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A pair of Little Nellie side missiles from Lewis Gilbert's Bond film You Only Live Twice. James Bond (Sean Connery) flew the autogyro "Little Nellie" to locate Blofeld's (Donald Pleasence) hidden volcano base. When he found himself in an aerial battle against Blofeld's henchmen, Bond used Little Nellie's side missiles to take down an enemy helicopter. This lot originated from the collection of Little Nellie's stunt pilot, Wing Commander Ken Wallis.

The missiles were created for the production's battle sequences, which were filmed in Sierra Nevada, Spain (doubling for Japan). The flight sequences were filmed in Japan, however, for the actual battles and firing of missiles, Spain had to be used. Each of Little Nellie's missile drums held seven missiles, and due to the large recoil when launching the missiles, they all had to be fired at once.

One missile still has the original electronics attached to the back end and both are still housed in their original dense cardboard protectors. One of the missiles has a handwritten message from Ken Wallis explaining its history. Dimensions (each): 27 cm x 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm (10.5" x 1.75" x 1.75")

Contains electronics; see electronics notice in the Buyer's Guide.

Estimate: £4,000 - 8,000 M

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