Always had a soft spot for the two sinister Hughes OH6's in Capricorn One.
Liked the sequences of them chasing Telly Savalas in the biplane:ok:

Crabette....me thinks a bit of bias in your perspective...Charlie's Angels in preference to John Wayne? Oh, Dear!;)

"Sniper" with Tom Berenger, where the drug baron's R-22's turbine is whining down.

The Deadly Encounter film featured the flying of Bert Rhine in the Allouette sequence. Bert was also the infamous "Eric Stohler (sp?) in Firebirds. Bert worked with Schreiner Airways/Pelita Air Service in Indonesia and was also a Boeing Test Pilot.

Birds of Prey
 

I have to agree with NickLapos with regard to this:
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Perhaps the absolute best helicopter flying flick was "Birds of Prey" a TV movie from the 1970's. David Janssen played a helicopter traffic reporter who witnesses a robbery/kidnapping, and follows the bad guys for hundreds of miles, including a scene where he chases them through a parking garage.
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The best bits include where he's chatting to his base on a hand held mike in his 500 with just the hint of a turbine in the background, the fact that his heli manages to do a 180 degree turn without him making any control inputs, and the chase scene where the (what I seem to remember is an) Alouette manages to keep up with the Hughes on the chase (really probable!). Anyhow, a pal of mine gave me a copy of an old VHS tape of this he'd made on a CD-ROM - it was a good laugh!!

2Sticks:ok:

Another likeable sequence is from the fllm Local Hero.
It's at the end when a Jetranger flies in over a beach, during a sunset. The accompanying music gives a pleasant image.

Sandy Helmet,

You're right, that is totally unbelievable. Someone with a lot of money flying an R-22? Nah.

How about that knife huh!
 

There was Rambo 2 also. Old John J Rambo gets chased about the jungle by a Russian Hind (or something dressed up like one) which I think he finally shoots down with a bow and arrow.

Aaahhh, that's where the mujahadeen were going wrong in Afghanistan back in the eighties. Forget the AAA and missiles. Pluck a sharp stick at them and they just explode into a zillion pieces. Oh to be a "Hollywod Stunt pilot".

Actaully, I remember he also knocked a jetranger out of the sky with a rock in Rambo 1. This guy is good. I wouldn't fight him over the loose change on the bar.

cheers
Gin.

Terminator 2 - where the T2000 is flying a 206 chasing Arnie down the freeway, one hand on the cyclic, the other on the collective and the er....other other holding and firing a machine gun. Just think how useful that third arm would be when re-folding a quarter mill map in flight...

Rich Lee wrote "Bert (Rhine) was also the infamous "Eric Stohler (sp?) in Firebirds"

Wasn't Eric Stohler in "Wings Of The Apache"? The world's worst helicopter film featuring the worlds most wooden actors Nicholas Cage and Sean Young? It was billed as rotary-wing's answer to "Top Gun" and I rushed off to see it as soon as it came out. SH-1Te. Wouldn't have encouraged me to sign up.

And speaking of naff - what about the Squirrel sequence in one of the Bond films, where they "fly" down the street in about a 70 degrees nose down attitude and 5kts groundspeed.....

Hows about Hamburger Hill....the scene where the Huey's are doing a Combat Assault (CA)...with the blades curling the fog and generating their own in the votices....very impressive images.

Also liked the hot tub scene too....but that is another story....from R and R.:ok:

Just thought of another one: That dreadful film 'Rat Race' with Rowan Atkinson, where the girl at the end is trying to start an A-Star (Squirrel) and the clever sound guys have used the noise of a recip turning over.

Yes indeed on both counts. "Wings Of The Apache" and "Firebirds" are one in the same film. They changed the name for reasons unkown. And yes, it qualifies as one of the worst helicopter films and it did feature the worlds most wooden actors. There is actually a film that was produced that used a clever mix of computer animation and footage from "Wings Of The Apache" to produce an even worse helicopter film. Don't know the name, but it is bad....really, really bad.

The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

Dave Barry

Watched a film recently with some hero type shooting at an orange coloured UH-1 type only for the close-up to be a Squirrel!

You've got the Hiller whanging round Bond in "From Russia With Love" and the supposed lift off of the R22 from the train in "Goldeneye" - also featuring the Tiger. Two Dauphin feature in "Octopussy"

Did like the remake Italian Job with the '500 flying under the road... very impressive.

Another film is Biggles with the Jet Ranger dog fighting with the Stearman... and the mock up blown up which looks more than a bit dodgy...

The bad guys in the A-Team always flew '500's too

OAW

MH68 Stingray in Bad Boys II, some really great scenes of two aircraft taking out a speed boat!!

Watching Airwolf lift out of his cave and hit his turbo's. Stringfellow hawk was one hell of a pilot. Old Dominic Santinin must have been a top notch mechanic as well, as string once flew the 222 to 100,000 ft. Good job he never had to perform an auto coming out of that cave !!!

I actually hacked up when I remember that corny scene in the Bond flick with the squirrell flying down the street with it's nose pointed nearly straight down and moving at wheelchair speed, rotors tearing through dozens of rope clothes lines in some seedy China town. Sarongs and lap laps and ropes tangled everywhere with no effect on the control of the bird. Can't remember how that squirrel was destroyed. Maybe Rambo stepped out of a passing Rickshaw and knocked it out with a well thown fish head from the rubbish bin.........

Nobody f*cks with Rambo!

Can't remember which Bond film it was but there was a pre-opening credits section where James gets taken for a ride in a B206. The pilot gets shot and James finds out that Blofeld has got the chopper under radio control. James naturally regains control and picks up Blofeld's wheelchair on the front of the skids and drops him down a chimney. Classic.

BTW, it's always interesting to look at heli's rotor heads in films as you can usually see where they've used a model chopper - such as when Frank Murphey loops Blue Thunder - the chopper that gets looped has got 2 blades and a flybar with weighted paddles on the end!

Has anyone given any thought to the VNE of Airwolf? Using that boost button must push it over the limit? :ok:

Victor two
The Squirrel in "The World is Not Enough" is brought down by Bond who rides the motor bike at the chopper sliding it down the streeet under the disk whilst holding a steel cable which he then throws into the tail rotor which causes a loss of control and it smashes into the surrounding buildings in a big flaming ball... I think I need to get out more!:8

CyclicWaggle
The other Bond film where Blofeld is deposited down the chimney is called I think "Live and Let Die"... The Jet Ranger was still around a year or two back but I think it has since crashed. I also believe that at the bottom of the chimney you'll still find the dropped prop... If the Chimney is still there... it was filmed back in '72-73. The pilot, who's name escapes me got the dummy down the chimney on first take by all accounts.

Another film with Helicopter action in a town is "Swordfish" with the Flying Crane carrying the bus and the escape in the Explorer.

OAW :E

OrangeArmWaver, CyclicWaggle - think the pilot was Marc Wolf and the machine was G-BAKS (RIP). It used to belong to the Galliford Group and would regularly land at a construction site in Harwich - where it and its pilot at the time would be ruthlessly examined and interrogated by a really irritating chopper-spotter - me.