Jan-Michael Vincent: The Rise, Fall, and Forgotten Legacy of a Seventies Icon

The helicopter, a sleek, predatory black, soared across the television screen, its rotors slicing through the desert air. Inside, Jan-Michael Vincent, with his piercing blue eyes and windswept blond hair, exuded a cool, steely confidence as Stringfellow Hawke, the maverick pilot of *Airwolf*. He was a star, a heartthrob, a symbol of the high-octane action…