they started putting back up cameras in cars in mid - 1990s.
they started putting back up cameras in cars in mid - 1990s.
when did they start putting back up cameras in cars?
mid - 1990s
the "air drop" sequence was conceived by stunt coordinator, spiro razatos, who also supervised on the franchise's two previous installments; "fast five" and "fast & furious 6". razatos told "business insider" that he wanted to rely more on real stunts rather than cgi because he wanted the whole sequence to "feel real" and fulfill audience's expectations. the stunt took months of prep-solving problems. cameras needed to be mounted onto cars in a way that they would not be destroyed when the cars landed, and the crew had to figure out a safe way to get the cars out of the plane. they performed a dry run with a single car falling out of a plane and did this six times. cars were dropped from a lockheed c-130 hercules high above the arizona desert, but close up shots that show the cars landing on a mountain road were filmed in colorado. there were two airplanes, flying at a height of 12,000 feet, each dropping two cars apiece. brs parachutes enabled with gps were secured to each of the cars before dropping off the c-130 plane. at about 5,000 feet, the parachutes deployed. over 10 cameras were used for the sequence. in addition to cameras on the ground, there were cameras remotely operated inside the plane and another three mounted outside each car. additional cameras were on a helicopter, where razatos was stationed watching monitors. three skydivers used in the shoot wore helmet cameras to help shoot the sequence from multiple angles. sky divers would either jump out before cars or after them. while all the cars landed on their drop zones, 70% landed perfectly and 30% didn't. for the close-up scenes which show the actors inside their cars, a giant gimbal with a 360-degree range of movement were attached to each of the cars and was filmed against a green screen to reproduce their tumble through the sky. the last part of the scene, which shows the cars hitting the road was shot separately. to get that right, the team set up a pulley system that had cars six to ten feet above the ground. when they were dropped from the cranes, the stuntmen who were sitting in the driver's seats raced their engines at about 35 to 40 miles per hour and slid to the ground at full speed. those cranes were then later removed from the film with computers. razatos admits that the air drop sequence was "all real" and that it would be "hard to top".
furious 7
in 1909 he took an automobile correspondence course granting himself a "bachelor of motorcycles" as he learned about vehicle mechanics and graduated by taking apart and putting back together his newly acquired motorcycle in a day. after working on a project to build a bridge across the stanislaus river, and seeing first hand the fresno scraper, he was anxious to put to use his mechanical skills. in 1911, letourneau started the superior garage, in stockton, as half-owner putting up $1,000 and building what may have been the first building designed exclusively for the sales and servicing of cars in that section of california. in 1917, he married evelyn peterson, the daughter of a draying company owner from minnesota.
r. g. letourneau