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RE: Which old Bond movie had the opening of Bond in a helicopter and swooped down and picked up a guy in a wheel chair and dropped him in a smoke stack?

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That would be FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (Starring Roger Moore as James Bond ).

See here:

http://www.filmsite.org/series-jamesbond12.html

In the pre-title credits sequence (the first to be set in the UK itself), Bond (Roger Moore) was visiting his late wife Teresa’s grave (the first instance in all the Bond films) when he was picked up in a helicopter sent from Universal Exports (a cover name for MI6), due to an emergency. As it flew over London, it was remotely controlled and commandeered by a balding, maniacal villain in a wheelchair (John Hollis) (he was presumably previous SPECTRE villain and Bond enemy Blofeld (John Hollis), who was seen stroking his white Persian cat, but his face was not visible and he was unnamed). [Blofeld was an accomplice to the death of Bond’s wife, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), killed by his assassin Irma Bunt.]

After the pilot was electrocuted with an electric shock administered through his headphones (# 1 death), the villain amused himself by sending the copter careening through the sky above him. Bond daringly climbed out onto the copter’s skids, threw the pilot’s body from the pilot’s seat and regained control just in time to avoid colliding with an abandoned building. Then, he picked up the motorized wheelchair (with one of the copter’s landing skids) and as the bad guy pleaded for his life, and offered to buy Bond a “delicatessan in stainless steel” (a Mafia term?), Bond dropped him into an industrial factory’s smokestack-chimney (# 2 death, # 1 Bond kill).

Here’s the video of the scene for those who missed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCFYceDGkM