# Airwolf TV Series ~ Some thoughts & questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airwolf-tv-series-some-thoughts-questions/791479 "2017-07-17T11:34:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airwolf-tv-series-some-thoughts-questions/791479/21 "2017-07-17T21:52:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > You asked what they were. That’s what they are. Whatever, dude. It’s obvious from my post that I knew exactly what they are (this is an Airwolf thread after all), and they aren’t _just_ a 222 and a 206, even if the AW clone doesn’t have the jet engine pods. They are, for all intents and purposes, the choppers from AW.=, and I thought that was funny. Someone in the Fujimi art department made a bit of unauthorized copyright infringement, apparently without any repercussions. Must be classed under “fair use”. ---
**Author:** ![anij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@anij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anij)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airwolf-tv-series-some-thoughts-questions/791479/22 "2017-07-18T10:23:59Z")
> [@BlakeTyner](#): > > C > > 1. The only real power consumption he has out there is the fridge. > […] > 2. Could be anything, but say the boat hits a rock, ejects the family, mom and dad impact other rocks/trees, the boys are alive but hurt, and String gets rescued. I always pictured it somewhat like the beginning of Sleepaway Camp. _lol_ Never thought of the fridge… Always remembered the electric lights to enlight the paintings 😃 > [@Chronos](#): > > But a tour in Vietnam was officially two years, but those two years sometimes got stretched out longer. > > And in common usage, there’s no difference in the US between “college” and “university”, in the phrase “went to college” (though we wouldn’t generally say “went to university”). Thanks for explaining that to me. Found sources saying it was only one year and otheres talking about two… very confusing! In Germany there are different types of higher education schools than universities and they do have diffferent kind graduations than a university. I tried to look it up but your explanation is the first one that I understand! > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I never got the impression Hawke was rich at all. He was principled. He wouldn’t take money because it’s not who he is, not because he doesn’t need money. > […] > (Don’t give me this crap that Hawke is the only one that can fly it in and out.) > […] > And what kind of weirdo names their kids Stringfellow and St John (and pronounces it Sinjin?) Someone who hates their kids! No wonder Hawke’s so messed up. > > What’s the line in the pilot that doomed woman says? “Still expecting people to read your silences?” Now that you mention it… I remember one episode, where he needs money very badly and says to Dom that he could sell one of the paintings… maybe you’re right… It always bothered me, that String at first was the only one who could fly the Lady and in the end even Cate could fly it. “Icecream man” is a nice word, though… Always thought of them both as “Snow Patrol” _ggg_ I think that line is from another episode… the one with the blond blue eyed boy that String thinks could be his son. It’s his old girl friend from Vietnam who says it when he meets her at the airbase. Her husband is trying to sell a military plane to Russia in order to get this boy. Actually the name thing was the reason I found this forum. > [@ZonexandScout](#): > > I agree with others that the OP is putting way too much thought into the show. > > But I will mention that a remote cabin having electric power is not that unusual. The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 was enacted to help get commercial electric power to remote homes and was quite successful. Many states have a Rural Electrification Authority to this day. Basically, if you had a home out in the boondocks, they would figure out a way to get electrical power to it at a reasonable cost. There are many cases where literally miles and miles of power lines were installed just to get one remote structure on the power grid. Call me a silly, crazy girl and I will gleefully agree 😛 To my honor I want to say that I never ever had one person I could talk about this great show for almost 30 years! It’s been shown on German TV every now and than on lower rated TV stations but somehow no one seems to know it… The electricty thnin is quite interesting. Thanks for explaining! > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Not _completely_. Just mostly. It’d no more unrealistic than Die Hard, or Bond movies. 