Firebase

FIREBASE (2017) 

This short movie directed by Neill Blomkamp is about aliens in Vietnam. 

It features a helicopter disassembled by a mysterious force in the sky where it floats in mid-air like a display of spare parts.

There’s also a trio of Hueys flying over the jungle and landing in a clearing.

Other Bell UH-1 choppers appear in US army camp scenes.   

Fifty Shades Darker

FIFTY SHADES DARKER (2017) 

This movie is a sequel to romantic drama Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015). 

Flying from Portland to Seattle, an EC-130 has engine trouble and it crash-lands in the forest near Mount St Helens. 

Special effects for the stunt sequence include a mock-up, set on a mechanical gimbal to simulate the flight.   

Defenders

THE DEFENDERS (2017)

This TV drama series is about four superheroes in New York. 

The first episode, The H Word, has an AW-109 flying into the city where the chopper lands on a roof-top heli-pad.

BayWatch

BAYWATCH (2017) 

This comedy-drama is a big-screen remake of a popular TV series about life-guards in Los Angeles.  

An early scene has kids flying a quad-copter on the beach.

Just after the rescue from a burning boat, an HH-65 Dolphin arrives on the scene.

This US Coast Guard Dolphin also appears on TV later during a news report.

During a night scene, there’s an MD 500E used by the bad guys. 

This getaway flight - with a rope ladder dangling from it - is caught in the danger zone of a fireworks display, and it fails to save the fleeing villainess.

Travellers

TRAVELLERS (2016)

This sci-fi TV drama series is about agents from the future trying to save the world.

Season one’s episode Room 101 has an AS-355F1 (C-GTLC) that lands on a roof-top, bringing police to meet an FBI agent. 

After the cops talk, the Twin-Star takes off again.

A later episode, Helios 685 features a CH-53 that hauls a laser-cannon machine onto the roof-top of an industrial research lab.

Rift

THE RIFT (2016)

In this sci-fi mystery movie, shortly before the climactic scenes, a pair of Black Hawk transports fly over the ‘haunted’ location in Serbia.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (2017)

A US Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin flies past Stark tower in New York.

The young hero’s video of an Avengers battle (a flashback scene to Captain America: Civil War) includes an AS-350 parked at the airport.   

Later, a police AS-350 hovers around the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

Spider-Man swings under the A-Star to break through a window near the top of the Monument.

A USCG Dolphin flies over the stricken ferry.

The movie’s chief villain, Vulture (played by Michael Keaton, a former Batman), has a back-pack of metal wings with enclosed fans for VTOL and hovering.