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Midair Repair
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Our heroes are in an aircraft, falling. Perhaps they've been shot down, or maybe their vehicle didn't work in the first place. No need to worry, though. Someone (usually the Gadgeteer Genius or Mad Scientist of the cast) will get everything back into working order. In mid-air. Before hitting the ground. This can be as simple as flipping some switches (Anakin pulled this one off with his podracer) or climbing out and cranking the engine until it restarts. Of course, there's also the option of rebuilding the engine in midair. Depending on how fast you're falling when you finally pull out of the dive, you might be acting under the assumption that it's Not the Fall That Kills You…. Strangely, this can be Truth in Television - the pilots and crew of early cargo planes learned that certain maintenance operations could be conducted without landing if you had Suicidal Overconfidence in your grip and no fear of heights. Long-distance bombers in WWII damaged during bombing runs also had a choice between attempting this trope, or one of two other options. |
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In The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, the title character jump-starts his ship while it's falling toward the ground. | |
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PAW Patrol: Rocky can do this using his tools while using his Jetpack. | |
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In one episode of TaleSpin, Baloo ends up in an escalating business feud with Louie. Rebecca came up with a plan to help increase business by making Baloo start the world's first mid-air refueling service. This caused traditional travel stops like Louie's to go out of business, so Louie countered by starting his own company using his army of monkeys to provide the mid-air equivalent of a full service station. Rebecca countered that by having Wild Cat start going up with Baloo so that he could fix planes in mid-air. | |
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The Expanse. In "Doors and Corners", Amos has to unstrap himself from his chair and go repair a broken thruster fuel line during a space battle. Even his magnetic boots aren't enough to stop him being thrown about during an emergency high-G maneuver. | |
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Mother of Learning: The engines on the Pearl of Aranhal are damaged during takeoff, and another airship is pursuing, so Zorian sends a magical copy of himself to start repairs. It helps that the simulacrum is in no real danger; if it falls and 'dies', Zorian can just make another. | |
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The trope name is basically the job description for "astromech" droids such as R2 units. The page image is from The Phantom Menace, featuring R2-D2 (with several others, which were all destroyed) fixing Padme Amidala's escape ship midflight while she's trying to run the Naboo blockade. | |
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Happens in Meet the Robinsons - the main character fixes his plane/time machine in midair by... er, rerouting some cables in the Jeffries tubes or something. | |
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In Air Gear, tuner (read: Wrench Wench) Kururu Sumeragi rebuilds main character Ikki's titular Cool Rollerblades. Rather than being with him when starting the fall, she jumps off a building to tackle him as he falls, and proceeds to dismantle and rebuild the mass of tiny parts. | |
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The Island at the Top of the World: After the Hyperion breaks a propeller, Captain Brieux clambers out on to the metal truss holding the engine in order to replace it, as the airship is floating over the open ocean. | |
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Parodied in Hot Shots! when Topper's dad tried to make repairs to his fighter as it was crashing. This included everything from stapling sheet metal onto the nose to holding the wing on by hooking his feet to the fuselage. | |
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Donald Duck: In the shorts "The Flying Jalopy" and "The Plastics Inventor", Donald flies Alleged Planes that he has to put back together as they try to fall apart around him mid-air, although the specific circumstances change (in "Flying Jalopy" a Honest John's Dealership sold it to him as an Insurance Fraud scheme and Donald even ends up having to fight the Vile Vulture salesman when he tries to finish the job, while in "The Plastics Inventor" Donald followed the instructions of a radio program to make the plane and the instructor just happened to not mention that the plastic would dissolve when wet until Donald was in the middle of a storm). | |
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DuckTales (1987): As quoted above, the eponymous dirigible in "The Uncrashable Hindentanic" develops an in-flight mechanical fault. Scrooge's question leads to a Gilligan Cut of Launchpad agreeing to go out there and fix the propeller. | |
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LEGO Star Wars: Revenge Of The Brick has a lot of this, considering it's LEGO. Anakin even manages to make an entire biplane, then a starfighter, while floating in space! | |
