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Aircraft, air combat, aviation technology, pilot procedures and airport operations in general are often depicted incorrectly in media. As with many technical fields and sciences, this is usually only noticed by those who work in aviation in some capacity, or have an expressed interest and knowledge about it—but don't worry, most of them will tell you in long tirades exactly where that show got it wrong. Several factors conspire to vex aviation fans: Rule of Cool: In entertainment, as expected, realism takes a backseat to visuals and coolness. Cost and Availability of Aircraft: Sure, scoring a four-seat Cherokee or Cessna might be as easy as walking down to the nearest airfield and saying "Who wants to be in a movie?", but larger or older aircraft, especially World War II era, are expensive, rare, and require special care and insurance. Before the advent of CG, most movie makers resorted to modifying or painting more commonly-available training aircraft to play the part of warbirds in movies (see also Weapons Understudies). Availability can also be affected by the period during which the work was filmed—it's not like the Air Force was just gonna give you the keys to their high-altitude spy planes during the Cold War (The Soviets certainly weren't going to let you touch theirs). As such, many films rely heavily on Stock Footage. Viewers Are Morons: As previously stated, most people won't be able to tell the difference between different aircraft types, or don't care. The only commercial aircraft that anyone in the audience can reasonably be expected to recognize are the Concorde, the Boeing 747 and possibly the Airbus A380, which (especially in older films and shows) tend to go to glamorous faraway places; other commercial aircraft are relatively interchangeable, and more likely to be headed somewhere pedestrian. Most of the time, the number of engines, wing configuration, or manufacturer won't even have to match what the actors are calling it—what airplane was in the background shot is not something most viewers are going to question (or are going to care to question). Most of the times, they just don't care. This is more evident in illustrated or animated media. Finally, the most common offense committed towards aviation, like everything else, comes from not doing the research. Cable News, with their need to report on any incident or accident as quickly as possible for the first scoop, will invariably use information gleaned from the most misinformed and unreliable sources and witnesses. This "information" is of course then exaggerated and spun to grab the audience, resulting in reports of 600 dead from a 25-passenger commuter aircraft, or cameras following a plane with a damaged landing gear, in the hopes of catching a fireball barreling down the runway. Other examples come from doing half the research, and just shooting off aviation terms to sound technical. This trope is most certainly not limited to aviation—for the naval equivalent, see Artistic License – Ships, for railroading examples see Just Train Wrong, and for military vehicles and regular cars see Tanks, but No Tanks and Artistic License – Cars respectively. Commonly overlaps with Artistic Licence – Physics, as well. A subtrope is Every Helicopter Is a Huey. |
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Wonder Woman (1942): While the invisibility of Diana's "robot plane" can be handwaved as magitek the fact that it is propeller propelled and functions as a super fast and maneuverable Space Plane is less excusable. | |
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In The Tomorrow Series, the protagonists attack an enemy airbase at one point. The planes are described as being fabric-covered and having visible ribs after they've burned. This would be a bit out of date by 1940, but the novels are (implicitly) set 20 Minutes into the Future. | |
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Area 88 has a good number of mistakes. Simply in the first dogfight in the opening episode of the 2004 anime, we have Shin's F-8 Crusader engaging a flight of four Mig-17 fighters in a dogfight. The F-8, while reportedly a good combat aircraft, was more known for the strength of it's engine, not it's turning circle. Shin maneuvers with the enemy planes, which are not capable of supersonic fight and thus slower, in a turning battle. The Mig-17 did not have hydraulically boosted control surfaces, and the plane could not handle turning at high speed, thus Crusader pilots were instructed to keep their speed up when engaging them. Shin meanwhile is shown in close proximity and actively moving with them, enough so that the Migs are able to get weapons on him twice, though he managed to evade, and eventually downs three of them. Shin's F-8 is also depicted with the missiles on his aircraft mounted under the wings, while a Crusader typically carried it's air to air missiles on a Y-shaped pylon on the side of the fuselage, just behind the canopy. In a later episode we see Kim's AV-8B Harrier II take a direct missile strike from an enemy Mig-21, seemingly downing him. He pops up later in the fight in a hover, launching missiles from what he calls a 'makeshift SAM site'. Not only would this quickly bleed out his fuel(Harriers typically only had 90 seconds of hover time), but attempting to angle his plane upwards to the ridiculous degree (nearly standing the plane on it's tail) shown would quickly result in him crashing. Also that missile hit he took earlier in the dogfight was sufficient enough to knock out the radio and visibly injure the pilot, yet the aircraft remains airworthy and the cockpit controls intact. | |
