Cool 747 on Fifth Gear

[Captain Canada]

Had two engines on each the inboard pylons and tanks or somat on the outboard. What was it for ? I'm trying to find a pic/ info on her right now.....

[pyro-manic]

That was made for the Casino Royale movie a few years ago. One of the bad guys tried to blow it up IIRC.

[kitnut617]

Some photos can be found on airlinersdotnet  typed in James Bond 747 in the search bar.

Or here:

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/b747/n9747p-2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0297.shtml&h=360&w=550&sz=29&hl=en&start=2&usg=__iB7PUVMsT9f1jU9pSLCksXUr4jU=&tbnid=v5tq0a-l82iIhM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJames%2BBond%2B747%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[Captain Canada]

Thanks guys. I just found it a few minutes ago myself. I winder if it would fly any good ?

[B777LR]

It was also featured in Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson towed it with a tractor...

[Mossie]

In the film it was known as the Skyfleet S570.  One further mod was made for the movie that's not shown in Roberts site, a fairing was placed over the nose to give it a blunt look.  There's some stills on this Russian language site:
http://www.sergelin.ru/movies/007.asp

[jcf]

In the film it was known as the Skyfleet S570.  One further mod was made for the movie that's not shown in Roberts site, a fairing was placed over the nose to give it a blunt look.  There's some stills on this Russian language site:
http://www.sergelin.ru/movies/007.asp

After watching the film, I do believe that the nose-job is CGI, especially as the "stills" on the Russian site are screen captures.

Jon

[Mossie]

Stills/screen caputures/CGI's, doesn't matter really, it all created a different look for the film.

[B777LR]

If i am not mistaken, they created the Skyfleet S570, because Airbus did not want to participate with the A380