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A core game mechanic in Bomber Crew is choosing which of your various brave, foolhardy crew will have to climb out onto the wing of your damaged bomber to repair a damaged engine or rush to extinguish a fire in the ammunition locker before you're all blown up. On top of that, there is a very real risk of your crewman saving the plane but dying from exposure, enemy gunfire, exploding equipment/ammo, or simply being swept off the wing and into the night. | |
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Stargate SG-1 had some mid-space repairs (as it turns out, Tok'ra ships are one of the most unreliable kinds of technology ever invented), often involving a Race Against the Clock. In the Tok'ra's defense, however, they're not building the ships. They're stealing them from the Goa'uld, and as a result can't pick and choose, and can't find lots of spare parts. This problem isn't limited to the Tok'ra, however. The human-built ships aren't much better. For example, on the official maiden voyage of the first human spaceship, the Prometheus, the hyperdrive overloaded and had to be ejected before destroying the ship (although again, in fairness, that particular hyperdrive had a very experimental power source). And the list goes on... |
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In Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Orville takes Patricia up in his flying machine, and even lets her control it. But one of the wing spars breaks, so he walks out on the wing and fixes it by wrapping his belt around it, losing his pants in the process. All turns out well. | |
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R2-D2 is seen making repairs to Luke Skywalker's X-wing fighter during the trench run in Star Wars: A New Hope. | |
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Castle in the Sky: One of the odd jobs Pazu is asked to do while he and Sheeta are in the Tiger Moth is provide maintenance to the dirigible's rudder. Which he does, while the ship is aloft and he's dangling from a rope. It's as acrophobia-inducing as it sounds. | |
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The Flight of the Phoenix (2004): As part of the remake's overall Actionized Sequel modification, the sequence where the Phoenix finally is made to fly includes Elliot having to climb the plane's fuselage to fix the controls as it is picking up speed in order for the plane to achieve takeoff (and having to dodge gunfire from the angry nomads chasing the group as well). | |
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The Kedar Repair Bot upgrade grants all your ships this capability in the IOS game Galaxy on Fire. Without it, all ships have Regenerating Shields, Static Health. | |
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There's a hilarious example of this in Girl Genius, when Gilgamesh and Agatha are first testing Gilgamesh's flying machine (or rather, as Agatha sourly points out, "It's a falling machine. I'm so impressed.") by starting from Baron Wulfenbach's airship. As they both slip into Spark-mode, their growing excitement about repairing and upgrading the ship in mid-flight almost fatally distracts them from the approaching doom. Tarvek is forced to do the same thing when Gil decides to save him by tossing him out of Castle Wulfenbach on the same "falling machine"... while tied up to a Spark fighting with a mad Jäger on board. He finally makes the machine fly inches from the ground. |
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Kim Possible did it when her brothers, tagging along for some contrived reason, unbolted a hydraulic line in the cabin of a cargo plane. It was an easy fix, but one that would have been impossible for a number of reasons in a real aircraft. | |
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In Octopussy, Bond is clinging to the outside of an airplane. Kamal Kahn sends Gobinda out to kill Bond before he disables both engines and kills them all. | |
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Space Rangers: Repair bots (or "droids", if you will) restore 5-60 (depending on the model) points of the ship's integrity each turn, even in thick of battle. Needless to say, they are almost mandatory for any kind of space combat. Title screen of one of the versions of the second game depicts two droids that endlessly repair a ranger spaceship in decidedly Star Wars-like manner. Until they accidentally take off the ship's wing, that is. Normal droids, unfortunately, don't work in arcade-based hyperspace battles... but there's a rare artifact that does, and fixes the ship in real-time. |
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In Farmer in the Sky, by Robert A. Heinlein, Bill Lermer's father explains why they have an engineer along in space, when the engine is a radioactive torch that can't be shut off in flight. | |
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The crew of Apollo 13 effected a successful repair of their craft and safely returned to Earth after one of their oxygen tanks exploded (as seen in the film). | |
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Played with in Ultimate X-Men where Jean rather sarcastically mentions to Beast that he doesn't have to do mid-air repairs when the plane is functioning fine. | |
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In an episode of Code Geass R2, not only was Kallen's Humongous Mecha repaired as it was falling into the ocean, it was upgraded. By shooting the necessary parts at it from a submarine. In Missiles. | |
