Does E = mc² or mc³? The Science in Bond Films Thread

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Eye on Design: Flipping Small High-Speed
Powerboats

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Rik van Hemmen, Contributor
Rik van Hemmen is the President of Martin & Ottaway...
August 25, 2022

Planing hull design is incredibly complicated and dynamic behavior is actually more difficult to predict than the dynamic behavior of airplanes.

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CFD Analysis of Hull Aerodynamics

TotalSim Searches for the Cause of Side-By-
Side Blow-Over of Identical High-
Performance Catamarans

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The Situation:In 2019 there was a significant incident during the Race World Offshore World Championships in Key West, where two identical Doug Wright 32' race-prepared catamarans experienced a simultaneous blow-over.

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Revealed: The top secret
surprises that make Quantum
of Solace the most explosive
Bond yet

By MICHAEL HELLICAR FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Updated: 20:20 EDT, 23 October 2008
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1080169/Revealed-The-secret-surprises-make-Quantum-Solace-explosive-Bond-yet.html

It's the 22nd Bond film and the first to be a sequel, but when Quantum Of Solace opens next Friday it will be to unprecedented hype. Daniel Craig's first outing as the secret agent in Casino Royale not only produced Bond's highest ever box office takings, it was also nominated for eight BAFTAS and earned outstanding reviews.

Producers claim the latest 007 adventure has been shot in more locations than ever before, that the stunts are better and bloodier - and that even the fashions have been given a new edginess. Here MICHAEL HELLICAR gives 22 things to look out for in the 22nd Bond. . .

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14 Bond's boat chase, filmed in Panama, provides one of the most hair-raising sequences.

It was devised by special effects supervisor Chris Corbould, who has been working on the 007 films since he was a 17-year-old trainee on The Spy Who Loved Me.

'Daniel was at the wheel of the boat most of the time, but when it came to the really dangerous stuff, the insurance company wouldn't let him take the risk,' he says.

'So we had to find a way of hiding a driver to take over the action, while it looked as if Bond was still at the helm. We had boats going over other boats and explosions demolishing everything around him.

Boat scene

Hair-raising sequence: Bond's boat chase was devised by special effects supervisor Chris Corbould, who has been working on the 007 films since The Spy Who Loved Me

'One of the boats somersaults, which took a long time to get right. We did it with a hidden underwater cable which pulled the front of the boat down at a certain point, forcing it to flip over.'