What Ifs For The Big Screen Or Even The Small Scre

[Iranian F-14A]

A Couple i can think of off the top of my head:

In "Rules of Engagement" theres a shot of USMC Sea Knights and SeaCobras lifting off a helicopter carrier.The next shot,after they crossed the coast,they are now gray Chinooks and Army Cobras.


The Skiorsky S-62 Hind in Red Scorpion.

The "Russian" F-4E Phantoms and Kfirs of the Iron Eagle films.Oh,and the ARES that played the Me-263 in Iron Eagle:Aces.I also read that the Me-109 for that film was really a P-51B and the "Zero" was one of the T-6s from "Tora Tora Tora".

In the Bond film "The Living Daylights" there is a C-130 and a C-123 that keep switching back and forth representing a Soviet transport,which I assume they were going for an An-12 Cub.

In the movie "Outbreak",you have a C-123 playing somesort of US bomber on a mission to destroy the infected town.This must be ultra secret follow on to the B-2.

[Sisko]

It actually baffles me as to why the Panzerleid has been edited for recent screenings of the movie.  I have the full lyrics in both German and English, and I'm still wondering how the song can be offensive?  No doubt if it was a movie about the Vietnam War from a North Vietnamese perspective, anti-US slogans and songs would be acceptable?  It's quite like the whole Hakenkreuz (or Swastika if you prefer) issue in the EU.  I mean the symbol was being used way before Adolf and the boys decided on it as their 'thing', and now they won't produce a plastic kit with appropriate decals for fear of what?

Mav

You won't find many people in Europe willing to champion the lifting of the ban on the Hakenkreuz.  

Funny story about the swastika. I was in Wolloongong with a German colleague and we were driving down the road when a biker went past us on a harley. He was from the Fourth Reich motorcycle club and his patch was a giant swastika.  Needless to say my German guest was speechless  

Back to the topic at hand

Didn't ID4 have Hornets in Isreali markings?

[dy031101]

In the movie "Outbreak",you have a C-123 playing somesort of US bomber on a mission to destroy the infected town.This must be ultra secret follow on to the B-2.

Only transport planes can deploy large conventional bombs (Daisy Cutters, MOAB, and the likes) because they are far too large to be carried by any existing fighter or bomber.

[dragon]

Didn't ID4 have Hornets in Isreali markings?

If I remember correctly, they even had an F-18 in USAF markings for "the President" to ride in.

[famvburg]

A couple more used the Puma/Hind namely Rambo 3 & Red Scorpion.  

An interesting note using the F-5 as a "MG-28" in "Top Gun" was the failure of the producers or their technical advisers to realise that Soviet fighters are given odd number designators for fighters, so in reality the MiG-28 if it existed would be a strike type aircraft.  But that's just me being a JMN movie wise.

Mav

   I think "Red Scorpion" used a Sikorsky S-61 & I don't count the Pumas in "Rambo 3" as the same level as the "Red Dawn" Hinds as they didn't bother to put on the Hind nose. Regarding Sikorsky S-61s, ISTR in an older Wings or Airpower magazine a photo of an USMC SH-3 painted field green with red stars & used as a Hind during excercises.  

[famvburg]

A couple more used the Puma/Hind namely Rambo 3 & Red Scorpion.  

An interesting note using the F-5 as a "MG-28" in "Top Gun" was the failure of the producers or their technical advisers to realise that Soviet fighters are given odd number designators for fighters, so in reality the MiG-28 if it existed would be a strike type aircraft.  But that's just me being a JMN movie wise.

Mav

  I always figured the MiG-28 fighter was as much so as the Su-25 strike a/c is a fighter!  

[ysi_maniac]

Well, let's see, on the armor side, you've got T-34s done up as Tigers for "Kelly's Heroes".  On the aircraft side, ISTR that there were some T-6s done as either Fokker D-21s or P-47s for a Dutch movie, "Soldier of Orange".

Texan as flying Zeroes in Battle of Midway.

[Shasper]

Try seeing AD-4s in the background in "The longest day"

Shas B)

[fallenphoenix]

just remembered another one, the Mi-17 (Puma?) in "Behind Enemy Lines"

[Mossie]

I think the F-16 in ID4 was suppost to be a Eurofighter, I think

Shas B)

Maybe Shas, although I think they just wanted an aircraft that didn't look like the Hornets in the movie.  If you look closely at one of the RAF pilots, he has a Tornado patch on his shoulder.  Go with the rest of the film, I don't think they were the slightest bit concerned about any level of plausibility!

I actually enjoyed that movie as I didn't have to think too hard for the two hours or so & on the big screen the special effects were impressive.  Tons of flaws in the film, but if you took it for what it was it was more than bearable.  Not so much on my home TV when a mate brought it around after it's video release!

[Mossie]

In the Bond film "The Living Daylights" there is a C-130 and a C-123 that keep switching back and forth representing a Soviet transport,which I assume they were going for an An-12 Cub.

Talking of films that you don't have to think too much about, wasn't there a C-130 that was portrayed as some kind of Soviet type from a Middle East Nation in Die Hard 2?  The one that McClane blows up, then punches out of in a bang seat???  Not a plane exactly, but I remember that Colm Meaney (Cheif O'Brien in Star Trek TNG & DS9) was a pilot of ficticous airline 'Windor Airways' as well, with a dodgy English accent.

And it looks like there's a fair bit of aviation action in the new Die Hard 4: Live free or Die Hard, including an F-22 flown through overpasses (& of course, blown up) by McClane!  Yippee-ki-yay Mother F****r!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfRb-sWuDk

[B777LR]

And it looks like there's a fair bit of aviation action in the new Die Hard 4: Live free or Die Hard, including an F-22 flown through overpasses (& of course, blown up) by McClane!  Yippee-ki-yay Mother F****r!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfRb-sWuDk

Simon, its a F-35B, not F-22...


A DC-3/C-47 could be used as a stand in in a film about the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse  You know, acting as Betty torpedo bombers

[RP1]

I think the C-130 in Die Hard was a 4 jet machine, that looked a bit like one of the YC STOL demonstrators.

"The Day After Tomorrow" - CH-53s instead of EH-101s (And CG CH-53s at that - better special effects won't change anything, trust me.)

"Godzilla" - single seat AH-64s with fixed guns either side of the cockpit (or so it seems in the film).

RP1

[B777LR]

How could we forget Rambo? Puma acting as Hind!

[Mossie]

And it looks like there's a fair bit of aviation action in the new Die Hard 4: Live free or Die Hard, including an F-22 flown through overpasses (& of course, blown up) by McClane!  Yippee-ki-yay Mother F****r!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfRb-sWuDk

Simon, its a F-35B, not F-22...


A DC-3/C-47 could be used as a stand in in a film about the sinking of the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse  You know, acting as Betty torpedo bombers

In my defence I had to work it out from about a second & half of footage!