Talk:Blue Thunder

Vice City
In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, they have a mini game where you use an Apache-like helicopter to hunt criminals down, this mini game is called brown thunder, is there any source of this being related to this movie? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.232.154.222 (talk) 00:08, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

More info
Misc. details and trivia, some of which could be used in the article to flesh it out a bit: , Motor 08:31, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)

The Victim has Two Forms of Death
It would be absolutely fantastic if someone could add an image of the helicopter, perhaps from the box of this model kit, or this DVD cover. The movie poster keeps the cat in the bag. -Ashley Pomeroy 20:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Trivia
I might be wrong, but the Sega arcade game Thunder Blade, which has been ported to Sega MasterSystem and Genesis (See Super Thunder Blade article), as well as several gaming computers of the time, seems to be highly inspired from the Blue Thunder movie, especially for the main helicoper. I assume Sega didn't get the rights for the Blue Thunder name and thus changed the name to Thunder Blade to keep some similarities without getting into legal troubles. Does anyone have some source or opinion on this? PhMajerus 12:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Looping
So, can a helicopter fly a looping? Maikel (talk) 00:11, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Apparently yes, but I'd still appreciate it if someone competent could put in a sentence or two about how difficult it is, and whether the stunt could be pulled of with an actual Gazelle or MD500 helicopter. Thanks. Maikel (talk) 10:27, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Realism
Quote: A caption at the beginning of the Blue Thunder movie states that all the high-tech-equipment features of the helicopter are real and were actually used by the military at the time. -- I would appreciate it if someone could put in a few sentences elaborating this claim. Maikel (talk) 10:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * As far as I can make out the "silent flight mode" is the only technology that this movie made up entirely. Maikel (talk) 20:08, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * At that time there had already been a lot of research into more quiet engines and blades, but it wasn't until 2010 that efficient sound-reducing rotor wing tips have become commercially available. --MikeZ (talk) 16:37, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

JAFO
The article says that the Blue Thunder TV show explained the JAFO acronym as "Just Another Frustrating Observer". I remember that as "Frustrated", not "Frustrating". I do not have access to a recording of the show to confirm or disprove my memory. I hope some Blue Thunder fan will check on this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.124.146.181 (talk) 05:50, 22 December 2008 (UTC)