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Eagles: Directed by Virgil W. Vogel. With Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, Jean Bruce Scott, Ernest Borgnine. Hawke falls for a airplane racer in danger.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Virgil W. Vogel
- 1985-11-09
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- Aircraft seen
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- Guest stars/Recurring cast
Eagles was the 40th episode of Airwolf and the 7th episode of Season 3. It first aired on 11/09/1985.
This episode is notable for its setting at the Reno Air Races with large numbers of foreground and background shots of interesting aircraft.
Roan Carver, a test pilot with the Stappleford Corporation, has discovered a fatal design flaw with the company's latest aircraft for the USAF, the X-400. She is indebted to Lou Stappleford for identifying her potential as a test pilot but can't go through with the deception that may cost the Air Force billions of dollars as well as lives. Stapplef...
The episode opens with Roan Carver lifting some documents from the desk of the Stappleford President Lou Stappleford. Unfortunately the theft is soon discovered by one of the security guards who notifies the boss.
The scene switches to Hawke and Dominic flying in to the Reno Air Races. They come just in time to watch Roan fly her Mustang and win the heats of her air race. Hawke is impressed. They go over to greet her but Hawke is tongue-tied! He mumbles an invitation to lunch and she takes a rain check on that.
Lou Stappleford approaches Roan and wants to talk to her about the missing documents. But Roan avoids him saying she is otherwise occupied. She turns back and takes up Hawke and Dominic's offer to lunch. Roan leaves shortly after the meal but Hawke and Dominic notice that she is looking worried.
She is not the only one to be worried. The documents which Roan has point to a serious design flaw in Stappleford's new X-400 tactical fighter and could cost his company a billion dollar contract with the US Air Force. Crane, the aircraft designer and Cole, the test pilot are as worried as the boss Lou, who sends two "toughs", Haver and Morgan, to get Roan and bring her to them.
Haver and Morgan overpower Roan and grab her but Hawke chances upon them and floors the two men. Roan tells him she never asked for his help and they have a brief argument but end up apologising to each other. They have a good evening together but when they return to Roan's room, they find that it has been ransacked by Haver and Morgan. Fortunately they did not find the documents which Roan had hidden away safely.
Roan tells Hawke that she had been the test pilot on the X-400 and that the documents are proof of a flaw in the aircraft design which could cost the US government money and even pilots' lives. Hawke calls in Archangel who arranges a meeting with the Pentagon but Roan wants to fly in the finals of the air race the next day. Hawke disagrees. He thinks it is too dangerous. Roan tells Hawke she knows Lou Stappleford. He might be desperate to cover up the problem and might resort to threats using his toughs but he would never harm her. Hawke, of course, is not so sure.
There's really a fantastic range of aircraft to be seen in this episode, mostly in the background. The main ones are listed here:
•Airwolf
•Piper PA-18 Super Cub - Hawke and Dominic fly to Reno in one
•Bell 206 JetRanger - at the Santini Air stand
•Avtek-400A - used to depict the Stappleford X-400
•P-51 Mustang - flown by Roan Carver
•Would have been poetic justice if it was the fatal design flaw which led to the destruction of the X-400 during its dogfight with Airwolf. Unfortunately it is much more prosaic than that. Airwolf blows it up with a missile.
•The pilot named "Harper" flying a Sea Fury in Roan's heat at the beginning of the episode is not Cole. Cole had earlier mentioned that he and Roan are in different heats. Cole flies another Sea Fury in the second heat.
•Nancy Everhard as Roan Carver
•William Windom as Lou Stappleford
•Dale Robinette as Cole
•Chip Johnson as Crane
•Susan Powell as Blaine
•Brendon Boone as Security guard
"Airwolf" Eagles (TV Episode 1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
At a National Air Race show, Hawke and Dominic befriend an attractive pilot racer, unaware that she's being pursued by her boss and his henchmen after stealing some tapes that can prove that a new combat jet is too unstable to be flown – something that her boss is determined to cover up at any cost...
Airwolf – Season 3, Episode 7. A test pilot (Nancy Everhard) risks her life to stop the Air Force from buying defective planes; guest William Windom.
- Virgil Vogel
- January 22, 1984
- Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine
Airwolf, an action-espionage television series created by Donald P. Bellisario, premiered on January 22, 1984 on CBS in the United States and ended on August 8, 1987. The show spans four seasons and 80 episodes in total.
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