Call Red (1996) - British TV series, written by Peter Jukes and Brian McGill, about the missions and crew of an emergency medical helicopter.
Only seven episodes were produced.
The Cape (2011) - this TV series about the adventures of a costumed hero only lasted for one short season. The pilot episode has a couple of
Apache styled CGI gunships circling above the freight rail-yard shootout, and a police JetRanger attending a showdown on the city docks. In episode
Goggles And Hicks, assassins use a remote-control flying drone to attack the heroes in a park, but the villains' deadly hovering 'Bumblebee'
is finally smashed against a wall.
Caprica (2009-10) - this prequel series to sci-fi TV
Battlestar Galactica remake, has a few examples of CGI
rotor-craft, like the gyro-planes in retro styled VR game zone 'New Cap City' and a propeller-driven dirigible; the airship launch-pad for those
gyros. There are also a couple of futuristic Osprey type jump-jets involved in cops' pursuit of a stolen van along a bridge.
Capricorn One
(1978) - Peter Hyams' intriguing SF adventure about a fake manned Mars landing sees an intrepid journalist (Elliot Gould), who is investigating the
cover-up by a crooked NASA chief (Hal Holbrook), team-up with a small town pilot (Telly Savalas), to search the desert and mountains for three missing
astronauts (led by James Brolin). The pilot's cropduster bi-plane is followed and then attacked by a pair of Hughes 500 gunships...
These are the so-called 'black helicopters' - the infamous airborne stalkers featured in so many US government conspiracy theories - but they are
dark green in colour, not black. However, Capricorn One is one of the first cinema appearances of such sinister machines.
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The Card Player (aka: Il cartaio, 2004) - this
murder thriller from Dario Argento has a Bell 412 Huey circling the 'crime scene' area when a body is found dumped in the river.
Carriers (1997) - a Bell 206E JetRanger appears in the climactic scenes of this medical thriller about a biological weapon being unleashed
in America.
Cars (2006) - "Pixar's latest adventure features the insanely cute and friendly Dinoco
Blue helicopter (reminiscent of Dauphin types), which spends race weekends sitting on top of the Dinoco Blue team's trailer dancing and winking.
At the end of the movie he gives Mater the ride he's dreamt of all his life! Also in the film is a JetRanger type news helicopter that accompanies
a gaggle of paparazzi who track down Lightning McQueen in Radiator Springs." - WINNIE LEUNG
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Casino Royale (2006) - in this fresh start to a new batch of
007 movies, the new James Bond (Daniel Craig) arrives at a crime scene in a McDonnell Douglas 600N helicopter.
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Casshern (2005) - Kazuaki Kiriya's magnificent sci-fi fantasy
drama features retro-futuristic helicopters in a number of cleverly amusing designs, including a tandem-rotor urban transport, numerous militaristic
sky cranes (with triple rotor configuration), and a gigantic barge or heli-liner that cruises between the towers of a sprawling metropolis. Everything
is CGI and seen only briefly, but the visual effects in this arty Japanese film are often excellent.
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Catch That Kid (aka: Mission Without Permission, 2004) - during the car chase sequence, an LAPD aerial patrol joins the pursuit of
young bank robbers. The helicopter hovers just above the road, but the cops fail to stop the thieves' little go-kart getaway vehicles, which the
gang use to escape by driving straight under the chopper's landing skids.
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The Cave (2005) - in this monster movie adventure, a
Eurocopter (Aerospatiale) SA 330 Puma flies a team of divers into the Carpathian Mountains, where the heroes explore an underground river.
The Cell (2000) - features an Agusta-Westland A-109C
(from Helinet Aviation Services) taking the comatose serial killer to a research facility...
And, later, there's a Eurocopter AS-355F2 (flown by Helinet's stunt pilot, Alan Purwin) carrying FBI agents to rescue a drowning victim at the end.
The Cell 2 (2008) - this sci-fi thriller and crime horror
movie features a Bell 407 used by the FBI agent searching for a serial killer. The same 407 appears in climactic scenes, when the heroes arrive to save
the kidnapped heroine, but she's carried off by the psycho villain who steals the unattended helicopter. One of the cops grabs onto the skids as the
chopper gets airborne, and he manages to hang on during a stunt-flying sequence, until the baddie pilot is 'blinded' by the psychic heroine, forcing
an emergency landing in the grounds of a stadium.
