if AirWolf ever came back it would go the KnightRider way and try to supercharge the lady making her do all sorts of impossible crazy things. I don’t want that.
The ultimate attack helicopter which arguably looked as beautiful and graceful as any of the spitfire MKS. A true stroke of genius by Bellisario. One, if the not the ultimate TV series.
We Pakistani kids were always in waiting of next episode of AIR WOLF.... feel so lucky to have so amazing and sweet memories with Air wolf and Knight Rider..... 😎👍😊💜💓😎👍😊💜💓🇵🇰
Let us all be ever grateful for the amazing piloting skills of the pilot who gave us all of these fantastic scenes of the chopper to look at. No CGI here, all real.
I'm 45 and a Nissan/Infiniti technician and we play this in the shop along with nightrider. I still jump up and down like a kid when I hear it and your cars are fixed much faster and better 💪and when I test drive your car after the repairs! O boy your car turns to Airwolf 😂
Yep, I was just thinking that the pilot of that Aircraft really knew their craft. Insurance would kill those stunts today if they tried to reboot the show,
Im trying to remember the name of one of the stunt pilots we met. He died that year in a really small stunt plane. Sad. I can't remember if he flew or was practicing with the small "Octopussy" stunt jet plane.
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i dont know about everyone else, but after nearly 40 years the theme tune still gives me goose bumps, great tv show
Me too, and I'm 67 years old!
Amen to that my friend!!
And I'm 43 myself!😂
And as cliché as it's gonna sound, I'm gonna say it anyway by saying, "They just don't make shows like this anymore and it obviously shows!!".
It's downright criminal what they've done to so many different shows & movies with all the God awful & soulless remakes that've been nothing more than shameless cashgrabs but, I guess what can you expect from hollyweird!!🤦😮💨
But I digress.
I sincerely hope & pray to God that they NEVER try to "remake" this beloved piece of 80s nostalgia the way that recently, so many others have unfortunately been treated to and utterly destroyed in the process and all in the name of this God awful modern-day woke, racially motivated, and woefully politically biased idealism!!
It's truly shameful what has been happening to all our beloved movies, stories, and TV shows in the last decade or so now and I hope and pray that maybe it's finally coming to an end!!🙏🙏🙏
@@thedude41780 All true!!!! When I heard that some of my favorite TV shows were going to be remade in movie form or TV Shows I almost had a stroke!!!!. The Man From Uncle, Wild, Wild West, Kolchak, X-Files, The Saint etc. Couldn't wait. TMFU wasn't too bad if you just realized that it had nothing to do with the series, not even the music score. WWW was close to be the worst movie I've ever seen. The X-Files became left leaning trash. Kolchak became a psychological mystery series (boring).
The Saint changed the character completely just like they did in TMFU. If they remade Airwolf today they'd be battling the police to protect BLM and Antifa along with any other terrorist group out there.
@@tomskell9622yep, sadly you're probably 100% right!!
Thank God for a sort of an alternative to the leftist Hollywood garbage beginning to emerge and maybe that's a sign that things are beginning to change and revert to more sensibility once again...HOPEFULLY!!🤞😖😂
It's been the same way with superheroes lately too, they've taken and practically ruined damn near all of them, with the exception of a few but, the overall majority have been totally bastardized and transformed fundamentally from what they originally started out as!!
It's sad, infuriating, and so shameful that people would do this to things people love simply for money or to make a frivilous name for themselves for the sake of their own 15 secs of fame!!🤦😓😮💨
But I could not agree with you more and I desperately miss the old days when life was simpler, much more affordable, legitimately enjoyable, and when people actually interacted with each other on a regular basis, instead of being buried in screens 24/7 & 365 days a year!!
I don't think there's anything wrong with wishing to go back to something like that because what we have today leaves us all with little anonymity, any thought of true privacy, personal property, and most importantly, COMMON SENSE to be desired and it's obvious that basically everyone is clearly much less happy or content with their lives than they were back then because today we no longer have ANY time to slow down and enjoy the "little" things in life that bring us all the joy we need to truly be content, healthy, happy, and productive and that's why our society/westernized society is on a rapid decline & circling the drain(if you ask me!)!!!
Nice talking with you!!
God bless you brother!!
