Movies and its helicopters
Dr. No - 1962 (James Bond jagt Dr. No)
No helicopters were used.
From Russia with Love - 1963 (Liebesgrüsse aus Moskau)
Early in this 007 adventure, SPECTRE agent 'Number 3' arrives at SPECTRE Island in a Hiller UH-12. Later, 007 buzzes another Hiller UH-12 out in the open. Bond shoots it down (a model helicopter is used) with his sniper rifle.
Goldfinger - 1964
Pussy Galore takes Goldfinger to
Fort Knox in a Hiller UH-12E4. At the end of the movie, a Brantly B2 is
used by Felix Leiter to search for Bond.
Thunderball - 1965 (Feuerball)
James Bond uses a Bell 47 to search
the ocean for the missing Avro Vulcan bomber of the Royal Air Force.
Near the end of the movie, a US
Coast Guard Sikorsky HH-52A rescues Bond from the grotto where villainous
Largo (Adolfo Celi) stranded him to die.
You only live twice - 1967 (Man lebt nur zweimal)
Here's another James Bond movie with
great rotary action, including 007's autogyro.
Sean Connery's original British
super-spy pilot heavily-armed "Little Nellie" (it's actually a Wallis WA-116
autogyro), which is delivered in packing crates while Bond is on a mission
overseas. On a recon flight, he deals with four attacking helicopters (these
are Kawasaki-Bell 47G3, which is a licence-built version of the world famous
Bell 47), causing two of them to a midair collision. This movie also has
the amusing scene where a mighty twin-rotor chopper (the Kawasaki KV-107II,
a licence-built Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight) uses a powerful electromagnet
to airlift the gunmen's car off the coast road, when Bond is pursued by
some killers, and it drops the bad guys' vehicle into the sea.
Notes: Other helicopters appearing
in You only live twice: A Brantly B2 is used as an air-taxi to reach Blofeld's
secret hideout in a volcano, and an Aerospatiale SA 316B Alouette III ferries
Bond to the ninja taining area.
On her majesty's secret service - 1969 (Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät)
In this James Bond movie, 007 gets married to a Spanish heiress (amusingly portrayed by Diana Rigg). We see a Bell 206 Jet Ranger (Heliswiss operated HB-XCF) flying Bond up to Blofeld's mountain stronghold "Piz Gloria". Near the end, Bond an his future father-in-law assault Blofeld's stronghold using three Agusta Bell AB204 (two operated by Heliswiss, one machine was ferried to "Piz Gloria" from Norge).
click on "Piz Gloria" - and you'll be there!
Diamonds are forever - 1971 (Diamantenfieber)
In the climax of this James Bond
movie, a squadron of USAF helicopters (including a Bell 206 Jet Ranger,
two UH-1H Hueys and three OH-6A Cayuse gunship for the dirty work) attack
the villain's secret base on an oilrig platform. A poor mercenary pilot
gets killed in a Hughes 500.
Live and let die - 1973 (Leben und sterben lassen)
As Bond and Solitaire sneak through
the poppy fields, a Bell 206 Jet Ranger strafes them for a bit.
The man with the golden gun - 1974 (Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt)
No helicopters were used.
The spy who loved me - 1977 (Der Spion der mich liebte)
No helicopters were used.
Moonraker - 1979
In this James Bond movie, a helicopter
pilot takes our suave super-spy to meet the top villain. The Drax air-taxi
is a Bell 206
For your eyes only - 1981 (In tödlicher Mission)
After figuring out how to unlock
the joystick of his remotely controlled Agusta-Bell 206B helicopter, James
Bond chases his wheelchair-bound enemy Blofeld in the chopper, hooks the
wheelchair on one of its landing skids and drops the disabled villain down
an industrial chimney. This funny pre-credits sequence is, unaccountably,
never mentioned in the rest of this film!
The sequence where a helicopter
flies through the aircraft hanger is priceless. At the end of the film,
General Gogol arrives at the peak of St Cyril's in a Polish PZL W-3A, which
is a licence-built version of the Russian Mil Mi-2 Sokol.
Octopussy - 1983
In this James Bond movie, an Aerospatiale SA 316 Alouette III, uniquely equipped with floats, takes 007 to New Delhi, India. Also, an Eurocopter SA 365C Dauphin brings General Orlov to Kamal's castle, and later is used to chase down the fleeing General Orlov.
Never say never again - 1983 (Sag niemals nie) - inofficially Bond-Movie by Sean Connery
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A view to a kill - 1985 (Im Angesichts des Todes)
Roger Moore's wrinkly 007 is rather dull with age and much too camp, laidback and mellow... he even leaves the beautiful heroine (Tanya Roberts), safely tucked into bed! However, in this bland James Bond adventure the helicopter sequence, involving a German-built - Swiss registered HB-XFN - Bo-105 with Russian markings, that appears in the film's opening ski sequence, is at least reasonably exciting. In a spy movie where good old Patrick Macnee (once the well-bred charmer John Steed in TV series The Avengers) looks like the film's real tough guy, while the lightweight hero struggles against the smart villains, it's down to the widescreen action scenes to provide what few thrills the picture has to offer.