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X-Men: The X-Men's modified Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird has an interior that — depending on the artist — looks as large as a fair-sized business jet, easily accommodating seats for five to ten X-Men. The real SR-71 is a two-seater, with most of the fuselage presumably given over to fuel tanks and electronics. The X-Men also routinely launch their Blackbird straight up like a rocket from a secret hanger under A SCHOOL in upstate New York. And the neighbours never seem to notice or complain to the FAA about the sonic booms. Later Blackbirds dispense with being based on the SR-71 and use extensive alien technology, allowing them to have whatever characteristics the plot needs without being quite as bad about this trope. | |
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TaleSpin's Sea Duck is a cargo plane that can outperform fighter jets. This is justified in the pilot arc, where Kit points out that Baloo has extensively customized the plane, but never again are Baloo's special modifications even mentioned. Indeed, one of those modifications, the Overdrive, burns out at the climax of the pilot film and is never replaced. Although the Sea Duck's performance is implausible for a large, twin-engined cargo seaplane, there are no actual fighter jets in the series to out-perform — the setting for the series seems to be the late 1930s, where jet engine technology is barely nascent. Baloo actually pilots the first jet engine known in the series' universe. Yes, jet engine — it wasn't attached to an aircraft yet. The Sea Duck is also insanely hardy — Baloo is well-known for the many times he's flown into the sea, and had to be fished out. Any non-gliding wings-level calm-sea alighting will usually result in the utter destruction of any airplane. Also on Baloo's bragging list is flying underwater, landing inside a volcano, taking off backwards, and landing on a nightmarishly impossible roller-coaster-like runway that makes even him nervous. The Sea Duck itself appears to be a Fairchild C-82 Packet transport (first flew 1944) combined with a Grumman HU-16 Albatross flying boat/amphibian (first flew 1949), with the livery of a Canadair CL-215 waterbomber (first flew 1967). |
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The DVD-exclusive Cars Toon "Moon Mater" mostly averts this where the space shuttle Captain Roger actually flies into space vertically like a real space shuttle, but plays this straight at the end of the short where he actually takes off on a runway. | |
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Looney Tunes: The 1943 Bugs Bunny cartoon "Falling Hare" has a few instances, most of them intentional for comedy, most notably the final gag where the plane's nosedive into an inevitable crash-landing comes to a sudden halt just feet away from impact, in complete defiance of gravity, because it ran out of fuel. On the other hand, there is the actual goof of an American airfield utilizing what appears to be a Heinkel He-111. The later 1952 cartoon "Hare Lift" has even more of this, with a giant plane doing all sorts of impossible things. Again, all quite intentional in service of Rule of Funny. |
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Warren Fahy's novel Fragment suggests that debris from Amelia Earhart's plane may have washed up on Henders Island, with the characters examining a life preserver labeled "Electra" and stating that was the name of Amelia's plane. In truth, the aircraft model was a Lockheed Electra 10E, and was never given a name beyond the registration number NR16020. | |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): While the invisibility of Diana's "robot plane" can be handwaved as magitek the fact that it is propeller propelled and functions as a super fast and maneuverable Space Plane is less excusable. The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): The framed nose glazing in B-17s is not just a simple round convex shape as depicted in the book, it's not even depicted with framing.note Not all B-17s had framing on their nose windows, however. See here. The window mods they're talking about are the side windows with the guns; the B-17F model started somewhere in the middle of production with the 'astrodome'. |
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Mortadelo y Filemón: One comic deals with the titular duo making tests on a plane designed by Professor Bacterio which, among other things, can completely stop in the air with the same sound a car makes when braking. It is somewhat of a Running Gag that Mortadelo can actually sink a plane into an airport's runway - while trying to lift off. And there are several instances of them being given planes slow enough that an old sparrow can go faster than them. | |
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The later 1952 cartoon "Hare Lift" has even more of this, with a giant plane doing all sorts of impossible things. Again, all quite intentional in service of Rule of Funny. | |
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Same with Jay Jay the Jet Plane, although the show is aimed at preschoolers who don't know a single thing about aeronautical logic. | |
