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Originally Posted by fsy82

Where did you get that information from? Cause I'm pretty sure that whole thing was not real. Maybe that end sequence just before hitting the road.

Got it from wikipedia.

The "air drop" scene was conceived by stunt coordinator, Spiro Razatos, who supervised on Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6. Razatos told Business Insider that he wanted to rely more on real stunts rather than CGI because he wanted the whole sequence to "feel real" and satisfy audience's expectations. The stunt took months of prep-solving problems. Cameras needed to be mounted onto cars in a way that they would not be destroyed when the cars landed, and the crew had to figure out a safe way to get the cars out of the plane. They performed a dry run with a single car falling out of a plane and did this six times. Cars were dropped from a Lockheed C-130 Hercules high above the Arizona desert, but close up shots that show the cars landing on a mountain road were filmed in Colorado. There were two airplanes, flying at a height of 12,000 feet, each dropping two cars apiece. BRS parachutes enabled with GPS were secured to each of the cars before dropping off the C-130 plane. At about 5,000 feet, the parachutes deployed. Over 10 cameras were used for the sequence. In addition to cameras on the ground, there were cameras remotely operated inside the plane and another three mounted outside each car. Additional cameras were on a helicopter, where Razatos was stationed watching monitors. Three skydivers used in the shoot wore helmet cameras to help shoot the sequence from multiple angles. Sky divers would either jump out before cars or after them. While all the cars landed on their drop zones, 70% landed perfectly and 30% didn't. The last part of the scene, which shows the cars hitting the road, was shot separately. To get that right, the team set up a pully sytem that had cars six to eight feet above the ground. When it was time, the drivers raced their engines and slid to the ground at full speed. Razatos admits that the air drop sequence was "all real" and that it would be "hard to top.