Bond's Skyhook

[Hubbard]

So... I got the box set of DVD bond movies for Christmas and I just finished watching Thunderball again. I forgot that Bond exited the movie with Bond girl in arms by being snached up by the same skyhook trick Batman used to retrieve the Asain Gangster from Hong Kong. Of course, Bond did it in 1965! Who's da Man? :cool

 

[iMan]

So... I got the box set of DVD bond movies for Christmas and I just finished watching Thunderball again. I forgot that Bond exited the movie with Bond girl in arms by being snached up by the same skyhook trick Batman used to retrieve the Asain Gangster from Hong Kong. Of course, Bond did it in 1965! Who's da Man? :cool

In a lot of articles about Nolan's Batman trilogy, he states that he is a big Bond fan and was influenced by then. This goes to show that he wasn't joking.

 

[Lutso]

That was a real procedure in the mid-century. It never got a lot of attention, for whatever reason, I guess because it was mostly the CIA that was doing it.

Going from memory, I think the plane used in Thunderball is a modified B-17. I'm pretty sure that was a common "skyhook" equipped plane, so what you saw in Thunderball was likely pretty close to "the real deal".

 

[Lutso]

Check it out.

Fulton surface-to-air recovery system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Wes R]

Boy that has to be a stomach churner even if you're ready to be picked up. So much could go wrong.

 

[iMan]

Boy that has to be a stomach churner even if you're ready to be picked up. So much could go wrong.

True but imagine the situation you are in that warrants a sky hook. You are probably in some deep poo. The chances of something going wrong is far less than something worse happening to you in said situation.

 

[Hubbard]

Bad enough being snatched up, but in both movies I kept imagining how bad would it be to get in the plane from the dangling line at those speeds.

 

[joker-scar]

That was a real procedure in the mid-century. It never got a lot of attention, for whatever reason, I guess because it was mostly the CIA that was doing it.

Going from memory, I think the plane used in Thunderball is a modified B-17. I'm pretty sure that was a common "skyhook" equipped plane, so what you saw in Thunderball was likely pretty close to "the real deal"

Albert Broccoli, half of the 60's Bond producing team, was good friends with an Air Force general who helped get stuff for the films like the skyhook, ie. he got him access to the army base near fort knox when they were shooting GOLDFINGER. As a nod to him the production team faked a sign and added his name to it as being the general of the army base at the finale of the film, can't remember his name off the top of my head.

 

[Wes R]

True but imagine the situation you are in that warrants a sky hook. You are probably in some deep poo. The chances of something going wrong is far less than something worse happening to you in said situation.

With my luck i'd get hit in the groin with a rogue bird as they're pulling me in lol.

 

[Celtic007]

I don't think Bond's skyhook is as good as Kareem's

If anyone here watched CBS's The Unit when it was on, they had an episode where they used Skyhook.

 

[Mattastic13]

Did anyone read the Wikipedia article? It said that they tested it with a pig. The pig got disoriented and when it was brought on board it attacked the crew.

 

[iMan]

Did anyone read the Wikipedia article? It said that they tested it with a pig. The pig got disoriented and when it was brought on board it attacked the crew.

Hahaha. I didn't notice that until now. They should of used a chimp...wait...he probably would have attacked the crew even worse. :confused

 

[Michael Bergeron]

Not to mention, in the original cut of Thunderball the musical cue when he gets picked up sends chills down my spine. Awesome!

Start listening at 11:00 here, cue is at 11:15: John Barry - Thunderball (1965) - Soundtrack Suite - YouTube

 

[Gadget Meister]

Lt Col Charles J Russhon was the USAF advisor in the early Bond films, he get's a nod in Goldfinger on the Fort Knox welcome board and a cameo in Thunderball where they are listening to Blofeld tell where to drop the diamonds.

 

[robn1]

It was also used in The Green Berets