Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu (Noah Cole) Subject: Re: Hysterical movie goof X-Submission-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 04:11:44 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Macalester College, St. Paul Minnesota USA Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <1992Dec14.041144.7723@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: 14 Dec 92 14:11:44 PST ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes: >I was just watching a movie on TV ("Gotcha"). One of the characters >flew to Paris, and there was the obligatory "airplane landing" shot to >establish that he "really flew" there... >...on an Air France Cargo 747. (The side titles very clearly had three >words, though the last was hard to read; however, the "under-nose" >titles indicated the 747 cargo variant with a nose door.) I think that it would be interesting to list all of the errors that TV and Film writers make in the airline/avation market. For example, on Dir Hard II many of the flights were not wide-bodied flights that came from the West VCoast etc.. Anyone else seen things like this in films? -MN, er Noah Cole -- Noah Cole "Outside is America, NCOLE@MACALSTR.EDU Macalester College and also the car park" ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu St. Paul, MN 55105 - Bono, 27 December 1989 cncole@coos.dartmouth.edu 612-696-7388 Dublin aj909@cleveland.freenet.edu