Thumbs up from this 45 year old.!!!!!
I am sorry to all the kids who grew up without Airwolf in their life.
I showed this to my kids, and it scared them. They left to go play mindcraft. SMH, different times, I guess.
Facts
Or Blue Thunder.
And A-team ,mcguyver ,knight rider,
You are so right when the fight would come the song rang free
Here I am at 49 years of age still looking this up. Just how much did this amazing helicopter and show influence my life????
51 and same. Brilliant show......
Not much but it was good entertainment
I'm 4 years younger
And I agree with you
This, Blue Thunder, Iron Eagle, Top Gun, The Final Countdown. What a time!
I feel you!!! I'm here commenting lol. much love!!!
WOW we have 2024 and there is nothing we have that was near as cool as AIRWOLF. What a genius Design, Music, Actors, Cameramen and Pilots flying. One of the best Things, stunning beautiful and cool, that was ever made
i used to pretend my bike was airwolf......
Chills went down my spine when the beat dropped....
The 80s was hands down, the best decade ever ! Wish I could go back in time.
*Who's with me ?*
I'm with 'ya.!
Me
I am currently at work with literally TEARS IN MY EYES 😂😆
No doubt, I'm down with that.
While we’re there we should also pick up some IBM and Microsoft stock
As soon as that black visor goes down, you know shit's about to get real. Goosebumps, every time. RIP, JMV and EB.
i was thinking the same, Goosebumps on that scene
Yes
Send Airwolf over to Ukraine with safe guards against enemy capture.
I feel Stringfellow Hawke seldom needs that black visor lol!
Yes I agree. And the HUD targeting square within the visor...TRULY state of the art.
R.I.P Jan Michael , Ernest , Alex , Jean Bruce , Deborah & Lance as long as this show lives you will never be forgotten..
The most beautiful helicopter of all time!!!!!
Looks like a shark of the air. Reached the pinnacle of it's evolutionary journey and just stayed there.
I dunno I like Blue Thunder quite a lot too if I’m honest. 🥸😉😅
It's Bell 222/230
Ohhh yes !!!!!
Still looks Modern
Damn, that thing is still beautiful. Also, best theme music ever. Don’t argue, you’re wrong.
was just about to say that helicopter is around 40 years old and the design is still the best I have ever seen , not many other airplanes , cars or bikes can make that claim
@@travelsouthafrica5048 the noise it made (or the noise they put in the program, still the best howl/whine/ I don’t know what it was, but, like Knight rider, you could hear it without seeing the tv and know EXACTLY what was on.
@@georgehayward7668 It sounds like the howl of a vulcan bomber imho, i would like to know what helicopter airwolf was based on though
I loved the show and totally agree with you, the theme music still gives me the chills 🐺 🚁
@@SuperFarkey Airwolf was a modified Bell 222
When a theme song can make you smile 39 years later......you did something right!!!!!
A fantastic tribute to the series and of course the fantastic helicopter. I think this Bell 222 is the most beautiful helicopter ever. As a 59 year old I can enjoy it again.
I think it's worth pointing out the skill of the pilots who worked on this show. Not only the stunt pilots- but also the camera and chase aircraft involved in the filming. There was no CGI back then! Pretty incredible when you think about it.
Was just thinking how watching this in the 80's I had no appreciation for the photography. And how they always sync the shutters to get pretty rotors.
The camera work was great and the stunt pilots were even better. The low altitude at which they flew was incredible.
It was all the old Vietnam Huey pilots who were used to doing crazy stuff!
I miss practical effects and stunts..
The only "CGI" you had, was the firing rocket launchers. I think in hindsight, it would've been enough to see some smoke coming out of the launcher instead of a orange missile
Airwolf still looks better than most modern choppers
ALWAYS THE BEST AND STYLISH
Agreed, it's still a beautiful design after over 40 years old plus the stunt pilot said it flew better with the modifications than it did before the modifications. Unfortunately it was destroyed in an accident in Germany while being used an air ambulance but there is a nonflying exact copy that is owned by a private collector in California that was created using the same molds to make the modifications for the TV show.
No single one ever after looks as sweet as the lady!
@@runawaytrain1979 Agree 💯👍✨
@@runawaytrain1979 u
No it doesn't!