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In Vividred Operation, the F-35 Lightning IIs shown are carrier launched, meaning they are the Navy C variant. However, they also appear to have an internal gun, which only the Air Force A variant has. They are also seen trying to attack ground targets with AMRAAMs rather than Harpoon missiles or laser guided bombs. Also, the military tries attacking ground targets with F-22 Raptors, despite the fact that F-22s are not designed for a ground attack role and can only carry GPS-guided bombs.note The F-22 thing is at least more excusable for the fact that the US Air Force has actually used F-22s in the ground attack role, albeit rarely. | |
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Klunk's plane inventions on Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines defy all aeronautical logic. | |
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Averted in an episode of Archer that takes place on a Zeppelin-like vehicle. Archer spends the entire episode convinced that the thing will go up in flames at the drop of a hat, even though everyone keeps telling him that it's using inert helium to float, instead of combustible hydrogen. | |
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In Explorers the helicopter has amazing fuel capacity. The kid's spaceship is flying when the drive-in is open - evening, between 9pm and 1am. Then a helicopter encounters it shortly after the drive-in. We next see the helicopter landing at the airport in broad daylight - presumably at the end of a shift, late enough in the morning that the newspapers have been published and are available. That's easy 7 hours of flight that evening - a long time for almost any kind of helicopter to be just tooling around in the sky. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "De Plane! De Plane!", P&F built a giant papier-mache plane, which takes off by... tilting upward and then immediately shooting up into the sky, without building up any speed first. They didn't even build a runway. | |
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The video for Sabaton's "Soldier of Heaven" depicts first a bright red triplane chasing the tail of a biplane of indeterminate manufacture over the World War I Italian Alpine battlefield where the band is performing, followed by a pair of World War II Bf 109s overflying it. The latter is probably Rule of Symbolism: the song lyrics note that the bodies of many Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers still lie where they fell because they couldn't be feasibly retrieved, and thus "saw" the next war fought over the same ground (although no significant fighting actually took place in that particular area in WWII because Austria was part of Italy's ally Germany). The former, though, is simply a misplaced Call-Back to "The Red Baron" from the previous album: the Germans weren't involved in the Alpine front and Manfred von Richthofen spent his whole flying career in France and Belgium, while the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops never operated any triplanes and painted their planes mostly in beige with bands of red, white, and red at the wingtips. Also, the triplane's wings are too long. | |
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The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): The framed nose glazing in B-17s is not just a simple round convex shape as depicted in the book, it's not even depicted with framing.note Not all B-17s had framing on their nose windows, however. See here. The window mods they're talking about are the side windows with the guns; the B-17F model started somewhere in the middle of production with the 'astrodome'. | |
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Transformers: Prime, meanwhile, has Agent Fowler, who is frequently seen flying around in a fighter jet in his business suit instead of the proper pilot's uniform which is necessary to protect the wearer from the g-forces and ensure they always have a healthy supply of oxygen. This does get explained in season 2 where it turns out the fighter jet was modified by Ratchet so he could fly without one, but this still doesn't explain where he was storing the DINGUS in Convoy. Even ignoring Airachnid getting an alt mode of an RAH-66 Comanche, which as mentioned above was cancelled with only two being built well over a decade before the show came out, she somehow gets it from scanning Fowler's helicopter - which, like every other helicopter in the show, is a Huey. |
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The 1943 Bugs Bunny cartoon "Falling Hare" has a few instances, most of them intentional for comedy, most notably the final gag where the plane's nosedive into an inevitable crash-landing comes to a sudden halt just feet away from impact, in complete defiance of gravity, because it ran out of fuel. On the other hand, there is the actual goof of an American airfield utilizing what appears to be a Heinkel He-111. | |
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Many media, such as Lost, depict people in passenger jets (in coach) getting up from the window seats sliding past the person in the aisle seat (with feet still on the ground), while the person in the aisle seat continues to sit. In contemporary passenger jets, there is nowhere near enough space for even the skinniest people to do that in coach. | |
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Superman: One issue had the hero flying escort for an American aircraft that was supposedly taking a captured political leader to stand trial. However, rather than the cargo/passenger plane of whatever size that might have been expected, the aircraft in question was a single-seat F-16. | |