Chained Heat (aka: Das Frauenlager, 1983) - during the finale's riot and seeming breakout, a Bell 206 JetRanger arrives on the scene
to help state police lockdown the women's prison.
Chain Reaction (1996) - a police helicopter tracks the hero (Keanu Reeves) onto a swing-bridge at night. Later, as the wanted hero is chased
by cops across a rooftop, a bad guy in the chopper shoots one of officers to frame the hero for murder. Airborne police mistakenly pursue the hero's
stolen decoy airboat over a frozen lake. FBI agents fly in, after the climax, to carry our heroes away from the site of a fire.
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Charlie's Angels - this millennial remake of the 1970s' TV series
about a trio of female private investigators (here, it's Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu), features a climactic chase sequence where
the omnicompetent heroines (or at least their stunt-doubles) dangle beneath the airborne bad guy's helicopter (a Bell UH-1), and have to perform
a hair-raising climb up the rope to prevent the homicidal villain (Sam Rockwell) from escaping, and launching a fly-by rocket attack on the secret
homestead of their ever-mysterious boss. For his work on this film, pilot Rick Shuster won the world stunt award in 2001, for best aerial sequence.
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) - at the end of this film sequel's
spectacular (but quite ludicrous) opening chase sequence, a helicopter emerges from the back of a damaged military truck as it purposely drops over
side of a bridge, and the trio of heroines all manage to get onboard the chopper, start its engine and then fly away to safety - just before it hits
the ground... all the while maintaining no connection with plausibility or realism, whatsoever. Sadly, this is yet another triumph for cartoonish
digital effects over wholly credibile rotary action.
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) - this drama based on a true story about secret warfare in Afghanistan, has many brief scenes featuring
Mil Mi-24 Hind gunships. Using stock footage combined with CGI, the big Russian helicopters attack ground forces, and later get shot down by
rockets and missiles. There's also a Huey in camouflage paint flying a US politician to visit refugee camps in Pakistan.
Chase (1973) -
"this short-lived American TV series
about a special police unit - led by renegade captain Chase Riddick (Mitch Ryan), featured a Hughes 500 chopper."
- NATHAN DECKER
The Chase (1991) - based on true story, Paul Wendkos directs this lively hijack tale concerning an escaped convict and an airborne TV news
team in hot pursuit.
The Chase (1994) - Charlie Sheen drives a stolen BMW in Adam Rifkin's comedy romance, and a media circus attends the expressway car chases
as our hero is suspected of kidnapping a wealthy heiress. Inevitably, a TV news helicopter joins the action.
Chill Factor (1999) -
"a genre action movie about biological weapons on the loose. When the Special Forces unit lands
on the dam, they arrive in an old French Aerospatiale Gazelle. This is such an out-of-place helicopter that you wonder if it was all the prop
department could afford to rent." - NATHAN DECKER
China Strike Force (2000) - this kung fu actioner by Stanley Tong features a climax where the villain escapes from cops in a Russian helicopter
(a PZL Swidnik W-3 Sokol, a Polish built variant of the Mil Mi-2 Hoplite), with a garishly painted Rolls Royce car hanging beneath it, during the
aerial getaway sequence over China's famous Forbidden City. The car hits the topmost part of a pagoda, and it later snags the supporting cables on
the side of a skyscraper under construction, causing the chopper to explode, spectacularly.
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A Chopper Is Born (2002)
- "a Discovery Channel short TV series (three hours running time, and now available on DVD)
that follows the building of a Rotorway Exec 192F kit helicopter, and includes footage of the maiden test flight of the new helicopter at the end
of the series. I thoroughly enjoyed this film!" - JARED WHITTENBERG
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Chopper One (1974) - a TV adventure series from the Spelling-Goldberg stable, about an air patrol team of the Los Angeles police, this
co-starred Dirk Benedict (who went on to appear in The A-Team), and showcased some good aerial photography. The featured helicopter was
(of course!) a Bell 206B JetRanger.
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Chopper Rescue (2010-1) - this Australian TV documentary series (from ABC) features airborne paramedics delivering emergency care to save
lives, while flying across Queensland territories - from the remote outback to the Great Barrier Reef. Series one had four half-hour episodes.
