RIP Stringfellow Hawke

MikeD said:
Actor Jan Michael Vincent at age 74. Anyone here old enough to have been around KVNY in the mid-1980s, would have seen the filming there at the fictional Santini Air FBO.

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Jan-Michael Vincent, star of Airwolf and The Winds of War, dies at 74

The Denver-born actor died last month after suffering cardiac arrest in a North Carolina hospital.
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He had a really rough time in the later years - he had a vicious alcohol problem.

He did a great (read: awful) post-nuclear-apocalypse movie with George Peppard in the 1980s called "Damnation Alley" - (trivia: I think that was the first movie to use greenscreen tech or something like that - giant mutant scorpions in the desert.) Scared the hell outta me - really reinforced the oh-my-God-the-Soviets-are-going-to-kill-us-all fears as a child.

Had another flick with Darrin McGavin playing a Marine boot called "Tribes" which was also released as "Baby Blue Marine."

Kind of an emblem of the 80s...he might have been Tom Cruise before Tom Cruise if he'd made slightly different choices...
 
NovemberEcho said:
I always thought Airwolf was better than A-Team or knight rider
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Do yourself a favor then and don't try watching it again. I was definitely a huge fan. When it first came to DVD, I purchased the box set and started watching again. Don't have any idea why I liked it so much besides the bad ass helicopter. I think they only filmed about 5 minutes of video of that thing flying and reused the footage all season.
 
Landis said:
Do yourself a favor then and don't try watching it again. I was definitely a huge fan. When it first came to DVD, I purchased the box set and started watching again. Don't have any idea why I liked it so much besides the bad ass helicopter. I think they only filmed about 5 minutes of video of that thing flying and reused the footage all season.
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Oh don’t worry, ive long ago realized that anything that was considered good in the 80’s is in fact not.
 
NovemberEcho said:
I always thought Airwolf was better than A-Team or knight rider
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Riptide was better than any of them. Hanging out with your best bud on a boat, going on adventures, foiling baddies, flying a deathtrap piston helo that had to be beaten to work properly? Where do I sign?

Also, if I were Keith Richards, I'd be looking over my shoulder right about now.
 
I was kind of surprised he just passed now, I thought it would have been earlier. It seems like he had a lot of demons. RIP String.
 
I remember, as a kid, going up the Grapevine at about 7:00 am to go dirt bike riding with friends and family and he passed us in a '84 Chrysler Le Baron convertible with the top down, a wine cooler in one hand and the remaining supply in the passenger seat. I still remember that I thought it was very odd that someone would be drinking in the morning. After that he was never Stringfellow Hawk, just some weird dude named Jan.
 
Landis said:
Do yourself a favor then and don't try watching it again. I was definitely a huge fan. When it first came to DVD, I purchased the box set and started watching again. Don't have any idea why I liked it so much besides the bad ass helicopter. I think they only filmed about 5 minutes of video of that thing flying and reused the footage all season.
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A good chunk of the flying (and explosions) was actually RC helicopters.

I’ll admit I watched it... but I was also a kid obsessed with helicopters.
 
And he passes about a month before anybody caught on. Sad.

Everybody thinks Chuck Norris is a bad ass because he’s doing all that karate...but Stringfellow Hawke conquered PHYSICS.

“Stringfellow Hawke doesn’t get retreating blade stall because stalls retreat from him.” That’s the best I got at this hour and not even halfway through a long trip home.

Boris Badenov said:
Riptide was better than any of them.
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The Screamin’ Mimi — who could forget that?

Bellisario put some memorable programs on the air. Until now, I thought Riptide was one of them.
 
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