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Posted by Willie Singh on 5/15/2008, 2:28 am, in reply to "Airport films"
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: Hey guys,
:
: I know this is a bit off subject, b ut
: seeing there are experienced pilots on this
: site, I wanted to ask a question about the
: airport films, 69 to 79.
:
: Hvae any of you seen them, because I want to
: ask if the situations the characters are put
: in are true to life, cos to me they looked
: ridiculas. lol. There is this scene i the
: Charlton Heston film, where a private plane
: hits the 747 cockpit window, killing 2 of
: the pilots, and injuring the other, leaving
: a big hole in the side. The air hostess (I
: know, lol) is forced to fly the plane by
: herself, until Charlton heston takes a
: helicpter, to the flying plane and gets
: himself in to land it.
:
: The last 2 inlvolve a 747 landing under the
: sea, with a rescue misson pulling the plane
: up and getting the passengers out, and one
: with a concorde doing somersaults in the
: sky at 31 thousand feet trying to get away
: from a missile, (I guessed the last one to
: be really unrealistic, just for film).
:
: Mike
:
Hi Mike some of thee films are fiction and your talking about Airport 77 with this jumbo jet its impossible to pull up such a big jet under enormus pressures and wieght adding to the factors most ditchings in the sea the aircraft of such a size would be left there on the bottom of the bed sea and it would become a grave yard. The film AIRPORT 77 was a simulator built model for this purpose but they have taken real live shots of the 747 and dramitised it to make it look real as if it crashed into the sea skidding along the water it would have broken up very quickly. I don't think the concorde could do loops
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