the Fourth Protocol (Film)

[Camp Freddie]

Hi there,

was watching the old michael caine film from 1987 and at one point 2 S76s come steaming in and a bunch of military types jump out.

both aircraft were painted in a matt black and had RAF type markings.

now as far as I know the RAF dont fly them then or now (but I am normally wrong so would be no suprise to be again)

anyone know which registrations they were and who was flying them ?

my own guess is that they were from A+ s from Bond Helicopters, as they did supply aircraft for films in the 80's . e.g. the AS365 with russian markings in octopussy.

any info, regards

CF

[Bravo73]

Blimey. That Marc Wolff has done a film or two:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938103/

[Hippolite]

They were both Bristow S76s. G BISZ was one, can't remember the other. They were poster painted black at Redhill with just the rego visible until the final shots. Martine Forde and Mike Murphy were the pilots, not Mark Wolfe in the S76.

Photo here

http://209.196.171.35/images/tillbisz86.jpg

[Droopy]

Martine Forde? He never struck me as..err..is there something we should know?

[Thridle Op Des]

As a nice finale to the story, the aircraft were painted in a water soluble matt black distemper. Sadly for BHL it was an especially hot summer, it was decided to leave the aircraft over a week end before getting the high pressure water wash kit out to remove the paint and not suprisingly it wouldn't come off. The respray ate into the charter rate quite substantially.

TOD

[Camp Freddie]

thanks for the info guys,

I know there are loads of films where Jetrangers have been used (not really interested in those) but are their any other notable feature films where bristow/bond/brintel used their medium/heavy twins in the 70s/80s/90s ?

regards

CF