Eddie Donahue
Background
Eddie Donahue lives in the desert near the Crystal Sands region. He was a pilot during World War II. Eddie used to be a pilot, but took to drinking when a plane he was flying crashed causing numerous casualties.
During the events of Airwolf: Season 2 Episode 2 Firestorm played by Eugene Roche
At the Last Chance bar, Tanya and a Soldier listen as Eddie talks about seeing lights in the desert. Angie offers to get him food instead of more booze, but he refuses and asks for another shot. He sees Soldier and his friend looking at him and asks him what he is looking at. Eddie lunges at Soldier and they start to fight as Dominic and Stringfellow Hawke enter the bar. They grab Eddie and Dominic drives his truck home while Hawke follows in Dominic's jeep. Dominic brings Eddie into his trailer and Eddie recalls how Dominic has carried him home numerous times. Before passing out, Eddie mumbles about seeing lights in the desert. He wakes up and grabs his liquor bottle and takes a drink. He goes outside and lights appear in the sky. Suddenly a mortar round hits near Eddie and he falls down unconscious and the lights disappear. Eddie wakes up in the hospital and Dominic gives him some magazines to read and tells him he was screaming about snakes crawling on his body and Dominic tells Eddie, he has to quit drinking. Eddie's heart rate elevates as he tells Dominic of the things he sees in the desert. Two Nurses walk in and one tells the other one to get the doctor. The Nurse then grabs Dominic and pulls him away as Eddie screams that what he saw was nothing from Earth. Later, Dominic picks up Eddie from the hospital and brings him back to his trailer. As Dominic goes out to his jeep he sees lights in the sky. Eddie runs out and suddenly a loud screeching noise erupts from where the lights are. Hawke wakes up in a room with Dominic and Eddie and Dominic tells him General Sandower and his group are getting ready to fire the nuclear tipped missile at Moscow to start World War III. They start a fake fight to attract the guard, and then grab him and choke him unconscious when he tries to stop them from fighting. They break out of the room and Sandower starts the launch of the missile. Dominic is shot in the chest as he and Eddie drive away in a jeep and Hawke jumps onto a motorcycle and rides away. Dominic and Eddie arrive at Eddie's trailer, while Hawke gets into Airwolf. Dominic tells Eddie that he will have to help Hawke fly Airwolf to stop Sandower. A group of Sandower's men arrive at Eddie's trailer, but Hawke kills two of them, and the others surrender. Hawke lands Airwolf and Dominic and Hawke tell Eddie that he has to help them. Eddie gets into Airwolf with Hawke and they fly back towards the camp. Hawke has Eddie pop two anti-rocket sunbursts and then has him fire a rocket as the nuclear missile is launching. The rocket hits the missile causing it to explode and Sandower and everyone in his camp is obliterated. Hawke, Dominic and Eddie drive Eddie back to his trailer and Eddie tells Dominic he is going to try to get sober. Eddie goes into his trailer and opens a bottle of liquor as Dominic goes inside to tell him something. Dominic then tells Eddie that no one can live his life for him and he leaves. Eddie looks at the bottle of liquor and Dominic and Hawke leave Eddie's property.