Series two has six episodes. The featured helicopters include an Agusta-Westland AW139 and a Bell 412.
Chopper Squad (1975) - derivative Australian TV action show about the exploits of a coastal rescue helicopter pilot and his flight crew.
Routine small screen fodder that's all but forgotten today. The chopper was a Bell 206 JetRanger fitted with pontoons for landing on water.
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Chosen Survivors (1974) - this sci-fi horror set in a WW3 'nuclear bunker' features a US army Huey, which transports civilians to a remote
underground complex in the New Mexico desert. The helicopter returns at the end of the movie, after the experiment has failed.
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Chuck (2007-) - in the second episode of this TV comedy thriller, villains kidnap the hero and plan to fly him, in a Eurocopter AS-350 B2, to
an offshore rendezvous, but the pilot and bad guy are shot with drug-darts, and Chuck has to land the helicopter using his solo videogame skills.
In the 2nd season of this TV spy-fi/ sitcom, episode Chuck vs. The Beefcake has CGI of a Black Hawk gunship shooting at spying heroes sneaking
about on a rooftop. Chuck vs. The Predator has an AS-350 getaway flight used for a rooftop escape, until the helicopter is destroyed by a
missile from an unmanned military plane. In season three's first episode, Chuck Versus The Pink Slip, there's a black helicopter (an AS-350)
used to rescue agents from Mexico, where a mini-gun is fired by one of the airborne heroes at some bad guys.
City Hunter (1992) - this vehicle for Jackie Chan's comedy kung fu has
paramilitary cops who abseil down from a couple of helicopters to the main deck of a hijacked cruise ship.
The City Of Lost Souls (2000) - in this Japanese fantasy
action thriller, the antihero hijacks a chopper from an airfield to rescue his girlfriend from a deportation bus. While airborne, he blasts a cop car
with his machine gun, then makes the pilot land the helicopter on the road ahead to stop the bus. Soon after, the escaping couple jump out of their
helicopter while flying at high altitude, and they drop unharmed by the long fall into an alleyway!
Classic Helicopters (2003) - this 56-minute TV show presented by Gerry
Burr, offers a guided tour of the world's biggest helicopter museum at Weston-super-Mare,
Somerset. Among 85 rotorcraft models on display there, we see Bristol's Sycamore and tandem-rotor Belvedere, Vietnam veterans Huey and Cayuse, some
rarely seen Russian helicopters (including a very impressive example of the Hind gunship), a kit-built Benson Gyrocopter, former Queen's flight choppers
(one's a superb Westland Wessex), plus British helicopters Scout, Wasp, and (current world speed record holder) Lynx. There's an airfield flight by
a rare French-built Aerospatiale Alouette II, a visit to RAF Cosford in Shropshire where Nigel James discovers the county air ambulance service is
replacing their aged (MBB) Bo-105 DBS with a sleek new Eurocopter EC 135, and a look at the museum's restoration projects, which include a Kamov
Hoodlum and a Westland Widgeon. This is simply essential viewing for all rotary action fans and/or students of aviation history.
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Clear And Present Danger (1994) - Sikorsky MH-60L Black Hawk helicopters deliver a CIA strike team into the Colombian jungle to assassinate
the leader of a drugs cartel. Later, visiting an arms dealer, American hero (Harrison Ford) buys a used Bell 412 with a company cheque and his CIA
business card, so that he can continue his search for the M.I.A. commandos (led by Willem Dafoe) on their top secret mission.
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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1978) - Steven Spielberg's finest movie, to date, this is a showcase for the offbeat use of helicopters
in sci-fi cinema. Pretending to be UFOs, a flight of military choppers buzz a group of sky watchers on a hilltop. Later, more "black
helicopters" (Bell 214 Huey) appear to gas any uninvited witnesses to the extraterrestrials' visit, before the climactic landing of the aliens'
Mothership.
Also, in the film's Special Edition (1980) - UN helicopters (Bell 206 JetRangers) fly towards and then around a missing tanker ship found
dumped by aliens in the Gobi desert.
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The Closer (2005-) - this TV drama is about a deputy chief of police (played by Kyra Sedgwick) who runs a homicide squad in Los Angeles.
