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Skriven 2007-05-30 00:34:44 av Richard Fallstrom (1451.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: B5 actor sighting
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In article <465cfe75$0$16270$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net>, Mac Breck
<macthevorlon@yahoo.com> wrote:

> "chris" <pa28_181@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
> news:1180487544.221780.233890@q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
> > On May 30, 11:07 am, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > "chris" <pa28_...@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
> > >
> > > news:1180342915.816242.142990@o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com...> On
> May 3, 1:41 pm, Wesley Struebing <str...@carpedementem.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 03 May 2007 00:13:36 GMT, Amy Guskin
> > >
> > > <aisl...@fjordstone.com>
> > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > 2) They were talking about the guy having a "turboprop cessna",
> and
> > > > the next minute they're examining a Cessna 340.  That's no damn
> > > > turboprop!  They run a pair of turbocharged IO-540 Continentals,
> and
> > > > they have sure got pistons!  The pilot in me was screaming "Why
> can't
> > > > they get such simple details right?!?!?!?!?"
> > >
> > > > Arrgghh!!!!!!
> > >
> > > Much like in "Lethal Weapon" when they show an extreme closeup of
> the
> > > bullet Riggs (Mel Gibson) is planning to use to kill himself.  He
> says
> > > he has a special bullet for the job, one with a hollow point, to do
> the
> > > job right, and they show a closeup of him holding a FMJ  (full metal
> > > jacket, "ball ammo") bullet. Talk about blatant!  :rolleyes:  Would
> it
> > > be SO HARD to get it right?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mac Breck (KoshN)
> >
> > That's pretty sad really that they can't get stuff like that right!
> >
> > There are so many aviation gaffes in the movies it's hard to know
> > where to start.  One of my favourites is Terminator 3, where they are
> > flying a Cessna 172, and from the fastback shape it would have to be
> > an A or B model, which top out at probably 110 knots, maybe 115 if
> > you're lucky, and the plane on the movie was doing 160!
> 
> Still, that's a model difference, and is harder to spot and not as
> blatant as the bullet mentioned above, or the example below.
> 
> How about the MiGs in the movie "Top Gun" (and I don't mean the ones
> that simulated being MiGs in the Top Gun school) that are US F-5's?  I
> mean the MiGs that they encountered in their "real life" dog fights.
> http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-5.htm

Excuse me, but I seem to recall the aircraft used by "Jester" and the
other Top Gun aggressors in the movie was actually an A4 Skyhawk and
not an F5/T38.

Rick (sometimes is a GentleRF and sometimes is not)
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