article_snippet.sent: (CNN)The little-known star of this week's No. 1 car chase movie, "Furious 7" isn't a car.
article_snippet.sent: Film producers hired a Lockheed C-130 Hercules to fly five cars 12,000 feet high, open a cargo door at the rear of the plane and parachute them out in a spectacular free-fall stunt.
article_snippet.sent: Lockheed has been making these airplanes longer than the legendary B-52 bomber and the famous U2 spy jet.
article_snippet.sent: The fact that "Furious 7" producers chose a plane that was designed in the 1950s tells you a little something about the success of Lockheed's C-130 Hercules.
article_snippet.sent: The film makes The film appear as if another plane -- a C-17 Globemaster III -- drops the cars.
article_snippet.sent: But in real life, The film took a Lockheed's C-130 Hercules to pull a Hercules off.
highlights_snippet.sent: The type of plane used for a jaw-dropping stunt in "Furious 7" is 60 years old .
  