In fifth season episode, Strike Three, a police Hughes 500 (model 369), circles the crime scene at night, and spots dead uniformed cops on
a street below. Waivers Of Extradition sees a Eurocopter AS-355 used for tracking a car-transporter lorry that's being chased by police
along the highway.
The Clouded Yellow (1950) - this Hitchcockian mystery
thriller includes brief use of a Sikorsky R-4 'Hoverfly' (stock footage?) for airborne police spotter duty in the film's manhunt chase sequence.
Cloverfield (2007) - the climactic sequence of this gimmicky
sci-fi movie begins with escape via helicopter from New York. Survivors of a gigantic monster's attack on Manhattan are airlifted (by a US Marines'
Huey) to safety but, when the flight is struck by the monster's flailing arm, the Huey crash-lands nearby.
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Cocoon (1985) - Ron Howard's quirky sci-fi/fantasy about
immortality has a US Coast Guard HH-3F Pelican helicopter in the final scenes, where an alien spaceship lifts a cruise boat out of the sea.
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) - this lame comedy with flashback scenes includes a Huey flight for commando troops on special mission
into a war zone.
Codename: Wild Geese (1984) - this is one of a batch of routine Euro-productions starring Lewis Collins, and directed by Antonio Margheriti,
made in the wake of Who Dares Wins (aka: The Final Option). The helicopter scenes include a Eurocopter AS 550, used by the pilot (Lee
Van Cleef) to escape from a jungle camp, and there's a Schweizer 300 deployed by the heroes in a, wholly implausible (the model effects work is
obvious), flame-thrower attack on the main villain (Klaus Kinski).
Cohen & Tate (1989) - a chopper trails the kidnappers of the title into a police roadblock during the film's closing scenes.
A Cold Night's Death (1973) - in this creepy horror movie, a helicopter flies a team of investigators to an Arctic research station after
radio contact with the crew of scientists working there is lost.
Collateral Damage (2001) - in this action thriller directed by Andrew Davis, a CIA agent (Elias Koteas) leads a commando strike team
using military helicopters to destroy a terrorist camp hidden in the Colombian jungle, and rescue the captured hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger). According
to the director's commentary (on DVD release) one of the choppers seen in the film was real, the other was CGI and, although the explosions were
real, all of the airborne machinegun and missile images were created by digital effects during post-production.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (aka: The Forbin Project,
1970) - "in this sci-fi adventure, a USAF Bell 47G is vaporised by a nuclear blast. Earlier in the
film, there are quick shots of a Hughes 269A, and an Aerospatiale Alouette II, as scientists fight to overcome the tryanny of Colossus, a world-dominating
computer they have created." - NATHAN DECKER
"The helicopter... had become a very standard tool in the film business. But, oh, did it open up all kinds of vistas, all kinds of production
values, all kinds of expanded horizons." - JOSEPH SARGENT (from director's commentary on DVD)
Commando Leopard (1985) - in the opening sequence, a Huey
gunship defends the hydroelectric power station that's under attack, but the sabotage team destroy it, along with the station's dam. In reprisal,
the bad guys send three helicopters fitted with flamethrowers (some obvious models for the pyrotechnical effects) - which seems quite implausible,
could they do that in real life, I wonder? - to burn the guerrillas' village refuge to the ground. In a later scene, a pair of Bell UN-1N 'Iroquois'
Twin Huey choppers bring the villains to a missionary hospital, and although the rebels arrive too late to prevent a tragedy, there's an unintentionally
amusing moment when the hero fires a grenade to destroy an airborne Twin Huey, which is transformed into a JetRanger (yet another flying miniature)
before it explodes!
Con Air (1997) - Simon West's action thriller has brief shots of the
choppers that escort a prison bus to the airport, where they hover to provide extra security during the transfer of convicts to a plane. Later,
three military helicopters (retired AH-1 Cobras, probably modified and flown by Al Reddick of
Helinet Aviation) intercept the hijacked transport of the title, and they track wrong
aircraft - but a great aerial chase sequence follows, in which gunships play good-cop/ bad-cop with a planeload of killers before the spectacular
yet unconvincing crash-landing in Las Vegas.
