Filming was done at a remote airstrip in the Mojave Desert of California. "However, shots of the passengers' frightened reactions to the initial impact, which had been shot on a set and originally cut into the movie, were so terrifying (made all the more authentic by preproduction research of Federal Aviation Administration test crashes and data from real aircraft crashes) that they were ultimately cut before the film's release." ILM constructed five DC-8 models for the production. The film "Bat*21" featured an EB-66 variant of the Douglas B-66 Destroyer being shot down over North Vietnam in the beginning of the film. The 1976 children's book "Thunder and Lightnings" by Jan Mark is about the relationship of two boys – otherwise outsiders – who share an interest in aeroplanes, in particular the English Electric Lightnings flown by the local squadron. The author was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1978 for the book. A Eurocopter EC665 Tiger attack helicopter has a starring role in the 1995 James Bond film "GoldenEye". On the 2002 Special Edition DVD, the director's commentary notes the aircraft's appearances in the film's Monte Carlo scenes were of a prototype Tiger provided by the French Navy along with its test platform, the frigate . Its other appearances throughout the rest of the film were special effects models. Three Eurocopter EC665 Tigers save the day in the 2017 film "Rescue Under Fire". A Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma becomes the main protagonist of the film "Rescue under fire". The unit used for filming in the movie was the same as in the real events. Protagonist Lt. Harry Brubaker flew a McDonnell F2H Banshee in the 1953 James A. Michener novel "The Bridges at Toko-Ri". In the subsequent 1954 film adaptation, his aircraft was changed to a Grumman F9F Panther. "Flight Command", released by MGM in 1940, featured the Grumman F3F, filmed at NAS North Island, San Diego, California. Aerial flying by Frank Clarke and Paul Mantz. The 1941 Warner Bros. film "Dive Bomber" showed Grumman F3Fs. F3F-2, BuNo "0989", '6-F-4', of VF-6, assigned to , is one of the best-known F3F-2's due to the fact it is the aircraft that Fred MacMurray "crashed" in this movie. Filming began at NAS North Island, San Diego, California, on 20 March 1941.