Posted on 11/05/2015 3:36:05 PM PST by EveningStar
... AFTER 52 HOURS, 22 bags of popcorn, and a trashcan-size soda, the editors at Air & Space have finished watching all of the Bond flicks, counting more than 160 aircraft and spacecraft (both fictional and non-). Bond and company have flown just about everything from "Bird 1" (Ernst Blofeld's fictional two-stage rocket used to capture U.S. and Soviet spacecraft) in You Only Live Twice to the Aerospatiale/Eurocopter helicopter operated by psychopath Xenia Onatopp (who uses her thighs to crush her opponents to death) in GoldenEye to the hot-air balloon blown up by the Cigar Girl assassin in The World Is Not Enough to the fictional "Skyfleet S570 prototype" (the world's largest passenger aircraft targeted by terrorist banker Le Chiffre) in Casino Royale.
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Here is a tough one.
In the book “Quantum of Solace” a group of varied individuals are flying to Cuba. Anyone know what kind of plane?
Goldfinger's Jetstar.
The real thing wasn't nearly as roomy as in the movie and you'd need Goldfinger's bank account to pump fuel in it.
Unlike the two-stage rocket, "Little Nellie" was real.
Little Nellie is a big favorite still.
The article lists several candidates from the movie. I've bolded the likely possibilities:
Douglas DC-3-G102A
Canadair Challenger 604
SIAI-Marchetti SF.260TP
Bell 205
Gulfstream V
Piper PA-28
British Aerospace BAE 125 Series 800A
Those are corporate jets. Aside from the DC-3, the others are single-engine planes or a helicopter.
My favorite was the Acrostar mini jet.
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I am not even sure the book says what the plane is. In the back of my mind it seems it was a DC-3 but I don’t know that for sure.
Now that you point it out, that makes sense. I don't remember the reason they were flying to Cuba, but landing a corporate jet in Cuba probably isn't a great idea.
Castro might decide it's his, in the name of socialism.
So how come the “Ejection-seat-equipped Aston Martin DB5” is counted as a “aircraft” but the air-borne Glastron boats jumping across the Louisiana roads are not?
Didn’t take much effort to spot the suspension wire in the film.
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