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In the Animorphs book "The Deception", Ax (in a human morph) uses an F-14 fighter carrying a nuclear bomb to threaten the Yeerks. The F-14 isn't, and never was, capable of carrying nuclear weapons— it was developed as an interceptor, and it was only late in its career that it gained the ability to carry any bombs at all. An F/A-18 Hornet would be more realistic if they wanted a nuclear-capable naval fighter. | |
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BattleTech lacks an explanation for how some of its aircraft even manage to get airborne, let alone fly. For instance, the Leopard Drop Ship is known as "The Brick" and yet somehow manages to remain airborne as well as go from space travel to atmospheric travel with no modifications. It is a flying slab of aerodynamics violations◊, with a monstrously wide, thick nose, tiny engines, and even smaller lift surfaces—it apparently remains airborne through a combination of insanity and wishful thinking.note Battletech aerospace vehicles in general operate under the principle that it doesn't matter what shape you are as long as you've got engines that provide enough thrust. | |
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On the topic of Top Gun, it's a very common habit to depict aerial combat in modern times as close-quarters dogfights with opponents maneuvering around each other trying to get a missile lock or line up their gunsights for a burst of cannon fire, reminiscent of the aerial dogfights of World War I and II; in reality, air combat technology of today is specifically geared towards long range engagements, often at such ranges that you might not even see the enemy you're shooting at apart from a blip on your radar screen, and trying to get into close range engagements is exactly the last thing you would want to do, since often at those ranges it isn't even possible for your missiles to adequately lock on and maneuver. | |
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In William S. Lind's Victoria the Nothern Confederacy is easily able to locate and intercept stealth aircraft because they employ 1950s long-wave radar tech. If old radar could find stealth bombers, we would employ it alongside or incorporate it into modern sets. NC pilots are also easily able to defeat air-to-air missiles by flying in diamond or box formations, the missiles always pass harmlessly through the center. (In reality, the missile would either pick a target at random as it got close enough to tell them apart, or if the box was too tight for that, detonate its proximity fuse in the middle and turn the whole flight into so much shrapnel.) | |
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Private Eye: A possibly deliberate example: a "The Broonites" cartoon has Gordon Brown being packed off to Afghanistan in an English Electric Lightning as a passenger. The Lightning is long-retired and the one shown is a one-seater. This may well be a jibe at poor British military equipment. The Lightning was also a (very) short-range fighter. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: While there are plenty of spacecraft, dropships and SSTO airplanes (ahem Thunderhawk) that belong in the Artistic License – Physics category, the Imperial Navy's air fighters deserve a very honorable mention on this page. Most of them are modelled to resemble WWII propeller fighters but with jets instead of propellers, yet they supposedly can achieve speeds in excess of Mach 2. With leading edges a scale foot thick, real world aerodynamics would conspire to prevent this (though tough 40K materials in turn would conspire to prevent real life aerodynamics). Brute force can make anything fly, however it has rather greater trouble making anything turn: one doesn’t put the engine in the front in supersonic fighters, because that moves the center of weight fore of the center of pressure, and would make the fighter so stable in supersonic flight that no amount of control force would allow it to maneuver. Let's not even get started on the Orks, Chaos and Dark Eldar aircraft, especially since the latter two belong in the Artistic License – Physics category by working on magic and very advanced technology, indistinguishable from magic as per Clarks Law of Science Fiction. The only aircraft that could maybe achieve their stated performance, and that's a very big maybe, are the Eldar and Tau. If the Regimental Standard is to be believed, the Imperium does not even understand the concept of aerodynamics. |
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Transformers: Animated has Starscream, who is identified in dialogue as being a Harrier but at no point uses the trademark VTOL capabilities (even though as an alien he could hover in place as long as he wanted without having to worry about wasting fuel). He also has more in common with the Russian Su-47, and the fact Harrier production ended in 2003 means it is unlikely a Harrier resembling Starscream will ever be built. | |
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Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins had a little confusion about Air Force One in the Left Behind series. Protagonist Rayford Steele laments that he's been turned down as pilot of Air Force One, and someone mentions that he's applied for the job with each new president. The problem is, he's a commercial airline pilot. Air Force One is a military aircraft operated by the USAF and has always been piloted by, at lowest rank, a lieutenant colonel. The President himself also laments at one point having to give up Air Force One, as if the designation is for a specific aircraft - "Air Force One" actually applies to any Air Force craft currently carrying the President, rather than specifically referring to the VC-25s most commonly used for this purpose (of which there are two, anyway, so even giving up one would still leave him with another). "Air Force One" in the series is stated to be a brand new top of the line airplane, the 757. Except the Boeing 757 already exists in the real world, and has since 1982, thirteen years before the series started. It's clear the authors thought of the popular 747 and imagined one model later. In our world, the 757 is smaller than the 747, intended for medium range flights. That said, there is a 757 that sees regular use as Air Force One — it's called the VC-32 and it's used for short-distance flights to airports that can't handle a 747. |
