BLUE THUNDER | Follow my leader | Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell

[@MachoMateoMuchacho]

Anyone who understands aircraft bolts knows that the bolt would never be upside down with the castle nut on top. If the nut were to come loose and fall off, the bolt would still be in place.

[@chrisplese9293]

Straight up

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

For the plot, I guess?

[@GriggsC123]

Maybe that is how it is manufactured. Or they have a crappy mechanic.

[@theadventuresofjavier8698]

You figure the fastener would be a bit tight to the bolt…. Pure Hollywood 😂

[@lairdperkins]

Not to mention it'd be safety wired in, not secured with a cotter pin...

[@xray606]

Movies like this will never be made again. The city would never even allow stunts like this to be done today. When they're flying down Main St. between the buildings? Epic.

[@chrisplese9293]

Roy Scheider was a badass. He was a good guy but also a guy you didn't mess with.

[@raywalsh9152]

And yet, also like just over 5' tall and maybe 140lbs soaking wet with rocks in his pockets.

[@thestumaji656]

@@raywalsh9152 And your point?

[@danieldorn9989]

@@thestumaji656 He is just an actor acting a role. So how would we know if he was a bad ass in reallife?

[@geolosophizer7293]

@@thestumaji656 That his balls were so huge no one was willing to F with him

[@Rapscallion2009]

Well, by 1983 it was well known that certain Helicopter types could loop - intentionally or otherwise. The westland Lynx is known for it, particularly. It must be quite a ride, though, with that big disk spinning end-over-end and all sorts of gyroscopic forces coming in to play. I think it's probably harder in a heli then in a fixed-wing aircraft, but not impossible.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

That's true. The Westland Lynx, a British Helicopter was the first recorded chopper to make a successful loop.

[@danielcarlson800]

How about the MBB Bo-105?

[@issimondias]

Fixed rotor head, otherwise it has a tendency to chop the tail off.

[@chrisplese9293]

Were any Aerospatiale able to actually do it?

[@issimondias]

@@chrisplese9293 not that I’m aware of. I don’t think any have fixed rotor heads.

[@leefoulds2569]

Is that a really young Daniel Stern??? Marv from Home Alone!!!😂😂😂😂

[@brj_han]

Yep. Here's a better one. Malcolm McDowell plays a Mick Jagger type character named Reggie Wanker in a movie called Get Crazy. He drinks some water prepared by Electric Larry, and has a conversation with his.... Unit... Best New Years Eve movie ever, lol.... Edit: Forgot to add, it's also a Daniel Stern movie. With Ed Begley, Jr, Bobby Sherman and Fabien as the bad guys....

[@vote4carp]

@@brj_han lol I thought you had some kind of mental deficiency at first... but then I Google'd, and holy s*** 😂🤣 Thanks for expanding my knowledge, I guess? haha

[@brj_han]

@@vote4carp It's out on Blu-Ray! I've got this on VHS, and it was never released on DVD, since Arkin said he no longer had the masters. (Though it would have cost a fortune to relicense all the music.) Best NYE film ever. Played it every year on NYE for the past couple of decades, but in HD this year, lol. It was a better Rock and Roll High School than R&RHS...

[@TamiJoeris-ge5dg]

Lol yep. 😅😅

[@Pau_Pau9]

His flying career did not pan out because he was hanging around these clowns. So he turned to robbing houses. 😄

[@JP-cl6bw]

Mega Film dutzende male gesehen und das in der DDR - Kino 😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@gregorymoore2877]

We're gonna need a bigger helicopter. 😉

[@MisterMarin]

I do! 👉 I understood that reference. 🛡

[@karlo167]

Nice!

[@StefanBlagojevic]

@gregorymoore2877 👏Roy Scheider at his finest.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"Lymangood." "OUT-standing."

[@raywalsh9152]

Goddammit. Take your well deserved upthumbvoteythingsymbol.

[@civeuss]

Dżizas, bylem w kinie na tym arcydziele. To juz tyle lat 😢

[@Jch79]

Roy Scheider said that Malcolm McDowell hated the flying in this movie so much he either puked before he went up or when he came down.

[@sparrowlt]

Malcolm wasnt even suposed to film any stuff in the air as he hated flying and he actually got to agree to not take part in any aerial filming and would do his scenes with retroprojection or the "poor man's process" ie: filming in the helicopter parked from bellow so you only see sky with the rotors spinning) .. but once on set both Scheider and Stern were aparentyl so happy and entusiastic flying in the helicopters that he felt he wasnt at their level and ended up doing it.. even his wife was utterly shocked (her famous quote.. "i cant make him get into a 747 how did you got him into a helicopter?")