Quite easily, one of the greatest theme songs of all time. When I was a kid and heard this coming from the living room, it was a full on scramble to the TV. The first season had more of a Cold War edge theme to it, and those are some of the best episodes of the bunch.
My motorcycle helmet has that dark drop down visor, and every time I hit the button for it to engage, I always think of this show. Of course, most times I’m headed to the store or a movie, and not taking on some international baddie.
First season was the best. I'm still unhappy about what they did in later seasons. Was executives meddling yet again, just like they later did with SeaQuest DSV after its first season.
Love Airwolf! Fantastic show and the BEST tv theme
Airwolf still looks better than most modern choppers
But this is Bell-222 with aliexpress plastic.
Its a classic design, IMHO.
@@EJ205T what u on about?
Anyday the most beautiful ever!
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I saw this bird at a air show in 1989. I stood with the military police and "guarded" this beast. Joined the military to be a helicopter crew chief after that experience. Did 23 years and loved every second of it. Still the best helicopter ever made in my opinion. Hell I named my dogs Hawkeye and Airwolf.
Ooh you are lucky then.
@@PazuzuStalker Thanks. But as with all formal names I shortened them to Hawk and Wolf. Two lab siblings, the female is Wolf and the male is Hawk.
@@rumilagukhool4023 Quite lucky.
God bless you dear.
@@rumilagukhool4023 And the same to you.
Still one of the best TV themes in history!
One of the best intros also for an action/adventure TV show.
100% synthesized music
One of the best looking helicopter of all time!!!
R.I.P. JMV and EB. You played the characters of String and Dom well. Both of you will be missed.
Alex Cord is also deceased
At least Jean Bruce Scott is still with us.
@@josephwisniewski3673 Although big as a house. She started eating (that melon in the intro) and never stopped.
Agreed.
I too want to pay my respects to these two great actors.
RIP Ernest Borgnine and Jan-Michael Vincent 😌🙏
Was in my 20s watching this show tv today has no heart whereas we had airwolf knight rider magnum pi fall guy Miami Vice and so many more today mostly crap so-called reality TV.
I think TV people ran out of ideas. Airwolf was certainly a world wide success.
@@srajjad and totally beyond any TV channel budget. It's all CGI green screen.
Little bit of Street Hawk, A Team and ... LA Law for the grown ups
The shows of today are crap! They are all about gender, race, politics, etc. None have anything to do with family values, but those that DO...like "Last man standing", get cancelled! Why? Because they are "trying" to impose family values and that's something the networks DON'T want!! So sad....
@@barryallenflash1 agreed.
So grateful this show was a part of my childhood and that it wasn’t made today. If it had been, it would have been some horrible cgi and we would have never had the privilege of witnessing the real and amazing maneuvers this aircraft and it’s pilots performed. So sad it crashed in real life. RIP JMV, EB and the real Bell helicopter used as Airwolf.
I’m glad I got to grow up with this as my favorite show as a kid. ❤
Airwolf came out in the 80's and still would kick everyone's ass on TV today. The coolest intro, music and chopper of all time.
This and Knight Rider had the best themes. 80s were great for that.
@@inisus The Equalizer theme demands entry to this party 😁
As a 90's kid in Britain, nothing excited me more than both Airwolf and Knight Rider.
It was the same in Japan, including myself.
Like wise here in the states..
I also loved A Team and McGyver :)
@@abalamdepaimon6891 me too.😉👍
I don't know theses shows aired in the U.K.
I am a 80s child and this theme song speaks to what this country can still become 🎉
She was so beautiful. Greatest thing ever created. I teared up watching this. Thank you for making it.
You're very welcome. It was a labour of love and completely unintentional.
The helicopter was Bell-222c specially modified for the TV series in 1987. It was really a beautiful helicopter, and still it is in 2021.
According to the stunt-pilots, the A56-7W modifications actually made it fly * better * than a stock 222c.
Goes to show that the designers knew what they were doing.
im not a heli enthusiast, but i cannot agree more that airwolf looks still looking bad ass in 2021
@@ArcRene Too bad that the real lady from the series crashed somewhere in Germany if I remember right after it was converted to a air ambulance.
