Airheads at work...

[charlie b]

The SFX dept are using a pair of these wind machines, for scenes involving military helicopters for a show I'm on in UAE.
Nice to see these airheads in a 'new' role... although they are in a sense reverting to BM origins as aero engines..?

Haven't spoken to the guys yet about engine size etc, they're R100's though I think and appear to be UK built.
Looking forward to seeing them performing on set next week.

They seem well engineered, but I don't know if they'll really match the 'brown-out' a chinook generates...
we'll see..

 

[Dogbytes]

Hi Mr B. When I was working on 'Thor 2' they were building what are probably the same machines. I did talk to one of the guys about them at the time but I can't remember what he said about them! Which isn't very enlightening except establishing their age...