[@bobnewfart]

Roy Scheider was a superstar. Great movie.

[@WhiteEvo6]

Only in America can you crash a helicopter, survive then get attacked by a hostile mob like you crashed on them on purpose.

[@Rapscallion2009]

I think they're actually extracting them from the crashed aircraft for safeties sake?

[@ipdjbt]

Yeah, that mob was so hostile! How dare they help the pilot and Jafo out of the crashed bird!

[@reidycruise]

Black hawk down lol

[@chrisplese9293]

Then again it's a movie homie 😅

[@christopherpaxton9823]

2020 OOO-O-AHH-AHHH!

[@polo86cfahrer]

Was für tolle Aufnahmen und ganz ohne den damals so populären Bluescreen. (Zumindest während dieser Szene) CGI gabs ja noch nicht...

[@shanekilpatrick3378]

Good movie.👍🏻

[@jerrylukens9314]

Wow, a young Daniel Stern from Home Alone fame. cool!

[@issimondias]

Ah! I knew I recognised him, couldn’t place him at all. Thanks !

[@corradoparris9679]

Oh I wish this movie could come on 4K physical release!!!

[@MarcKnight]

Amen to that. 🙏

[@Kiwi_Dave]

This movie and the book Chickenhawk ended up costing me almost 100k

[@milo13200]

Un sacré bon film!

[@MisterMarin]

I must've watched it at least a couple of dozen times. 😀

[@masonist]

I like how everybody is pissed at the "I almost died in a helicopter crash" guys. Pure 80s.

[@kevinkern4661]

Good movie 🎥

[@MisterMarin]

JAFO = Just Another Fu*king Observer

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

JAWS = Just A White Shark

[@tommyzDad]

Remember the TV series based on this they tried to run?

[@MisterMarin]

@@tommyzDad Never seen it. 🙂

[@markusanderson1517]

..... who get's FUBAR'd later in the movie.

[@TheMattfranz]

I never understood why the construction workers attacked them.

[@danielcarlson800]

They're workday was interrupted.

[@jacko20102]

They were Union...

[@Talsedoom]

Because it's America.

[@mumtaz1977]

Because their toilet destroyed

[@kj6446]

a great film

[@corradoparris9679]

🔫”catch you later” 😅😅

[@MisterMarin]

We are following his ledah! 😁

[@Dreez76]

I still to this day do not understand why Malcolm's character pulled that pin , directly endangering the life of Roy and his partner.

[@leftcoaster67]

Because he was the bad guy? And he had issues with Murphy from back in Vietnam?

[@sparrowlt]

he wanted to get rid of Murphy without attracting attention.. also he had a beef with him so saw this as a bonus oportunity to kill him while also protecting their program

[@ErikOlaf-g9y]

Was good landing....

[@XLV750RD01]

They're actually sitting in the BACK of that Jet Ranger.

[@HEMSJim]

I came here to say the same thing 😄

[@sparrowlt]

@@HEMSJim same.. it took me 30 years to notice they are sitting in the back

[@donaldwilliamson1227]

Couldn't this have been prevented with a preflight inspection?

[@MisterMarin]

My guess is the mechanic has already inspected that side of the helicopter before Mr. Catch You Later 👉 came along.

[@Havanacuba1985]

@@MisterMarin yes or most likely the pilot himself has done a check . Mc Dowel plays great baddies doesn’t he though

[@MisterMarin]

@@Havanacuba1985 Indeed. 🙂

[@nh39308]

And I real world aviation the bolt would have been installed with the bolt head facing up so if the nut did come loose the bolt is still installed, just saying!

[@jacko20102]

Facing down or to the right.

[@riaanpotgieter475]

Right on!!! 😼 😎

[@liberatetutemeexinferis5902]

Just Another F..... Observer.

[@sveneckhardt3163]

ganz ruihg wir machen nen hausbesuch

[@mariodearco1913]

Scheider did this film so he wouldn't have to do Jaws 3

[@Ynffy]

What does F.E. stand for?

[@centurious1971]

Flight Engineer

[@timnew7662]

Fk Everybody......

[@carlbruschnigjr1757]

In the movie, it was "F*ck Everyone"

[@Ynffy]

@@carlbruschnigjr1757 Think it was "Everybody"

[@raynetorrin]

Apparently they did not preflight Helo's back in the 80's. Yes i know its a movie just bugs me.

