Biggest Aviation-related Technical Blunders in a Movie etc?

[rwdfresno]

Well, the Indiana Jones/Crystal Skull movie was released in 2008, so it was probably filmed in 2007. Jimmy Buffett didn't buy N48550 from Larry Teufel until September 2009 - although he had been leasing it periodically before that. As a homage to Jimmy Buffett, I think that's a bit of a stretch and an inside "joke" that not too many people would get.

Yeah, it would be interesting to know what it was. The AN-2 was from Alaska and the N number has its' origins in Alaska, which is also an interesting parallel. I can gaurantee that there is symbolizm of some sort behind the N number.

You can find the aircraft in its' non-movie markings on www.an2flyers.com/galleryf.htm N87AN

Ryan

[Scott Rose]

In Blue Thunder (mentioned in that fictional pilot thread as well) I also can't help but feeling that the "Whisper Mode" that makes the helicopter too quiet to detect even when it is hovering right outside of your office window or right over the edge of the bridge that you're standing on just has to be complete bullshirt, too! You can put a "muffler" on a piston engine, but rotor blades are going to beat the air (into submission) regardless of any little button in the cockpit, don't you agree?

I used to think that, but I guess that is no longer true, Eurocopter has something called Blue Edge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBS1NRsY ... r_embedded

[Rajay]

That's pretty cool, Scott, but you have to agree (IMHO) that it neither existed in 1986 nor is it activated by a "little button in the cockpit", right?

I gotta wonder if the angled leading edge of the Blue Edge blades makes them stiffer and therefore makes the whole helicopter more maneuverable, too. Unintended but beneficial side-effects are nice!

Quite a while ago, I think it was in FLYING magazine, I saw an article about the "new" Lear 31A (I think that was the one) with its "new" ventral delta fins and there were some details about the new "sharks tooth" leading edge devices that they came up with after first trying traditional fences, saw-tooth leading edge notches, etc. The comment that really stuck with me was that they didn't know why in particular the "sharks tooth" LED's worked so well (compared to the other devices) and they summarized it by saying that "aerodynamics" is STILL pretty much a form of "black magic."

[the330thbg]

Jack Cook said "Midway"

I nearly got thrown out of the theater for yelling "No Way" when the Panther appeared.

LMFAO!!.., I did the same THING!!!!! WTF????

[Jerry O'Neill]

There's a lot of inside jokes in films. The registration on the Waco float plane in Raiders of the Lost Ark is C-3PO!
Jerry

[the330thbg]

For a good old animated aviation theme, try Heavy Metal's annimation...where a B-17F crew gets turned into zombies! They get some things right and others...well...I'll let you be the judge! Fun in a weird sort of way!
http://www.videosift.com/video/B-17-Sca ... -The-Movie

That is an AWESOME movie.., at least it was when I was 13!.., still love the music!!

[Holedigger]

Heavy Metal! My 11 yr old caught me watching that so I had to back it up so he could watch the whole thing...even he went.hey wait a minute!!! Having crawled through Ol 909 a few weeks ago, he was a little confused by the movie's interior layout, crew positions and the size of the ball turret! (room for two men...well, one man and a zombie, to have a fight!!!!) He kept saying "wait a minute"! Back it up, play it again....

[mustangdriver]

I am sure that there is stuff that they got wrong, but I always thought that Flight of the Intruder did a pretty good job. They atleast did some homework rather than just slap something together as some of the other aviation films of that time period did.

[rreis]

Well.. did anyone seen the air operation in "Battle Taxi" ?

[Pogmusic]

Speaking of "Space" movies, why is it that the spaceships burn when hit or flame comes out of explosions? I thought space was a vaccum?

[Warbird Kid]

Speaking of "Space" movies, why is it that the spaceships burn when hit or flame comes out of explosions? I thought space was a vaccum?

Or the fact that you hear explosions in space at all. Of course if you didn't hear them, it wouldnt be a very exciting movie now would it?

[Rajay]

Speaking of "Space" movies, why is it that the spaceships burn when hit or flame comes out of explosions? I thought space was a vacuum?

Probably the same way that rocket motors work in space - they carry their own oxidizer. When ruptured, they vent their internal atmosphere which feeds the flames. Besides, if I remember my freshman Astronomy class correctly, "space" is not a perfect or absolute vacuum; the pressure is just very very VERY low.

[ZRX61]

There's a lot of inside jokes in films. The registration on the Waco float plane in Raiders of the Lost Ark is C-3PO!
Jerry

In one of the movies where he is running for the door behind that big gong the name of the place is ObiWans

[tom d. friedman]

There's a lot of inside jokes in films. The registration on the Waco float plane in Raiders of the Lost Ark is C-3PO!
Jerry

interesting bit of trivia!!

[John Dupre]

I don't remember the name of the movie, it might have been a James Bond film or Navy Seals film, but how about the HALO jumps out of the back of a C-130 where only the jumpers are on oxygen?