Writer:	Louis F. Vipperman
Director:	Alan J. Levi
Star:	Ernest Borgnine (Dominic Santini),  Jan-Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Hawke),  Alex Cord (Michael 'Archangel' Coldsmith-Briggs III)
Recurring Role:	Deborah Pratt (Marella)
Guest Star:	James Edgecomb (Agent Dickens),  Hank Brandt (Colonel Ellinson),  Jeff MacKay (Sergeant Willie Nash),  Lance LeGault (D.G. Bogard),  Kathleen Lloyd (Toni Donatelli),  Peter J. McKernan (The Pilot)

This episode made it into the 1985 'Guinness Book Of Records' for the bomb-run sequence at the climax of the story, for the largest use of live explosives at one time in a television series – something which also gained coverage and publicity during it's filming. (edit) Bogard's pilot is played by Peter J. McKernan, who was actually one of Airwolf's stunt pilots. He can also be glimpsed in the second season episode 'HX 1'. (edit) Also time-line wise, Hawke claims to Bogard that Airwolf was destroyed in Libya "a few months ago". (edit) Talking into her dictaphone after Dominic leaves her at Hawke's cabin, Toni gives the date as April 14th – the date that this episode was originally broadcast on, in 1984!Dating episodes on the exact day they were first broadcast seemed to be a running thing in the first season, – the same had happened previously in the season in 'Echos From The Past'. (edit) Some dialogue between Archangel and Hawke, from the scene where they meet for Archangel to warn of the danger of Bogard's satellite scan, is used in the opening trailer but is not used within the scene in the actual episodes. (Two lines - Hawke: "Maybe he will get me", Archangel: "(If) he gets you, he gets Airwolf") (edit)

(searching the cabin of the Santini Air chopper)
Dominic: What're you looking for?
(Hawke finds a concealed object that he holds up)
Dominic: Hey what's that? Looks like a thermometer.
Hawke: Yeah... and she knew where to stick it!! It's a homing beacon. (edit) (landing at their rendezvous with Archangel)
Dominic: D'you think he has that chopper washed every day?
Hawke: Probably with him in it. (edit)

The scene where Dominic picks Hawke up from the top of the B-52, where Hawke's just hidden Airwolf underneath the wing, is a good chance to spot a stunt double for Jan-Michael Vincent, and a pilot double for Ernest Borgnine. (edit) The shots of the satellite in orbit are very unconvincing, using old methods of what looks like a cardboard / matte painting of the satellite in orbit of an equally unconvincing backdrop. (The shot is no doubt stock footage that is much older than this TV series!) (edit) The rocket launching the satellite at the beginning of the episode uses one of the same sound effects as used for Airwolf. (edit)

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