In an interview with Female for the film's 3D re-release, Cameron addresses the obvious: "we could've run a CG helicopter under the freeway overpass, but it was so much more fun to do the real thing." In other words: it's not that alternatives to flying an actual helicopter under an overpass weren't possible, it's just that those alternatives were for cowards. The stunt was performed by Charles A. "Chuck" Tamburro, a veteran stunt pilot as well as a war veteran. Tamburro learned to fly helicopters in Vietnam.

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