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Filming location photo, shot in USA, for Blue Thunder (1983). Scene description: Kate (Candy Clark) is driving calmly when another police car recognizes her after being contacted by Cochrane to detain her. She tries to evade, but her small car cannot outrun a police car. She is stopped on a bridge when cornered by two police cars. The officers, with pistols drawn, order her out of her car when Murphy (Roy Schneider) shows up in Blue Thunder. When the officers are distracted, she drives away. Murphy activates the cannon and fires a quick burst, cutting a police car in half and forcing the rest of the police cars to flee, but again causing no police casualties.
Filming location photo, shot in USA, for Blue Thunder (1983). Scene description: Murphy (Roy Schneider) tries to set an ambush by turning around and hovering behind a building and opens fire, but Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell) gets away, as his lighter armored chopper is faster and more maneuverable.
Filming location photo, shot in USA, for Blue Thunder (1983). Scene description: Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell) sabotages Murphy's helicopter by tampering with a wire in the engine. During the day, Cochrane pilots Blue Thunder, with Murphy (Roy Schneider) and Lymangood (Daniel Stern) piloting the faulty chopper. After a series of maneuvers, Murphy's chopper loses control of the engine and has to auto-rotate to a landing. After failing to land on top of a passing yellow school bus, Murphy crash lands his helicopter on a construction shack.
Filming location photo, shot in USA, for Blue Thunder (1983). Scene description: Meanwhile, a SWAT team armed with heavy machine guns have boarded two helicopters, and have appeared on either side of Murphy. However, Murphy (Roy Schneider) does not react at first. When one helicopter opens fire, Murphy responds by knocking the front searchlight off the shooter, then puts just a few bullets into the engine to force the helicopter down. The other chopper opens fire, but with little effect since most of the bullets bounce off harmlessly at Blue Thunder's thick armor. Murphy flies down into the L.A. reservoir channels, and in a series of tight turns, the police chopper, heavily laden, is unable to make a turn and crashes into a pillar, fortunately suffering no casualties.
Filming location photo, shot in USA, for Blue Thunder (1983). Scene description: Murphy (Roy Schneider) is watching a F-16 pilot drifting back down to earth under his parachute when Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell) attacks from his blind-side. The heavy cannons punch through the cockpit and wound Murphy, causing damage to the Blue Thunder chopper, as well as jam the nose turret into a
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