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Just saw "the spy who loved me" opening sequence again on TV here...Rick had big nuts doing that gag...anyone know how many takes it took...what was the round he used?...Just found it interesting coz the movie came out in 1977...one for the BASE historians to flag up as a milestone???

I think you must be confused Sean, Red Bull wasn't invented yet in 1977.

FLMFAO

I think it was, actually. Just hadn't left Thailand yet.
pope

There are a couple of good stories there. Rick was a stuntman, but not a parachutist when he came up with that stunt. He went to a drop zone figuring he'd make one jump from an airplane to learn skydiving before trying the ski jump.

I think it was Antioch or Lodi he went to and when he explained why he wanted to jump the DZO explained the facts of life to him. Rick soon realized the DZO was right and he made over sixty jumps prior to the stunt. He did the stunt at least twice. Once (I think) from El Cap, and again in the Baffin Islands.

On the morning of one of the attempts a small dog that was otherwise very friendly and belonged to one of the crew wouldn't come anywhere near Rick and it freaked him out. He'd heard that dogs can sense death and Rick spent more than few minutes chasing that dog around . . .

There's a good recap of Rick's jumps in the Howard Gregory book, "The Falcon's Disciples."

NickD
BASE 194

the shot you speek of was filmed in one take from at least three differnt angles, only one caught the complete jump and thats waht you see in the film.

Worth resurrecting this thread to post this i came across. Humongous balls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRLGu0UGlw