Mistakes in Aviation Films
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Mistakes in Aviation Films
Just been watching 12 O'Clock High again, great film, but in one scene when the formation of B-17s are being attacked while on their raid they are attacked by a Spitfire.
Has anyone else spotted mistakes in any other aircraft films ?.
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Has anyone else spotted mistakes in any other aircraft films ?.
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Not quite an aviation film, but did anyone catch the recent re-run of an episode of Poirot? Set at a very Art Deco 1930's airfield (Cambridge?) with a Seneca in the line up of aircraft on the pan, and a C152 taxying past the camera with its flaps dangling having just landed.
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"Air America". All of it.
"Fly away home", the bit where an engine failure immediately causes an ultralight to enter an unrecoverable spiral dive (which is then survivable when he hits the ground).
"The Right Stuff", the proximity to clouds of all the high speed test flying. (And, for that matter, much of the rest of the bits about the planning and conduct of test flying).
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"Fly away home", the bit where an engine failure immediately causes an ultralight to enter an unrecoverable spiral dive (which is then survivable when he hits the ground).
"The Right Stuff", the proximity to clouds of all the high speed test flying. (And, for that matter, much of the rest of the bits about the planning and conduct of test flying).
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Oi, Genghis... that was a Mel film! Mmmmmel....
"Flying Virus" was particularly terrible. It was inaccurate both in its flying and its virus. For example, at one point the staring aircraft (I can't remember what type, but it was carrying a good number of passengers) executes a steep turn in about 4 aircraft lengths.
"Flying Virus" was particularly terrible. It was inaccurate both in its flying and its virus. For example, at one point the staring aircraft (I can't remember what type, but it was carrying a good number of passengers) executes a steep turn in about 4 aircraft lengths.
Aerbabe, are you sure it wasn't just Danny flying ?
Reynolds, okay, all but 20 seconds for that landing, and another 10 seconds so that Aerbabe can admire that Australian chappie. That's ½ minute worth watching out of about 80 minutes !
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Reynolds, okay, all but 20 seconds for that landing, and another 10 seconds so that Aerbabe can admire that Australian chappie. That's ½ minute worth watching out of about 80 minutes !
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Fate Is The Hunter. It was so bad Ernie Gann totally disassociated himself from it. In one scene, where the aircraft is flying up the fiord toward Bluie West One, it's a DC-4 instead of a DC-3, they have three engines feathered and you can actually see the wires holding up the model.
There was another piece of excrement on TV awhile ago - can't remember the name. It featured a Beaver on skis. The airplane was being flown with no cowling, a plywood cargo door on the left side, and wing tanks.
There was another piece of excrement on TV awhile ago - can't remember the name. It featured a Beaver on skis. The airplane was being flown with no cowling, a plywood cargo door on the left side, and wing tanks.
A couple of shadows in Doctor Strangelove are definately not of a B-52 and the models are a bit obvious at times but I can forgive all, for one of my all time favourite movies. Too many good lines to quote here. Well just one " Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room"
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One of the worst offenders:
Airplane! , released in 1980. Stared Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves. Many of the SOPs are of a highly questionable nature and, more than once, B707 clippage is accompanied by the droning sound of a propellor driven aircraft. The sequel was just as bad.
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Any film (there are so many) that features that stock footage from Boeing of a 747 centre landing gear retracting after liftoff, flmed from a camera mounted under the belly, just has to be bad .....
I'm sure you know the clip I'm referring to. Presumably Boeing made it available free of charge.
I'm sure you know the clip I'm referring to. Presumably Boeing made it available free of charge.
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In The First of the Few the "prototype Spitfire is seen with a bulged canopy - and later on (after the test pilot taxies in) it has a PR-type canopy (the type with the bulges on the sides)!!
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XL5,
Er, I think you've missed the point somewhere.
(Mentioned this before on another similar thread) "The Hunters", Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner. When Lt. Corona is trying to land a terminally damaged F86F, it mysteriously turns into an F100 for the stock footage crash!
Er, I think you've missed the point somewhere.
(Mentioned this before on another similar thread) "The Hunters", Robert Mitchum and Robert Wagner. When Lt. Corona is trying to land a terminally damaged F86F, it mysteriously turns into an F100 for the stock footage crash!
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This is a thread of almost infinite length.
Much more manageable would be a thread on "Aviation Films with No Mistakes".........except I can't think of any titles to start it with
Much more manageable would be a thread on "Aviation Films with No Mistakes".........except I can't think of any titles to start it with
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An amusing, and rarely noticed, bit in the otherwise excellent "Battle of Britain" is the pair of 'Me109's tagged on as bogus Hurricanes at the back of the Polish formation.
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