The Condemned (2007) - "has interesting helicopter scenes, with two Bell 212s dropping
the convicts along the island's coastline, and an EC-120 Colibri dropping 'gift packages' and attempting to evacuate the villain before the hero
blows it out of the sky." - COSTAS TSAGANAS
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Conspiracy Theory (1997) - in pursuit of the hero (Mel Gibson) in New York at night, the bad guys fly a couple of 'black helicopters', switching
to silent mode, so that people don't even notice the choppers hovering overhead, until teams of plain clothes secret agents slide down on wires to
the ground, landing on the street in traffic. Another Aerospatiale 355F-2 Ecureuil 2 appears during the daylight chase along a bridge, guiding pursuit
cars towards the fleeing heroes, but even with their airborne spotters the villains fail to stop the heroes from escaping. After the final shootout
at the power station, there's an MBB BK-117 air ambulance to medevac the wounded hero.
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Contact (1997) - this SF drama, based on a novel by Carl Sagan, was directed by Robert Zemeckis. The movie concerns humans making 'first
contact' with an extraterrestrial intelligence. It features a pair of Sikorsky S-70/ UH-60 Black Hawk transports carrying US troops and NSA men,
flying to a landing area near the VLA radio telescopes in New Mexico. There's a Bell 206L-1 LongRanger II which flies the scientist heroine (Jodie
Foster) to a small airfield for her secret rendezvous with a billionaire's private jet plane. Two corporate A-Star helicopters bring some astronaut
candidates to a US press conference, and another Eurocopter AS-350 is used as the heroine's air-taxi to a launch-pad site for a first system test
of the mysterious alien-designed machine.
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Coogan's Bluff (1968) - Clint Eastwood plays a deputy sheriff from Arizona visiting New York to effect the transfer a felon. He arrives and
departs the city in a Boeing Vertol BV-107/II (a civilian transport version of the CH-46 Sea Knight, one of seven operated by New York Airways during
the 1960s), via the rooftop helipad of the Pan Am skyscraper...
Trivia: this film inspired TV series McCloud (1972-6), starring Dennis Weaver.
The Copter Kids (1976) - children hunting a gang of cattle rustlers are aided by helicopter pilots.
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Coraline (2009) - this fantasy CGI animated feature includes a brief shot where the mechanical 'praying mantis'-styled tractor-digger sprouts
rotor blades for a spiral hovering flight above the magic garden.
The Core (2003) - although the main action of this sci-fi adventure takes
place deep underground, several US military helicopters are seen briefly in early scenes (Sikorsky Chinooks and Blackhawks on transport duty) and
the Hawaiian finale's rescue operation (a Seahawk with dipping sonar).
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Courage Under Fire (1996) -
Meg Ryan plays a US medevac pilot, Captain Karen Walden, who is awarded a posthumous medal after
her chopper crashed during the Gulf War. The flashbacks show how she destroyed an Iraqi tank from the air, to save the crew of another downed
helicopter. The film features a Huey, and AH-1 Cobras.
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Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006) - is a bio-warfare terrorism thriller, in which the hero (Stephen Dorff) uses a Bell 204
'Huey' type for his flight into an army base.
Cradle 2 The Grave (2002) - in this action thriller, five choppers bring various arms dealers to a Californian airfield for the auction of
a nuclear weapon. The villain hijacks one helicopter (a Bell 230) for a hasty escape attempt, but a shell fired from the heroes' tank hits the
chopper making it crash land, skid into the sidewall of a hanger, and explode. The resulting blast also destroys an Agusta helicopter that's parked
nearby.
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Crank (2006) - this action thriller features an Aerospatiale AS350 B2 Ecureuil, used by the villain to escape from a hotel rooftop, but
the hero (Jason Statham) climbs onto the chopper's skids and starts fighting the bad guy, even while the helicopter (as piloted by Rick Shuster)
gets airborne. The desperate struggle continues until (in the movie's twist ending of CGI visuals) both men fall through clear blue sky to their
deaths on the streets below.
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The Crazies (1973) - George Romero's disaster movie thriller
about germ warfare has the scientist hero trying to escape in a helicopter from the military base that's overwhelmed by zombies.
Crocodile Dundee (1986) -
"in the opening scenes of this Paul Hogan movie, we see a late-model Bell 47G flying over the
Australian Outback." - NATHAN DECKER
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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2001) -
"Steve Irwin is holding a piece of a US spy satellite that fell into the Australian Outback.