Living daylights - 1987 (Der Hauch des Todes)
In this James Bond movie, we see a 1970s' vintage Bell UH-1H 'medical' Huey, operated by bad guys, snatching a Russian defector away from a Secret Service safe-house. This helicopter was tagged G-HUEY, captured from Argentinian forces in the Falklands War, and shipped to the UK. Sadly the chopper is now in a museum.
Licence to kill - 1989 (Lizenz zum Töten)
During the amusing pre-credits sequence
of this James Bond adventure, 007 uses the cable winch of a big US Coast
Guard HH-65A Dauphin helicopter to snatch the villain's light aircraft
out of the sky! It's a terrific aerial stunt, but could it really happen?
Later in the film, an Aerospatiale
350B A-Star is seen in a few quick shots.
The Dolphin (US-speak for Dauphin)
is actually in Eurocopter demo markings for a pending USCG contract!
Goldeneye - 1995
Here, Pierce Brosnan's first outing as 007 includes the theft by a homicidal Russian femme fatale of a hi-tech Eurocopter PAH-2 Tiger (which is shielded against the EMP satellite weapon of the film's title) from a military demo site. Later, the villains avoid being captured by escaping in a foldaway helicopter (a tiny Robinson R-22, posing as a Russian craft) that emerges from inside the wreckage of an armoured train. Later, we see a Cuban Eurocopter 355 TwinStar strafing Bond, who has to shoot it down with a machine gun. And finally, the heroine hijacks another Eurocopter 355 TwinStar to rescue Bond at the end of the movie.
Tomorrow never dies - 1997 (Der Morgen stirbt nie)
Roger Spottiswoode's neat Bond adventure
has 007 helped by a Chinese spy to thwart the plans of a crazed media mogul.
At the beginning of the movie, when
Bond receives his BMW 750 in Hamburg we'll se a brand new Eurocopter EC-135
in Eurocopter factory paint scheme. Not in flight, only standing in the
hangar, while Bond drives with his radio controlled car round the helo.
Later, 007 flies onboard a U.S.M.C. MH-53 Pave Low to the U.S. Air Base
in the Chinese Sea.
In one outstanding stunt sequence,
Bond jumps his motorbike over the villains' low-hovering helicopter. Later,
a Eurocopter 350B A-Star tries to kill Bond on his motorcycle by using
the rotorblades to slice him up. That doesn't work out too well. The 'buzzsaw
alley' stunt in Tomorrow Never Dies deserves a special mention as the most
blatantly inaccurate portrayal of helicopter flight - of all time - in
a big-budget movie. In this scene, the chopper pitches over forward more
than 20 degrees (nose down, tail up) without moving forward (impossible),
then slowly proceeds to chop up wood and pieces of debris without damaging
its rotor blades (also impossible) and continues to move forward very slowly
as it chases Bond! In reality, the helicopter would have accelerated forward
as soon as its nose began to pitch downwards. (A helicopter cannot hover
if it is pitched at an angle other than approximately level, in normal
weather conditions.)
The sequence insults the intelligence
of anyone who knows anything about how a helicopter flies, and gives away
the fact that it was almost certainly a life-size mechanical mock-up, perhaps
combined with miniature effects, and definitely not a real helicopter.
That ruined the whole movie.
The world is not enough - 1999 (Die Welt ist nicht genug)
This spy adventure sees James Bond
menaced by computer-generated choppers and a mock-up helicopter suspended
from crane, which hauls a buzz-saw rig (used for lopping off the tops of
mountain pines, performed with a real helicopter - an Eurocopter AS-355F-1
"Twin Squirrel" - in an earlier scene, filmed on location), that's pressed
into service as a car-wrecking device, for the scene where 007 is attacked
at a Russian caviar factory. Another helicopter featured in the film a
white EC-135.
The oil baroness Elektra King (Sophie
Marceau) is ferried to and from her oil pipeline operation, up in the Central
Asian mountains, by a Eurocopter AS-365N Dauphin.
Die Another Day - 2002 (Stirb an einem anderen Tag)
James Bond adventure directed by Lee Tamahori include a MD 600N bird falling – on purpose – out of a damaged cargo plane during 007 and his female sidekick's escape from the villain's airborn HQ. The helicopter's pilot manages to start its engine (in freefall!) for a controlled descent, just in time to avoid crashing. An earlier scene, set in Cuba, features an MD 900 Explorer. Both of these choppers were provided by Eastern Atlantic Helicopters Inc., and flown by Simon Oliphant Hope.
Casino Royale - 2006
During this movie, James Bond uses
a MD 600N helicopter for a transfer flight at the Bahamas, where he meets
M.
Quantum of Solace - 2008
During the air-race between the Douglas DC-3 (with our super hero as
pilot) and the SIAI Marchetti (enemy) we can see an UH-1N.
Only for a short moment and that's the only helicopter during this
movie.
Bond 23
Waiting for the next Bond movie and hoping to see more helicopter scenes.
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