Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) Subject: Re: Hysterical movie goof X-Submission-Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:33:23 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Chicago Software Works X-Submission-Message-ID: <1992Dec15.073323.297@ohare.Chicago.COM> Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Date: 15 Dec 92 00:13:28 PST In article ncole@nyx.cs.du.edu (Noah Cole) writes: >I think that it would be interesting to list all of the errors that >TV and Film writers make in the airline/avation market. I agree. But TV and film is a bit far afield from airliners; perhaps rec.arts.movies would be a better place. If someone compiles a list I'll consider it as for sci.aeronautics.airliners. One bit of film goof trivia that perhaps *is* directly relavnt to airliners is in United's safety video. As has been mentioned else- where on Usenet, the shot of folks sliding down the emergency slides in the DC-10 version depicts a 747, as can be identified by the doors and the fact that they open out to the side, not inside and up. The 757 appears to use the same shot (awfully high up and it doesn't look like a narrow-body aircraft). One question I've had about this film, besides where they could find a flight attendent or model who could smile so continuously, is what type of aircraft the opener of the cockpit was taken on. I always manage to think about it when the scene is almost over. >For example, on Dir Hard II many of the flights were not wide-bodied >flights that came from the West VCoast etc.. Are you suggesting that all flights from the West Coast are wide bodies? That's hardly the case, of course. -- Karl Swartz |INet kls@ditka.chicago.com 1-415/854-3409 |UUCP uunet!decwrl!ditka!kls |Snail 2144 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park CA 94025, USA Send sci.aeronautics.airliners submissions to airliners@chicago.com