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Helicopters / Films
Apart from Airwolf and Blue thunder (which I havn't seen) are there any other "good" helicopter films or films involving helis? Suppose you have to add Black hawk down to this?
MADY
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Deadly Encounter.
See here
and, much more recently, here.
A bit more about Apocalypse Now.
A bit more about Blue Thunder.
This thread will also help.
See here
and, much more recently, here.
A bit more about Apocalypse Now.
A bit more about Blue Thunder.
This thread will also help.
Yep - "Birds of Prey" was just about the most stunning flying I've seen - a proper dual of pilots' flying - inside an hangar! And in the days prior to digital enhancement too.
Basic Cops and Robbers storyline with a Hughes 500 and an Allouette I think.
Basic Cops and Robbers storyline with a Hughes 500 and an Allouette I think.
"More American Grafitti" was great too....someone who understood Army Warrant Officer Helicopter Pilots must have been involved.
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Some great mentions here. Some I haven't even heard of!
Guess I should have thought about Apocalypse Now!
What about the Guardian - anyone seen that yet? And Sahara - What a great film!
Good find that "rugmuncher"
MADY
Guess I should have thought about Apocalypse Now!
What about the Guardian - anyone seen that yet? And Sahara - What a great film!
Good find that "rugmuncher"
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There was a 1981 movie called ‘Race for the Yankee Zephyr’ that was filmed around Queenstown in NZ. It involved a downed U.S. Navy DC-3 cargo plane missing since 1944 that holds medals and a lot of money. The movie starred Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasance and George Peppard.
There was some pretty creative flying in a H300, excellant scenery and some dear hunt footage.
Old, but worth a look.
There was some pretty creative flying in a H300, excellant scenery and some dear hunt footage.
Old, but worth a look.
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you are the greatest
TwinHueyMan What about Firebirds? I always chant "I am the greatest!" when I fly.
you'd look good with a periscope strapped to you noggin with a pair of jocks...
there was some great action footage, however unrealistic it may have been, but Nicholas Cage was a little over-bearing,
And of course another good 'authoritarian' role for Tommy Lee-Jones though.
Wasn't "Birds of Prey" a very dodgy b-grade F-117 movie (one black one in some sort of three-stage-gray urban cam), or is that another flick of the same name?
More helicopters in films
The Guardian: HH-60J Jayhawk and cant remember if there was an HH-65
The Island: EC-120B
Resident Evil II, my favourite: Helicopter Transportation Services MD-520N, S-61R, AS-355F2 ..nice paint scheme
Bad Boys II, USCG HH-65 HH-60Jand HITRON-10 MH-68, AS355 (in Miami Police guise)
SWAT: AS-305 Astar and Bell 212 ( LAPD ASTRO Division uses Bell UH-1H ex US Army to fly SWAT teams) and AgustaWestland A109C
Tears of the Sun: SH-60F/HH-60H/SH-60B HSL-37 at Kaneohe Bay and the off shore shots on aircraft carrier might be from HS-3 in the Atlantic. Forgot the credits.
Tomb Raider; the Cradle of Life: AS350B3, EC-155, A-109E Power.
Behind Enemy Lines: HH-60, and UH-1N though notice the slight change as the film was shot off the coast of san Diego and in Czech republic …the UH-1N became a flight of Bell 412 and 2 x Bell 205. Also MI-8 in there
Tomb Raider: RAF Chinook HC2
The General’s Daughter: S-61L Shortsky (tell by the fixed undercarriage could’ve been any operator that supplied from Carson helicopters to wheoever),at beginning transporting the General (US Army only operated VH-3A when Army VIP Flight detachment briefly in early 60s), also Bell 205
The World is Not Enough: AS-365, AS355, EC-135
Tommorrow Never Dies: 21st SOS MH-53J from RAF Mildenhall landing at RAF Lakenheath, AS565/365 at beginning at arms bazaar and AS-355 and EC-135 parked in background supposedly at Hambrug Airport but in reality it was Stansted where Pierce Brosnan demo the r/c BMW. The story about that EC-135 was it was one of the demos and ECD test pilot ferried it across to UK for the shoot, kind of marketing ploy like the Tiger in Goldeneye. Read it in the book of behind the scenes for Tommorrow Never Dies.
Courage Under Fire: Bell 205 or UH-1H and Cobras..probably privately owned and refiteed by Garlick helicopters (only company authorised to maintain modify ex US Army Cobras.
Bad Boys: MD-520N right at end with police SWAT and reinforcements.
Goldeneye: prototype Eurocopter Tiger and AS-355 and Bell UH-1H
Outbreak: Bell 204 (supposedly as California ARNG UH-1M which I thought they were till remembered they were retired by late 80s, early 90s), MD-500 as Little Bird, Bell 206 JetRanger (news copter), and at beginning
Clear and Present Danger: MH-60 from 2nd or 3rd BN 160th SOAR
Civil Bell 412
Under Siege: COlumbia Helicopters KV-107 in movie disguise as USN CH-46
Toy Soldiers: Virginia ARNG AH-64A Apache and UH-60. At the beginning when the narco terrorists led by Andrew Divoff pushes the Columbian judge out of the helo, think it was a Bell 212.
