Oh, Wired. I am willing to acknowledge that your days of cultural relevance, meaningful reporting, and plausible attempts to be accurate are long in the past, but how could you have gotten things so terribly wrong?
No confirmation from Eurocopter, but in avoiding putting the “green” label on their efforts, the company appears to be borrowing from everybody’s favorite movie helicopter legend, Blue Thunder. The 1980s cinematic masterpiece features a helicopter made by what is now Eurocopter, an Aérospatiale Gazelle. And one of the helicopter’s most impressive technologies was its “whisper mode” that allowed it to fly around as quiet as a glider. Could just be a coincidence.
Everybody? Everybody? Eurocopter, indeed. For shame, Wired.
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March 1, 2010 at 5:44 am
Airwolf was NOT A MOVIE. If you want to compare it to other TV helicopters, like the ones from Magnum and Riptide, fine.
March 1, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Airwolf also isn’t a legend, because Airwolf is real. The fact remains that nobody likes Blue Thunder.
March 1, 2010 at 3:31 pm
And I think the Screaming Mimi would appreciate if you called it by name.
March 2, 2010 at 10:41 am
So as to define our terms:
Airwolf.
Screaming Mimi.
T.C.’s Boeing MD-500.
Not much of a contest.
March 1, 2010 at 5:44 am
No, everybody’s favorite super-copter is Airwolf, DUH!
March 1, 2010 at 11:57 am
I’m considering a class action suit. Or a libel suit. Or some kind of form fitting suit.
March 1, 2010 at 5:44 am
Perhaps a suit of Alka Seltzer?
March 1, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Technically, Airwolf was never a “movie” helicopter. Putting the ‘wolf on a big screen would cause a singularity of awesome.
March 1, 2010 at 3:34 pm
The first episode of Airwolf was a two hour movie. If you happen to know anybody with a projector, you could make that happen!
The last thing you heard as you passed the awesome horizon would be the voice of actor Airwolf Airwolf.
March 1, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Having recently enjoyed a (small) screening of the Airwolf pilot, let me assure you that it was no “movie”. It was *cinema*.
Point taken.
March 1, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Both ‘copters were disseminated in scripted audio-visual mode. But one sucked, and one ruled.
Children must, apparently, be taught the values of the ancient elders lest they lapse into heretical bourgeois nonsense?
March 1, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Oh, I told you so.
I told you it was all about the whisper mode, but no, you would not listen, you were all “but Airwolf has a gay disco theme song, na na na na Ican’thearyou toobusybeinggaynana”.
You are so busted, gaynana.
March 1, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Airwolf was a more badass copter, no doubt, and it’d win in a fight, easy. But Roy Scheider’s more badass than Jan Michael Vincent by so many orders of magnitude I say we just call it even.
Unless we’re comparing respective TV shows, In which case never mind.
March 1, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Not if it was a drinking fight.