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The Fungus was written in 1985 and is set 20 Minutes into the Future, but features a Tu-144, which was withdrawn from airline service in 1979. | |
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The Avengers: The Quinjets (presumably named for the five jet or rocket or ramscoop or Applied Phlebotinum engines in the rear) can get away with more, because they're not even marginally based on a real airframe. Nor, depending on the artist, even a consistent design from issue to issue. Like the X-Men's SR-71, the Quinjets can blast off from beneath Avengers Mansion in midtown Manhattan without disturbing the neighbours or shattering the glass of every skyscraper in a 20 block radius. According to Tony Stark in the The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes animated series, despite having the aerodynamic characteristics of a Keurig coffeemaker, they can fly at Mach 8, operate underwater (in the animated version they actually launch via an underwater launch tube that leads to the East River) and even fly in space. And, apparently, their Applied Phlebotinum engines never seem to need refueling. Maybe that's how the X-Men's SR-71 can hold so many people. And despite having the airframe equivalent of mutant superpowers, we're informed by the same Earth's Mightiest Heroes animated series that they only cost $20 million apiece, less than the $27 million sticker price of a Bombardier Q400 turboprop passenger plane. One would think $20 billion would've been more plausible, and Tony Stark could still afford it. | |
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South Park often falls into this trope such as showing a DC-9 and then having it be a twin aisle on the inside, but an egregious example comes in the episode "Fatbeard". Cartman plans to go to Somalia to become a pirate by flying Southwest to Miami, and the Dubai Air to Cairo. Problem is, Southwest doesn't serve Miami, and there is no such airline as "Dubai Air." The closest would be Emirates, who doesn't have a hub in Cairo, but rather Dubai...go figure. Also, no airline even flies Miami-Cairo. Based on a standard great circle routing, Miami is actually a very inconvenient connecting point for flights from the Middle East, since "up and over" towards the north pole is more direct. Once they get to the airport it continues. After talking about Southwest earlier, they check-in at the Alpha counter before showing a Southwest-painted 757 (a plane Southwest does not fly) with 5 across seating. A 757 (as well as a 737, which Southwest does fly) would have 6 across. |
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Also, the origin of the name "Flying Circus" and garish color scheme not just of Manfred von Richthofen's plane but all of the planes in the squadron, was due to a bit of rebellion against authority... an order had come down that aircraft should be camouflaged to disguise their shape/size/configuration etc. but did not specify colors nor that any attempt should be made to have them blend in with the sky or ground (depending on an enemy's vantage point). So as to follow the letter of the order without trying to "hide" the planes (which would be unchivalrous), the bright colors and wild patterns were applied, with no two planes being painted alike. Someone commented that they looked like a circus, and the name was born. The name "Circus" later came to be used by British pilots to refer to any German squadron — in the early Biggles stories, written by a World War I pilot, pilots talk of "so-and-so's circus" having moved in across the lines. | |
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Airplanes in Atlas Shrugged frequently take off without any pre-flight safety checks, in the manner of getaway cars. They are also have "steering wheels" and "tail lights." Story-wise, they are treated much like cars. | |
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The first chapter of In This World and the Next describes a jumbo jet flying at fifty thousand feet. This might be accepted as Artistic License, but still, 747s almost always fly between thirty and forty thousand feet and never above their service ceiling of 41,000. | |
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Played straight in most of Star Wars Legends but noticeably averted in the X-Wing Series. Rebel Alliance and New Republic fighters have significant advantages over Imperial TIE models in atmospheric combat because, being shaped relatively more like real-world aircraft, they're capable of aerodynamic maneuvering where TIEs very much are not. | |
