Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Mind Blown

MIND BLOWN (2016)

TV movie sci-fi about a psychic super-team.


Bell UH-1 Huey takes off carrying troops on a secret mission.

Huey gunship flies over hills near L.A.

Low-flying Huey is hijacked by the superheroes.

Huey gunship (photo-real animation effects) lands at the secret base.

Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Upgrade

UPGRADE (2018) 

This sci-fi thriller about cyborgs has a winged-copter security-drone that hovers over the off-road site of a car crash.


Later, another hi-tech police drone flies over the city.


Thursday, 18 March 2021

Sully

SULLY: MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON (2016)

Clint Eastwood directs Tom Hanks in this drama based on the true story of a plane crash in NYC.


Flying over the river, an AS-355 TwinStar pilot spots the jet-plane glide down.



There’s also an N.Y.P.D. Bell 205 with police divers on a rescue flight.


Saturday, 12 December 2020

Bushwick

BUSHWICK (2017) 

This low-budget sci-fi action movie is about new civil warfare in America.

It begins with helicopter views of the city, with Black Hawk transports seen briefly.

The heroes see an AH-64 Apache Longbow on patrol.  

Other special effects include a Bell 222 that hovers above the street.

A Bell 222 gets shot down, crashing off-screen.  

One aerial scene uses a camera fixed underneath a chopper.

Thursday, 10 December 2020

Mandy

MANDY (2018)

This weird horror movie begins with a Bell 206B JetRanger III, with its doors off, picking up lumberjacks working in a forest.



Monday, 7 December 2020

Stratton

STRATTON (2017)

This British action movie is about a Special Boat Service commando.


An AS-350 gunship flies to rescue troops on a secret mission.




The A-Star lands with survivors back at heroes’ camp.


A Mil Mi-8 Hip transport is parked at the Russian scene.


Saturday, 14 November 2020

Deep Blue Sea 2

DEEP BLUE SEA 2 (2018)

This low-budget monster-movie is a sequel to sci-fi horror Deep Blue Sea (1999).

Before the final scenes, there’s a drone-copter flying towards the ocean labs.

Predictably, the drone is eaten by a shark.