DIE HARD II - ITV Tonight 2115
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DIE HARD II - ITV Tonight 2115
If you want a damn good laugh at Hollywood research at it's best - check out Die Hard II tonight...
Keep at look out for the British airline "Windsor" and it's flight crew - side splitting stuff!!!
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Keep at look out for the British airline "Windsor" and it's flight crew - side splitting stuff!!!
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I like the fight which takes place on top of the wing when the aircraft is taking off.
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No, but i distinctly remember wondering why a transport plane had ejector seats....and what sort of Hollywood Mk1 plane was it anyway?...
Did anyone notice the guy taking his laundry out of a radar display.
Did anyone notice the guy taking his laundry out of a radar display.
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Setting fire to the fuel at the end was another good one!! As we all know Jet A1 doesn't burn unless it is vaporised and it doesn't vaporise untill it gets to about +45degC. As it was snowing I would hazard a guess that the ambient conditions were not quite warm enough for burning kerosene!!!
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I remember at an RAF station they were doing a demo on how to put out fires.They had this 6" tank of Jet A1 that they practice on...........and they couldnt get it to catch fire...
I would have thought a more plausable ending would be to let them fly out over the sea, scramble a few F15s.....
I would have thought a more plausable ending would be to let them fly out over the sea, scramble a few F15s.....
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...and don't forget if you need to dump fuel for any reason it's the big lever marked FUEL DUMP on the pylon of No 2 ENG easy to reach in an emergency.
Oh yes, no need to worry about bird strikes, it ran fine after the man strike!
Oh yes, no need to worry about bird strikes, it ran fine after the man strike!
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But you can't beat the logic of "Hey, there's a crashed aeroplane down there. Let's land on top of it and it's trail of burning wreckage as that's bound to be the safest place to be." Astounding deduction Holmes.
As for the manic grin from the approach director when he says "I think they've worked it out for themsleves.....listen". I still think Maclaine shot the wrong guy. Talk about criminally insane.
Love the 'emergency' door at the overwing exit on the 747 too. Swings open and shut like a normal door and fitted with a regular handle. Hilarious stuff. Dontcha just love Holywood.
As for the manic grin from the approach director when he says "I think they've worked it out for themsleves.....listen". I still think Maclaine shot the wrong guy. Talk about criminally insane.
Love the 'emergency' door at the overwing exit on the 747 too. Swings open and shut like a normal door and fitted with a regular handle. Hilarious stuff. Dontcha just love Holywood.
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For high inaccuracy you really need to see Turbulence. An amazingly bad film coupled with innacuracies that make Die Hard 2 look like a documentary.
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FP, you beat me to it. Especially the bit where the truck gets stuck on the landing gear, and Lauren Holly convinces the fighter pilot ordered to shoot her down to simply shoot the truck off. Priceless!!!
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Talking about long runways, there's a fight on a Learjet on its take-off roll in the film Face/Off - I seem to remember that making the runway about 30 miles long!
Don't know why the movie industry always seems to have to overdo anything to do with aviation, you could do plenty of spectacular stuff with jets without breaking all the laws of Newton!
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Don't know why the movie industry always seems to have to overdo anything to do with aviation, you could do plenty of spectacular stuff with jets without breaking all the laws of Newton!
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amazing stuff.....the Brit 'Windsor' flight that was supposedly flying on fumes erupted into an enormous conflagration!.......crew musta had a major curry is my guess! 
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Regarding Jet A I remember working in an engine shop where people smoked around drip trays containing fuel. But a fag end thrown into Jet A would be extinguished.
As for Die Hard. You can't criticise the faults because I think much of it was done tongue in cheek. They threw every cliche and a few new ones at the plot. The terrorists took over the radio but all anyone had to do was get into another aircraft and use the radio in that. The whole plot depended on the villain getting free on the four engined C123 (Why?) shooting the pilots and landing it himself. Why didn't he do it earlier and fly himself away? The whole way through the film is one implausible plot twist after another.
Right at the end of the movie when the 747 is in the hangar. Did anyone notice all the mechanics running around working amongst the terrorists. One ran across the shot rolling a wheel.
The fact it the movie was a complete romp. I thought 'Turbulence' was of the same ilk. It had elements of 'Airplane' in it deliberately I think.
As for Die Hard. You can't criticise the faults because I think much of it was done tongue in cheek. They threw every cliche and a few new ones at the plot. The terrorists took over the radio but all anyone had to do was get into another aircraft and use the radio in that. The whole plot depended on the villain getting free on the four engined C123 (Why?) shooting the pilots and landing it himself. Why didn't he do it earlier and fly himself away? The whole way through the film is one implausible plot twist after another.
Right at the end of the movie when the 747 is in the hangar. Did anyone notice all the mechanics running around working amongst the terrorists. One ran across the shot rolling a wheel.
The fact it the movie was a complete romp. I thought 'Turbulence' was of the same ilk. It had elements of 'Airplane' in it deliberately I think.
