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

poser765 said:
Ok this one really grinds my gears. In the movie Flight, when Denzel comes out of the flight deck and starts talking to the passengers over the PA (really tool thing to do by the way) the camera pans over and shows him using his thumb to pop off the lids of a couple of vodka minis.

BS! How the hell do you just casually pop the tops of those off with your thumbs? I've tried...it aint happening!
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Did you make sure you took your morning hit? Probably gives you super strength or something.
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From the movie "Contact"

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I can't remember the name of the movie. When I was new to the C-5, one of our Follow-on maintenance instructors put on this movie that had a C-5 in it. Granted, the C-5 is massive but the characters were crawling around in ducts that just don't exist on the thing. We had a few good laughs.
 
falconvalley said:
I can't remember the name of the movie. When I was new to the C-5, one of our Follow-on maintenance instructors put on this movie that had a C-5 in it. Granted, the C-5 is massive but the characters were crawling around in ducts that just don't exist on the thing. We had a few good laughs.
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I too remember a movie back in the days with a C-5 in it. I don't know if it was the same movie or not, but there were two F-117s, one black (of course) and the other was tan I believe. And the rear cargo door opens up and the two stealth free fall until the start the engines...I just can't remember the name or any of the actors.


Or how about, lol. Executive Decision...where the team was loaded up in a F-117 and connect to the airliner and enter it through a hatch/tubing...damn Hollywood, smh.
 
falconvalley said:
I can't remember the name of the movie. When I was new to the C-5, one of our Follow-on maintenance instructors put on this movie that had a C-5 in it. Granted, the C-5 is massive but the characters were crawling around in ducts that just don't exist on the thing. We had a few good laughs.
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osen325 said:
I too remember a movie back in the days with a C-5 in it. I don't know if it was the same movie or not, but there were two F-117s, one black (of course) and the other was tan I believe. And the rear cargo door opens up and the two stealth free fall until the start the engines...I just can't remember the name or any of the actors..
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It's called "Interceptor" from 1992. We had to watch it in F-117 training because it had that as the cargo.

Jurgen Prochnow was the villain in it.

The best part was the bad guys crawling down the boom of the KC-10 and into the C-5 through the air refueling door.
 
Most flying movies use a military tech advisor to help keep it realistic. When they were filming one of the Iron Eagle movies at my airport in TUS an actor dressed as a captain in AF blues walked by me with the captain bars pinned 90 degrees off. I brought it to his attention but he did not seem to care. Of course his hair and moustache were way out of limits as well.
 
Springer said:
Most flying movies use a military tech advisor to help keep it realistic. When they were filming one of the Iron Eagle movies at my airport in TUS an actor dressed as a captain in AF blues walked by me with the captain bars pinned 90 degrees off. I brought it to his attention but he did not seem to care. Of course his hair and moustache were way out of limits as well.
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Supposedly, and I don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard that military uniforms in movies are required to have something "incorrect" on them so they're not something like false wear of uniform. Might be an urban legend.
 
Just watched Top Gun and realized (aside from many other things), they have the fastest rescue helicopter ever. At the end, they are 180 miles out when they launch for the rescue. Final battle ensues, jets get back to the boat after the dog fight goes from 180 to 110 miles out and land. Shortly after, as they are climbing down from their jets, the helicopter lands.
 
Anytime there's a cabin shot, the plane hits turbulence and the lights flicker.

/thread
 
Matt13C said:
Just watched Top Gun and realized (aside from many other things), they have the fastest rescue helicopter ever. At the end, they are 180 miles out when they launch for the rescue. Final battle ensues, jets get back to the boat after the dog fight goes from 180 to 110 miles out and land. Shortly after, as they are climbing down from their jets, the helicopter lands.
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I just love how the Navy had no other pilots out in or near the Indian ocean to fly the mission. So they had to draft guys fresh out of Top Gun in San Diego to fly the mission.
 
MikeD said:
Supposedly, and I don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard that military uniforms in movies are required to have something "incorrect" on them so they're not something like false wear of uniform. Might be an urban legend.
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Yeah, I heard the same thing, and have looked for it in vain in many movies. Re: previous, I will say that when I was promoted to LT (Capt/railroad tracks equivalent in the USN), I had a local Vietnamese shop do my flight suits. Picked them up on the day of my promotion, and I had a big sigh when I realized that the shoulder insignia were in fact 90 deg off. Left them there to get fixed, did an airborne promotion which allowed me to fly in my LTJG flight suit, and then wore khakis for the rest of the day with my new rank. I then had some fun with it and wore choker whites with the correct shoulder boards around the office for the next couple days when not flying.....
 
MikeD said:
It's called "Interceptor" from 1992. We had to watch it in F-117 training because it had that as the cargo.

Jurgen Prochnow was the villain in it.

The best part was the bad guys crawling down the boom of the KC-10 and into the C-5 through the air refueling door.
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YES LOL!
 
MikeD said:
The best part was the bad guys crawling down the boom of the KC-10 and into the C-5 through the air refueling door.
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I can see it now: "Hey. It's too dark to see in here. Let's light a match."

Sorry. It's the writer in me. It had to come out.
 
falconvalley said:
I can't remember the name of the movie. When I was new to the C-5, one of our Follow-on maintenance instructors put on this movie that had a C-5 in it. Granted, the C-5 is massive but the characters were crawling around in ducts that just don't exist on the thing. We had a few good laughs.
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It's called interceptor and don't you dare say anything negative about that excellent documentary
 
United 93 was probably the most realistic because they actually used a real 757 to film in. However, they screwed up when they showed a UA A320 climbing out of EWR instead of a 757. Most people dont pay attention to the details during aviation portions of movies anyway.
 
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