Aviation movie foul ups and tech errors.....

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Continued from another thread so as not to sidetrack the subject there........and because its a fun and entertaining subject!

5Right_5Left said:
Would an airplane "running on fumes" explode in such an enormous fashion and continue burning afterwards? I like playing this game, shall we do Iron Eagle next?
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jynxyjoe said:
What is a Hades Bomb, what is "it" we're not going to take...anymore, and why doesn't he just bluetooth the music to his headphones?
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Not to mention firing an AGM-65 Maverick on the ground, as well as it actually hitting a target after having been done so. Not to mention his F-16 with a weapons loadout showing when on the ground, yet clean as a whistle when shown airborne.

The typical "non-descript, unnamed middle eastern nation" and it's evil pilots and soldiers.....who even drive through fire in motorcycle sidecars for some weird tactical reason, and are always in Class A uniform of some kind..

F-16 with the BA tailcode, a Wing that never flew F-16s.....nor any desert camo F-16s in the USAF. Only camo ones besides grey, were the Euro I green A-16s from the early 1990s.

And in the end "we have orders to escort you to Ramstein AB, Germany" From the middle east?? Quite the flight, even if he did have external tanks. There are no closer installations in any number of countries?

 
MikeD said:
Continued from another thread so as not to sidetrack the subject there........and because its a fun and entertaining subject!




Not to mention firing an AGM-65 Maverick on the ground, as well as it actually hitting a target after having been done so. Not to mention his F-16 with a weapons loadout showing when on the ground, yet clean as a whistle when shown airborne.

The typical "non-descript, unnamed middle eastern nation" and it's evil pilots and soldiers.....who even drive through fire in motorcycle sidecars for some weird tactical reason, and are always in Class A uniform of some kind..

F-16 with the BA tailcode, a Wing that never flew F-16s.....nor any desert camo F-16s in the USAF. Only camo ones besides grey, were the Euro I green A-16s from the early 1990s.

And in the end "we have orders to escort you to Ramstein AB, Germany" From the middle east?? Quite the flight, even if he did have external tanks. There are no closer installations in any number of countries?

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Not sure if you know the back story, but the F-16s used were Israeli. Seems the USAF didn't like the idea of a movie about someone stealing one of their jets.
 
I had one or two technical issues with this movie...

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Played "Behind Enemy Lines" for the ready room while I was on duty a while back (as the evening "roll em"). Lot's of laughs had in this category. A couple good ones from the first 10 mins:

- Sitting an alert 5/7, they get called away, start the jet up and immediately have a dual bleed warning and shut down. They comment that it was the 3rd time that had happened that day. Dual bleed warning is/would be a huge downer and that jet would definitely not be standing an alert after even one instance that day.

- As they take tension on the cat, they do a lights test illuminating all the warning lights/advisory lights, and then they go ahead and flip the gaurded switch and throw the flight controls into "gain override". Nauga knows the beeps and squeaks behind that, but suffice to say that it is a degraded flight control mode designed for use in the event of loss of AoA data and/or air data computer info.
 
Adler said:
What about an AC130 with a 727 cockpit?
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About six years ago, some folks in Kansas created a Reagan-era Air Force One on wheels, and would rent it for public appearances. They cut off the wings, back part of the fuselage and mounted trailer wheels on the remains of the belly. Fun to see tooling down the interstate.

When you came through the front entrance and looked into the cockpit - yup - only three throttles.

Congressional cutbacks?
 
///AMG said:
Played "Behind Enemy Lines" for the ready room while I was on duty a while back (as the evening "roll em"). Lot's of laughs had in this category. A couple good ones from the first 10 mins:

- Sitting an alert 5/7, they get called away, start the jet up and immediately have a dual bleed warning and shut down. They comment that it was the 3rd time that had happened that day. Dual bleed warning is/would be a huge downer and that jet would definitely not be standing an alert after even one instance that day.

- As they take tension on the cat, they do a lights test illuminating all the warning lights/advisory lights, and then they go ahead and flip the gaurded switch and throw the flight controls into "gain override". Nauga knows the beeps and squeaks behind that, but suffice to say that it is a degraded flight control mode designed for use in the event of loss of AoA data and/or air data computer info.
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Nothing about the 15 minute SAM threat reaction?
 
What about the "soviet" C130 in The Living Daylights? Or should we flat out ignore all James Bond movies?
 
///AMG said:
Played "Behind Enemy Lines" for the ready room while I was on duty a while back (as the evening "roll em"). Lot's of laughs had in this category. A couple good ones from the first 10 mins:

- Sitting an alert 5/7, they get called away, start the jet up and immediately have a dual bleed warning and shut down. They comment that it was the 3rd time that had happened that day. Dual bleed warning is/would be a huge downer and that jet would definitely not be standing an alert after even one instance that day.

- As they take tension on the cat, they do a lights test illuminating all the warning lights/advisory lights, and then they go ahead and flip the gaurded switch and throw the flight controls into "gain override". Nauga knows the beeps and squeaks behind that, but suffice to say that it is a degraded flight control mode designed for use in the event of loss of AoA data and/or air data computer info.
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What? No MIDS / JTRS reboot with Bus Transfer on the CSC? Must not be a Rhino :)
 
While I hate to bash one of my favorite movies, the scene in "Air America" where RDJ's porter has been sabotaged and is running out of fuel and they dubbed in a piston popping and backfiring has always bugged me.
 
Obviously on purpose, but in Airplane where they show the outside shot of the jet flying through the storm, whilst making prop noises, has always gotten to me.
 
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I don't know if it's already been said, but I hate, hate, hate. When you're watchign a movie. And they show say a 767 as the plane that the characters are flying on. Then later they show stock footage of a 747, landing or something. Hate it...
 
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