James Bond film aircraft

Is the mystery Fuji 200 mentioned earlier actually a Ryan Navion by any chance?

No, the plane wasn’t a Navion (or a Piaggio P.149…which I did mis-identify to myself at a fly-in once to my everlasting shame 😮 ).
It had a cabin door not the sliding canopy of the North American/Ryan Navions or the FA200.
True, the later Navion “Rangemasters” had a cabin door, but the AC in the Bond film had a rear window…Rangemasters did not (they look a bit like a Mooney or a Piper Comanche).

Film You only live twice..lots of helis, including Brantly GATFH which lands inside the huge volcano core film set, ace piloting skills.

Is the mystery Fuji 200 mentioned earlier actually a Ryan Navion by any chance?

My old office at Northolt looked out at the “Bond Hangar” as it’s still known on the base, as it was used in Goldfinger as the base for Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus.

The real flying for the Octopussy Bede “fly through” was done elsewhere but the Northolt T2 was used for the interior shots that were done with a model.

When they came to shoot the scene where the small jet flies through the hangar,the only reason they didn’t do it for real was because it would happen too fast and the camera would have recorded a blur. So they fixed the plane to a pole mounted on top of an old Jaguar with the roof and side pillars cut off. Then they drove it through the hangar very fast!

Colin

ISTR that Corky Fornoff did the flying, and it was actually flown through the hangar, which was the old T2 on the NW side at RAF Northolt. I remember seeing it on a local news item in the 70s

My old office at Northolt looked out at the “Bond Hangar” as it’s still known on the base, as it was used in Goldfinger as the base for Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus.

The real flying for the Octopussy Bede “fly through” was done elsewhere but the Northolt T2 was used for the interior shots that were done with a model.

Bond hiller whilst it was at Sywell last year.

Which film? “From Russia with Love?” or was it “Dr No”?…I’m afraid I’m not a huge Bond fan.

It’s not the Goldfinger ship… that was an 12E4.
This is a 12C (note the canopy bubble).
I thought the Bond Hiller was an earlier model 12…with the angled canopy, not the “bubble”. But like Bell 47s it’s an easy mod and one usually done after a mishap or in a rebuild.

Bond hiller whilst it was at Sywell last year.

I remember reading an article when Al Rubin bought Vampire 17072 back to Canada that it appeared in a Bond film. Anyone know which one?

Jim

I can’t remember which film but it was supposed to be from inside the gas-holders in Vienna. The Living Daylights possibly? The one with Joe Don Baker as a military madman anyway.

that was true it was in the living daylights when they used that harrier to get away
and the L39 of goldeneye crashed at duxford a few years ago

“Never Say Never Again” (1984) – really a remake of “Thunderball”-which had a scene showing a B-1 Lancer being bombed up ,
Colin…

Interesting side note..in that film the warhead is in a Boeing AGM-86B ALCM– Air-Launched Cruise Missile.
Note the warhead is marked “W-80” …which is correct.
The producers must have gotten a hold of an early (1980 or before) Boeing drawing that showed a “exploded” (no pun intended) of the missile. The warheard…noted as being 1.8 cubic feet in size, was marked “W-80”.
In 1981, I was assigned to the first base to receive the missiles and for along time, the slick Boeing sheet was the only materiel we had on the weapon. I might still have one in my files…

Frankly I’m surprised the DoD let them release that information on the warhead.

And given the fanciful missile arming scene, I’m sure the “B-1” used was a mock-up…or maybe a Concorde…not a real B-1.

Little known fact the Bombs being loaded on the Vulcan, were in fact passed inbetween Concorde 101’s(G-AXDN) Engines with the covers open.
When u know u can see it. THE CAMERA LIES

Are you not perhaps getting mixed up with “Never Say Never Again” (1984) – really a remake of “Thunderball”-which had a scene showing a B-1 Lancer being bombed up ,which actually used another type of plane. “Thunderball” was made in 1965 ,years before any Concordes flew.

Colin

I’ve still got pictures (somewhere) from when i collected it from the 007 stage at Pinewood still in its film all white scheme as ‘black 10’

N-202 was also in ‘Man with the Golden gun’.

It was the ‘Mig’ being winched aboard the upturned Queen Mary in Hong Kong harbour.

If anybody’s interested, i just found some old photo’s, of Hawker (Dutch) Hunter F.6 N-202 before & after filming of Octopussy.

First photo was taken at Northolt a week before shooting began. As you can see, a dummy airframe has been attached to make it look Mig-23 ‘ish.

Second photo is late 1980’s in open store at Pinewood, still with seat and dummy nosecone.

Last two photo’s were taken on the day of collection (note the 007 stage in the background). Myself and Andy (HMS Vulture) blagged a quick tour inside where the TGV mock-up was nearly complete for ‘Mission Impossible’, while scattered around other stages were Gerry Anderson’s ‘Space Precinct’ series.

Aside from small parts, we couldn’t find any other airframes or cockpits there.

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Great shots 🙂

Tomorrow Never Dies

It seems that every James Bond film has some sort of aviation in it. Some have heaps of planes (esp. Goldfinger).
I was wondering, are any of the actual aircraft used in the films, even airliner types, preserved anywhere?

Don’t know about others, but I believe the L-39s used in this film are still around. Here are some scenes of making of the opening scene.
All photos courtesy of the late Mark Hanna.

Did both the German registered Mil-8s used in a recent Bond film survive? I know that one was used to do a lot of filming down in Long Valley near Farnborough flying each day to and from Denham but there was supposed to be another one around which was going to be blown up. Did that happen? (You can see I’m an avid film goer…).

The aircraft shown being blown up is actually a Fuji FA200. Very similar in shape but with fixed under cart. Do a google image search for FA200.

I strongly disagree, if you remember the aircraft belly lands…tough to do with a fixed gear plane!

I know what a FA-200 looks like, and that was NOT a Fuji. 😀

Also in TLD is G-HUEY. The opening scene in AVTAK has two orange Bo-105s painted with red stars and Soviet-style bort numbers – anyone know about those (except that they are ugly, of course).

doesn’t that go for all helicopters? 😀

Actually, thinking about it, I got it wrojg. The C47 and several other things (Cesnas I think) were destroyed in Roger Moore’s first film, Live and Let Die, not Diamonds Are Forever.

What were those five planes flown by the chicks in Goldfinger? I never did recognise them. And, was Goldfinger’s main base an old RAF airfield in reality? It really looked like hangars and Air Force style buildings.

the aircraft flown by the women in Goldfinger were PA28s.
Oops! Just read all the other posts and I see Arm Waver beat me with this one.

From the Excellent Vulcans In Camera website:

James Bond Vulcan

And the website itself:

Vulcans In Camera

There is also a Meyers…later Aero Commander…200 in You Only Live Twice.
It looks a bit odd in some shots (probably a bad model or mockup) before it explodes.
Were those scenes filmed in the UK? The 200 is a rare ship, anyone know its identity?

The aircraft shown being blown up is actually a Fuji FA200. Very similar in shape but with fixed under cart. Do a google image search for FA200.