Airwolf Black Bell 222 Helicopter Startup Takeoff Flight and Landing
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Black Bell 222 Helicopter startup and takes off. Is filmed flying and at top speed during fly-by flight before landing.
Step into the world of aerial legends with this Black Bell 222 helicopter, a sleek and powerful aircraft that pays homage to the iconic Airwolf. With its striking black exterior and dynamic design, the Bell 222 captures the essence of the legendary helicopter from the beloved TV show.
This Black Bell 222 is a stunning piece of aviation history that echoes the design brilliance of Airwolf. Its sleek, all-black exterior exudes an air of mystery and power, reminiscent of the iconic TV helicopter. The aerodynamic lines and rotor system of the Bell 222 contribute to its unmistakable resemblance to the fictional aircraft that captured the imaginations of viewers around the world.
History of the Bell 222:
The Bell 222, introduced in the late 1970s, is a real-world marvel with a history deeply rooted in the evolution of modern helicopter technology. Designed and manufactured by Bell Helicopter, the 222 was initially developed for corporate and VIP transport. Its spacious and luxurious interior, combined with advanced avionics, made it a popular choice among high-profile individuals and business executives.
Over the years, the Bell 222 became a symbol of elegance and performance in the helicopter industry. With a twin-engine configuration, it demonstrated enhanced safety and reliability. Its smooth flight characteristics and ability to hover in tight spaces showcased its versatility.
The Airwolf Connection:
The Black Bell 222 gained additional fame due to its association with the iconic TV series "Airwolf," which aired from 1984 to 1987. In the show, Airwolf was a highly advanced and heavily armed helicopter, piloted by Stringfellow Hawke, portrayed by Jan-Michael Vincent. The helicopter served as a high-tech espionage tool, capturing the imagination of audiences with its futuristic features.
While the fictional Airwolf was a modified version of the Bell 222, the real-world helicopter gained a renewed sense of admiration and popularity through its on-screen counterpart. Fans of the show often draw parallels between the Black Bell 222 and the legendary Airwolf, appreciating the tangible connection between reality and fiction.
In summary, the Black Bell 222 stands not only as a remarkable helicopter in its own right but also as a tribute to the timeless allure of Airwolf. This sleek and powerful aircraft represents a convergence of real-world engineering and the fantastical realm of television, creating a lasting legacy in both aviation history and popular culture.
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In 1986 i was working in Long Beach, California. They filmed an episode of Air Wolf where I was working Unfortunately the real Air Wolf did not sound anything like the one on TV. Still it was pretty cool to see both Air Wolf and the Santini Air helicopters in person .We got to see them fly in and land.
The original Helicopter crashed
@@waschte123 later yes they rebuild it to medic heli and on mission he crashed.. why they put him not on a movie vehicle museum ? same with a team van and a original knightrider car..
Oh,those 222’s sound super sweet.
I know, I always find myself listening for wolf sound or the howl sound that Airwolf made
@@fipsassmussen1046 I have always wondered this. The only thing I could think of is it cost a little bit more for the upkeep of a helicopter than it does a car that was featured on a TV show or in the movie
That is one beautiful Helicopter and ever since I started looking at airwolf I loved the base helicopter for airwolf.The Bell 222 and 230 and so on are beautiful helicopters and this may seem crazy but the part of love most of all is when the landing gear is lifts up.I guess you can call that nostalgic because I just remember watching airwolf and hearing that music when ever airwolf lifts off.Again one of the most beautiful helicopters ever made.
Fantastic helicopter, no wonder Airwolf was top 80's TV show.
Beautiful! Pure arial poetry in motion! Always loved Bell 222 airframe! Looks like Airwolf from TV show! Please never crash or sell this heli! Keep the Airwolf dream alive for us fans!
I think that the Bell 222 is still one of the best "looking" helicopters around even apart from the Airwolf TV series
I do agree! Thank you for commenting!
