> To add injury to insult, Broccoli called Milligan while he was in a hotel room with Chitwood. Chitwood, who had just informed Milligan that he was about to fly to Singapore to perform car stunts on The Man With The Golden Gun, was suddenly out of a job. It must have been a blow, not only because he lost his job, but because he also played a part in tests that led to the performance of the original stunt in Houston.

This is exactly how things work even today in Hollywood.

Very interesting blog, went down quite the rabbit hole there.

Given this was written for the general audience, it does a really good job of capturing the math, engineering and computing involved.

Also really cool to see the connection between science and culture (the fact that car safety researchers were able to use stunt drivers to get more data to calibrate their simulata).

I always thought this was the most amazing car stunt, and must have taken a huge amount of planning and work.

Meticulous production values, instantly cheapened because someone decided to have a swanee whistle rising and falling in the background.