🙂 I always believed and still do, that every TV show and every movie has it’s own world with it’s own rules. Off course Airwolf is not possible in the real world. For the resaonss you mention but I guess also for fuel reasons. I looked up, what’s the normal helicopter range and that’s not much. And I guess a heavy, fast travelling helicopter like Airwolf needs even more fuel than a normal helicopter would. So there would be no chance that he could fly to Russia or across the US to Mexico from a remote den. And how could a plane sink into the sea when flying from California to Texas? But I tell you, once you agree that every show takes place in its own universe… it’s much easier to watch and believe 😛 > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > If the only thing needing power is a fridge, there are propane-fired ones on the used market, even if Servel hasn’t made them since 1956. That could take care of the lighting problem too. Never knew stuff like that even exists! Thank you! > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > My grandparents had Servel refrigerators from when they retired to their place in Southern Oregon in 1960/1961, until they had to move into town in the '90s. Their cabin/house was wired for 110 v and 12 v. A generator provided 110 v, and charged a 12 v battery. When the generator ran out of gas, there were 12 v lights. Or it was time to go to bed. Stuff like that is definetly not common, or ever was, in Germany! Thanks! > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > As for St John, I never watched the revival season with him back. It looked like it became a “kiddie show”. Was it any good? I remember I saw some episodes on TV and that I always wanted to see the episode again, where Dom dies, String is off to an unknown fate (but I guess he died, too) and the whole new crew is invented. I also saw some of the new episodes than, but it was String I was in love with, not St, John. Besides that I just can’t believe and never will, that St. John would spend … I guess it must be 19 years by then… in freedom without telling String that he was fine! He must have known how much him going MIA would trouble his brother, especially when he feels responisible for that. Besides that no St. John, not the one in the original show and not the new one, ever matched my imagination of Strings brother. After rewatching I must admitt, that the storylines went down from somewhere in season 2 anyway. I won’t say that Cate’s the one to blame for that, but she just doesn’t fit in there. And String became to soft… I liked the doomed one in the first episodes much better. So yeah, the new show sucks and I never could manage to watch the episode mentioned above so far, because it feels like saying good bye to Airwolf and String. I do rewatch my favroite episodes every now and then, though, especialy when I am on night shift and don’t have internet for watching netflix it is always Airwolf I take with me 😃 Thank you all for answering this silly, crazy OP who puts way to much thoughts in a TV show she likes for 30 years now. Have a nice day 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airwolf-tv-series-some-thoughts-questions/791479/23 "2017-07-18T11:17:43Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Airwolf’s biggest problem as a TV show is what I call the “Airwolf Problem”. Man, what are the odds? ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airwolf-tv-series-some-thoughts-questions/791479/24 "2017-07-18T13:55:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Airwolf’s biggest problem as a TV show is what I call the “Airwolf Problem”. You have a TV show that relies on some gimmick, or some special tool (that usually costs a lot, and must be amortized) and so you feel you have to use it in every episode. There were a lot of episodes that didn’t need the heli, but since the show was called\* Airwolf\* and not _Hawke_, it needed to be used in every episode. So there always had to be someone in a Hughes 500, or a vintage Corsair, that needed shootin’. > > When Magnum did [the episode about rescuing a girl who turns out to be a psycho hose beast](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639667), no air-to-air combat was needed, but when[Airwolf did](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0507173/), there had to be combat. Magnum doesn’t drive the Ferrari in every episode, and TC’s chopper doesn’t always appear in every episode. But AW MUST show up every time, or audiences feel cheated. This was even more of a problem for the final series after the chopper had been sold. They ended up recycling footage from the earlier shows, there’s no new chopper footage in that series at all. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airwolf-tv-series-some-thoughts-questions/791479/25 "2017-07-18T15:01:12Z")
That’s like Knightboat, the crime solving boat. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airwolf-tv-series-some-thoughts-questions/791479/26 "2017-07-18T15:30:35Z")
> [@anij](#): > > Stuff like that is definetly not common, or ever was, in Germany! Thanks! I was born ‘in L.A.’ (actually a suburb of L.A., but close enough), grew up in San Diego, lived in the desert of northern L.A. County from 15 to 26, and lived in the City of Los Angeles until 2003. So I didn’t exactly have a rural upbringing. The only place I ever saw a gas refrigerator was at my grandparents’ place. Apparently, such appliances were common in rural areas back in the olden days (as **ElvisL1ves** noted), but I would not have known of them were it not for my grandparents. On a side note, the house I bought in 2003 in northern Washington, that was built in 1934, is the first place I’ve lived without circuit breakers (a situation remedied last week) or piped-in natural gas (still a sore spot, as there’s a gas main maybe 40 or 50 metres away). But at least I don’t have to run a refrigerator from the propane tank! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airwolf-tv-series-some-thoughts-questions/791479.md?page=1)