@@Trackup1 100% conquer
Sim, o design dele para mim nunca foca velho!
Lindo helicóptero.
I always loved how she was flown in the series; undercarriage up almost immediately she's airborne, nose dropped to gain speed and into the sunset... Loved every minute of the show.
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still the most beautiful helicopter design :)
I look at this fine helicopter and the "Airwolf" theme starts playing in my head.
I should insert the theme song....Its been needing it for sooo long! All I need is some encouragement!
Wow, most beautiful helicopter ever!!! Even after 40 years. Love it!
Go Airwolf go.. these Bell 222s are one of my favorite model of helicopters and so is the Bell 206 jet ranger and longranger 👍😀😀😀
At 1:37 I was just waiting to hear that iconic music to start playing! (Airwolf theme of course). If I could afford a helicopter - the 222 is the one I'd buy Its quite beautiful.
Thank you for your comment!
Looks cool but Airwolf looks the coolest.Nothing like it ever
They just need to pain the underside white and you have an Airwolf look a like.
Add to that they put prop guns etc etc Airwolf was in fact a Bell 222
I always thought it was more like a growl when they turned.
The coolest looking chopper ever!
Such a beautiful machine, with lots of notable history from its appearance in smokey and the bandit 2 while operated by PHI as N50163 and its time served with west jefferson hospital as the air care unit then off to san diego university hospital as life flight, then across the seas to canada as C-GPRH under pacific helicopters, vancouver island helicopters, trojan helicopters and then back in the states as N981AB and now today as N222ZX.. long live C/N 47011.. may she last forever :)
love this 222 so much. easily my favorite nostalgic helicopter
Beautiful machine. If I ever saw it, I would freak out.
Same here and did. Seen them as a medical helicopter. Flying into the local hospital. Never had the chance to get close.
I still dream I am flying Airwolf.
If I somehow one day won the lottery, I would get me one of these and have it painted like Airwolf... Decked out in business class luxury for all my domestic traveling!
Exactly what I was thinking. Apparently Bell still make all the parts for it so if you buy one you can run it. May need to win big on the lottery as I think they cost close to a million.
I’d put a rotor from a UH-1 on mine so everyone could hear me coming
had the Airwolf theme song playing in my head for half this video and wasn't even conscious that I was humming it until halfway through. it's that deeply ingrained into my subconscious. not sure if that's bad or good. I guess it's a bad sign but a good thing to be ingrained.
Mr.
I kept waiting to hear the “growl”.
To me also the same thing happened
The two blades were the song.
One of the most finest helicopter designs of the 80's and 90's. Until this very day, I am still fascinated with it.
I would put the music 🎶 in this video 😂. So cool 😎
Me encanta este helicóptero.
Es bellísimo.
Sobre todo por qué fue el utilizado en la serie. LOBO DEL AIRE.
Going on 50 years after the design and it's still a gorgeous shape.
Beautiful chopper, unfortunately one of the worst mechanical choppers ever developed… rear drive train issues and 20 plus fatalities from crashes
I ve never been a big helicopter fans, but man.. this is so beautiful! Love the Bell-222 Airwolf.
And she is still looking good at 43 years old! Thanks for commenting!
You can almost hear the howl of the Wolf
i guess I'm kinda randomly asking but does anybody know a good website to watch new tv shows online ?
@Noe Eduardo Flixportal =)
@Wyatt Landyn Thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service =) Appreciate it !
@Noe Eduardo you are welcome :)
In my heart I heard the howl
One of the best looking choppers out there :)
I cant not hum the airwolf music watching this haha, What a great looking helicopter!
Thank you!
Good to see Airwolf flying again . My prayers came true . Thank you . Mary Babiec
The best they can make a helicopter look. Timeless design.
Im just waiting for the turbos to be engaged and the chopper just disappears. Airwolf theme threw the whole video playing in my head!!
