They liked the look of the EC 145 for the villain. For example on ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ we looked at lots of different types of helicopters for Tom Cruise and the bad guy to fly. If it is an action aircraft as in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ it is usually the director and the production designer who choose, with some input from me. I was wondering if the aircraft type in each movie is always determined already or you as a pilot have an influence on that decision?įor flying the camera I choose a helicopter with the right performance for the camera system they want to use, the number of people I need to carry and the location where I need to fly. I guess they are different also from the pilot perspective. There are many different types of aircrafts. He watches what I do and if he’s not happy he shouts at me. I have a safety engineer, Stephen North, who I’ve worked since 1979. You need a good team of people around you watching what you are doing to make sure that you are doing it is safely. The big thing in those kind of situations is just to be careful and don’t make a drama out of something by having an accident. I didn’t really know what they wanted me to do until I got there. I suppose I had been flying professionally for about 8 years at that point but nevertheless my film experience was limited.

I had done a few little films starting in about 1974, we shot ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ in 1976. I would prepare a bit different today than I did then. I was quite young then and although I had some experience and had flown helicopters for a year in Vietnam, I didn’t have a lot of film experience, so it was a new thing for me. Yes, it does but I think it also needs a good level of flying experience, especially of doing unusual types of flying work with helicopters. How do you prepare for such a sequence? I guess it requires high precision. 007 was driving a white Lotus and you were chasing him in a Jet Ranger helicopter. Your first James Bond movie was ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. For the London Olympics we landed in the Queen’s garden at Buckingham Palace and also at Kensington Palace to shoot some interiors and close ups of the actors on the ground.

Find more on his official website Piotr Zajac (bondlocations): You’ve worked as pilot on 12 Bond films and also on the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony with James Bond. Marc Wolff is a well-known aircrafts stunt pilot who has worked on many action movies including 12 Bond films.

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