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The cockpit was able to separate from the cabin so shots could be filmed from the front as if you were look- ing from the cockpit.
RECENT SCREEN APPEARANCES BY SCROGGINS AVIATION MOCKUP & EFFECTS:
Book Club: The Next Chapter film – EC-135 helicopter
65 film – escape vessel, a set of airlock doors, crew seats and control panels
True Lies TV series – EC-135 helicopter
Dear Edward TV series – Airbus A320 full fuselage with cockpit and wreckage, plus other props
PLANE film – Airbus A320 forward cockpit with cabin and other props
Echo 3 series – Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever film – EC-135 helicopter & Eurocopter AStar AS350 helicopter
Black Adam film – Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin helicopter
The Terminal List series – Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter
UPCOMING FILMS TO WATCH FOR:
Blue Beetle (DC Comics film)
Captain America: Brave New World (Marvel Studios) Bad Boys: Ride or Die (Sony Pictures)
with CGI, which is extremely expensive, so they went with the special effects guys, who I thought made it look very cartoony.”
You do see footage of Maire roll out from an actual landing and taxi in. “It was really interesting to watch the process and to just see how it ended up coming together,” Maire said. “I mean, this is my first rodeo with regard to filming scenes. To me one of the most incredible things to realize is that all of those interior shots including all the cockpit scenes were done in the mock-up that Doug created, none of them are from the real airplane. He did a fantastic job on creating that for the movie.”
While Maire and Scroggins both consulted filmmakers on realistic aircraft operations while on the set, much of the editing work on the film and final decisions were done in a studio during post-production without consultation.
They said Quaid was open to the feedback and told them that because he was a pilot himself, he wanted the script to be as accurate as possible. They suggested some changes to words and movements Quaid’s role as pilot of the King Air was scripted to perform, and one way he thanked them was by giving Scroggins a speaking role in the film. Near the end of the film, just after the plane lands, you see Scroggins as the airport operations manager telling the pilot to cut the engines of the King Air.
“I was there when Dennis wrote the part into the script, but it wasn’t until the next day the director told me that Dennis wanted me to play the part as a thank you for helping out,” Scroggins said. “That was kinda cool of him, I thought.”
While Scroggins Aviation Mockup & Effects built this King Air mock-up specifically for the film “On a Wing and a Prayer,” the airplane will continue to work in the film and television industry. KA
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