IRON EAGLE (act. Airwolf)

[Dave Hsu]

In article <97...@amdcad.UUCP> ph...@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>
>As long as we're talking about people who don't know anything about
>airplanes, I have long been bothered by the way "Airwolf" likes to
>shoot AGM-65 Mavericks at other aircraft. The Maverick is a television
>guided air-to-surface missile. It is only effective against stationary
>or slow-moving ground targets that are unable to move beyond a
>missile's limited field of view before being struck. I suppose I
>shouldn't be surprised.
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It also bothers me that somebody in hollywood thinks that you can hang a
chain gun off a landing gear pod. Har har har har...(gee, makes you wonder
how he manages to tote munitions into that `cave' all the time!)

On a side note, maybe we should start mailing letters of protest to the
producers of Airwolf; in all those `missed missile' shots, I'm almost certain
that they've wiped out a rock-climbing route or two, no?

-dave

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[Ewbank]

> >As long as we're talking about people who don't know anything about

> >airplanes, I have long been bothered by the way "Airwolf" ...

>
> It also bothers me that somebody in hollywood thinks that you can hang a
> chain gun off a landing gear pod. Har har har har...(gee, makes you wonder
> how he manages to tote munitions into that `cave' all the time!)

Well, I like the show, but must admit I was more than somewhat
disgusted when watching the pilot -- seems that Airwolf was programmed
in BASIC. ugh!
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