do ya remember in Golden eye, Sean Bean 006 escapes from the train in a black R22 with a Russian red star on it, no fancy flying but a very fancy Engine start sound effect, it was a 206 start-up sound. Maybe the producer didnt like the grunting sound of a piston,

The movie Sentinal
 

Was seeing a replay of the movie Sentinel starring Michael Douglas and Eva Longoria - where the Marine One gets shot down.

The painted an S61 with the Marine one colors, and just forgot that the marine one has rectractable landing gear, instead of the one shown with Fixed Landing Gear, and minus the Sponsons .. anyway, as close at it gets ..

Scenes we'd like to see - When the movie Blue Thunder came out, the star, Roy Scheider, made an appearance on the old Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Scheider said that during the filming of the final scenes where Blue Thunder and the Hughes 500 chase each other around the Los Angeles skyscrapers, Malcom McDowell, supposedly flying the 500 was absolutely terrified. Scheider said the film out takes show McDowell screaming most of the time. One day maybe those out takes will make a bloopers tv show.

28 Days Later
 

I watched 28 Weeks Later on the weekend. Gazelles, Chinooks and Apaches feature in this however the most amusing scene was when the Gazelle pilot attacks a horde of zombies in a field by pitching down to use his blades to slice through their heads while screaming stuff like, "Yeah, come and get it! You want some!? Woo yeah!" The Gazelle also had a Huey sound mixed in over its shrieking.

When will we ever see a film that is about helicopters and has real footage, a good feature length documentary that isn't full of crap.

surely there will be a day.

the best stuff I have seen is from Nz & Oz on deer hunting.

HF

James Bond + helicopters is a recurring theme.

Octupussy had the Russian bad guy (Stephen Berkoff with a dodgy Russian accent!) arrive at Kamal Khan's gaff (another bad guy) in what looked suspiciously like a red North Scottish SA365C...even had "NM" on the nose as I recall!! - G-BGNM??

HELOFAN, check these documentaries, I have them all and they're fascinating.

Helicopters: The Ultimate Profile. It is 238 minutes long and I got it years ago from a specialist shop on VHS. It discusses so many models and has a lot of original and archive footage. It also has a very memorable long sequence of Hinds operating with some odd electronic orchestrial music as well as some long sequences of BO-105 low-level training flights in and around dense woods at high speed.

Helicopters: The Ultimate Profile
DD Video
5 Churchill Court
58 Station Road
North Harrow
Middx HA2 7SA
www.ddvideo.co.uk

Another great documentary is Chopper: What Goes Up. I was only able to ever find volume 3 that consisted of these episodes: The Turbulent Fifties, Full Metal Gunship and Riders in the Sky. The Turbulent Fifties episode is really interesting, full of old archive footage of the first turbine choppers and those big MD, compound and Hughes experimental machines.

Chopper (What Goes Up)
60 minutes
Silver Trak Audio & Video

The Extreme Machines / Discovery docu called Choppers is also a good one to have.

There's also another good docu called The West's Combat Helicopters: Bell UH-1 Huey, Agusta A109, MD Defender, Gazelle, BO-105P, Lynx and Lynx 3, Dauphin / Panther, A129 Mangusta, Blackhawk, H-76 Eagle, HueyCobra, Apacha and the LHX. This features a lot of original, demo and test footage of these choppers.

The West's Combat Helocopters
60 minutes
Command Vision
28 LancasterMews
London, W2 3QE
Part of the Modern Combat Aircraft 2 series

Don't bother with the Straight Up! Helicopters in Action documentary made for IMAX. I found it quite disappointing, more for general audiences.

Well I thought some of the stuff in 'Sniper' was very good :} and some of the stuff in 'Frankie's house' was great too. But then again, I may be biased ;)

Sky Heist
 

There was a great movie in the late '70s or early '80s called Sky Heist which gets my vote. There is an amazing sequence involving flying under a freeway bridge with the skids throwing sparks of the road with little overhead rotor clearance.

Another scene an aerial chase with the bad guys in I think an Alouette with the good guy (a TV traffic reporter) in a Hughes 500 which was mind-blowing to watch. Well worth seeing if you get the chance....

MB

I/C

"p.s. The JetRanger pilot in The Spy Who Loved Me was the gorgeous Caroline Munro, often reported to be the most popular Bond girl ever."

Wasn't the pilot actually the great Dennis Kenyon ?? :ok:

PD

What! Does this mean the great Mr Kenyon is a cross dresser and calls himself Caroline when in drag! (im sure he won't be ofended by this humour)

watch the excellent scene by searching - Lotus Esprit S1 - on Youtube.com ...if you look carefully at about 5 mins 35 seconds the great man in drag is pretty obvious

sorry Den, your secret is out ;)...but you're still my hero !

