50 shades of grey glider, whose glider is that in the movie trailer

On Friday, 25 July 2014 01:31:25 UTC+2, SF wrote:


DG505?

On Thursday, July 24, 2014 5:09:11 PM UTC-7, Nik wrote:
On Friday, 25 July 2014 01:31:25 UTC+2, SF wrote:





DG505?

DG-1000. One based in the Pacific Northwest, dragged up to Canada for filming.

Don't ask too much, you'll open a can of worms you don't want to deal with: the dragging was done by a club's towplane and was a very controversial use of a not-for-profit club's resources in a for-profit venture by a small group of individuals who do not form the majority of said club. (And it was doubly-controversial, since another local DG-1000 owner died a couple of years ago in a crash while filming a car commercial using his glider).

--Noel

Hi: I came across your info while searching for glider info from the FSOG movie. I have a FSOG website and I have been searching the filming locations and information. Would you be willing to share information about the glider used in the trailer? Its really interesting that they used it from the books. I am still looking for the location they filmed the scenes at near Vancouver BC. Thanks for any help.

Lisa Fish

50shadesgirlportland.com

hmmm, the tow plane and glider came from Washington, the scenery was BC.............what are you looking for?

GK

So they actually kept the glider stuff in the film? They were going to use my club's 505 and have a club member who has also done professional flying for film and television do the flying. Unfortunately the production company demanded that the club pay for a large amount of liability insurance on top of the liability insurance we already had so no flying scenes were ever done with our ship.

I would have told the production company to pay the insurance, no insurance no fly.

BillT

On Thursday, July 24, 2014 8:32:57 PM UTC-7, Bill T wrote:
I would have told the production company to pay the insurance, no insurance no fly.



BillT

All bets are off when they point a camera at you and you start thinking of all the money and women.

Richard
www.craggyaero.com

On Thursday, July 24, 2014 7:31:25 PM UTC-4, SF wrote:


Sweet Jesus, what a horrible trailer. I don't care how much quality aerial footage there is in that film, it would never be worth sitting throughout that awful flick just to see it.

I'll wait for the DVD so I can fast fwd to the flying and only watch that.

"I would have told the production company to pay the insurance, no insurance no fly.

BillT "

That's pretty much how it played out! They wouldn't pay for the extra insurance they felt necessary so we dropped out of the project. Apparently the guys our man worked with that were directly responsible for co-coordinating an arranging the actual aerial photography were great to work with and the extra liability requirement was sprung on them later from higher up.

I'm a little relieved as if our ship had appeared in the film it might have persuaded me to go see it. I've been exposed to a few passages from the book and I think the only hope for the film is that it might be "so bad it's good" in the MST3K way!