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In PlanetSide 2, aircraft will start to plummet and catch on fire when their health is critical. A utility module, the fire suppression system, allows one to restore the vehicle from critical health and regain engine power. Many enterprising pilots have taken advantage of players inheriting the vehicles momentum when bailing by sending the aircraft in a flat spin, bailing out, and repairing it from outside while falling alongside it in a ballistic trajectory, before climbing back in and flying away. | |
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Read or Die has two examples - once in the original OVA, where Yomiko's paper airplane takes a nosedive off of a skyscraper because she forgot the tail, and once in the TV series, where a crashing jumbo jet is saved by wrapping it in paper and turning it into a giant bird. | |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf: In a car version of this, Dracula has Shaggy's car sabotaged just before the big race. Shaggy is forced to have Scooby Take the Wheel while he climbs out and performs emergency maintenance on it. | |
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Happens in an episode of Father Ted where Ted patches up the fuel line of the plane he and Dougal are flying on. It's a legitimately badass moment when he steels himself to go out there and fix the problem. But after fixing it, he freezes up in fear and won't get back in the plane for love or money. In the end they end up cutting that part of the plane off, and sticking it into his house with Father Ted still clinging on. | |
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In Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier, if one of your plane's armor bars is depleted, Daxter will go out and perform repairs, restoring some armor. This uses up a repair patch, of which you have a limited supply per mission. Additionally, your plane can still take damage while it's being repaired, potentially enough to destroy it. | |
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Parodied in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, when Buck performs mouth-to-mouth on a pterosaur knocked unconscious by a mid-air collision with another pterosaur. | |
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Doctor Who: Because the TARDIS is the Cool Ship version of The Alleged Car, the Doctor has had to do this a couple of times. For example, in "The Edge of Destruction", the Doctor has to fix the TARDIS before it hits the Big Bang and is destroyed, and in "The Eleventh Hour", the Doctor, having almost destroyed the interior of the TARDIS with his violent regeneration, must use his Sonic Screwdriver to repair the ship enough to actually land, just before it hits Big Ben, while he's hanging out the door. | |
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In JSA Secret Files #1, Speed Saunders does a mid-air patch job on his hot air balloon after it springs a leak while aloft. | |
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When their airplane had run out of fuel in The Gods Must Be Crazy II, the pilot got a bottle of wine they had with them and poured it into the fuel tank. | |
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The Great Balloon Race: After their envelope is hit by buckshot while flying over Cyprus, Charles is forced to climb up on to it and sew up the holes while the balloon is flying over the Mediterranean. | |
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Blazing Angels incorporates a teammate who can "heal" your craft during missions. The game tries to Hand Wave it by having your character perform the actual repair, while being talked through it by your teammate. | |
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In line with the real life example below, Flyboys has a scene featuring a German bomber crewman walking out on the wing to conduct some maintenance on one of the bomber's engines. Not that it helps much in the end, as the bomber is shot down not moments later. | |
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A large part of the gameplay in Guns of Icarus, which features Steampunk airships fighting each others in the sky, revolves around repairing various guns and sub-systems and putting out fires (during battles). | |
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Not precisely a repair, but in The Secret Return of Alex Mack, Terawatt grabs onto an intercontinental nuclear missile as it's lifting off, and has to take it apart mid-flight. | |
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In Flying Circus, a player's pilot can attempt to work on a damaged engine in-flight through the Patch Fix move. This often requires the Wingwalk move, which makes Attribute rolls +Daring instead of the move's usual Attribute. Whereas with the Blackthumb feature, a Threat's Ace pilot can repair their plane's broken part, even if it involves wingwalking to reach it. | |
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In a first season episode of MacGyver (1985), Mac uses a map to patch his hot air balloon when it springs a leak after being shot. In the later episode "Rock the Cradle", Mac has to unjam the landing gear on a plane as Jack Dalton is bringing it in for a landing. He succeeds, but falls out the plane (he is wearing a parachute). |
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: After the helicopter is damaged by gunfire and unable to ascend, Spencer climbs on to the roof to reconnect the control arm to the rotor. | |
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In the Doctor Who New Adventures novel The Dying Days, the Doctor — five minutes above London, downward bound and accelerating — builds a parachute out of a helium tank and the contents of his pockets. | |
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