Tempted as you may be to think that the scenes involving cars being parachuted out of an airplane in the ‘Fast and Furious 7’ trailer were filmed on a big green screen, you’d be wrong – it really did happen.
The producers of “Furious 7” just dropped (pun intended) a behind-the-scenes video with a new featurette about the stunt in which a fleet of tuned cars reversed out of the back of an airborne Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft before parachuting onto a road below.
According to stunt coordinators Andy and Jack Gill, the cars jumped off the airplane at around 12,000 feet with the parachutes opening at about 5,000 feet. Three camera flyers and a helicopter captured shots of the vehicles, as they were freefalling at a speed of around 130 to 140mph (~ 209 to 225 km/h).
Pretty impressive stuff indeed.
Furious 7 opens in theatres on April 3.
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