For those of use aged thirty or over, the nineteen eighties represents a decade fondly remembered for its fashion, cool cars and quality television. TV shows such as Knight Rider gave us the ultra cool Pontiac Trans Am known as KITT, the A-Team gave us BA’s van (which no fool should touch) and Airwolf showed the world how a prototype helicopter could defeat any aircraft it came up against.
Airwolf also featured the latest computer technology, and like its land based counterpart KITT, was capable of hacking into computers and jamming electrical equipment to catch the bad guys.
Airwolf was a story about a deadly black helicopter that was capable of 345 mph with the use of its ‘turbo boost’ functionality and was armed to the teeth, allowing it to destroy countless planes and rival helicopters every week, all on a Saturday afternoon and with nobody getting hurt.
Airwolf was a legend, and a legend that a great many RC helicopter enthusiasts have recreated using model kits and imagination. There are many websites on the Internet featuring pictures and stories of how radio control helicopter fans have recreated the invincible Airwolf to play with in their own garden, presumably without the lethal rock firing technology!