The Aircraft-Spotter's Film and Television Companion, by Simon D. Beck, is an amazingly detailed and extensive reference guide to airplanes and helicopters in films and tv series, including the James Bond film series.
The book opens with a foreword by leading aviation film historian James H. Farmer and an introduction by the author Simon D Beck.
Some 400 people that visited Piz Gloria had a real James Bond lifestyle experience on Thursday, when they needed to be airlifted by helicopters after a cable car broke down. In related news, the toilets at Piz Gloria were named the best in the world by the International Toilet Tourism Award.
In the 2015 film SPECTRE, the main villain Franz Oberhauser (Blofeld, played by Christoph Waltz) uses a Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin N2 helicopter to watch the MI6 building collapse and then fly away.
The helicopter used by Silva (Javier Bardem) and his men in SkyFall (2012) is an AgustaWestland AW101 Helicopter.
The AgustaWestland AW101 is a medium-lift helicopter used in both military and civil applications. It was developed by joint venture between Westland Helicopters in the UK and Agusta in Italy and was named the EH101 until 2007.
James Bond (Sean Connery) flies an autogyro aircraft nicknamed Little Nellie in the movie You Only Live Twice. This unusual machine was based on the Wallis WA-116 Agile, a British autogyro developed in the early 1960s by former Royal Air Force Wing Commander Ken Wallis.
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