Special Report: Fred North on Flying Sideways

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Mike talks with helicopter stunt pilot Fred North about his long career performing gravity-defying moves for scores of films from around the world. We discuss his work and his riveting autobiography, Flying Sideways: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Stunt Pilot, which is available via his website https://www.fred-north.com/

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Hey folks. Welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.
0:42.3	I'm your host, Mike White.
0:43.2	On this episode, I'm talking with Fred North.
0:45.5	He's a camera helicopter pilot, stunt pilot.
0:49.5	There's a lot of great work.
0:51.2	Has been in the business since the early 80s. Had a great time talking with him.
0:57.2	He's got a wonderful memoir out called Flying Sideways. It is available via his site, fred dash north.com.
1:04.7	I recommend it, and I hope you enjoy this interview. Let's talk about Flying Sideways, your
1:10.2	memoir. And my first question is,
1:12.0	why now? Why did you decide to write this memoir now? There was two reasons that in life
1:21.0	it's always about timing. So you need that decision first. Okay, let's do it. Because you said, let's do that one day.
1:28.9	Let's do that one day.
1:30.1	So we decided to do it during COVID and everything.
1:32.5	We didn't do it after COVID.
1:34.5	But there was two reasons.
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