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His cheesey but competent SST DEATH FLIGHT and THE HORROR AT 37000 FEET both could knock CONCORDE out of the sky any day of the week, and THE DEFECTION OF SIMON KUDIRKA is actually a really good movie.

American Cinematographer did a writeup on the VFX, and from start to finish they had something like 3 months for the modelbuilding, motion control and optical (in fact I think all the optical printing was done in something like 12 days.) That's a recipe for disaster if there ever was one...

That may help CONCORDE - the sharper the image, the worse the opticals will look (and that awful 'toy plane looking like it is on the garage floor landing too.) Don't get me wrong, it was worth the money in terms of derisive laughter to see it in the theater (moreso than say, METEOR or BEYOND...

That close flyby you mention was I believe the last shot in the TV ad (maybe trailer as well) and yeah, it was really spectacular. The 'ufo fuzzballs' tracking behind the plane during its approach at the end were too much though; I remember when the HULK TV show reused those shots (Hulk...

I'm pretty sure the plane is INVERTED while he is opening the 'side vent' to fire as well. CONCORDE generated more laughs than AIRPLANE when I saw it. The landing in France has miniature work that actually had me falling out of my seat laughing (on DVD the shots looked bad but not laughably...