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Hi Jerry!
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Looked over the links on your website, and while I see a lot about you helping with/providing motors for various movies (I especially liked the "Running Man" stuff), I didn't see anything about rockets, which is the focus of my talk. Are there any movies/TV shows which feature USR rockets or something you have scratch built (e.g., which shows used the helicopter rockets mentioned above)? My apologies in advance if I missed something.
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Bill, not on TV but in another movie.
There was a small article in an RC mag years ago when the movie "The Right Stuff" came out. The movie company needed a B-29 to use for the Bell X-1 flights. At the time there was only one operational B-29 flying and the owner said "No way" to the movie company cutting a hole in the bottom of his plane to mount an X-1. One of the crew said that he had a RC version they could use. So somebody had to build a Bell X-1 and as it turned out it was the right size for an 18mm motor. A "C" only has about a 2 sec burn and that wasn't enough so they cut two more "C" engines and epoxied them together to get about a 6 sec burn. Just enough for the filming. Sorry guys but this was over 30 years ago. I may have a bunch of details wrong. I do remember that it took 2 guys to fly the B-29 and one to fly the X-1, all hanging out the door of a chase helicopter. No digital RC stuff back then. So, not a rocket but a rocket plane and 3 "modified" rocket motors. So the next time you watch the movie check out the exhaust on the X-1. Everybody here know what an 18mm motor's exhaust looks like. Look for it.
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Here's another one, Bill. Just posted on Facebook by Squirrel Works Model Rocketry:
https://youtu.be/dG6ReEhHFYw "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze" from 1975. At the end of this clip, a metallic Estes Goblin is launched to catch a fish!
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My mention of the helicopter rockets are not on my website if that is the question. There are also four movies I don't list because they either were never released or didn't produce trailers. I also don't see them in IMDB. Robot Jox for example, was released but went through four different owners/titles/production companies before it was released via DVD. Jerry |
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OMG that is cheesy!
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My best story is actually Jim Brown the football star. He had rockets attached to him for live fire. That guy has ba11$ of steel. But, yes, I see your point about them not being "rockets". I tend to do the sorts of stunts FX guys cannot do on their own. In commercials there have been lots of "rockets". Jerry |
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