Airwolf vs. Blue Thunder

[mikenostic]

If Airwolf and Blue Thunder were to get into a dogfight with one another, who do you think would win?

Advantages
Airwolf:
-speed (can do bursts of 1.5 mach with turbo thrusters)
-lighter/more agile
-more armament (chain guns and rockets)

Blue Thunder
-advanced surveillance/tracking avionics
-space age armor (can deflect most small arms fire)
-potent gatling gun/movable, can track targets

 

[cosmictraveler]

A missle.

 

[mikenostic]

A missle.

Oh that reminds me. Airwolf also has chaff flares. I've seen it dodge many a missile with those flares.

 

[nietzschefan]

Airwolf - cause more women wanted to have sex with that actor who played the peelot in it..

 

[draqon]

Airwolf

Blue Thunder

 

[domesticated om]

Airwolf also had the magical super advanced armor too
.....but blue thunder was piloted by the same guy that killed jaws. I'd say that gives BT the advantage of having True Grit.

 

[draqon]

yea well currently Airwolf gets 100% of the votes

 

[Enmos]

Airwolf, and Blue Thunder is butt ugly too.. lol

 

[domesticated om]

yea well currently Airwolf gets 100% of the votes

Not any more (grin)

 

[Enmos]

Not any more (grin)

:spank:

 

[Pinocchio's Hoof]

can anyone remember which one did loop da loop and flew upside down?

 

[cosmictraveler]

Oh that reminds me. Airwolf also has chaff flares. I've seen it dodge many a missile with those flares.

Chaff flares cannot protect anything from a radar guided missile that "locks onto" its target. Sorry, but that's not a very good defense for a radar guided missile . :shrug:

 

[Orleander]

can anyone remember which one did loop da loop and flew upside down?

It was in the movie, so it was Blue Thunder. So, how hard it that to do??

And my favorite was which ever one had Jan Michael Vincent in it. Don't remember the name, just remember him.

 

[cosmictraveler]

It was in the movie, so it was Blue Thunder. So, how hard it that to do??

And my favorite was which ever one had Jan Michael Vincent in it. Don't remember the name, just remember him.

It is almost impossible to roll a chopper because it stays up by pushing the air down.

Air Wolf was with Vincent.

 

[Orleander]

almost, but not impossible? I suppose you would have to go really fast, huh?

 

[mikenostic]

Chaff flares cannot protect anything from a radar guided missile that "locks onto" its target. Sorry, but that's not a very good defense for a radar guided missile . :shrug:

Yes, but you didn't put a type of missile up there. You just put 'A missile'.
And yes, chaff flares CAN protect you from a radar guided missile.
What do you think chaff flares are?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(radar_countermeasure)

Chaff, originally called Window by the British, and Düppel by the World War II era German Luftwaffe, is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallised glass fibre or plastic, which either appears as a cluster of secondary targets on radar screens or swamps the screen with multiple returns.

 

[nietzschefan]

It was in the movie, so it was Blue Thunder. So, how hard it that to do??

And my favorite was which ever one had Jan Michael Vincent in it. Don't remember the name, just remember him.

I rest my case.

Airwolf, was one of the few "man" shows, almost as many women watched.

 

[decantemix]

Let us see. Volcano base, versus entertainment;.
Strategically since the byrde crew is unarmed, cept for ramming speed. I'd go with Airwolf.

Although needing much courage, and an act of bravery, he was armed.

 

[mikenostic]

Let us see. Volcano base, versus entertainment;.
Strategically since the byrde crew is unarmed, cept for ramming speed. I'd go with Airwolf.

The what crew?
If you're talking about Blue Thunder, it was armed. It had a gatling gun on a turret up front (very similar to an AH-1 Cobra's chain gun assembly).

 

[mikenostic]

almost, but not impossible? I suppose you would have to go really fast, huh?

Speed isn't the issue. I can't exactly explain how but it has to do with the main rotor assembly.
The experimental Commanche helicopter can do rolls and loops because it has a bearingless main rotor design. It has something to do with how its rotor, unlike regular rotor assemblies, does not pitch and tilt like conventional rotors do.