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

they haven't invented loctite yet ?

[@nickssurplus]

Bolt has been put in wrong.

[@Roybatty066]

​@@nickssurplusgood point.

[@Roybatty066]

Upside down.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Cotter pin.

[@rollastudent]

Rangerhawk down

[@sveneckhardt3163]

ich sehe sie

[@danielserrano591]

helipcoter ,jelikater,

[@danielserrano591]

pylon airport terminal

[@sbivey21]

looks like an apache helicopter variant

[@steveb0503]

It's kinda like they took the front half of an Apache, split it down the middle and widened it - then attached it to the rear two-thirds of a Gazelle.

[@FlatEarthMath]

I'm pretty sure the airframe is 100% Gazelle, with the round canopy turned into a polyhedron and other cosmetic details to look cool. I've loved the look of Blue Thunder since I saw this in the theatre as a teenager. The Wikipedia page: _"Blue Thunder (helicopter)"_ has great detail, starting with: _"To film Blue Thunder, the producers employed two examples of the French-made Aérospatiale SA-341G Gazelle light utility helicopter, serial numbers 1066 and 1075, both built in 1973."_

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@FlatEarthMath Correct, a Gazelle with added panels and a bubble canopy.

[@redbovine]

I read that it was a beast to fly with the excess weight from the added components. It made it nose heavy.

[@FlatEarthMath]

@@redbovine hats off to any stunt helicopter pilots. I've heard learning to fly a helicopter is like trying to keep your balance while standing on a beachball that's floating in a pool.

[@danielserrano591]

setting

[@orvillemeadows3492]

Why is it impossible to loop a helicopter

[@richiow68]

It's not! One of the stunt pilots that flew in the Airwolf series flew that Bell 222 in a loop more than once

[@nateweter4012]

It just depends on the model. Some can absolutely do it (Bo-105 for example).

[@jpgale]

From what I was told by old helicopter mechanics it depends on the head type most are not a fixed head and can not fly inverted as the blades will not travel to make it possible to get into inverted flight. A fixed head can fly upside down so therefore can loop. The british army have a display team where the Lynx flys inverted as part of its display.

[@gregorymoore2877]

It's not impossible if the helicopter is Blue Thunder or Airwolf. Or maybe an Apache.

[@351cleavland]

I can do a loop in a bulldozer.... but only once.

[@patrickmaloney1810]

Internal shots are in the back seat.

[@danielserrano591]

scru screw' 2 ro beat

[@hogwarts659]

As nice as Blue Thunder is, it pales in comparison to Airwolf.

[@transitfan954]

Ah the TV network helicopter wars of the 1983-1984 season. ABC premiered a TV version of Blue Thunder, which didn't last the whole season, IIRC. CBS answered with Airwolf midseason, which lasted several seasons. NBC didn't have a helicopter series per se, but their series Riptide about 2 zany private investigators working out of the fictional SOuthern California city King Harbor (aka Redondo Beach) had an old beatup Sikorsky helicopter, painted bright pink named Screaming Mimi. It was owned by one of the PIs and it would struggle to start. Finally he banged on the panel and it roared to life and was underway 😂

[@SillySausage-mq3so]

LIES

[@carlbruschnigjr1757]

@@transitfan954 I can imagine the FAA aircraft inspectors were pulling their hair out at those scenes . . .

[@mumtaz1977]

@@carlbruschnigjr1757 But the good news is that the NTSB doesn't have to investigate why a JetRanger crashed.

[@danielserrano591]

complain date paper

[@jldeshayes3109]

les collectionneurs

[@MGEE8572]

JAFFO = Just Another Frakkin observer

[@CobraLaLaLa77]

Why is this old school TV show trending?

[@PanhandleFrank]

Not a TV show. A theatrical release film.

[@RobertAllen-b2t]

They only use wire that wrap and tie the nut off not pins. Any investigation would have revealed sabotage.

[@HEMSJim]

A cotter pin is correctly depicted here, but the bolt would be installed from the top and the castellated nut would be secured from the bottom with the cotter pin. If the nut was to fall off, the bolt would remain in place.

[@notlisted-cl5ls]

JAFO got his ass waxed

[@CollectorChronicles]

And the award for most juvenile comment goes to…

[@andysummersthxcinemaandmyc7748]

chief wants a bigger helicopter