sinker 0 #1 May 21, 2003 check this pic out--it's a runway at Courcheval, France. Damn, I wouldn't want to land there. Or take off either. Anyone ever experience this place? -the artist formerly known as sinker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #2 May 21, 2003 Man that could make some great video...--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDekker 1,465 #3 May 21, 2003 I think it is just so you can take your hangglider of the cliff on rollerblades Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DTOXX 0 #4 May 21, 2003 Wasn't that the airport at the beginning of one of the Bond films? ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Casie 0 #5 May 21, 2003 Quote Wasn't that the airport at the beginning of one of the Bond films? I'd say so!~Porn Kitty WARNING: Goldschlager causes extreme emotional outbursts! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluepill 0 #6 May 21, 2003 Yeh it was. Bond, rides a bike of the end of the runway chasing a runnaway plane. Goes headown in to the valley catches the plane up, gets inside, then pulls it out of its dive and escapes over the mountains. ahhh us British - Balls of steel Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #7 May 21, 2003 Is that for Captain Kangaroo, or what? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sinker 0 #8 May 21, 2003 ???? What do you mean? -the artist formerly known as sinker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #9 May 21, 2003 Can you imagine landing on a runway like that? A bit bouncy, wouldn't you say? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lummy 4 #10 May 21, 2003 For that matter, how about those runways in the movie "Air America" where they're landing a porter? up the side of a mountain...I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #11 May 21, 2003 Heh. You're gonna need to go full throttle just to taxi off a runway like that. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #12 May 21, 2003 QuoteBond, rides a bike of the end of the runway chasing a runnaway plane. It should be noted that the stunt was faked with (very bad) computer graphics. Pissed me off to no end when I saw it. I had always come to expect practical (human) stunts in Bond films and this was, for me, the ultimate insult to the audience.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sinker 0 #13 May 21, 2003 what part of the stunt are you talking about? the part where he rides the bike off the edge after the low flying porter is real. I've seen outake footage of it on Discovery. Now, if you're talking about the footage shot from the porter where bond is supposed to be flying into it, that's fake. -the artist formerly known as sinker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DTOXX 0 #14 May 21, 2003 I don't think it was the one with the bike to plane transfer. Its the one where Bond "interupts" the blackmarket arms deal, steals the jet just before the missle hits, then wins a dog fight by ejecting his copilot into the bottom of the other jet. ------- D.T. Holder SIMstudy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sinker 0 #15 May 21, 2003 oh.. that one... thanks for clarifying... -the artist formerly known as sinker Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #16 May 21, 2003 The dock and boarding of the plane in-flight part. What pissed me off about it was that I had just seen the stunt done for real in an IMAX movie.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TitaniumLegs 8 #17 May 21, 2003 QuoteThe dock and boarding of the plane in-flight part. What pissed me off about it was that I had just seen the stunt done for real in an IMAX movie. And it was done long before that, too. (>o|-< If you don't believe me, ask me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TitaniumLegs 8 #18 May 21, 2003 I've skied there. It's pretty impressive. Don't remember seeing any planes landing, but that was 10+ years ago and I've destroyed most of those brain cells. (>o|-< If you don't believe me, ask me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #19 May 21, 2003 having landed on a sloping runway going downhill, all I can say is LAND UPHILL! I attached another pic of that runway. Couldnt imagine landing on that. That's the stuff Twin Otters were designed for. Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #20 May 21, 2003 psssst...picture wasn't attatched.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freakshow 0 #21 May 21, 2003 Where's the picturedamn you win this time aggiedave B.L. (the brain) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #22 May 21, 2003 Dude, its hard to beat a professional post-whore! --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #23 May 21, 2003 Quote I had always come to expect practical (human) stunts in Bond films Quade, you're kidding, right? "The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John4455 0 #24 May 21, 2003 Quote Can you imagine landing on a runway like that? A bit bouncy, wouldn't you say? Who the hell would want to land in an airplane anywhere??? How do ya like it Johnny? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #25 May 21, 2003 Well, certainly all of the 60s and 70s skydiving stuff was done by stuntmen because there just wasn't any other way. The more recent Bond stuff blows chunks with so much really bad green screen and CGI. The parachute scene in Die Another Day, where Bond is hand holding risers and surfing made me wanna puke. Everyone in the audience saw how fake that was and just laughed at it. Contrast that with the BASE/car/bridge stunt in XXX. Everyone in the audience loved that because they all knew it was a "real" stunt. And the first 5 minutes of the last Austin Powers movie was more real and believable than the last 10 Bond flicks put together. Eli swooping through the canyons looked bitchin'.quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
