| Topic | Cliche | Submitter |
| Airplanes / Helicopters | If a flying vehicle runs out of fuel and crashes, it still explodes as if the tank were full | Scott |
| Airplanes War | In some WWII movies, a fighter aircraft will be seen strafing a beach flying at over 300 mph. But when the bullets hit the beach, they are spaced so closely together that is looks more like a buried string of firecrackers expoding. | Keith Wilson |
| Airplanes/Clothing | Characters who survive a plane crash onto a desert island can go for weeks without bathing, get dragged through mud pits, battle with local wildlife and still come out with their hair and clothing looking professionally styled. | Claire Hans |
| Airplanes/Dogfights | Whenever there is an aerial dogfight, the hero will always perform a maneuver causing two bad guys to crash their planes into each other. | Ian Grossman |
| Airplanes | During turbulence the Cabin Lights always seem to filcker | Peter Clay |
| Airplanes | An internal flight is always a Boeing 747. |
Wesley Potter |
| Airplanes | Footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor: many of the scenes used in documentary/war flicks about the dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor were actully shot in Hollywood studios for a US goverment wartime movie about Pearl Harbor (John Ford's 1943 flick December 7th). You can tell which scenes were recreated by the really poor quality of the fx. | Gordon Yee |
| Airplanes | When a plane is low on fuel, the hero usually taps the gas guage as if that will help. Example....Top Gun, Tom Cruise tapping the gas guage of a 60 millon dollar F-14 Tomcat like it is a '74 Dodge Dart. | Mark Carnicelli |
| Airplanes | In many movies, they show the exterior of a Boeing 747, then they cut to the inside where the flight attendant is exiting the elevator wich comes from the galley to the passenger deck, when in fact it is not the 747 that has this design at all, but rather the L1011, the only passenger airliner aircraft ever made by lockheed. | Chris Taylor |
| Airplanes | In any movie that spends a considerable amount of time on an airplane, the pilot always gets killed. This means that someone with little flying experience has to land the plane. Although luckily enough, this person will just happen to have been taking flying lessons, although landing has always been toughest for him/her. (Worst example of this was Executive Decision.) | Collin Yeoh |
| Airplanes | when a piston engine stops because lack of fuel the whole buisniss stops, including the propeller no matter that the sheer wind speed is enugh to keep the engine going! | leav |
| Airplanes | Airplane always goes: erk...erk...eeeeerrrkkk when it lands. It seems like everyone is using the same tape. | DeNevelo |
| Airplanes | Any airplane taking of while being chased by a car will not exceed
30mph and take at least 5 minutes to get of the ground (unless being
flown by bad guys in which case it never will) The classic example of this is Face Off where after a lengthy 30mph cruise down the runway, a shot is shown of the pilot opening the throttle! Doh!Guess I should have done that at the START of the takeoff. |
I McLean |
| Airplanes | There is always a pilot, or a doctor, or an armed off-duty police officer on board. | Brad DeVos |
| Airplanes | Planes with nuns on ALWAYS crash. moral of the story, never get on a plane with a nun. | Natalie M |
| Airplanes | Aircraft always disappear behind a clump of trees before exploding in a ball of flames | Darren Giddings |
| Airplanes | Aircraft always disappear behind a clump of trees before exploding in a ball of flames | Darren Giddings |
| airplanes | OK, we know that David Clark's green headsets are one of the best and most used ones in aviation. Unfortunally, when ever used in a movie, no one seems to have informed the actor/director that it would NOT work to have the mike 2-3 inches away from his/her mouth when they say something. If you ever flown with any headset, you know that the mike needs to almost touch your lips. It's also fun to see actors without any headset have a casual conversation in airplanes noisy enough to be painful if no earpluggs or headsets are worn! Movie pilots also always takes off their oxygenmasks, no matter how high they are, when they get exited or just simply wants to say something! | Christer Sidelöv |
| Airplanes | When engines fail, aircraft immediately adopt a 45 degree nose down attitude which is accompanied by a shreiking noise that gets louder and louder. I think the shrieking noise most commonly used is from a Stuka. This german World War II divebomber was equipped with a noisemaker that was intended to frighten the civilian population below. Whilst in this attitude the pilot will pull on the control column with enough strength to rip the entire device out of the floor with little success until the aircraft reaches an altitude approximately 200 feet above ground level at which point the control column suddenly gives up the fight. |
Chris Anderson |
| Airplanes | When ever an aircraft get's shot, usually by bullets (which is almost impossible) a little tube pops out of the back of the aircraft and spews a stream of smoke out of the back, in which at that point the plane becomes pretty much unfunctional, even though the smoke is coming out of the tale. | Andy Lohr |
| Airplanes | Every employee of air traffic control, or mission control in space movies, is a chain smoker. | Eli Covington |
| Airplanes | Everytime when a pistonengine/propellor plane gets engine trouble
the windshield will always be covered in oil from the
engine. Apparently the oilcircuit is the weakest part of the engine |
Marc Sessink |
| Airplanes | In reference to a pilot or doctor always being on board a stricken flight I have read that out of 2 or 3 hundred passengers there will almost certainly be a doctor or pilot on board especialy given the demographic of the average flight. The problem for doctors is so common that their professional body is trying to get payments from the airlines for their members as it happens so often. | Dean Agar |
| Airplanes | I several movies (notably Die Hard II), the Hero, having falling of the wing of a taking-off Boeing-747 at the speed of 100 mph lights up a trail of a fuel pouring from the fuel tank and blows the plane up. The surface speed of vapour ignition is far less than takeoff speed of a plane, especially in the exhaust jets of the plane engines which generally inhibit a fire propagation. Besides, the fuel ports are located in place where a person clutching at the wing cannot reach them. | D.M. |
| Airplanes | Whenever a flight crew is disabled and an inexperienced non pilot
has to take over, the first button or lever touched will always cause
the plane to instantly nosedive until frantic instruction corrects the
cruising level. No inexperienced replacement pilot will ever fail to land safely although running off the runway and stopping inches from a fence, oil storage tank or crowded concourse is standard. |
CHJ |