Madbob,

The 500 film you're on about is called Deadly Encounter and it has Larry Hagman as an ex army pilot and Vietnam vet flying for a commercial outfit called YAG Helicopters (YAG for Yankee Go Home) and he helps an old flame from some mafia hoods who is after her for money from her late husband (whom they killed). The chase is from Mexico into USA with the bad guys flying Lamas and the big bad guy sports a blue and white SA341 Gazelle.

Larry Hagman is actually flying a 369...not really a 500 as such.

A while back I posted this with helicopters in films thread

http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/271...ers-films.html

More helicopters in films

Transformers:

USAF AFSOC MH-53M, CV-22 from 58th SOW at Kirtland AFB, HH-60G on ramp at Holloman at beginning

US Army red and white Huey (supposed DUSTOFF to reover the ranger team in Qatar...colours look like it may be test / eval a/c out of White Sands missile range),
Also UH-60A DUSTOFF pairs over desert and normal UH-60L (transporting our heroes to the dam)

Eurocopter EC-120B and EC-130B4 (as used by Sector 7 to capture Bumblebee under the bridge

Not sure about at the end when they were dumping the remains of the decpeticons at sea by SH-60F whether they were CGI or real

Casino Royale: Tour helicopter Bell 206B lifts off as Bond arrives in Nassau and then later on he arrives back at murder scene at the villa in an MD-600N

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. AS355F2 (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-155B, A-109E Power.

Die Another Day: BSF - Berliner Spezial Flug MI-8 Hip used as North Korean heli at beginning then there is Eastern Atlantic MD-900 Explorer and MD-600N flown by Simon Oliphant Hope (around the world helicopter pilot) and then there is the scene at RAF Odiham with their Chinook Wing which was depicted as a USAF airbase in RoK.

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 bad guys AS-355 and Bell UH-1H and Robbo22

COn Air: Garlick Helicopters refitted ex army AH-1S for movie, 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

Tom Clancy's OP CENTRE: California ANG HH-60G Pave Hawk and California ARNG UH-60A lifting off from the carrier supposedly in the Med for strike on the Russian gang holding stolen nuclear warheads

Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger: MH-60A from 2nd or 3rd BN 160th SOAR.
Civil Bell 412EP.Theres a bit at beginning where Jack Ryan is watching the tv with the President on tv walking towards a VIP Huey....looks like the white topped VIP Huey of the 12th Aviation Bn at Davison AAF, Fort Belvoir.

Tom Clancy's Patriot Games : FBI bell 206b Jetranger with HRT at end, bad guys Sikorsky S-55 flying in the desert, SAS Bell 204 flying into assault terrorist camp and EMS BK-117 that flew in Jack Ryans wife and daughter to hospital.

Tom Clancy's Hunt for the Red October: USN SH-3H and SH-60B

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-350B

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 Jolly Greens, and Bell 212 (don’t know who that belonged to)

Full Metal Jacket: Bristows Westland Wessex dolled up as USMC H-34

The Fourth Protocol: Bristows S-76 dolled up in black SF paint and RAF roundels

Filming The Peacemaker 365 galore
 

Another film of which the aerial action scenes filmed in Czech Republic and the airbase Which had tarp covered Mig 21 in the hangars, has a trio of AS365N decked out in USAF markings and camouflage.

I doubt there were many Czech registered AS365 back in 96/97 but were they provided directly by Eurocopter?

Who provided the aerial filming for this?

Cheers

1973 Dr Who The Green death Hughes 269
 

Happy New Year all :)

Just watching my other half's classic Dr Who collection of Jon Pertwee The Green Death and theres a scene where theres a Hughes 269 dropping grenades on the bugs in the mining camp.

Does anyone know who flew or owned the 269 for that episode/

Cheers

i know
 

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Raise the Titanic, Titanic
 

As its the centenary of the Titanic going down along with documentaries and drmatic reconstruction on BBC1 and ITV, I'd thought post these screen dumps from my iTunes library as I had bought Raise the Titanic. Sadly I watched the film as a kid before reading the book and would have liked the inclusion of the stand off between the SEALs and the Russian marines in the film and also make Richard Jordan's Dirk Pitt character as Clive Cussler did, ex USAF major rather than ex Naval intel.

Though good to see the classic Navy SH-3H in the movie, supporting the USS Denver.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...H3_landing.jpg

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ng_titanic.jpg


The two Hueys (204 and 205) decked out as the Russian airframes reminded me of the OPFOR JUH-1M and JUH-1H used at the NTC :)

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...rei_vyborg.jpg


http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...1h_landing.jpg

And hadn't forgotten Cougar's S-61N in Titanic delivering the old lady and her granddaughter to the salvage vessel in the beginning of the movie. I knew the then VP of ops for Cougar who provided to A/C for the producer :ok:

chopper2004, you have spotted that pic of a heli hovering over the stern is a toy model, right?

zishelix

looks highly probable that its a ex uk mil gazelle and a ht2 or 3 by the 2 aerials under the cabin