10 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About Aviation

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I love it when in action movies, the commando or Seal team is being transported to their destination in a C130. They are shown talking normally in the cargo area. Generally if you are flying back there, you have ear protection on. The cargo area doesn't have insulation to deaden the noise.

gtracer
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what I love is when they take off in one aircraft type and land another.

blankseventydrei
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

daveowen
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You missed that, in real life, airlines do not employ two extra members of staff to wind the scenery past the windows.

R.a.t.t.y
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+ Every time an airplane dives or falls or just drops a little altitude, the Stuka siren sounds play. That loud wailing when an aircraft (especially a fighter-bomber) dives is now associated with every kind of aircraft diving or falling, but in real life it was a specific device used by one specific fighter-bomber (the German WW2 Stuka), which deliberately played that sound when attacking ground targets to lower enemy morale.

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One thing that never stops bugging you once you notice its prevalence: pilots not leading their targets in dogfights!
Take Dunkirk for instance. The Spitfire vs. Bf 109 dogfights are superbly done, but when firing on the 109s while in a turn, the Spitfire pilots always line their sights _directly on_ the enemy plane. Sure, it can be counted as dramatic license, but in reality every bullet of those bursts would have missed by a quite large margin.

MosoKaiser
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The one that always gets me is how so many films completely forget that G-force is a thing. Independence day, I'm looking at you! 😅

rockstarJDP
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You could start a new channel called "what Hollywood gets wrong" and have enough content for a long while to come.

choughed
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What! Hollywood gets it wrong! Oh, the horror!
Do one on Hollywood explosions versus real explosions.
Useless trivia:
- The movie "Airplane" has some hilarious, intentional mismatches, such as (spoiler alert) a jet airplane with propeller engine noises.
- In the movie "The Spirit of St Louis" (1957), the flying scenes very accurate. The star, James Stewart, was a pilot and Colonel in the USAF reserves at the time. (Stewart flew B-24 bombers in Europe in WWII and later flew both B-47 and B-52 bombers as an Air Force Reserve pilot. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1959.)

pmgn
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A more fitting line would have been "Wonder Woman 1984 was a plane crash of a movie" Think Tenerife.

bernardoconnor
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TopTenz posts an aviation video, *Wendover appears*.

Ichsukatanuka
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That last one is like the subway station in Warriors. No one who lived in New York watched that transition and didn't go "THAT'S NOT THE SAME STATION!"

johngerity
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Simon. Real quick. If a jet liner loses and engine, rarely will they go to their destination. Generally they'll find the nearest airport and land there.i know you like your videos to be near perfect. Love your stuff though. Subscribed to all

ericnelson
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I suspended my disbelief many years ago after watching old time westerns where during the big gun fight the actors would shoot their six shooters a hundred times and never reload. No recoil, either. I’m a truck driver and I see the same silliness when ever anything to do with a truck is shown, and that goes for a certain reality tv show, also. But oh well, it’s just entertainment. Take it for what it is.

oldman
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I have ALWAYS had a fear of flying. It doesn't stop me from seeing family or going on vacaction but it IS something I dont... like... doing. This has honestly helped. Thanks Simon.

turtal
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What bugs me most about Die Hard 2 is when the terrorists hack into the ILS and somehow move the "source" of the radio signals to another location causing the planes to crash land. Short of actually moving the antenna, that's not possible. Plus if a pilot does not get a visual of the runway at a sufficient altitude, they will typically go around or divert to an alternate airport using that extra fuel they are legally required to carry.
But Die Hard is still a Christmas movie, even if they get the aviation part wrong. Allegedly

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I have a documentary on lightning [well, I have several] that shows the lengths testing goes; before any new aircraft design is approved, there are stringent checks on the integrity of the fuel tanks and whether an induced electrical discharge can ignite the fuel. They use a very fine metallic mesh under the aircraft's skin to divert any lightning strikes away.
ps: lol the film Airplane! uses propeller engine noises on a jet plane, but I rather thank that that was done on purpose.

franl
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Top10 has become the new gateway drug to Simon's other channels and I'm here for it.

zachfishman
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I love your what Hollywood got wrong videos. I'm a truck driver and would love to see a video about what Hollywood gets wrong about trucks. My biggest bet P is what happens when you cut the breaks lines on a truck. Every movie I have seen the truck looses it's breaks when that happens. The opposite is what happens in the real world. The breaks lock up.

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An airline hostess was sucked out of a plane going to Hawaii when a 10 foot (3m) section of the fuselage peeled away (at 30, 000 feet) Everyone seated stayed in and the plane landed safely.

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