"AJ" wrote in message
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I stumbled onto a webpage devoted to movie cliches. Of course, the
best section is called "Airplanes." My favorite cliche: "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 gauge of a $60
millon F-14 Tomcat like it is a '74 Dodge Dart."

Check it out at http://www.moviecliches.com/cliche.cgi?airplanes. Can
you think of any they missed?


I think some of the submitters are a little short of knowledge to be making
their submissions. Here's an example:

"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."

Let's see, just off the top of my head; Vega, Orion, Electra, Electra
Junior, Super Electra, Lodestar, Constellation, Super Constellation,
Starliner, Electra (L-188), TriStar.