I was lucky enough to have participated in some interesting filming activities.

IMAX

• African Elephant Kingdom (1997)

ARD

• Traumzug Durch Afrika (2006)
• Traumflug Durch Afrika (2010)

USA

Helicopter Associates on Falcon Field airport in Mesa, Arizona used to do most of the flying for the movie industry. I worked on the following projects.

• Superman 3 (Filming done in 1982). The scene where the three baddies "fly" down to the bottom of the canyon with propeller driven balloons. They were actually hanging from an AS355E Twin-Squirrel flown by Marc Wolff.
• Star Wars Episode VI (1982). The desert scene with the "floating" boat was shot in the dunes near Yuma. The movie's "code" name was "Blue Harvest", I still have the T-shirt somewhere.

They used two of their Lamas in the helicopter TV movie "Deadly Encounter" (1982), the movie is rather stupid but got some great flying stunts in it. I didn't participate, but I flew one of those Lama's (N62250).

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