Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!ut-sally!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.rec Subject: Re: Re: IRON EAGLE (act. Airwolf) Message-ID: <532@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 22:43:54 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.532 Posted: Sat Feb 22 22:43:54 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Feb-86 10:55:56 EST References: <275@bambi.UUCP> <9387@amdcad.UUCP> <1585@daemen.UUCP> <9762@amdcad.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Distribution: net Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 32 Xref: lsuc net.movies:3368 net.rec:86 In article <9762@amdcad.UUCP> phil@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. >-- > Are you making this up as you go along? > > Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720 > UUCP: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra}!amdcad!phil > ARPA: amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com 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 -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "Godzilla has been spotted in Sector 5!"