This is the best looking helicopter
I flown a bell 222 in the military and it was very much. Like the air wolf you know. and sounded similar except it didn't have the hood scoop..😊😮
That is one badass looking helicoptor!
Serioulsy, every existing Bell 222 has to painted like Airwolf and shown to the world!! What a phenomen. It's like Michael Jackson as a thing in the skys
Such a beautiful aircraft.
awesome footage there, that pilot must feel special :)
That is so damned beautiful that it boarders on absurdity.
Thank you for an awesome comment!
Love the Huey's traditional 'chop....chop.....chop.....chop!😁
48 foot blades. On huey , think 40 on the 222.
WOW WOW This is definately one of the best Bell 222 videos I've ever seen!! Thanx so much for sharing! Awesome camera work on take off! Also awesome you put the gear up low above the ground. Just like Airwolf :D
Lots of good sound effects in this video, from the turbine starting to the sounds of rotor blades rotating.
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Loooove this helicopter so much
One word... " Gorgeous" 💕💕💕💕
Thank you!
Thank you!
Best sounding helo......Wish my R22 sounded like that.
Great camera angles!! Love the aerial shots as well.
Thanks a lot!
I miss the sound of an airwolf.
The sound of its own TradeMark.
So true! Thank you for commenting!
el mejor helicopter civil de la historia 222.....!! thank you for the video thank !
If they ever reboot a tv show where it left off,Airwolf would be it.
This is possibly the most (real life) bad ass 222 video I have seen in My entire life !
Thank you so much for such an awesome comment!
Just love it, I really would like learn to plit a copter, in fact i´ve been spending my time reaing about and watching a lot of vids, different conetns ons, and After making my models of a huey in 65!!, and very hard vids about people in Nam, peolpe in helicoptes...well. Thanks for posting, cheers mate.
Same bro.
Me encanta la sutileza con la que los manejan profesionales,no hay que pedir más.😉
¡Gracias por el cumplido!
you cant deny. the same way the F-14 is the sexiest jet fighter, the Bell 222 is a phenomenal good looking helicopter.
I agree. The design is timeless! Thank you for commenting!
Beautiful Chopper...was waiting for little fire come out the...exhaust ports...full turbos..!! 😊👌
I am pleased you enjoyed the video. Thank you for commenting! Check out my channel if you want to see a Huey turbine torching start-up!
four blade main rotor is Bell 430, two blade is either the Bell 222 or the Bell 230
This is the heli seen in smokey and the bandit two (from 1980) they step out of this 222 during the truck race. The bell 222 registration number was N50163, the construction number is 47011. this was the 11th 222 off the assembly floor :)
RIP Jan-Michael Vincent.
Played "AIRWOLF" theme to this....AWSOME!!!
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Airwolf. My God this was my favorite show as a kid. This and the Rifleman. Oh Lord 😂
I do miss that show!
That is just one sexy aircraft. Favorite show from my 80's childhood next to Knightrider.
Same here. I never missed a show back in the day. Thank you for commenting!
You owe it to yourself to open another window and play either the Airwolf theme or the Knight Rider theme while you watch this video.
Una belleza de helicóptero me recuerda a mi sería favorita lobo del aire.
X2
Al fin alguien que habla español.. saludos desde Colombia
Cmon bro put the air wolf theme on!
You have a good point...Back when I produced this video UA-cam copyright policy was more stringent. The silent portion of the video had the music but I had to remove it. I'm working on another video that will play the theme song...Stay tuned! Thank you for commenting!
@@Trackup1 Ty for the reply. Subscribed! Really good camera work too!
@@LOLmusics I am pleased you enjoyed the video! Thank you so much for the compliment and subscription!
It sounds very quite & very smoothe
Very COOL!
Bell broke the mold with this timeless design! Thank you for commenting.
Nice looking helecopter. You should check out the new Bell 360 Invictus. Paint it like Airwolf a new modern Airwolf ready for action
I think you’re on to something there! Thank you for commenting.