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In Family Guy, we have Quagmire, an airline pilot. In the episode "Airport '07", Peter somehow manages to drive onto an airport ramp post-9/11, ride up to an airplane on the tarmac, detach the fuel hose from said plane, and somehow stick it in his truck. Must be a one-size-fits-all hose. And security must be pretty lax. And that truck must be a diesel truck to be able to run on Jet A. And nobody was manning the refueling truck until after Peter had used it to fuel his truck and leave. The plane later crashes after running out of fuel, and Quagmire, its pilot, loses his job, as if it's his fault that the refueling crew failed to keep an eye on their truck. He confronts Peter, admonishing "No Peter, it's perfectly normal to siphon jet fuel from an active runway with the intention of flying a pickup truck!". Also falls into this due to the "active runway" comment - an active runway is the runway currently in use. Runways aren't all in use at once, but are opened or closed on the basis of wind direction. The plane in the episode sounds like it was on a taxiway instead of a runway, as being on the runway itself is only allowed if you're about to take off, are landing, or quickly crossing it. Of course, Quagmire could have just been exaggerating when he said active runway. Or the writers thought "active runway" meant that the airport was in use, not out of commission, and not the runway itself. "Halloween on Spooner Street" has a Japanese Zero in an American airplane graveyard, which is not only gassed up and still fully-functional, but also has room to fit two extra people (possibly three, given Peter's girth) behind the pilot. It should be noted, however, that this situation was intentionally set up by Quagmire to pay Peter and Joe back for pranks they pulled on him earlier in the episode. The 2012 Christmas episode opened with a fake commercial making fun of Northwest Airlines, 4 years after Northwest ceased to exist after merging with Delta. "The Road To Germany" commits a significant history flub by showing Avro Lancaster bombers in RAF service in 1939. The Lancaster did not fly until 1941 and was not introduced into squadron service until the following year. The Short Stirling or the Avro Manchester (which was developed into the Lancaster, but had only two engines) would have been more appropriate if they wanted a large British bomber. |
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Aldnoah.Zero has an F-22 squadron scrambled in the second episode to attack a Vers Landing Castle. Considering this is a two-kilometer long spaceship/space station that has planted itself firmly in the ground, this is not exactly a job well-suited for the Raptor. In contrast, the same episode later shows a more accurate scenario for the F-22 when a second squadron engages a Vers aircraft transporting a Martian Kataphrakt. The F-22s in this scene initially engage at BVR (beyond visual range) by correctly launching missiles * Although it's still not as far as they would engage in real life, but we might be able to chalk this up to the fact that the Martians have disrupted Earth's communications and satellites and have a powerful ECM network from an internal missile bay. When the Martian craft closes in to "knife-fight" range with them, they use a starboard-mounted Vulcan cannon. The last F-22 that gets its left wing blown off even rolls toward the missing wing. | |
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In the episode of the French animated series Code Lyoko "Guided Missile", one of the protagonists wins a ride in the back seat of a jet fighter during a live-fire weapons demo in a contest. While this alone is improbable, it become even more cringe-worthy when the plane is revealed to be an F-18, a distinctly American craft which France has never used (and, if they can help it, likely never will; an indigenous Dassalt Mirage or Rafale would have made more sense). And then the show's villain takes command of it to try and kill the rest of the protagonists... with the plane's Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. | |
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Transformers: Transformers: Animated has Starscream, who is identified in dialogue as being a Harrier but at no point uses the trademark VTOL capabilities (even though as an alien he could hover in place as long as he wanted without having to worry about wasting fuel). He also has more in common with the Russian Su-47, and the fact Harrier production ended in 2003 means it is unlikely a Harrier resembling Starscream will ever be built. Transformers: Prime, meanwhile, has Agent Fowler, who is frequently seen flying around in a fighter jet in his business suit instead of the proper pilot's uniform which is necessary to protect the wearer from the g-forces and ensure they always have a healthy supply of oxygen. This does get explained in season 2 where it turns out the fighter jet was modified by Ratchet so he could fly without one, but this still doesn't explain where he was storing the DINGUS in Convoy. Even ignoring Airachnid getting an alt mode of an RAH-66 Comanche, which as mentioned above was cancelled with only two being built well over a decade before the show came out, she somehow gets it from scanning Fowler's helicopter - which, like every other helicopter in the show, is a Huey. |
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Weiss Schwarz ran an adnote An account for Nico Nico Douga is required for viewing on Japanese TV for a new and upcoming trading card pack for KanColle, a game featuring girls based off of ships of the Japanese navy during World War II. The ad begins with a fighter plane flying off into the sky, and out of all the planes that they could have chosen, they selected a P-51D Mustang, one of the most iconic fighter of the USAAF. They didn't even bother to change the paint job to look like a more appropriate Zero fighter! | |
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