Mistakes in Aviation Films
How about Conan Doyle's 'Lost World'? Where a group of explorers take off in a Sikorsky S-55 to reach the top of the plateau where the lizards, with the frills glued onto their necks, live.
Cut to in-flight scene of about five of them standing in the 'S-55' cockpit, gazing in awe at the scenery
Cut to in-flight scene of about five of them standing in the 'S-55' cockpit, gazing in awe at the scenery
Virtually all of the aviation stuff in whichever Die-Hard film it was (3?). In particular the C-130 with ejection seat, bulletproof cockpit, a harness that our hero could strap into in about 3 seconds... Not to mention the ILS where a simple keypress could reset the ground downwards a couple of hundred feet.
G
N.B. Re: the James Bond film, I thought that the Vulcan was only acting and was pretending to be some fictional V-bomber called a Vickers Vindicator.
G
N.B. Re: the James Bond film, I thought that the Vulcan was only acting and was pretending to be some fictional V-bomber called a Vickers Vindicator.
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I think that Neville Shute film was "No Highway" and the featured aircraft was the "Reindeer". It seemed to be the horrid result of the coupling of a Viscount and...a reindeer!
I watched one the other day featuring external shots of a 747-200 with cockpit shots of a "747-400" (at least I think it was).
My family hate me watching films like this with them. You can guess why...
I watched one the other day featuring external shots of a 747-200 with cockpit shots of a "747-400" (at least I think it was).
My family hate me watching films like this with them. You can guess why...
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Anything filmed in a Herc when you can talk to each other, plenty of duffers there!!
Recent film about smoke jumpers on the Beeb, when a nice big shiny red button fired both extinguisher shots, feathered the prop, closed the fuel taps, shut the engine down, applied rudder and trimmed it all out so it could be flown hands off. Can I have one of those in my cockpit?
ExO
Recent film about smoke jumpers on the Beeb, when a nice big shiny red button fired both extinguisher shots, feathered the prop, closed the fuel taps, shut the engine down, applied rudder and trimmed it all out so it could be flown hands off. Can I have one of those in my cockpit?
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Xeque "...where the tail falls off due to vibration"
Bus429 That was the "Nomad". It seemed to be the horrid result of the coupling of a DHC6 Twin Otter and a BN2A-MkIII Trislander, carried out in a nefarious science experiment in an Australian high school biology laboratory!
Woomera
Bus429 That was the "Nomad". It seemed to be the horrid result of the coupling of a DHC6 Twin Otter and a BN2A-MkIII Trislander, carried out in a nefarious science experiment in an Australian high school biology laboratory!
Woomera
Top Gun, MIG 28's aren't they F5's
and that film from the Neville Shute book where the tail falls off due to vibration.
I've just remembered two more.
(1) The recent James Bond scene where they start and fly away in an R22 thrown (no engine running) out of the back of a C-130 at low level.
(2) (Numerous offences) Film showing the outside of an airliner, then cutting to the cockpit where the pilot advances - a different number of throttle levers to the engines fitted to the aircraft.
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(1) The recent James Bond scene where they start and fly away in an R22 thrown (no engine running) out of the back of a C-130 at low level.
wasn't that "The world is not enough" ??
If so it was allegedly out of the back of the AN124 and chopper was an MD thingy.......
Takes anorak off
VEEPS
wasn't that "The world is not enough" ??
If so it was allegedly out of the back of the AN124 and chopper was an MD thingy.......
Takes anorak off
VEEPS
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633sqn, no fin visible in cockpit shots.
Numerous, Harrier engine noise (accel checks in particular) fits any jet aircraft.
Numerous, sound of rotors running down as helicopter settles.
Numerous, Bell 47 sounds fit any helicopter.
I usually get berated for shouting at the TV
Numerous, Harrier engine noise (accel checks in particular) fits any jet aircraft.
Numerous, sound of rotors running down as helicopter settles.
Numerous, Bell 47 sounds fit any helicopter.
I usually get berated for shouting at the TV
News reports about recent events at LGW which feature footage from the early 90's with Air Europe aircraft taking off!!!!!!!
I can't remember the film, it wasn't a spoof, but the a/c alternated between being a DC8 and a DC7!!!
I can't remember the film, it wasn't a spoof, but the a/c alternated between being a DC8 and a DC7!!!
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Dangerman TV series when I were a lad; the 007-type hero would routinely take off in a BEA Viscount and land in a BOAC 707 and vice versa. A few times it was take off in BOAC land in Pan-Am.
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Mosquito Squadron - the biggest mistake was making a film without having a plot that ran to more than a beer-mat.
The use of airfix models on the end of fishing rods for the flying sequences was particulalrly laughable.
Rob
The use of airfix models on the end of fishing rods for the flying sequences was particulalrly laughable.
Rob