@@tj6136 Yes correct.. they modified it just for the TV series.
@@demandred1957 once a wolf will always be a wolf. Cant be an air ambulance
I grew up watching this in the 80's and I loved it. Such a bad ass show
Unfortunatly these days people are folowing vampire or kinda unending crap.
Same here :)
Blue Thunder didn't really cut it as a rival
Loved watching Airwolf. I grew up watching these good old classic shows from when I was a kid. Still watch the odd episode or two today
This song, this chopper still kicks after so many decades. Calling all JMVs! I mean, RIP JMV and EB.
Some of the scenes of Airwolf hovering just above the ground show just how good the pilot was for that show. Those are some of the most difficult maneuvers in a helicopter. Simply incredible.
Kobe Bryant disagrees.
2:18 That is perfect control, or a very good use of a miniature. I do recall that a lot of the footage we see is sped up (undercranked), but the effect is wonderfull.
There was one episode where the Lady did a slalom course through orange posts on the deck at slow speed, perhaps as part of training or evaluation? The pilot made it look easy.. silky smooth and masterful control of his bird.
@@Looking-great Actually I think he would agree. The maneuver proved too difficult for his pilot.
Its all incredible footage. Beautiful helicopter.
Anyone else spend their days in elementary school fantasizing about flying Airwolf?
* Raises Hand! *
Proper mate
Hell yeah! I was in 5th grade and use to take my toy air wolf to school and in recess I would go to the sandbox dig a hole and pretend air wolf was coming out! Memories. Circa 1988, SoCal
Oh hell yeah. Years later. Sometimes i still do.
When I was a kid, I fantasize of having a model looking like Airwolf
The pinnacle of awesome. Literally makes me cry.
Loved this in my child hood, now 45 years old but still can't forget it and watch it very often.
How can 168 people dislike Airwolf when she remains to this day the cooliest helicopter that ever was?
This is design excellence… this thing is nearly 40 years old, and still looks like it’s from the future!
Too bad that it was plagued with engine and landing gear issues.
I agree man the design is still super awesome till this day
Too right
This theme has been my ringtone for over two decades now and depends on life, will stay the same for many more years to come no matter how many phones I change! 🥁🥁🎶🎶🕺🕺
Yes . Same here 🤭
Good choice, I have been trying different 80s/90s themes of late, must getting nostalgic with age LOL 🤣
The V8 full throttle at the beginning of Hardcastle & McCormick is equally awesome 👍
I'm 59 and grew up with Airwolf bring it back It's been to long come back sexy LADY
Airwolf still has the best look ever..
Watching this little tribute actually made me realize how insanely pricey production must have been for the series. Helicopters are not cheap, even rentals. Great show, one of my favorites growing up.
I remember reading somewhere that production was around 1-3 million per episode, and this was in the mid 1980s. Imagine that in today dollars.
@mandellorian Yeah I noticed the difference in season 4. The quality of the show really went downhill and looked similar to those early morning cartoon shows on a cheap budget.
And this is what I LOVED about the 80's!!!!!! Man this show was so awesome!!!!!
Thank you. Friday nights were reserved to record Airwolf on VHS. Thank you for the memories.
The vehicles and situations represented in Airwolf and Knight Rider were essentially what many boy's daydream about while bored in the classroom. A big reason why these shows were so popular. 😁
I’m 12 and I love Airwolf and I daydream about it all day
Born 79, raised by Airwolf. Love this compilation.
Born 82, raised by Airwolf. Love this compilation.
One of my favorite tv shows of all time growing up the 80s was a great decade
Rip Ernest and Michael........... Regan and Thatcher.... Legends too.... Good time to be a child
2:16 Real chopper flying that low to the ground with no wheels or skids? That's godlike flying.
Ditto. You beat me to the comment.
There were some very good maneuvers through the series. I am thinking of what happened when the movie star that thought he could fly just by watching String do it.
@@rcschmidt668 I thought it was an RC model but the scaling seems to be full size. So it probably was a real chopper being flown.
@@fallinginthed33p It was the real helicopter. The pilot went to low and damaged the ADF pod in that scene.
Does anyone know what episode that was from?
I remember In the late 80's when I was a child, Airwolf and MacGyver were the most popular episodes in Taiwan and I can't wait to watch them with my family every weekend. My dad passed away five years ago, however hearing the Airwolf theme music sounds still reminds me those good old times with him, thanks for upload!
knight rider series too bro...😁
Please accept my deepest condolences on the passing of your dear Dad.
Same here bro! I absolutely loved them both too. Great memories
When we remember this.... WE`RE gettin´ old....
I felt this bro...one of many memories growing sitting in living room watching this with my dad. After that I would see a coastguard Hilo And remember this show as well as seeing it with my dad been almost two years since I lost him do to covid
...when she sways side to side, drops her nose and heads straight for the camera - awesome!!
Now **THIS** is a testament to the imagination and creative versatility of all those developers and dreamers who made TV in the 80's ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!
Man, the composer of this theme song is truly a genius. He managed to incorporate the sound of spinning rotor blades into this awesome masterpiece. Listen carefully to the first 9 sec starting @ 0:30
Sylvester Levay was the composer.
Good catch
I always feel the music syncs perfectly with the spinning blades images of airwolf, like 1:34 - 1:37 and 2:37 - 2:45. I didn't know why, now I know.
"I can't believe you people! You haul my butt outta bed after midnight; fly me off to God knows where, to see some lousy helicopter and there's no cream cheese..."
"It's not a lousy helicopter, senator. It's Airwolf."
What a quote in the first 5min of the pilot episode. "Mean looking bird though." Moffett is a sadistic sum bitch. He got his in the end.
@@dawsonlehmann4852 String.... It’s done.
Thank you for uploading this. I am in tears as I am typing this. This was my childhood, some of my fondest memories ever. I wish I could hit that like button a million times.
this pilot is an absolute god. The skill to fly inches above the ground. Insane.
It's not that hard.
Airwolf can kick any helicopter's butt with just his soundtrack
I see your Airwolf and raise you a Blue Thunder (Movie not the TV show)
Airwolf tries to see blue in the rear view mirror but thunder still does not take off
@@GarryOzols
I see your Airwolf and Blue Thunder and raise you a MI-24P :)
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Jea claude 43 anos muito parabéns 😅😢😊🎉❤
I totally love Airwolf I watched back in the 80s when I was a kid & I've got all of Airwolf on dvd she is a true Lady
"No matter how many times I see her, she still takes my breath away."
What an amazing machine... I don't care that the music is so 80s techno... if you have that tune in your blood, it's simply sweet music.
I wish this show was still streaming somewhere... it was fun.
Your wish is granted its on peacock
@@aliceallen6829 I must have the wrong package, because I can’t find it 🙁 You’ll have to enjoy it for me.
still give me chills goosebump of the intro !!
Anybody remember Blue Thunder? Airwolf, Blue Thunder, Knight Rider was my jam when i was a kid.
I do! I honestly wanted to see Airwolf meet up with Blue Thunder and team up to take out a team of bad guys and gals.
All of them plus The Equalizer
Never watched the show, because I think it was the same time slot as Airwolf--but I have the movie.
You forgot Streethawk
@@cyborg817 Oh, yeah!
So many things done right... the volcano... the black visor for combat mode... the startup seq, the music, the use of RC and real life flying skillz, keeping story simple ... Such great memories of my childhood from the early 90s!
Masa dulu2 masa zaman kanak2 kalau tonton airwolf ni rasa macam jet ini lah paling terhebat sekali..❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Loved this show so much back in the day. Music brings all the feels back...lol.
Still gives me goosebumps after all these years. Airwolf was "the" show for me during the 1980s and cold War.
So many great shows back in the day. I loved Airwolf, but if I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be The A-Team
Nice tribute. I watched this avidly back in the 80’s. Yeah it had lots of recycled shots, but goddamn what an awesome show. Most episodes hold up today, particularly the pilot.
Real shame though, All the stars of this show are gone now. Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine and of course our lady Airwolf.
Can’t blame them. Imagine the cost of both fuel and maintenance for the 222, even with the budget they had.
@@TheDogofTin That's why in later seasons you can see the obvious switch for the RC helicopter in a lot of the exterior action flight scenes. Sad, but obvious cut in production money.