To me, "Airwolf" certainly wasn't a good show. But real Bell-222/230's are the most beautiful machines ever. They combine Huey-like sound and more streamlined shape of fuselage.
P.S.: Special thanks for the real-looking motion of the rotors, unlike most other helicopter videos where even tips of rotating blades are clearly visible.
Jet Ranger To us...you have no taste in television.
Correction - I had no taste in television several years ago.
was to good show
Thanks for your comment....The discs at the top and center of the rotor head are Elastameric M/R Trunions. The M/R flaps at that point to allow the M/R to compensate for un-equal lift.
Airwolf brings here!!
Still one of the most beautiful helicopters. #Airwolf
I worked on the Duce for many years. I didn't see any evidence of grease from the main rotor before or after the flight. They are required to be lubed every 25 hours or after flying in rain. The Maintenance Manual also requires it to be purge lubed, if it's not slinging grease, it hasn't been lubed properly.
Some cool looking helicopter
Dear Santa......
One of my favorite helicopters
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I was waiting for the air wolf theme to kick in
Its been needing it for sooo long! All I need is some encouragement!
Can you imagine having a Bell 222, painting it black, and NOT painting the belly white? I mean c'mon man.
That is one beautiful machine...
0:15 i hear the airwolf theme starting
Special shout out to the bolts that hold the rotors on...
the bell 222 is my favorite helicopter of all time grew up watching bloody airwolf bit sad you dont have the fifty cal and rpg launcher
Airwolf in civil, nice video! 👍
Thank you for the nice comment!
I am a fan of the show
The machine is very beautiful...all black . I'll call it "Black Beauty". Okay so it is the name of a horse but the helicopter looks beautiful and it is black.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment! I appreciate it.
nice to see airwolf in action
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This is a Bell 222, Airwolf was a 222A, this was built in 1980.
AirWolf好きでたどり着いた人👍
01:21 so that's where Blue Thunder got its whisper mode. :p
❤é helicóptero maia lindo
this helicopter is something i would be honored to lift in one day
if ill ever live to get in one that is xD
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My favourite helicopter
Sempre tive o sonho de pilotar o águia de fogo!
As soon as it started the theme song started in my head 😅
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Nice video. Thank you for NOT adding any jackass music to it.
I was waiting for the afterburners to kick in lol
Esta foi melhor série da TV Parabéns quem fez
Super.
Den Sound finde ich klasse.
Habt ihr auch das Turbinenen abstellen aufgenommen?
Actually, it's 'Redwolf', before the refit/upgrade.
I read that Airwolf was a customized Bell 222, complete with special fx.
It was a plain 222B with custom made side panels, nose panel and faux missile pods. The chain guns were detachable pieces for movie effect. The chain gun animation where they ''pop out'' was just a model assembled on a bench with a broom stick and rope operation. Outside of that, there was nothing really special about the helicopter itself. After production, the helicopter panels were removed and stored. Later they were purchased and are currently owned by one very internet famous Airwolf fan responsible for creating the Airwolf CD re-mastered tracks. He has since outfitted those panels on a non-flying Bell 222B airframe.
Sadly the aircraft used in filling the show Airwolf. Was destroyed in Germany. It was converted for use as a medi-vac helicopter, and crashed while in use. So it actually did save lives, just not by shooting rockets and guns at things.
You missed Airwolf episode "Dominic's Millions". Dom saves a millionaire, turns down a million dollars over the first flight to transport a medical human heart.
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So airwolf didn't fire from its chain guns but the interior with all those buttons were fake also the turbos ?
I like the colour on this Airwolf
Belly of the Wolf.. Wheels Up Ready to Fly Again..
Hey where's the Turbos? I didn't think they were an optional extra... lol
Amazing.......👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
As an ex Kiowa mechanic, I see the design similarities
Lol how did Google know I like airwolf ha ha. I cam hear the theme song as the rotors are warming up!!
That's Awesome! Thanks for commenting!