The helicopter behind him is a US Special Forces team sent to retrieve the satellite. As he was 'filming' an episode for his TV series, this black
ops helicopter suddenly appeared and began shooting at him."
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Crocodile 2: Death Roll (2001) - in the climactic scenes of this thriller about a hijacked plane crashing in a Mexican swamp, the mercenary
tracker and pilot (Martin Kove) gets wounded during an escape flight, leading to a scene where his low-flying helicopter is snatched from the air
by a monster reptile that pulls the chopper down into the water, where it promptly explodes.
Cry Baby (1990) -
"this musical by John Waters is set in 1954, so it is proper to see a Bell 47D-1 during the prison
escape sequence in the film." - NATHAN DECKER
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000 -)
- this scientific detective TV show, set in Las Vegas, follows the sometimes bizarre cases solved by the a night-shift team. Season eight
opener Dead Doll has an A-Star helicopter using infra-red camera to help search for a kidnapped and lost CSI. That's followed up
with rescue by Huey medevac from the desert location. Episode Who & What is a cross-over story with New York based crime drama
Without A Trace, and features a Eurocopter AS350-B2 used by the FBI agent.
CSI: Miami (2002 -) - TV drama series that properly
launched Crime Scene Investigation as a franchise, this spin-off offers similar lab-based detective stories but with a different location.
In the final episode of season one, Body Count, there's an exciting prison break sequence with three inmates escaping in a Eurocopter A-Star
painted as a 'fake' police chopper. The cop hero (David Caruso) and prison guards shoot at the armed but fleeing convicts, and their helicopter is
damaged by gunfire so that it can only fly short distance away.
Season eight's cross-over episode, Bone Voyage (2009), sees Dr Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne) from the Las Vegas CSI team, arrive in Miami
via Bell 206 LongRanger.
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CSI: New York (2004 -) - this spin-off TV series adds Manhattan to the franchise's locations for homicide detective work and bio-science
lessons with increasing use of sci-fi tech and gadgetry. The first episode of season five sees an Aerospatiale AS355-F Twin Star used by NYPD, but
inter-cutting for the flying sequence has one obvious continuity error with stock footage of a different helicopter (a Bell 206 JetRanger).
Mid-season episode, The Triangle, features a Eurocopter AS350-B2 used by the bank robber's daughter to escape justice and leave the city.
Season six episode, Hammer Down, continues the franchise cross-over story from CSI: Miami - Bone Voyage (see above), with Dr Langston
landing at New York's heliport in a Eurocopter 350 A-Star. We also see a JetRanger landing in the background of this scene.
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Cube Zero (2004) - this routine prequel to cult sci-fi classic Cube,
features a pair of big helicopters (CGI work based on the Sikorsky S-80 / CH-53E Super Sea Stallion), which carry special forces' troops to pursue
the escaped heroes.
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Curse Of The Komodo (2004) - this monster movie set on a tropical island was directed by Jim Wynorski, and features Apache gunships on
its DVD box artwork...
"In the final sequence, there is an MD500 that won't start. The pilot gives the impression that
he forgot something important, and he gets out, runs back to the engine bay, does something undisclosed to the viewers, gets into the helicopter,
then starts the engine. It is a minor technical matter, but there are no buttons or switches or anything else in the engine area that would prevent
the engine from starting. Maybe I am being too picky about this oversight, but I build the MD500 series 600N and 900N models for a living."
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Cutie Honey (aka: Kyûti Hani, 2004) - this live-action version of a popular manga/ anime series about a superhero android girl,
features an Aerospatiale AS-355N, which brings the heroine's sidekick, female detective Nat-shan, to a crime scene for the film's spectacular opening
sequence. After the first battle, super-villain 'Gold Claw' goes into CGI mode for aerial escape from cops via rotor blades that emerge from the top
of his costume's helmet.
Cypher (2002) - in this sci-fi mystery, the heroine (Lucy Liu) uses a hi-tech
(sleek, black, mostly CGI) helicopter to rescue protagonist (Jeremy Northam) from the top of an elevator shaft when he escapes from an underground
vault. Later, the heroes take off in the chopper, from a tower block helipad, to evade capture by the villains.
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