This was the perfect tv show, Airwolf was the best looking chopper ever made, RIP to our fallen heroes 😢
I 😍 and miss this show very much!!! 😎
Props to the cameraman, stunt pilots and camera crew pilots to be able to pull off superb flight stunts and sequences. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear Airwolf's howl just like the Imperial Tie Fighters when they screamed past you on the screen. Really miss all that type of innovation in movies and TV that made them so memorable and iconic.
100% well said. The AIrwolf and TIE fighter screams were so iconic and effective.
Omg yes! Love that sound!
2 things I remember best about this phenomenal series when I was a kid. 1.: The Music... when the Music kicks in the adrenalin rush is abnormal just pure beast 2.: The "SCREACHING" of Airwolf when engaging in combat and doing these insane turns, that sound was haunting and dangerous and beautiful at the same time. Best Series ever!
Yeah, I loved to hear the 'wolf howling in combat and snarling too sometimes! It's very similar to the howl from a Vulcan bomber, another of my favourite aircraft! Search on CZcams for "Vulcan howl" and you'll see a few examples.
This made me shed a tear. Airwolf ❤
Airwolf, Kinghtrider, Streethawk, Manimal all 80s kids gems!
Anyone else get goose bumps when the drums started?😄
That's the synth beat.. Love that 80's electronica sound!
At 1:30, that part of the theme gives me goose bumps
ME !!!! 100 percent !!!!
Bravo! Some iconic words by Dom *"no matter how many time I look at her String, she sure gets my heart pumping"*
Ha thanks. I was torn over whether to use that clip at the end.
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Yeah I kinda know what they mean. Although I kinda get the feeling these two, String and Dom ain’t been laid in a while? Maybe String’s still cut up about Archangel’s first dolly bird 🦢 assistant who died at the hands of Moffet , Airwolf’s creator and is the reason String’s such a moody git. 🤣 Her name won’t come to me right now 🥸😒🤬🙄 (thanks again useless brain 🧠) unless it was Gabrielle ? The one he got before Marella. 🥵🥵😍😉😉🤓. Don’t get me wrong 😑. The Bell 33 or whatever it’s called (the helicopter 🚁 Airwolf is based on is a beautiful thing but it’s just a helicopter. It’s like neither of the guys have seen a woman in their lives. I know it’s a while before Caitlin O’Shaugnesy comes along and joins the party but I think they need a hobby or something because fixing planes and aircraft for a living isn’t doing it for them ; hence the aircraft fetish. 🤔🤨😁
"Yeah!"
Stringfellow Hawke, Coolest name ever!
One of the best theme songs from the 80s, and we had a lot of great ones
In Brazil it was called 'Aguia de Fogo' (fire eagle). I watched it in the late 80's. Today I'm 44 years old, and I still remember that song.
I loved this show when I was a kid. The theme song was so epic and the Airwolf startup sequence music was the coolest thing I had heard in my young life at the time.
Indeed, not forgetting the way the Lady howled..
The Great America's Legendary tv SERIES!!!
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It’s a shame he’s dead
Por que no la dan mas él eleccotero azul
back on those decade, on the Usa did the most greatest tv series, not only Airwolf, but also Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Magnum PI, Automan, Otherworld, Riptide, A-Team, Miami Vice, Visitors, The Robinson, Mac Gyver, Family Ties, The greatest american hero, Manimal, and many, many more. The series which air today, doesn matter if from tv or streaming, are just rubbish.
Popular in South🇰🇷Korea too?
I loved this as a kid,it was awesome back in the 80's to have this on itv every Saturday morning.I loved it.
One of my FAVORITE shows!!!!!!!!
This is amazing, amazing, amazing. The only thing missing, and I feel horrible even mentioning it (because this is so incredibly well done) is a sound bite or two of the blood-curdling noises the chopper made on the show. Both that eerie whistling sound she made at low speed, and that shrieking sound on acceleration always sent the chills up my spine.
Listen to Typhoons doing the Mach Loop in Wales. This may scratch your itch.
But you are right. They called it.
@@davelewthwaite That’ll be a double thrill, my mother is from Aberaeron and we used to go for hikes and picnics in the country often enough to encounter jets doing practice runs. I’ll definitely look it up.
That would have been icing on the cake.
