Cameron Balloons make parachute for Gravity

Monday, November 18 2013

Have you seen Gravity yet?

If so, did you notice the red, white and blue parachute? What you probably didn’t notice was that this parachute was made in Bristol by Cameron Balloons of Bedminster.

Built using the company’s aerospace technology skills, the parachute featured in some key sequences in the film set in outer space but was filmed above a reservoir near Shepperton Studios in Surrey.

Cameron Balloons were commissioned to make the parachute by acclaimed modeller and propmaker Pierre Bohanna (Harry Potter, Star Wars, Sunshine) on behalf of Warner Bros.

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Attendant is one of my favourite London cafes. I'd love to see something similar (and with similar quality coffee) in Bristol. I'll try to check out Cafe on the Square and the Downs Tea Rooms when I'm next in Bristol! Brian.
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Good point, Martin. As well as reviewing Cafe on The Square in Shirehampton, I recently visited The Attendant in Fitzrovia and it's a remarkable transformation (the coffee was fantastic, too). As well as Prince Street, perhaps the disused Victorian toilets on the junction of Park Row and Woodland Road could also be turned into a cafe. It's a wonderful building and one currently being used for an exhibition.
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I welcome your new cafe/coffee shop in Clifton, Bristol, as it excels all the others in Clifton in terms of table availability, cleanliness, staff intelligence, service and coffee quality. It clearly has good management. However, there is one aspect which I think is appalling and which spoils it for me and my wife and, I believe, many others. This is the fact that all the food there is exposed to the coughs, sneezes and spittle of all your customers as they queue up at the counter for service. I find this hard to understand in this day and age - all other coffee shops/cafes in Clifton display their foodstuffs in glass display units where they are protected from airborne infections. There may be a lot of customers who do not mind or mention this, but this can only be due to their ignorance of basic hygiene and infection routes. I feel you should not be taking advantage of this but should be setting an example relevant to standards of hygiene in the 21st Century. While I go into this cafe for a coffee, I shall never buy food there.
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Cameron Balloons make parachute for Gravity

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