Navy SEALS: Spanish Navy SH-3D dolled up in USN titles, (also filmed aboard aircraft carrier Principe de Austrias when the SEALS are having their debrief, look out for the Spanish Navy squadron patches on the ceiling). Also Bell 204 used in SEALS training, though wonder if that might be HH-1K as the predecessors to HCS-4 and HCS-5 being Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 3 and 4 still had the Hueys till 1989/1990 before being replaced by HH-60H as the movie was released 1990.
License to Kill: HH-65A Dolphin USCG and AS-350
The Rescue: RNZAF UH-1H and some civil Bell 212 as North Korean bad guy
Bat 21, Royal Malaysian Air Force S-61 Nuris as supposedly the Jilly Greens, and Bell 212 (don’t know who that belonged to)
The Fourth Protocol: Bristows S-76 dolled up in black SF paint and RAF roundels
The Island: EC-120B
Resident Evil II, my favourite: Helicopter Transportation Services MD-520N, S-61R, AS-355F2 ..nice paint scheme
Bad Boys II, USCG HH-65 HH-60Jand HITRON-10 MH-68, AS355 (in Miami Police guise)
SWAT: AS-305 Astar and Bell 212 ( LAPD ASTRO Division uses Bell UH-1H ex US Army to fly SWAT teams) and AgustaWestland A109C
Tears of the Sun: SH-60F/HH-60H/SH-60B HSL-37 at Kaneohe Bay and the off shore shots on aircraft carrier might be from HS-3 in the Atlantic. Forgot the credits.
Tomb Raider; the Cradle of Life: AS350B3, EC-155, A-109E Power.
Behind Enemy Lines: HH-60, and UH-1N though notice the slight change as the film was shot off the coast of san Diego and in Czech republic …the UH-1N became a flight of Bell 412 and 2 x Bell 205. Also MI-8 in there
Tomb Raider: RAF Chinook HC2
The General’s Daughter: S-61L Shortsky (tell by the fixed undercarriage could’ve been any operator that supplied from Carson helicopters to wheoever),at beginning transporting the General (US Army only operated VH-3A when Army VIP Flight detachment briefly in early 60s), also Bell 205
The World is Not Enough: AS-365, AS355, EC-135
Tommorrow Never Dies: 21st SOS MH-53J from RAF Mildenhall landing at RAF Lakenheath, AS565/365 at beginning at arms bazaar and AS-355 and EC-135 parked in background supposedly at Hambrug Airport but in reality it was Stansted where Pierce Brosnan demo the r/c BMW. The story about that EC-135 was it was one of the demos and ECD test pilot ferried it across to UK for the shoot, kind of marketing ploy like the Tiger in Goldeneye. Read it in the book of behind the scenes for Tommorrow Never Dies.
Courage Under Fire: Bell 205 or UH-1H and Cobras..probably privately owned and refiteed by Garlick helicopters (only company authorised to maintain modify ex US Army Cobras.
Bad Boys: MD-520N right at end with police SWAT and reinforcements.
Goldeneye: prototype Eurocopter Tiger and AS-355 and Bell UH-1H
Outbreak: Bell 204 (supposedly as California ARNG UH-1M which I thought they were till remembered they were retired by late 80s, early 90s), MD-500 as Little Bird, Bell 206 JetRanger (news copter), and at beginning
Clear and Present Danger: MH-60 from 2nd or 3rd BN 160th SOAR
Civil Bell 412
Under Siege: COlumbia Helicopters KV-107 in movie disguise as USN CH-46
Toy Soldiers: Virginia ARNG AH-64A Apache and UH-60. At the beginning when the narco terrorists led by Andrew Divoff pushes the Columbian judge out of the helo, think it was a Bell 212.
Navy SEALS: Spanish Navy SH-3D dolled up in USN titles, (also filmed aboard aircraft carrier Principe de Austrias when the SEALS are having their debrief, look out for the Spanish Navy squadron patches on the ceiling). Also Bell 204 used in SEALS training, though wonder if that might be HH-1K as the predecessors to HCS-4 and HCS-5 being Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 3 and 4 still had the Hueys till 1989/1990 before being replaced by HH-60H as the movie was released 1990.
License to Kill: HH-65A Dolphin USCG and AS-350
The Rescue: RNZAF UH-1H and some civil Bell 212 as North Korean bad guy
Bat 21, Royal Malaysian Air Force S-61 Nuris as supposedly the Jilly Greens, and Bell 212 (don’t know who that belonged to)
The Fourth Protocol: Bristows S-76 dolled up in black SF paint and RAF roundels
Last edited by chopper2004; 18th Apr 2007 at 11:11.
Helicopter / Films: remember Cassandra Crossing
Morning all
ANyone remember the Richard Hrris/SOphia Loren/OJ SImpson/Burt Lancaster/Martin Sheen 1977 movie Cassandra Crossing of the train hurtling through switzerland with an injured bio weapon infected terrorist
The famous scene of BOHAG Alouette II, reg HB-XDL flying beside the moving train trying to hoist up the dog and the infected terrorist? The helicopter in the film supposedly belongs or contracted to the US Army team from the fictional International health Organisaton based in Geneva
ANyone remember the Richard Hrris/SOphia Loren/OJ SImpson/Burt Lancaster/Martin Sheen 1977 movie Cassandra Crossing of the train hurtling through switzerland with an injured bio weapon infected terrorist
The famous scene of BOHAG Alouette II, reg HB-XDL flying beside the moving train trying to hoist up the dog and the infected terrorist? The helicopter in the film supposedly belongs or contracted to the US Army team from the fictional International health Organisaton based in Geneva