Birdmen drop in on Transformers set
Aerial stunt performed three times
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17-Jul-10 – (Left) Five wingsuit flyers – wearing special jumpsuits that create lift – have jumped from a helicopter and are opening their parachutes near Trump International Hotel & Tower. They all landed safely on a barge on the Chicago River Saturday morning and then did the stunt two more times. It was for Transformers 3, a movie being filmed on Michigan Avenue this weekend.
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(Left) The captain of a sightseeing boat watches as the stunt performers land on a barge on the north bank of the river near NBC Tower.
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(Right) The stunt men land in front of a movie camera, spectators watching from above and from across the river, and stars of the film pausing to watch from the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
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(Left) With the north half of the Michigan Avenue Bridge raised, a car in the upper right frame appears to hang over the edge.
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(Above) Actors Shia Labeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (in lower center frame, walking down stairs) film a scene Saturday morning near Michigan Avenue. Rehearsed and then shot several times, the scene appeared to show Shia, Rosie, and soldiers emerging from Lower Michigan Avenue and then climbing the stairs near Pioneer Court.
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(Left) A helicopter, filming from the round camera mount on the front, flies by Trump International Hotel & Tower.
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