Damn they don’t make shows like this anymore!!! Thank you for the amazing tribute, Airwolf was long overdue for a quality piece of work like this!!!
And the Comanche too although it Never made it to production that I know of…
Checking back in a year later, yup still get goosebumps every time I hear this theme song!!!
feeling glad that i have seen all airwolf episodes as a kid.!! :-) I grew up watching Air wolf, Knight rider, CHiPs, small wonder and Full house,..and my teen age started watching fresh Prince of belair..!! Great memories of childhood.
Airworlf is so sleek and beautiful. It looks like a shark from nearly every angle.
My dad was a chopper pilot in the army for 21 years......I always watched airwolf thinkin, that’s what my dad does! God I love this show
This is a show that could be brought back! Newly designed interior same exterior. The “company” could recruit new pilots for a top secret mission maybe former military. If done right it could be amazing
None of the reboots of 80's tv series like Battlestar Galactica, Magnum, Macguyver or Knight Rider have been any good though. I would love to see a remake of Air Wolf but fear it would be just as bad and I think they would probably change it to the stealth hawk that was used to crash Bin Laden's party!
Why not? They have tried to remake every other good show from the past
Netfilx: WOW.... great Idea! But, can we still call it a "Netflix Original"? LOL!!!
@@B-A-L what are you talking about. The BSG rebooot was fantastic. One of the best shows on TV. Hawaii 5-O and Magnum are decent shows.... though I agree with you to a point. While good shows they don’t have the chemistry and charm of the original. The KnightRider reboot on the other hand was a complete nightmare. That show was off the rails terrible. They way it ended I think it tried to reboot itself a bit and had potential.
I’m afraid if AirWolf ever came back it would go the KnightRider way and try to supercharge the lady making her do all sorts of impossible crazy things. I don’t want that.
@@B-A-L I actually liked the reboot of Knight Rider, and I grew up on the original. It was Team Knight Rider that was just...no.
Air Wolf and Blue Thunder too, with Roy Scheider. Been fascinated with helicopters ever since.
As a kid of the year 84 love the movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 and the Series on TV 📺
The ultimate attack helicopter which arguably looked as beautiful and graceful as any of the spitfire MKS. A true stroke of genius by Bellisario. One, if the not the ultimate TV series.
Very Nostalgic.I could not sleep without seeing this serial in my teenage.
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We Pakistani kids were always in waiting of next episode of AIR WOLF....
feel so lucky to have so amazing and sweet memories with Air wolf and Knight Rider.....
😎👍😊💜💓😎👍😊💜💓🇵🇰
I always wanted a model version of Airwolf. These themes give me goosebumps.....miss my childhood dearly.
Great tribute. ONLY thing missing is the 'Howl.' The basis of the recent FB memes of 'a picture can't evoke a sound' Insert the Lady.
You're right! Damn, I should have put that in somewhere. Good spot
Definitely needs the howl!
Yep. I was also fully expecting the "boop" of the "turbo" button followed by the jet engine scream. But great visuals!
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Here you go. Around 00:20 you have the "howl" and an epic fight as a bonus...
Miss the howl!!
Let us all be ever grateful for the amazing piloting skills of the pilot who gave us all of these fantastic scenes of the chopper to look at. No CGI here, all real.
the best mix and visuals ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm 45 and a Nissan/Infiniti technician and we play this in the shop along with nightrider. I still jump up and down like a kid when I hear it and your cars are fixed much faster and better 💪and when I test drive your car after the repairs! O boy your car turns to Airwolf 😂
I am a true 80's man....and this is blue blood 80's synth....no other theme music can match this .....
Loved this show when I was a kid. Time to break out the box set and rewatch her again
I really miss my childhood it was awesome ❤
Tribute to the late J.David Jones for all those stunt flying with 'The Lady'... RIP
David wasn't the only pilot... Rick Shuster and Dirk Vahle had a fair amount of stick time as well.
Yep, I was just thinking that the pilot of that Aircraft really knew their craft. Insurance would kill those stunts today if they tried to reboot the show,
Im trying to remember the name of one of the stunt pilots we met. He died that year in a really small stunt plane. Sad. I can't remember if he flew or was practicing with the small "Octopussy" stunt jet plane.