Space shuttles! Airplanes! Parachutes! Skydiving! Circuses! Jaws! Explosions! Plans to kill Bond . . . and a beautiful woman!

Can shuttles fly? Is Bond really on his last leg? Whatever happened to that leg?!

Join Dan, Tom and Vicky as we get a leg-up on the pre-title sequence of MOONRAKER! And Philip Latchford and John Cork weigh in too with us!

In this episode, we decode the following from the movie Moonraker:

The use of the 747 and needed modifications
Why the shuttle couldn’t do what the movie shows
Bond on his last leg
Where did Jaws come from?
The great aerial stunts in this scene
How the 1969 movie The Gypsy Moths likely inspired part of this pre-title sequence
A costume tie-in to real 18th century attire
And more …

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