free hit counter
James Bond 747-200 Dunsfold Airport - Surrey - 2012 | Oblivion State Urban Exploration

Post a thread

Post a thread in one of the forums

Browse the forums

Browse threads and contribute to reports

Contact Staff

Contact the team

James Bond 747-200 Dunsfold Airport - Surrey - 2012

TrevBish.co.uk

Full Member
OS Full member
Joined
Jun 11, 2013
Messages
175
Reaction score
174
Points
43
Location
Basingstoke
Good Afternoon all! This is an old report that I have never posted but I am slowly going through all my pictures and seeing what ones I haven't done and now posting them! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

A Boeing 747-200 which served with British Airways until 2002 as City of Birmingham, G-BDXJ, was purchased by a Film Company specialising in supplying aircraft for television and film work, and transferred to Dunsfold. It was modified and used for filming for the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. Some of the scenes set at Miami International Airport were filmed at Dunsfold.Modifications to the aircraft include the removal of the normal Rolls Royce engines in separate nacelles and replacement with a single nacelle on each wing with two engines, similar to those fitted to aircraft such as the B-52 Stratofortress. Dummy drop tanks have been fitted where the outer engines would normally be fitted. The aircraft is not flyable at the present moment.The aircraft has also appeared in the background of numerous Science in Action and Top Gear episodes and directly in an episode where it is towed by a JCB Fastrac tractor.

It was also towed by a Volkswagen Touareg in a 2006 Top Gear episode, the same year that the modified aircraft and Dunsfold Airfield were featured in a television advertisement filmed for the Volkswagen Touareg, demonstrating the vehicle’s towing ability. In 2008 it featured in an episode of Scrapheap Challenge in which contestants created machines to tow the aircraft.The airfield also found use when filming several scenes inside a plane for Come Fly with Me, starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. In 2009 for major parts of Episode 4 of ITV Series Primeval featuring a Giganotosaurus, Dunsfold Airfield was used as the location for an unspecified London Airport

IMG_0114_zpsqxehb9nz.jpg


IMG_0123_zpsd3qwl16c.jpg


IMG_0130_zpst8bqa0s6.jpg


IMG_0133_zps8h5wsap6.jpg


IMG_0174_zpstjw6nd8e.jpg


IMG_0199_zpsyiiii2tr.jpg


IMG_0120_zpsl4lqm3m6.jpg


IMG_0005_zpsncglv1ci.jpg


IMG_0003_zpsewn2e5cg.jpg


IMG_0010_zpspmavef9g.jpg


IMG_0006_zps93g9tlcp.jpg


IMG_0023_zpshrxsc0om.jpg


IMG_0020_zps9mykf3gh.jpg


IMG_0030_zpszt3ygvzk.jpg


IMG_0029_zpsd9r3mgbn.jpg


IMG_0032_zpsfcr4elxf.jpg


IMG_0033_zpsmi3fwxf5.jpg


IMG_0037_zpsxoc7xbmd.jpg


IMG_0040_zpsgy74lhst.jpg


IMG_0044_zpshd15jl3u.jpg


IMG_0061_zps2x2cowig.jpg


IMG_0063_zpsjcftej2y.jpg


IMG_0046_zpsfc0djs5s.jpg


IMG_0064_zps2jggtn2c.jpg


IMG_0075_zps2ptvdd9g.jpg


IMG_0065_zps8z9o0jub.jpg


 
Last edited by a moderator:

skeleton key

Full Member
OS Member
Joined
Jun 26, 2011
Messages
4,213
Reaction score
31
Points
48
Good to see Trev and well captured.

I chuckled when saw your shots pop up the other day as was well and truly busted here a few years back and limped off the Airfield felling like id been rogered by a horse lol.

Will say no more haha.

Great stuff mate (y)

 
Last edited by a moderator:

Lara

Full Member
OS Member
Joined
Jan 23, 2013
Messages
2,157
Reaction score
43
Points
48
Oh well jel, love this, nice set Trev :)

 

hamtagger

OS Full member
OS Full member
Joined
Jan 30, 2014
Messages
3,517
Reaction score
1,062
Points
113
Location
Lincoln
Nice pics and an interesting history for this old girl (y)

Those first class seats look pretty mint :)

 

Lenston

OS Full member
OS Full member
Joined
Jun 5, 2014
Messages
1,667
Reaction score
636
Points
113
Location
Wales
Love the look of this, something different and a cool story to go with it :)

 

The_Raw

Administrator
Staff member
Admin
Joined
Dec 16, 2013
Messages
3,943
Reaction score
2,196
Points
113
YES mate! That's next level wickedness (y)

 
Top